Artificial Intelligence Benefits in Control Applications

Using your noodle to think things through tends to make things go much more smoothly--even if you're just a high-speed food packaging machine wrapping instant noodles. That's an important lesson gained from machine learning technology used by systems integrator Tianjin FengYuLingKong of Tianjin, China. This form of artificial intelligence (AI) allowed the firm's engineers to develop a multivariable inspection model for one of China's largest producers of noodles. Relying on this model, the control system for the packaging lines can now deduce whether sachets containing spices and dried vegetables for flavoring were placed correctly on the precooked noodle blocks before each block is individually wrapped. This ability is an example of how machine learning and other forms of AI are moving beyond applications like robotics and analytics and into control applications.