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Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform manufacturing – it’s just a matter of time. While few manufacturers have broadly adopted AI on the shopfloor yet, …

Every morning an onslaught of newsletters about manufacturing topics hits my mailbox. I am not complaining, I signed up for them in the somewhat …

If you have, like me, been in Silicon Valley long enough – or even just followed the tech news – you have been through …

Do you want to take a guess how long a person can focus on a repetitive task such as visual inspection? Let me second …

In a recent blog we wrote about the important differences between mature AI and generative AI when it comes to applications in manufacturing. A …

“How do we know how well the AI model performs and how many mistakes it makes?” is a question we often hear from manufacturers …

A while ago we wrote a blog about how classic AI e.g. machine Learning (ML) is ready for prime time on the shopfloor while …

We live in the age of big data. Whether it is social media platforms, retail and e-commerce, telecommunications, healthcare or manufacturing an estimated 2.5 …

How AI is disrupting our industry and what can we do about it? – this was the question Authority Magazin asked AI professionals and …

Our analytics show that “mature AI” is an important keyword that brings people to our webpage. Let’s ignore the possibility that the intent behind …

In our short series of challenges facing the forward-looking manufacturing professional ready to adopt AI, we have so far talked about data and change …

Accella AI and Fremont Solutions Group Partner to Bring the Accella AI Quality Box™ to Manufacturing Companies. Read more in our Presse Release.

When we started our first AI project with a large consumer goods manufacturer the welcome on the shopfloor wasn’t exactly warm. The staff feared …

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

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

If you are looking for a perfect application to start deploying AI in manufacturing, look no further than visual inspection. The role of AI …

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

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

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 …

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 …

I recently read a blog about the growing use of the cloud in manufacturing. The author described the shift he has seen in roughly …

Better, faster, cheaper – AI delivers many advantages in a manufacturing environment. In addition to the “big three” mentioned here, there is another one …