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Artificial intelligence is transforming manufacturing, as examined here by Ujjwal Pandey, Visiting Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School and co-founder of procurement platform  OptiSpend AI, and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge. The first part of their series looked at the simplest wins from AI in manufacturing such as a machine programmed too conservatively for years. This second part of the series goes further, to examine problems that were never simple to begin with. The 3 examples below are harder: each involves AI making sense of more variables, faster movement or more scattered data than a person can comfortably hold in their head at once.…

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