Andrew Ng's Landing AI aims to help manufacturers deploy AI vision systems

Manufacturers are making strides toward Industry 4.0, a movement to tie a company's factory floor technology with the internet of things, business and operation systems, supply chain and aftermarket technology, and scores of equipment. That includes vision inspection systems, which are increasingly going high-tech with the addition of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that can be trained to catch small blemishes and disfigurements. The information returned from AI inspection systems is part of the massive operating information that can sense, analyze, and respond to changing company conditions. The resulting data is used to streamline operations and improve efficiency, which lead to massive savings – the premise of Industry 4.0. AI in computer vision is no stranger to manufacturing Industry 4.0 or to a number of other markets, such as biomedical and consumer goods.