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ManufacturingCarve (C-A-R)55 million pounds of meat

Cargill implemented a machine vision system that identifies red pixels representing meat on carcasses to provide real-time performance feedback to workers, resulting in an additional 55 million pounds of meat recovered annually.

“So they have a system, it's a machine vision system that they've called carve, C-A-R, capital VE, um, and it spots red pixels, basically like specks of meat on the carcass as they move down the line, and it sends real-time performance data to the people at the cutting tables…”

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Cargill uses an AI tool that incorporates weather patterns and local high school football schedules to predict worker attendance for shifts, addressing staffing shortages in manufacturing.

“They also have another AI tool they're implementing to predict worker attendance, because I guess that can be a big issue as well. So they have put in like weather patterns, even like the local high school football schedule, and they're able to do that to predict how many people are going to show up for their shifts.”