White paper highlights use of artificial intelligence in manufacturing

BellHawk Systems Corp., Millbury, Mass., has announced the availability of a new white paper, "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Manufacturing Operations Management."

The white paper, available for download at www.bellhawk.com, describes how real-time artificial intelligence (AI) techniques originally developed for the U.S. Air Force and NASA are being applied to manufacturing organizations to enable managers to run their manufacturing plants with less stress and much smaller management teams. It gives examples of how even small manufacturing organizations are able to use these methods to automate their planning and scheduling and for managers to be alerted whenever problems arise.

This use of AI to help managers run their operations efficiently is part of the transition from manufacturing being a labor-intensive business to being highly automated at the operations management level, as well as on the production floor.

According to BellHawk, this revolution is enabling U.S. manufacturers to design, engineer, and make products to order rapidly in response to products ordered over the Internet. "As a result of technology like this, manufacturing is coming back to the USA in a big way,” said Dr. Peter Green, leader of BellHawk Systems’ real-time AI implementation team. “Labor costs are no longer a barrier. Instead, what is important is creative use of advanced technology, which is where the USA leads the world."