UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (NYSE: UNH) is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It offers health care products and insurance services. UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is the world's eighth-largest company by revenue, the second-largest healthcare company behind CVS Health by revenue and the largest insurance company by net premiums. 

While we’ve covered a variety of use-cases in heavy industry over the years on the AI in Business podcast, we are now taking a closer look at what it is like to apply AI on the manufacturing floor on today’s episode.

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Finding effective AI projects in the enterprise can be a challenge – but ensuring that AI projects lead to a long-term advantage for the organization can be even harder. Too many dollars in AI investment still end up going to surface-level projects that can't deliver, while a growing number of AI projects are reaching maturity. 

Almost no other sector is traditionally slower to technological adoption than manufacturing, in no small part due to the countless challenges from relying on data accrued from physical environments. Yet across industries, manufacturing business leaders are finding that data is finally “waking up” to the nuances and fundamentals of their business operations.