The newspaper headlines are full of it: artificial intelligence is changing everything. Yet the vast majority of sheet metal processors, construction companies and machine manufacturers in the Netherlands and Belgium ...
AI projects rarely fail because of the technology. Things go wrong with the process analysis, the adoption on the work floor, or the knowledge transfer. These are the three pitfalls I encounter most often.
Five employees who spend 45 minutes per day searching for information: that's 825 hours and over €37,000 per year. On searching, not on producing.
Many companies think that AI automatically means that data goes to the cloud. But you can also run AI completely locally — on your own server, behind your own firewall.
Most companies want to start with the machine. But the real profit lies in the information flows around it: work orders, quotes, planning, purchasing.
Telecom shows how AI increases capacity and accelerates processes. The same principles apply to manufacturing: not working harder, but organizing smarter.
In China, 'dark factories' run 24/7 without people. What can Dutch manufacturing companies learn from this extreme automation?
China invests heavily in AI-driven robots that make production more flexible and scalable. The lesson for the Netherlands: develop adaptive production based on data and AI.