Artificial intelligence software, though spectacular, is not the only revolution changing our lives forever. Real-time is a strong force that will change every process in the world.
Apparel manufacturing and manufacturing, in general, follow an advanced planning and scheduling process today. Amazon's manufacturing department, just like Elon Musk's Tesla self-driving cars (see Chapter 13, AI and The Internet of Things (IoT), and Chapter 14, Optimizing Blockchains with AI), require automated planning and scheduling, not advanced planning and scheduling.
The fundamental difference between the two systems relies on the time factor as shown in the following comparison table. The difference between an advanced ...
