| | NOVEMBER - 20218CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONHOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR PRODUCTION EMPLOYEES IN SELF-SERVICEBy Matthias Schindler, Head of Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, BMW Group [ETR: BMW]In the production of premium vehicles, individualisation and quality play a key role. The current BMW 3 Series, for example, is available in more than one billion possible configurations. At the same time, the integration approach of manufacturing vehicles with a wide variety of drive systems­petrol, diesel, plug-in hybrids, and battery electric vehicles­on the same assembly line increases the complexity of the production system. In addition to manual visual checks or conventional, pixel-based computer vision methods, Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers an innovative, high-performance method for quality assurance in production. The technology of Deep Learning, a method of Artificial Intelligence, is particularly suitable in image processing for the tasks of classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation. In the application of AI, a distinction is made between the training phase and the subsequent phase of live operation, the "inference". In the case of image processing, an initial data set of photos is required for training. The pictures
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