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In a New York Times op-ed piece that focuses on manufacturing, MIT professor and 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner Daron Acemoglu argues that the US economy is ill-prepared for three emerging paradigm shifts: aging workers, the rise of AI, and a retrenchment from globalization. In manufacturing, he suggests that while robotics will help with the aging problem, what we really need is more worker training, especially in smart manufacturing. In AI, Acemoglu is concerned that Big Tech is racing to make advanced, human-like AIs that can replace workers when there is a greater need for AI “models to become more expert, better powered by higher-quality data, more reliable and more aligned with the existing knowledge and the information-processing capabilities of workers.” Finally, he calls for a “new federal agency tasked with identifying and funding the types of A.I. that can increase worker productivity and help us deal with looming labor shortages.” Hmm…sounds like a job for Leela Visual Intelligence Platform.   https://lnkd.in/d-Ugf-SG    

Thanks for stopping by our booth at #FABTECH, Mark!

Leela AI will be at the FABTECH Expo this week giving demos of our visual solution for boosting performance. We've been delivering significant value to our customers who do welding, grinding, and other fabrication and finishing operations. Please come by our booth (link in the comments) to meet up in Orlando and find out what we can do for you. #FABTECH #FABTECH2024 #visualintelligence #fabrication

The editors of ASSEMBLY Magazine have chosen Leela Visual Intelligence Platform as one of 20 products competing for "New Product of the Year." Leela AI and the other contenders were selected from hundreds of products that will be shown at the ASSEMBLY Show on Oct. 22-24 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. We will be competing with three other products in the Manufacturing Software category. Attendees will be able to vote for their favorites during exhibit hall hours, and the winners will be announced on Oct. 24 at 9:30 a.m. See you at the ASSEMBLY Show, and don’t forget to vote! #visualintelligence #manufacturing #LeelaAI https://lnkd.in/g-ynsn_V

Orlando survived Milton. This means that the FABTECH EXPO is going ahead as planned. I’ll be at the Orange County convention center giving demos at our booth starting on Tuesday the 15th. Going to FABTECH next week? Let me know when you can come by and talk. More info here: https://lnkd.in/eZPTq35W

Industrial machinery has been transformed by embedded computers running AI software for IIoT data collection. Yet are industrial equipment manufacturers using AI to help build their own products? The answer is yes, says two Bain & Co executives in a recent IndustryWeek post. A Bain survey showed that the industrial equipment makers have achieved considerable value from AI in supply chain management and predictive analytics. Other winning applications include “minimizing assembly defects and improving quality control; boosting productivity; and streamlining warehouse management.” The story cites one case study that may sound familiar to Leela AI customers: An unnamed OEM manufacturer “adopted AI-based video processing to track manual assembly activities, automate quality checks of manual assembly activities, and help optimize the use of resources and employees.” As a result, the OEM “reduced failures in the assembly process by as much as 70% while also cutting down efforts for quality checks by 50% for some lines.”   #visualintelligence #manufacturing #LeelaAI https://lnkd.in/g-WwrhWA

Every manufacturing business has untapped potential, whether it’s in improving efficiency, reducing safety incidents, or increasing yield. But the challenge is always the same: how do you unlock that value when you can’t fully see what’s happening on the shop-floor? That’s where Visual Intelligence comes in. By providing real-time visibility and understanding of operations, it helps businesses make smarter decisions and take the right actions. Visual Intelligence has some manufacturers deliver a 20% increase in capacity, reduced overtime hours by 30%, cut safety incidents by 50%, and improved yield by 10%. It’s about more than just fixing problems—it’s about unlocking hidden potential and driving true business value. When you can see what’s happening, and AI helps you understand and act on it, the possibilities are endless.

In complex systems, understanding cause and effect is key to making better decisions. But how do we teach machines to grasp this concept when they’re faced with new and unfamiliar data? That’s where causal learning comes in. Instead of seeing individual components—like a screwdriver or a rivet gun—it views them as part of a broader category: tools. By abstracting these concepts, causal networks can understand the relationship between actions and their effects more robustly. This symbolic approach enables the system to build a flexible network of knowledge. It can not only learn from familiar data but also apply its understanding to completely new situations—making decisions more accurately and faster than ever before. At the core of Visual Intelligence is a causal network that has learned cause and effect from observing the world, leading to more reliable learning and smarter decision-making, even when faced with new challenges.

In the latest AI in Manufacturing Podcast from Industry40tv, Kudzai Manditereza interviews Leela AI CEO Cyrus Shaoul, who explains how visual intelligence can help manufacturers identify and recreate operational excellence in performance, safety, and quality. Shaoul describes several customer case studies that have not yet been promoted on the Leela AI website. One customer achieved major increases in production capacity only four months after deployment, and another decreased safety noncompliance incidents by half. A third leveraged Leela Platform’s new quality control features to achieve substantial improvements in yield by identifying missed or incorrect production steps that had caused products to be scrapped. Shaoul discusses other topics including Leela AI’s edge server option, the power of MQTT for integrating data with other manufacturing software, and how Leela’s unique, fast-training causal-neural AI engine helps identifying actions in context.   #visualintelligence #manufacturing #LeelaAI https://lnkd.in/g9A5KAnC  

A new podcast came out today with Leela AI CEO Cyrus Shaoul. Listen or watch the podacst to find out more about what we do and how we do it.