How AI is helping reinvent the world of manufacturing Microsoft On The Issues

Throughout each industrial era, the companies best able to embrace change have become the most likely to succeed. In The Future Computed: AI and Manufacturing, Microsoft Senior Director Greg Shaw explores how AI, automation and the internet of things (IoT) present new challenges and opportunities. Here are some of the manufacturers already demonstrating how the latest tech advances are changing the way they work. A collaboration between Thyssenkrupp and Microsoft has led to the development of the elevator industry's first real-time, cloud-based predictive maintenance system. This means an elevator can accurately predict when it is about to fail and summon an engineer, making it far less likely that people could get trapped inside.