The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial environments are rapidly developing, presenting a number of opportunities to manufacturers. Not only can companies leverage machine learning to improve productivity and performance, they can also use it as a tool to enhance their experts’ know-how and support knowledge transfer across an enterprise. These last aspects, sometimes overlooked by companies, are among the most value-adding elements of AI, according to Christian Nomine, Strategic Product Manager for Visualization & Analytics EMEA at Mitsubishi Electric.
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Creators of the legendary Reichstag Wrapped installation in Berlin, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, would have been impressed – even if the Business Unit Board could not quite stretch to covering the whole of the Reichstag!.