Artificial intelligence brings new ideas to the factory floor

“The robots are coming!” is an increasingly common headline around the globe. Every day, we hear of new examples of artificial intelligence (AI) being used to support or even supplant the human workforce. Many of these discussions revolve around consumer-facing situations. However, the AI wave could have an even larger impact on the manufacturing sector, with its complex processes and machine-to-machine interactions spanning products and assets, within factories and across global supply networks. This was highlighted in a recent study by Infosys, ‘Amplifying human potential: Towards purposeful AI’, that investigated the approach of senior decision-makers in large organisations towards AI