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232: AI Agents for Manufacturing 101 Featuring Composabl CEO & Co-Founder Kence Anderson

Manufacturing Happy Hour · 22 Apr 2025 · 53m

What this episode covers

Kence Anderson, CEO and co-founder of Composabl, explains that AI agents in manufacturing must combine perception with action to drive operational change, moving beyond traditional machine learning which focuses on defect detection. He illustrates this with the example of an extruder making Cheetos, where agents use simulations to practice and capture the tacit expertise of retiring operators regarding unmeasurable variables like corn moisture. Anderson advises manufacturers to identify high-value skills in danger of extinction and build a platform-based system to codify this knowledge before it is lost.

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early-stage companies

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Composabl, Bonsai, Microsoft, Skillwork
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AlphaGo

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