Why factory owners are sending their workers to in-house AI academies

Manufacturing giants such as Bosch and Danone want their frontline employees to be coworkers with AI-powered machines, not replaced by them.

On Danone’s factory floors, where frontline workers make products like Dannon and Activia yogurts and Evian water, smart sensors detect vibrations and temperature changes to signal potential machine malfunctions. AI-powered “vision systems” find quality defects well before the human eye. AI even helps streamline processes like spray drying powdered baby formula.