Hit the Road, Jack The order of 5,000 plush orangutan dolls that your factory just manufactured has just been loaded into the back of the semi-truck for its voyage to the last remaining Toys ‘R’ Us in the world. Thanks to the AI prediction platform you recently...
Costs of Operation For our running example in this article, let us choose the manufacturing of a bowling pin, using just an entire tree per bowling pin, as famously represented in this segment from a certain TV show. Laugh all you want at the comic exaggeration...
Bringing in the Haul Let us pretend that you manufacture those Live, Laugh, Love signs. (If you actually do, then this example will be specially tailored for you.) You have your own way of doing it in your factory, because you have very high standards for creating...
The Price is Right You walk into the Walgreen’s to satiate your post-lunch dessert craving with a Toblerone. (The recent change in creating a gap between the triangles is controversial, but you secretly like it.) Normally, the bar costs you a cool $2.18, but today is...
The Many Facets of Manufacturing When the average person hears the word “manufacturing,” they picture a factory where whatever item their imagination offers—toys, sodas, cars, beer, La-Z-Boy recliners—are bottled or boxed or wrapped after being assembled by either...
There is More to Machine Learning Than Robots Many manufacturers have already implemented more physical AI tools into their operations. Factories all across the world are adding more and more robot arms to many steps in the process, be it in the laboratory or the...
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