by Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley | Jun 22, 2022 | Economic / Global Trends
Automation Alley, in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), recently led a trade delegation of 10 Michigan companies to participate in Hannover Messe (i.e., Hanover Fair) in Germany. As one of the world’s largest annual tradeshow...
by Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley | Apr 11, 2022 | Virtual and Augmented Reality
The Metaverse: Internet’s Next FrontierThe metaverse is the next evolution of the Internet and promises to merge the physical world with augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR). The brainchild of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 dystopian thriller “Snow Crash,” the prefix...
by Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley | Mar 31, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence
The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and AlgorithmsTo paraphrase Nobel Laureate and economist Ronald Coase, like statistics, you can torture algorithms to confess to anything. His sardonic wit would be less compelling if it were not for...
by Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley | Feb 17, 2022 | Culture
Why learning to unlearn prepares us for transformative changeAccording to Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann, “for progress, there is no cure.” Yet, for progress to advance, diffuse, and become democratized, a culture of learning supported by rigorous analytic...
by Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley | Jul 28, 2021 | Manufacturing
A Pandemic Silver Lining: the shortcomings of lean manufacturing compel a turn to Industry 4.0 for answers. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, “while manufacturing has been increasingly automated and globalized, it still holds a special place in the national...
