I gave this presentation at the chamber of commerce in luxemburg for the cluster of logistics in november 2017. Key themes are #ai #cognitive #watson #iot #manufacturing #supply chain #robotics

1. Say “Hello” to Watson
on the Shopfloor
AI and Cognitive
Manufacturing in Action
Thorsten Schröer
IBM Deutschland GmbH
Director Automotive & Electronics
Member IBM Industry Academy
@CSCMP Benelux Roundtable - Robotics & AI in Logistics
Luxembourg, November Nov. 21st, 2017 / © 2017 IBM Corporation

2. >1890 Tabulating 1960 Programmable >2010 Cognitive

3. AI Status – Why - Why Now?

4. 80% of all data is dark and not used at all
90% of all data created in past 2 years
2017 20202013

5. Understands
imagery, language and other
unstructured data like humans
forms hypotheses, infers
and extracts ideas
With every interaction to
sharpen expertise
With humans through
seeing, talking and hearing
Reasons Learns Interacts
IBM Watson = AI + ML + DL

6. 6

7. Consumer AI vs Enterprise AI

8. Watson IoT / Interactive hospital rooms 8

10. http://bit.ly/2jPavJX

12. Digital & AI
in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

13. Service Robots:
Enhance customer
engagement in
industries, such as
retail and healthcare
Consumer Robots:
Assist consumers with day to
day tasks
Industrial Robots:
Primarily used in automotive,
chemical and petroleum,
and manufacturing settings
Humanoid (human-like) robots
personalize interactions
Adaptive robots taking care of
elderly
Basic household chores
(vacuuming and dusting)
Functions as personal
assistant, photographer,
smart home advisor
Programmed and stationary
Work alongside humans
(Cobots)
Logistics Robots:
Specialized for the
movement of goods
and people
Used in warehouses
Assist with product
transportation
Swarm Robots:
Multi-robot systems
exhibiting collective
behaviors based on each
other and the environment.
Cooperate to perform
complex tasks
Traverse uncharted terrain

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Spiegel 1. April 1964

15. Manufacturing Quality
Cognitive Visual / Acoustic Inspection

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Speech controlled cognitive robot
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Speech / text controlled robot
• Visual recognition of objects & their location
• Cognitive understand of robot’s capabilities
• Ability to learn using speech interactions

22. Mitsubishi Robotics – Cognitive Maintenance
Analysis
AI
Pattern
matching
Dependencies
Storage
Preprocessed
data
Edge
processing
layer
Suggested
action
Hands free
Interaction
On site augmented reality
Maintained
asset/process
Relative
data
volume
Field
engineer
Local or remote cloud
Gateway

23. #CognitiveSupplyChain
Watson IoT Platform
Cognitive Robot
Machine
learning Text
Image
Natural
Language
Watson Cognitive
Analytics
Foxbot writes
calligraphyHannover Messe 2016
Voice
recognition

24. #CognitiveSupplyChain
IBM Internal Supply Chain
Augmenting Supply Chain Decisions
Supply Chain
Professionals
We teach
Watson.
We program
Advisory.
Operation Center
Alerts
Resolution Room
We use IBM’s Cognitive
Data Lake
We utilize Enterprise
Data Sources.
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We gain insights
from IoT.
We upload
Data into
Watson
Analytics.
We analyze data recorded
in Blockchains
Watson Q&A

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25 25Watson goes to space to ISS April 2018

28. Impact for Supply Chain & Logistics

31. Watson IoT / Interactive hospital rooms 31
http://bit.ly/2zYfUEH

32. http://bit.ly/2wKbBss

33. Einladung des CSCMP Roundtable Germany
30.11.2017 in München - IBM Watson IoT Center
Rolle von Blockchain in der Supply
Chain – Nur ein Hype oder Thema mit
Substanz?

34. Say “Hello” to Watson
on the Shopfloor
AI and Cognitive
Manufacturing in Action
Thorsten Schröer
IBM Deutschland GmbH
Director Automotive & Electronics
Member IBM Industry Academy
@CSCMP Benelux Roundtable - Robotics & AI in Logistics
Luxembourg, November Nov. 21st, 2017 / © 2017 IBM Corporation