How Democratized Artificial Intelligence Can Move Manufacturing to a New Evolution Pace
services 2 (from consulting to installation,
maintenance, and analytics), innovation,
finance,
supply
chain,
supplier’s
management, etc.
I NTRODUCTION
The convergence of manufacturing business
disruption and digital technology disruption
is making artificial intelligence move the
manufacturing world to a new evolution
pace!
The manufacturing revolution is a set of
transformational
trends
impacting
production capabilities and making the
industrial live ecosystem more efficient and
able to create more value. When we are
mentioning Industry of the Future or
Industry 4.0, it covers also the smart
connected products; service monetization
business (impacting business customers and
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs));
new inbound and outbound supply chain for
serving the factories and customers at the
right time, with the right product, at the right
place; changing financial and transactional
practices to having more simplified, “real-
time” and trustable relationship; reducing
and making agile the innovation lifecycle by
a continuous learning and improvement;
producing products and services on demand
and highly customizable; changing the sales
and marketing practices to better
understand and anticipate customers’
needs. All of that, using real life data as
source of truth to generate new revenue
opportunities, with faster and proactive
business decisions.
The manufacturing world is originally a
complex ecosystem built to industrialize and
optimize the production of goods for a mass
or large production at a best cost and the
highest quality possible.
Today, we can say that a new generation of
manufacturing practices and capabilities are
still following this statement of producing
more and better with less resources and
tentatively less negative impacts. With this
unique statement, we can already identify
that the goal is to be smarter to produce
goods and services, addressing customer
demands while optimizing resources and
reducing harmful impacts (environmental,
social…). This is also called the Ideality
indicator 1 or Ideal Final Result in industry
innovation practices.
T HE M ANUFACTURING W ORLD IS
D RASTICALLY C HANGING
The manufacturing business is not only a
production business, but a part of a global
value chain, surrounded by the many other
activities and new revenue streams such as
demand creation (sales & marketing),
1
Ideality: Innovation (perceived) benefits divided by the sum of cost and harm. (Darrell Mann – Hands on systematic innovation
for business and management - ISBN 1_898546-73-8, pages 6-13
2
Siemens Building Technologies leverages the Internet of Things to provide innovative analytics-based services (Capgemini -
https://www.capgemini.com/consulting/industries/siemens-building-technologies-leverages-the-iot/)
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