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only tool that could handle the intricacies that I wanted to build into the AI / ML model .” Kinaxis is a key partner in the project , which brings in manufacturers like ON Semiconductor , distributors including Arrow Electronics and Future Electronics and OEM customers Miovision and L3 Wescam – all with connections to the Catalyst137 facility . It places SigmaPoint right at the center of a heavily populated hub of start-ups and OEMs that are geared toward IoT innovations .
The goal by 2022 is to comprehensively automate the supply chain so that 90 % of it is running in a ‘ dark state ’ with processes continuously running without human intervention . “ Achieving this will bring us a huge competitive advantage through risk mitigation in the supply chain , with a platform that can plan its own way through and out of exceptions and pitfalls that occur , leveraging deep and continuous machine learning .”
The part that is not , and probably never will be fully automated , she calls the control tower . This is the human interface that monitors the process , constantly reprogramming the machine as exceptions are encountered . The jobs will not always be the
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