Industrial Artificial Intelligence
because the stakeholder concerns, expected
value and associated requirements have not
changed in all these decades. We have
evolved significant increases in computing,
storage and communication capacity that
make the earlier applications seem like toys
today.
Category
Summary
Configuration Combine components to form a final
product
Extrapolation
Discovery
Validation
Alter an existing product to meet the
customer's specifications
Combine components to produce
interesting functional systems
Confirm design behaves as defined by
the functional specification
Project
Management
Production
Planning Manage product definition and
activities performed to design products
Forecast customer demand, plan the
process, lay out the facilities, specifies
maintenance and trains the workers.
Production Plan, schedule, manage the shop floor,
control cells, inspect product and
maintain of processes
Distribution
and Field
Service
Diagnosis
and Repair Manage final phases of the
manufacturing product life cycle
Perform diagnosis of industrial assets
using sensor input
Examples
R1 / Xcon - knowledge-based configuration
of VAX-11 computer systems
XSEL - artificial Intelligence applied to the
acquisition and analysis of specifications
VT - elevator configuration
ALADIN - engineering design altered to
meet the customer's specifications
EURISCO - design of VLSI circuitry
TALIB - electronic circuitry design
CONSTRAINTS - infers functionality from
the form of an electronic circuitry
CORA - thermal and hydraulic transient
analysis of reactor core assemblies
CALLISTO - project scheduling, control and
configuration problems
ROME - analysis of resource plans
GREASE - select cutting fluids for machining
operations
FADES - methodology for factory design
ISIS - factory scheduling
IMACS / PTRANS - flow shop scheduling
IDT - detect faults in PDP 11/03 computers
IPWBIS - inspect inner layers of printed
wire boards
INET - simulation to model organization
structures and analyze automatically the
results
GENAID - diagnosis of steam turbines and
generators
ACE - diagnosis of cable problems for
telephone wiring
DELTA - diagnosis of diesel locomotives
DART - diagnoses computers based upon
their structure
Table 2: Early Industrial AI Applications
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