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Most of these
applications
are supported
by realtime
quality
prediction
models to
control manual
laboratory
specifications
with real-time
estimates. "
Michael Tay,
Rockwell Automation
optimization, transportation optimization, and
sales and operations planning.
" By applying AI to optimize milk hauling,
grain and livestock hauling routes and delivery
schedules, we've managed to reduce costs
and improve service delivery, " Verma said. " In
the realm of production, AI tools have been
instrumental in optimizing cheese yield by better
managing variables such as starter cultures and
milk quality from different farm inputs. "
Mikael Bengtsson, Infor's director of
strategy, food and beverage industry, has seen
AI make big inroads in the dairy industry.
" When we talk about AI, we need to
consider there are different flavors of AI
- the machine learning, the deep learning,
the generative AI, and then there's robotic
process automation and there might be an AI
component to that, " Bengtsson said. " Today,
most customers are thinking of AI in terms
of machine learning, and that could be on the
farming level, manufacturing or other parts of
the supply chain. "
One of the big aspects of machine learning
is having sensors in different places, such as the
manufacturing floor or on pieces of equipment,
and measuring humidity, temperature, vibrations
and numerous other factors important to the
dairy products.
" Those sensors measure and gather tons
of data, almost too much data, especially
for humans to go through, " Bengtsson said.
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" That's the beauty with the machines and AI,
the technology can easily digest, consume and
make sense out of that data. It can see how the
equipment is working and then recommend the
best ways to make improvements. "
On the farm level, Bengtsson said it's a
similar concept, with AI sensors measuring
and analyzing important data in the fields and
discovering trends and abnormalities and
getting recommendations on improvements.
" That could be something reactive on the
maintenance side, where something is broke
and I go fix it, " Bengtsson said. " Now it can be
predictive and you might see what's going to
happen before a problem arises. "
IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
One of Infor's dairy customers, Amalthea, a
goat cheese manufacturer in the Netherlands,
has always collected data on its manufacturing
process, but historically it took a while to
analyze and make any substantial change
" We have implemented AI for them so
they can now implement things in almost
real-time, " Bengtsson said. " They can see
what's going on in the yield of the ingredients
and adjust to improve the yield instantly,
helping them get more, and it provides a more
consistent product. "
Using AI, Bengtsson noted, helps
improve efficiency for anyone involved in the
dairy industry.
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