The work
An investigation can span a manual, maintenance history, an image and a series of measurements. The useful question is often not “what does this document say?” but “does this explanation fit this machine, at this time?” A technician needs to inspect the evidence behind an answer.
My contribution
I created Newton, a workbench that keeps original sources, investigations, citations and corrections together. Users map documents and observations to a machine, ask questions and inspect the supporting material. They can correct a part, location, period or assumption; earlier answers remain visible as superseded evidence.
That correction workflow gives specialist judgement a place in the system. It also makes the boundary between a suggested explanation and checked evidence visible.
Present status
Newton is an academic, non-commercial project with MIT-licensed software. Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences holds the copyright; Wonder Why AI — Fausto Albers is the maker attribution. It is a research workbench, not a certified diagnostic system or a machine controller. Performance and suitability need evaluation for each use case.