Understanding the inner workings of your industrial artificial intelligence (IAI) system is crucial if you want it to add measurable value to your manufacturing operations. Here, we’ll dig into one important aspect of every AI: the inputs, aka your data. Including the right type and the right amount of data is key to success when it comes to AI.

To understand the full potential of an IAI system, it’s important to look at what data, assumptions, rules, and shortcuts feed into the system during its training, testing, development, and deployment stages. You won’t be able to know or anticipate everything that goes into AI from your system, but understanding these things (to the extent possible) can give you a better understanding and more realistic expectations of how your AI will behave.

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