Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Indian Manufacturing environment

This story has appeared in "The Machinist" magazine May 2019 issue. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Manufacturing domain is pretty much where Digitization was about 10–15 years ago. Very few people are actively doing anything with it, few folks have it on presentation slides and most people want to go with it but don't know where to start. This is not just the story in India but also a global one. As manufacturing companies are starting to see value from digitization, AI brings the promise to increase that value exponentially.