# Smart Manufacturing

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Podcast: [NSF’s Discovery Files Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nsf-s-discovery-files-podcast-5593035)
Published: 2025-06-09T07:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://NSFsDiscoveryFilesPodcast.podbean.com/e/smart-manufacturing/
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Duration seconds: 1021

## Resource

U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers are developing a multimodal system that combines image analysis and natural language processing to help manufacturers detect problems, suggest improvements and communicate with machines in real-time. Bingbing Li, a professor at California State University, Northridge, discusses his group's work with vision language models for use in smart manufacturing.

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