AI FOR OEMS: EXPLORING HOW PACKAGING AND PROCESSING OEMS CAN LEVERAGE GENERATIVE AI FOR THEIR EQUIPMENT: Page 2

Packaging and processing OEMs have many opportunities to incorporate AI into their equipment. This is a collection of articles exploring how these technologies might provide the equipment with more robust capabilities while allowing machines to be more forgiving with the operators and technicians that run them.
Automation
AI in Manufacturing: Bridging Innovation & Operational Challenges
Despite growing optimism about GenAI’s potential, a new report shines a spotlight on several significant challenges manufacturers must address.
April 30, 2025
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The New AI-Connected Manufacturing Worker
How Gen AI is increasing productivity and making manufacturing work 'cool' for Gen Z
January 29, 2025
The new AI-connected worker is overcoming problems caused by skilled worker shortages and making manufacturing work appealing for Gen Z.
Automation
Can Nvidia’s AI PC Transform Robotics and Vision for OEMs?
Nvidia has released a low-cost embedded AI computer optimized for robotics and vision, backed by a powerful software eco-system. Can OEMs use it to build the next generation of AI-powered packaging and processing machines?
January 2, 2025
Can this palm-sized embedded AI computer revolutionize how machine builders incorporate generative AI-based vision and robotics into their equipment?
Automation
Primer: Incorporating AI into Packaging Equipment
This step-by-step approach breaks down what it really means to add generative AI into your packaging and processing equipment using Small Language Models (SLMs).
December 1, 2024
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Automation
Off-the-shelf AI tools offer 24/7 chat support
A variety of web-based tools are cropping up that allow OEMs to offer AI-powered 24/7 chat support for CPG customers, relying on the OEM’s own documentation as source material.
November 3, 2024
Based on the OEM’s documentation, the AI can provide plain-language answers to questions. This tool from Scanmatics even cites and links to actual page numbers in the source documentation.
Automation
PLCs add AI co-pilots
The automation suppliers share how they are incorporating generative AI into their industrial automation platforms. Speeding up PLC programming is just the start.
September 27, 2024
Schneider Electric bakes generative AI into its programming suite. Programmers interact with the AI chatbot in the right rail; code snippets are suggested in the center screen, and can be added to the code tree in the left rail.
Machine Design
Can PLC programmers learn Python?
As part of our semi-occasional series on incorporating AI into your packaging and processing equipment, this column focuses on how realistic it is for your engineers to learn Python, a key skill in your generative AI journey.
September 15, 2024
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Machine Design
Assessing risk of integrating AI into your equipment
In this semi-occasional column we explore the risks associated with integrating generative AI into your equipment and how to mitigate them. Included is a link to a database of all known risks associated with AI.
August 19, 2024
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Machine Design
Embedding AI Language Models in Your Machines
OEMs can introduce AI into their equipment by embedding small language models. They can run directly on a standalone/embedded PC, don’t require an Internet connection, eliminate latency and costs associated with AI. (Updated December 2024.)
August 7, 2024
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Machine Design
Researched List: Small Language Models for Packaging & Processing OEMs
Things in the AI industry are changing daily, and OEM will update this list several times per year.
August 5, 2024
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Machine Design
Leveraging Generative AI for Packaging Machinery
For CPG customers struggling with declining availability and quality of workforce, OEMs have a unique opportunity to leverage generative AI to solve real customer problems.
July 29, 2024
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Sumay, a humanoid powered by OpenMind's software, draws a crowd at Automate 2026's Humanoid Robot Pavilion. The engineering impresses, but bipedal humanoids remain a few cycles away from the packaging floor.
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