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market, thinking less in terms of individual data. AI allows us to embed a significant products and more in terms of impact. portion of that expertise directly into Today, the company’ s extensive portfolio devices and platforms. Instead of asking includes thermal and acoustic imaging, fixed users to interpret images, systems can sensors, and wireless monitoring devices, now highlight anomalies, assign severity, along with software platforms that bring and recommend action. Strategically, that all the technologies together and turn data democratizes reliability and safety, allowing into actionable insights. Now, as Flir drives organizations to scale best practices the next evolution of thermal imaging, it without scaling headcount.” is scaling its intelligence to new heights,
This shift toward embedded intelligence leading the shift from human-led thermal directly informs Flir’ s approach to innovation. management to AI-supported decisionmaking. Manufacturing Today sits down beyond specialists and into everyday
By recognizing that AI can extend expertise
with John Gould, Director of Global Business workflows, the company is opening the Development at Flir, to dive deeper into how doors to new, real-world opportunities. Flir’ s the company’ s AI-driven thermal imaging research and development processes, for is transforming predictive maintenance instance, targets instances where human across global industries. judgment becomes strained under scale,“ We’ re witnessing a fundamental shift complexity, or time pressure, designing in how expertise is delivered,” John begins. solutions that meaningfully close that gap.“ Traditionally, sensing technologies require“ Our R & D philosophy starts with a highly trained specialists to interpret simple question: Where does human
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