Useful, responsible AI for manufacturers, from the office to the plant floor.
Welcome! I hope you find something to help you get started with AI!
Thanks for joining Practical AI Across the Plant. Everything here is free to use and adapt for your own team. You don't need an AI strategy or a technical background to start. You need one real problem and a little curiosity.
Get Curious
Find a problem worth solving. Includes a copy-and-paste brainstorming prompt.
Start Small
Run your first AI experiment in 15 to 30 minutes, and find out whether it actually helped.
Prompt Better
Give AI a good brief. Five steps to more useful answers.
Resources
Books, videos, and tools I've found helpful.
Customer, employee, and proprietary information still requires judgment about where it belongs. Just because a tool lets you upload something doesn't mean you should.
AI can be confidently wrong. Test the query. Check the math. Ask for the source.
AI assists the employee. The employee remains responsible for the decision. "The AI told me" is never an acceptable explanation.
One repetitive task. One painful report. One question your data should answer. One place people keep searching for information.
Could AI help us do this differently?