Artificial Intelligence from the Boardroom to the Factory Floor

Artificial Intelligence from the Boardroom to the Factory Floor

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed from a futuristic concept to powerful force which is transforming operations in traditional industries. Top executives are beginning to take note as startups in the field are expanding at an astounding rate.“We use AI to increase Operational Excellence,” says CEO Iris Tsidon of Okapi and author of “Six Steps to Operational Excellence”. “Heads of industry know that change is coming and are committed to improving their companies. Our job as entrepreneurs is to show them that this isn’t coming in the future, the capabilities are already here now.”According to a white paper by Bell-Hawk systems, real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques originally developed for the USAF and NASA are being applied to manufacturing organizations to enable managers to run their manufacturing plants with less stress and much smaller management teams.David Brooks on the PBS evening news said “Manufacturing is going through a revolution from a labor intensive, blue-collar industry to a white-collar, Silicon Valley industry.”  This use of AI to assist managers to efficiently run their operations is part of the transition from manufacturing being a labor intensive business to being highly automated at the operations management level as well as on the production floor.This revolution…


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