New Delhi, April 29 -- AI training for India Inc. is moving beyond the office. While the focus has been on white-collar artificial intelligence training programmes so far, initiatives to upskill blue-collar shopfloor workers are now gaining momentum.

Workers and managers at steel manufacturers, automotive companies and tea plantations are getting trained in AI tools and languages such as Python. The aim is to reduce cycle times, scrap, errors and material loss and bring down the impact of human errors.

"AI adoption in the blue-collar workforce is gaining traction," said Atrayee Sanyal, chief people officer at Tata Steel Group. "We started our pilot in predictive maintenance and now AI models are used to prevent fatalities and injuries."...