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Digital Transformation
The data reported by the Aircraft Communications Addressing
and Reporting System (ACARS) satellite communications
system indicated that the left engine was still running. Theoretically,
this would have left the pilots with enough power to return
to LaGuardia or land at another airport nearby. Captain Sullenberger,
however, sensed from his experience that he had lost both
engines, which left him without sufficient time, speed or altitude
to land safely at any airport. The result is well-known: by keeping
one eye on the LCD navigation display and the other on the
Hudson River, Captain Sullenberger preserved all 155 lives due
to his natural intelligence-despite the available data.
Takeaway. AI is augmented by embracing NI, and vice-versa.
Nonetheless, the question remains: how to leverage all scientific
and technological progress achieved by humankind up to
now? We can begin by inviting SMEs from all fields-from engineers
to statisticians to IT analysts, and including biologists,
psychologists and neuroscientists-to focus on the opportunity
at hand. Diversity is the keyword here. Cognitive health is linked
to cognitive computing, elementary. AI can impel collaboration
among people, between customers and suppliers, and between
manufacturing companies and their partners.
No single corporation can cover the whole gamut of expertise
required to address the process, from the genesis of data sensing
to its transmission from an edge device to a cloud platform in a
cyber secure way, to running digital twins that execute descriptive,
diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics. The end
goal is solving a customer problem, addressing an operational
issue with an asset, or a complete industrial facility providing
business outcomes in a sustainable fashion.
If you are considering embarking or have already hopped on
a digital transformation journey, a pragmatic recommendation
is to integrate data and algorithmic technology (AI) with industrial
operations domain expertise (NI).
NOTES
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He earned a B.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from the
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from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
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