meldCX’s AI testing results produced 99.25% accuracy, which is in excess of their target accuracy baseline with the client and is set to help the largest poultry producer in the US reduce waste, assist with employee overheads and help ease the restraints of staffing shortages. This is another example of why meldCX’s AI platform is being adopted by some of the largest companies in the world.

Perdue Farms

Perdue Farms is a large-scale US poultry producer with annual revenues of over US$8 billion. A major challenge for the company has been to keep up with demand while guaranteeing consistently high product quality. Under the incumbent process, each production line requires eight quality control staff. Due to difficulties in finding staff in a tight US labour market, Perdue is currently unable to fulfil customer demand while operating below its production capacity.

Addressing these shortages, Perdue’s artificial intelligence program is aimed at replacing some quality control jobs that would normally be performed by a human. meldCX was chosen as Perdue’s AI partner, due to the recommendation from Intel based on meldCX technology’s ability to deliver multiple use cases. These include using AI to check label compliance, meat type, portions size, and even determine if chicken nuggets are not stuck together to avoid salmonella contamination, without the need and expense of re-training AI. If any issues are detected, the system notifies a staff member who is then able to resolve it. 

The 99.25% level of accuracy achieved in testing is remarkable for Perdue as the new AI-enabled process can ultimately reduce the staff needed per line from eight to just one person, with some of Perdue’s products operating 70+ lines. Notably, all of this was achieved by simply repurposing meldCX’ existing AI technology, underlining its scalability.

Looking Forward

meldCX and Perdue has exceeded the 98% percent benchmark and will start to employ meldCX AI to ramp up Perdue’s Kentucky facility to full capacity, anticipating that Perdue will want to implement the same AI system across all of their operations across the US and on multiple product lines.

Having proven effectiveness in a large-scale manufacturing setup, meldCX hopes to scale this success and win more manufacturing-related business. This project alone should generate US$1 million this year and US$3 million over the next 3 years but, with meldCX’s technology being product and sector agnostic, there is ample opportunity for broad replication.

About meldCX

meldCX is an Australian technology company developing innovative AI-solutions that can analyse visual input such as video footage and provide valuable learnings. The company’s main solution digitally measures and tracks user engagement in a physical space the same way online user behaviour can be tracked – giving meldCX’ corporate clients insights to optimise their operations and deliver cutting-edge customer experiences.

meldCX partners with the likes of Google, Cisco Meraki, Microsoft and Intel to bridge the service gap with clients looking for easily consumable AI solutions that are cheaper, effective and faster to roll out. In just a few years, more than 80 companies have adopted their AI platform, including Australia Post, Starbucks, NASA, Adidas and Burberry.

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Sources:

• Forbes, Perdue Farms