Companies are under increasing pressure to deploy AI as a substitute for human labor. It’s critical, therefore, for managers at all levels to understand AI’s strengths and limitations.
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton said the quiet part out loud in a December interview with Fortune Magazine – that “companies investing trillions in artificial intelligence can only make their money back by eliminating human jobs.”
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) teams are expected to keep audits moving, close corrective actions, manage supplier issues, maintain training records, meet customer requirements, and stay ready for whatever regulators expect next.
You could argue that glare is the very reason that machine vision lighting exists. Whether detecting a faint scratch on a glossy surface or decoding an etched code on metal, unwanted reflections can obscure details and compromise inspection accuracy.
Cindy Farrer is the senior services manager of quality and supply chain at the Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership. She's an accomplished leader with over 35 years of global experience in manufacturing quality and supply chain management.
The concept of heroes with extraordinary abilities is far older than the comic books—which then became movies, which became television or streaming shows—that we know today.
Since my early days in manufacturing, I’ve been participating in what is termed “digital twins.” It’s been largely covered and frankly overused in anything from construction planning to flight simulators.
In 1952, Mario Possati had the intuition that it was crucial to measure a component during its processing and, therefore, directly inside a machine tool.
Manufacturing teams continue to use handheld gages during daily quality work, even as they expand their automated inspection systems and adopt more software-driven processes.