Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future of manufacturing. Many of the issues that continue to plague the industry – too expensive, too much scrap, unplanned …

We recently gave a presentation about AI in Manufacturing to an audience at Cyberlago, a German organization in the Lake Constance region that promotes digitization, …

If you are looking for a perfect application to start deploying AI in manufacturing look no further than visual inspection. AI significantly outperforms conventional methods …

Admittedly, we stole that headline (hence the quotation marks), or rather we borrowed it from a recent article published on the MIT Sloan website. It …

How to trust AI?

One of the main problems we encounter when speaking with manufacturers about the use of AI in manufacturing for quality control, predictive maintenance, predictive analytics …

Maintaining critical manufacturing equipment isn’t all that different from changing the oil in your car: the manufacturer and your local repair guy tell you to …

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

AI models learn by seeing examples. That’s their superpower but it also creates a challenge. Superpower because instead of painstakingly defining an object at the …

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 cycle …

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

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

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