99.96% accuracy and six plants show how JSW Cement is scaling AI

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The real test of industrial AI begins after the pilot. A model can demonstrate technical accuracy in a controlled environment, but manufacturing organisations have to answer a harder question before taking it elsewhere. Can the intervention work repeatedly, within an operating plant, and produce an outcome that the business can measure?

That is the approach Raghu Vokuda, Chief Digital and Information Officer at JSW Cement, describes in discussing the company’s AI programme. Rather than starting with a collection of technology solutions, he says the organisation first sought to establish where AI could have a measurable impact across manufacturing.

“I suggested that the approach, the pointed solution approach, is not something that we should do as a group,” Vokuda says. “We should have some kind of a clear cut roadmap, a blueprint.”

The distinction is important in an industry where AI projects can remain confined to proofs of concept. At JSW...

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