The food manufacturing industry has spent the last two years trying to figure out where AI fits: Vision inspection systems? Predictive maintenance? Yield optimization? Contamination detection? The applications are real, but they’re expensive, technically complex, and often require significant infrastructure before you see results.

Most executives are approaching AI by asking, “Where could this be transformative?” A better starting question is, “Where does it already work, right now, with the systems we have?”

The answer is document control.

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