Maintaining a skilled team from the bottom up is essential. But as skilled workers retire and take their knowledge with them, we rely more on a clear understanding of how digital and AI tools may be reshaping our approach to manufacturing quality, supply chains, and building a team. To provide some insight into how modern manufacturers are tackling the challenges of managing, hiring, training, and producing, Steve Ilmrud, vice president of operations at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, answered some questions.
How does metrology transform a 1950s high-performance classic in a new millennium? We look at how force measurement is used to measure a critical function on one of America’s favorite sports cars—the Corvette.
Walk the aisles of any liquor store in the U.S., and brands named after people call for your notice—Johnnie Walker, Jose Cuervo, Captain Morgan, and Jim Beam. Perhaps the most revered name among them is Jack Daniel. Brand longevity is a testament to leaders with vision and their quest for a long-living organization.
Creating a superhuman artificial intelligence could lead to two worst-case scenarios. In the first, the power to kill everyone—in, say, the form of an AI-engineered supervirus—could fall into the wrong hands. In the second, AI could turn out like a superintelligent alien that wipes out its puny hosts, regardless of ill intent or lack thereof.
