United StatesFood and restaurants2017 – ongoingThe Hershey Company
Machine learning analysis of production sensor data
Hershey used Azure Machine Learning to analyze production sensor data
Problem
Hershey needed to turn production data into information that could support faster manufacturing and cost decisions.
Approach
Hershey connected operational sensors to cloud services and analyzed the resulting data with Azure Machine Learning. Microsoft reported that the system helped Hershey produce products faster and identify trends relevant to managing costs.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
The reported benefit concerned production decisions. Microsoft did not disclose a measured change in output or costs.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Food and restaurants
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Vendor case study
Sources
Source summaries
Microsoft described Hershey using sensor data and Azure Machine Learning in production. It attributed faster production and better cost decisions to the system without publishing a quantified operational result.
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