Plant Floor to Cloud: The Podcast

<p>A reordering agent ran quietly for six weeks, drafting purchase orders a human clicked to approve — right almost every time. So they took the human out of the loop, on a Friday. Over the weekend, a malformed price file turned dozens of individually-plausible orders into a Monday-morning mess nobody had actually signed off on. The model didn’t make a mistake — it did its job perfectly. It just wasn’t the job that mattered.</p> <p>That one mix-up — mistaking the demo for the job — is the thread running under nearly everything that went sideways in this July’s newsletter.</p...