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2018年11月12日 | Time to read: 1 min
普拉薩德-阿凱拉博士，Drishti董事會的創始人和主席，正在創造他的第三個大規模的市場類別，使用技術來擴展人類的能力。在20世紀90年代，普拉薩德領導通用汽車公司的團隊建造了世界上第一個協作機器人（"cobots"，預計到2025年將成為一個120億美元的市場）。在21世紀初，作為社交網路先驅Spoke的聯合創始人，他設想並幫助建立了第一個大規模的社交圖譜--這個類別現在價值數萬億美元。今天，在Drishti，他正在努力將人工智慧的認知與人類在工廠中的靈活性相結合，形成人工智慧驅動的生產。普拉薩德在加州山景城辦公。
“I believe there is significant – as yet untapped – opportunity to drive high volume factory performance to much higher levels of productivity, quality, and problem-solving capability through the use of human factory analytics.”
Today we released a report that encompasses months of planning, research and analysis with one of our partners, A.T. Kearney, on the state of human factory analytics, and the above quote was submitted from an anonymous manufacturing leader.
I couldn’t agree more.
The data we gathered through this research reveals just how critical humans are to manufacturing today. Despite lots of chatter in the media and at industry events about robots, cobots and other emerging forms of automation, respondents told us that 72 percent of tasks in the factory are performed by humans.
And yet, the analytics from tasks performed by humans are incomplete and inaccurate. Time and motion studies, which were introduced in the early 20th century, are still the industry standard for capturing data on activities the human labor force completes.
Think about what that would look like in any other industry:
The idea that technology would stop evolving for more than 100 years seems ludicrous, but when it comes to human factory analytics, that’s basically what’s happened. Stopwatches may be replaced by smartphones; grid paper may be replaced by Excel, but the mechanics of time and motion studies – and the value of the data they yield – hasn’t evolved.
It’s time for a new technology to take the place of time and motion studies, a technology that can truly drive digital transformation that extends to the last analog frontier – humans.
Incomplete data is driving strategic manufacturing operations; read about the risks in the full report.
