
In this moment, excerpted from the Industry AI Panel session “How Industry-Centric AI Use Cases are Accelerating Innovation and Streamlining Supply Chains,” Tom Gerdes, CIO, The Heico Companies LLC, dives into the low-hanging fruit of key areas to apply AI within his company’s market.
Key Takeaways
- Employee safety: One opportunity to incorporate AI within his industry is employee safety, Tom notes. Training agentic AI on the company’s literature for training employees on field procedures can ensure safe practices while doing a job.
- Predictive maintenance: For the manufacturing aspects, machine learning models can be applied for predictive maintenance provides product quality visibility.
- Openness to new tech: While these use cases are not new ways to utilize the technology, they do demonstrate the openness of the community to accept it and employees to understand the tools available.
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