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Factory automation: where AI has to act, not just answer.
How AI is changing factory automation, from inspection to changeover, and what reliability means on the production line.
Factory automation is the use of machines, increasingly AI-driven ones, to run production without constant manual intervention: inspection, changeover, material handling, quality control.
AI adds perception and judgment to automation that used to be purely mechanical. The bar that adds is reliability: a vision model catching defects has to be right at line speed, not eventually.