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D’Angelo: Greg, since you guys are already somewhat down the road in terms of your journey with AI, What do you see as a time horizon for having more AI-based solutions in manufacturing? Tucker: I think it’s going to start predominantly with the OEM manufacturers of machines. I think where the biggest opportunity there is, is preventative maintenance, safety.
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If you go back a little bit in time, we were using CAD files and CAD draw- ings to build out our equipment, so then we can pull that into virtual reali- ty. We can have a person with Google glasses look and see what’s going on with that piece of equipment, ba- sically have the OEM in his head or her head and help him or her fix that
Greg Tucker
piece of equipment on spot, on time, immediately right then and there. The opportunities there are fascinating with regards to that. I think that’s really where the very first application of manufacturing is going to be. You think about everybody that’s built machines, typically in the last 15 years, they were all done in CAD. So, we can take those CAD designs and flip them into these new opportunities in AI and utilize them. Just dump them into a new thing, a chatbot for in- stance, and suddenly you have an opportunity to see that piece of equipment as it is, as it’s running. Then you have purity in your machinery and your oper- ations. You can predictively understand where feed rolls are. I mean, just the basic of a feed roll with a coefficient drag of 25 pieces of corrugated on it. How much weight, how much speed and dynamics that roll is going. When is it going to fail? And rather than waiting for that to fail, predictive main- tenance will tell us that in 150,000 revolutions, we’ve got to replace that rather than waiting for it to fail. As speed rolls really fail, one of the biggest things in running corru- gated, running paper through a machine is basically the beginning of the process, which is feed rolls. But the big- gest thing we run into is jam-ups in our machinery, right? Every downtime code is centered around nine times out of 10, the hunk of core getting jammed up in the ma- chine, causing everything else to fail. Print dies fail, every- thing else fails. So, if we can just identify what’s going on with those pieces of equipment, just think of the possibil- ities there. D’Angelo: Maybe you want to make a couple of com- ments about the openness and accessibility of newer machines compared to legacy? Gopakumar: I think some of the things to keep in mind is, as a machine builder, a lot of our suppliers have control systems across the world have done a pretty good job of opening up their systems and making it more possible. I’ll give an example. Every PLC that’s on the market
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