Between the third and fourth industrial revolutions, the application of knowledge experienced a near-seismic change. Almost overnight, it felt like companies jumped from an analog world to a digitized realm. Thanks to digitalization, once-massive tasks could be executed with improved quality and unprecedented speed.
Introducing: AI
Now, manufacturing companies are experiencing another transition, moving past the static digitized world to one marked by artificial intelligence. AI collects and analyzes vast quantities of data beyond what people can process. While software works from human-programmed heuristics to solve problems, AI will speed the industry beyond these simple if/then scenarios. With AI, manufacturing workers can identify and untangle problems more easily and creatively and, as a result, work more autonomously.
