Many companies are exploring machine learning (ML) models to gain a competitive advantage. But some businesses are tapping this emerging technology to remain operational.
Tyson Foods is using ML to predict the potential of the coronavirus to impact its meat processing plants, as well as computer vision software to detect whether a worker may have a fever when they arrive for their shift, says CTO Scott Spradley.
The efforts are critical at a time when the nation’s top processor of beef, pork and chicken has closed several of its largest plants due to the pandemic, as workers fall ill or stay home out of fear of contracting COVID-19. On April 28, President Trump ordered meat processors to stay open, designating them as critical infrastructure under the Defense Production Act.
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