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