Data's international impact on manufacturing

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the upcoming report Data Science for Modern Manufacturing: Global Trends: Big Data Analytics for the Industrial Internet of Things, by Li Ping Chu. Sign up to be notified when the report becomes available. The field of artificial intelligence has been around for decades, and the world has seen massive advances in what is considered deep learning (e.g. IBM's Deep Blue and Google's AlphaGo), but it's only within the past decade that we've seen practical applications of machine learning in an enterprise setting. In the past few years, there has been an explosion in the number of products available that integrate machine learning within a business intelligence platform.