Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyAbout 10 Apple employees spent some of their valuable hours over recent months on a project that might seem unusual for the tech giant: customizing an open source AI tool for ImageTek, a small manufacturer in Springfield, Vermont whose lines of business include printing millions of labels for food packaging.The Apple engineers developed a computer vision system to automatically identify color errors, and on one run it picked up bacon labels with a far-too-pinkish beige before they got shipped, according to Marji Smith, ImageTek’s president. She says the timely catch helped ImageTek from losing a crucial customer. While not revolutionary, the technology requires finagling that comes easy with experience in AI—something that ImageTek…
