The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Industry Automation

Published on October 21, 2022

The days have gone where we use to call The term “artificial intelligence” as machines that imitate and display “human” cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, like “learning” and “problem-solving”. Now we are in the era where AI is described in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be augmented, articulated, and used in the various process which is shifted from manual to automation.

We all have faced the “new normal” of extreme volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) during Covid 19 Pandemic in normal day-to-day needs, and routines,s and in the broader aspect of financial or economical point of view its impact on businesses around the world.

Now the world has recognized the need to operate their assets and value chains with maximum resilience, flexibility, and agility so that they can respond to shifting market conditions and sustain. As a result of this acceptance was “digitalization”, the digitalization of industrial facilities is becoming critical at the highest levels of the organization and because of this acceptance industry is leading towards the path to new levels of safety, sustainability, and profitability.

This transition and enhancement in terms of digitization and automation are possible to adapt in Industry especially small scale or middle scale because of the Adaption of AI in process automation at the Operational level along with the usage of Information Technology enabled devices and control mechanisms which will help to improve not only performance of resources but also remarkable significance in terms of profit margin, sustainability in the critical market situation and environmental safety.

Artificial Intelligence(AI) in Industry is not a miracle but it is possible because of the combination of basic Engineering principles including physics, chemistry, mathematics, and AI capabilities and domain expertise to provide software and hardware solution. This can be considered as Hybrid Technology which will enhance the early designed module to deliver more comprehensive business solutions for the specific needs of capital-intensive industries, and it will add significant value to accelerate the transformation of companies around the world including Manufacturing, Production and IT, etc. Thus “Industrial AI” is the new upcoming horizon in process automation of companies to become competent enough for solving Industry-specific challenges.

Blog by :

Prof. Manjusha Tatiya,

ICEM, Pune.

Posted in:Computer Engineering, Education