Resources for Smart Manufacturing

TL;DR:Before swapping out human labor for AI, manufacturers benefit from slowing down and asking four basic questions: is the task actually suitable for AI, …

TL;DR:Trust AI in manufacturing on the shop floor is less a technical problem and more a human one. Operators and engineers want to know …

TL;DR:A practical way to get started with AI for predictive maintenance is to skip the grand transformation plans and focus on one or two …

Recently Facebook served up a sponsored post in my feed that caught my immediate attention: an article about the work of John Carrier, a …

AI models learn by seeing examples. That’s AI’s defining superpower; instead of painstakingly defining an object at the pixel level you can just show …

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers deal with a challenging set of demands and constraints related to quality inspection: they operate very high-speed lines with …

One of my colleagues led a workshop on AI in manufacturing recently and a comment of one of the participants deserves a deep dive. …

There is a secret to a successful AI deployment in manufacturing and it is not cool algorithms – it’s data. In fact, 80% of …

A recent headline in the trade publication IndustryWeek about implementing AI on the shopfloor started out as quite the downer ”AI Has a Poor …