If you are looking at an Industry 4.0 which has the combination of ease of deployment, quick go live, low cost as well as a good payback, you could do worse than consider AI based Quality Inspection.
Recent advancements in AI tech have meant that these kind of projects can be deployed without the need of programmers or indeed data scientists. All you need are a bunch of images and an SME to label them!
Find out more in this episode.
As always, thoughts are mine and not my employer's.

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