BMW has been at the forefront of Industry 4.0 for years. For example, the company was an early adopter of additive manufacturing, and today prints hundreds of thousands of production parts annually. The German automaker is also using data analytics for numerous applications, including predictive maintenance, control of paint and press lines, and monitoring of fastener installation.
Now, BMW is applying artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its global operations. Most recently, BMW developed software that makes light work of creating AI applications for object recognition. The core of the software is the so-called BMW Labeling Tool Lite. This tool enables users to easily label objects in images, off-line, to quickly create AI apps that can then reliably identify those objects in images during production.