AI @ 3M

3M’s AI strategy focuses on embedding intelligence across operations to dominate material science innovations, efficiency and product velocity.

• Klover AI: 3M's AI Strategy: Analysis of Dominance in Material Science and Industrial AI

3M advances AI-first transformation strategy demonstrated at the 3M Open golf event with Perficient and Salesforce partnership; smarter factory systems enhance production and safety.

• Perficient Blog: AI-First Transformation Strategy Unfolds at the 3M Open
• 3M Newsroom: Moving from now to next: How 3M's technology is shaping tomorrow

3M announces $3.5 billion R&D investment for 2025-2027 focusing on AI-driven innovation, including launching a digital materials hub with 300+ product model combinations.

• Manufacturing Dive: 3M to spend $3.5B on R&D with AI focus
• CHEManager: Innovation at the Intersection of AI
• Star Tribune: 3M preaches AI automation and innovation to investors

Paul Cardno, 3M's global digital innovation lead, states AI is reserved for complex problems unsolvable by other means, reflecting a strategic and precise AI application approach.

• Computing UK: 3M: 'We only use AI for complex problems we can't solve any other way'

3M revolutionizes operations using AI and generative AI across manufacturing, supply chain, and clinical denial management to reduce costs and enhance efficiency.

• AIM Media House: How is 3M Revolutionizing Its Operations with AI and Generative AI Across Multiple Sectors
• 3M Inside Angle: The benefits of machine learning to mitigate and manage front-end clinical denials

3M expands AI initiatives significantly in manufacturing, healthcare, and other sectors, emphasizing transformative impact of AI/ML.

• PitchGrade: 3M: AI Use Cases 2024
• 3M Buckley Innovation Centre: Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare

3M discusses AI knowledge and large language model (LLM) safety on its internal blog, suggesting a deep engagement with advanced AI ethics and research.

• 3M Inside Angle: AI talk: What do LLMs know? And AI safety

3M partners with Telefónica Tech and AWS to deploy conversational AI for optimizing hospital emergencies and automating medical note-taking.

• Telefonica: Telefónica Tech and 3M optimise hospital emergencies with AI
• Forbes: Amazon & 3M Will Use Generative AI To Ease Documentation For Healthcare Providers
• STAT: Amazon partners with 3M to advance conversational AI in healthcare
• Fierce Healthcare: 3M taps AWS for conversational AI to advance medical note-taking

3M embraces AI and machine learning in various business areas to optimize operations and product innovation.

• Analytics India Magazine: How 3M Deploys AI-focussed Tech

3M standardizes and accelerates sales forecasting using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning; introduces AI evangelism for clinical documentation improvements.

• Microsoft: 3M standardizes, automates, and accelerates sales forecasting with Azure Machine Learning
• Becker's Hospital Review: The ABCs of artificial intelligence with 3M's AI evangelist

Collaboration with Argonne National Lab using machine learning to enhance material manufacturing energy efficiency.

• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility: Argonne and 3M use machine learning to enhance material manufacturing process

3M develops speech and AI-powered clinician-assistive solutions to reduce technical burdens in healthcare revenue cycle management, improving time to care.

• Becker's Hospital Review: How 3M is using AI to reduce tech burdens in the revenue cycle

3M uses machine learning via AWS to innovate both existing products like sandpaper and new product development.

• Amazon.com: With machine learning, manufacturing giant 3M innovates products old and new

3M selects C3.ai as strategic AI software platform to deploy AI-based applications starting with predictive healthcare and supply chain analytics.

• C3 AI: 3M Selects C3.ai As Strategic AI Software Platform