I hope you understand why you are not needed.
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It's also taken two decades and billions to attempt to implement SAP. No chance 3M does anything meaningful with AI besides asking ChatGPT how to lay people off nicely.
You have to realize that the people running the show in 3M never had any coding / computer software experience while in grad school or while working. They are all old school.
All they know is reading about stuff in popular science magazines and newspapers, e.g. WS journal.
Then they latch onto some catchphrases such as digitalization, machine learning etc. and use them in town halls to look smart.
These bunch of people will never be able to implement AI or the latest tech tools in 3M. They are completely clueless when it comes to the latest in the world of tech.
The company that has spent the last 15 years trying to put all the right SAP floppy discs into their mainframe without messing up the order is suddenly going to implement AI in the 2 months since ChatGPT hit the scene. ok.
Before we get into AI, let's upgrade past Modicon controls with sparse IO. At 3M installing a Cobot that can move a box from a conveyor to a pallet is a major accomplishment.
There is zero chance this company invests enough in a serious AI effort to even have a chance of profiting from it. The main AI players have already invested billions, literally billions, into their programs to make them work. Can anyone seriously think 3M will hire the thousands of software people and drop a few hundred million on processing power to try and catch up?
Robotics, seriously? 3M has been dabbling with robots as a business model for at least 2 decades. The company has never been willing to make the serious, long term, commitment to being an industrial machinery company. 3M history is littered with failures to support hardware and software long-term.
Just and example to make my point clear: If 3M built actual hardware robot hardware, it would be expected to keep spare parts on hand for at least 10 years after the END of production. How many inventory reduction projects do you think that reserve of spare parts would survive? Probably no longer than the next division president rotation.
I am not sure about future, but this massive layoff has nothing to do with AI and robotics. It's just incompetent leadership trying to find an excuse.
heck.. when they realize that it AI is 'garbage in - garbage out' and need people to think for AI to have a quantum jump.
No chance this company under Mike and his minions will invest a dime in AI. Didn't Mike say we were going digital. All I see is horizontal- as in a flat line heartbeat. Dead. Dead. Dead. What a tragedy!
Let’s be real, AI takes investment and current leadership doesn’t invest in anything remotely innovative so I’m not worried about AI taking my job anytime soon. Thanks for the laugh
ChatGPT is for the plebs. There are other ones for the elites
It is just matter of time AI going to fire Mike Roman’s a$$ then
You're right! Time to ChatGPT in a CEO and CFO.