... [+]With the wide readership that this forum provides, feedback on articles comes in many forms: explicit compliments, constructive criticisms and a wealth of social media comments . Most follow-up conversations are digital and quick, and they rarely inject residual feelings of missing a critical chuck of the full story.
But sometimes there’s a post-publication epiphany after a reader contacts me, and that leads to another interview. In May, I attempted to explain to those peripherally playing with chatbots that Artificial Intelligence not only far exceeds an online toy, but has. The base product is no longer an isolated, static, sheet metal transport, but an ever-evolving network of software and algorithms. What was missed in that initial article, though, were elements beyond the products themselves.
“AI and digital tools will enable us to control and act on nuances in the end-to-end supply chain,” explains Daimler Truck North America’s General Manager, Joanna Cooper. She notes that the myriad of constraints in engineering, shipping, manufacturing, etc. across a vast network of suppliers and sub-suppliers is an incredibly complex and moving picture.
Obviously Daimler Truck is still heavily invested in using technology as part of product development (e.g., Torc Robotics is Daimler Truck’s wholly-owned subsidiary