DECEMBER, 20228 IN MYV EWARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BOOST SMART MANUFACTURING MYTHS AND REALITIESBy Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) KONTOPOULOS, Computational & Data Science Scientific Director and Global Lab Leader, Air Liquide [EPA: AI]There are many discussions and, let us say it, much buzz about this topic. People in Industry, even more in Manufacturing, are requesting realities beyond the myth. Especially if and how they can boost their business with this technology.Where can we apply it?The applications of AI are numerous. In Air Liquide, we use this framework for our digital transformation strategy: Assets-Customers-Ecosystems (ACE). For the Assets: predictive maintenance, process, and energy optimization, energy management, energy storage, logistics, supply chain, plant design are some of the fields where AI can push the business forward. However, let us beware of the myth that wants to throw away the "old" technologies such as operations research or computational science and replace it by deep learning. Instead, we combine the best of both worlds. It is feasible, we have already obtained results and we are part of a cross-enterprises collaborative project that will push this "hybridization" frontier forward..Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) KONTOPOULOS
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