Despite its recent buzz, artificial intelligence has been a force in manufacturing for decades, especially in quality control where vision systems tied to pattern-matching algorithms regularly separate the good parts from the bad.
At Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing Technology Development Director Jason Ryska said he's been using vision systems since 1995, but that modern tools are rapidly giving manufacturers new tools and new ways of combining various data sources to better direct operations.
In this presentation, given at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit in Indianapolis in June, Ryska spells out how Ford has used AI systems for years and what capabilities those technologies are providing the global automaker these days.
