Artificial intelligence in industry

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Directions of AI application in industry

In 2024, Spydell Finance identified the following areas of application of AI in industry:

Deep automation of production processes with dynamic efficiency control

AI can contribute to the development and implementation of higher-level automated and robotic systems than in current ACS.

Risk and Safety Management

Risk and safety management, including predictive maintenance. Review process safety and risk data, helping to identify potential hazards and propose measures to mitigate risks, including using preventive measures to address emergency situations and replace and/or maintain equipment.

Optimization of production processes, resources, including supply chains and logistics

Analyze process data to optimize efficiency and reduce costs. This includes inventory management, production planning, equipment maintenance, and power consumption. AI can optimize logistics and supply chain management by analyzing data on demand, inventory and transport flows, which increases efficiency and reduces costs.

Product Quality and Process Control

AI can analyze data from production lines to control product quality, identifying defects and inconsistencies, which contributes to improving the overall quality of products.

Energy Management and Optimization

A more efficient distribution of energy resources reduces losses and excess or insufficient production, dynamically adjusting to demand.

History

2023: Why is artificial intelligence difficult in industry?

The manufacturing industry worldwide is one of the most promising areas for the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies. In Russia, the current statistics are not so positive. According to experts, IT solutions based on AI are used in many enterprises inexpediently. Factories, introducing new technologies into their production, often do not change business processes - therefore they do not see efficiency. Why this happens, says Andrey Zakharov, Datana product director . Read more here.

2022: Artificial intelligence created in Chelyabinsk to improve the quality of ultra-high-strength steel welding

In Chelyabinsk, an artificial intelligence was created that will increase the quality of ultra-high-strength steel welding. We are talking about the project of a scientist from South Ural State University Zhao Dawei, who received a grant to implement his idea.

The university explains the technology in complex scientific language. But the development attracts for its uniqueness. Heavy-duty steel is used in mechanical engineering, helps to reduce the weight of cars and make it safer. But at the same time, science by September 2022 does not fully know the mechanisms of electrode wear during spot welding. They are planned to be discovered in his research by a scientist and his team.

Zhao Dawei

With computer simulations and experiments, we investigate the effect of aluminum-silicon coating on the mechanism of electrode wear in the spot welding process. We plan to create a database that includes variable welding parameters of welding modes, microstructure, stress field, temperature field and electrode deformation field during the process of its wear, Zhao Dawei said.

According to him, the project is aimed at the development of industry in the Chelyabinsk region. Using artificial intelligence, a program was created to monitor the change in the state of the electrode during spot welding. The results of this project will lead to a significant increase in the competitiveness and efficiency of enterprises in comparison with their competitors, he is sure.

For the first time, the project proposes a large-scale study aimed at finding relationships between an aluminum-silicon coating and an electrode wear mechanism along with predicting electrode life, which will determine the optimal approach to processing electrode wear parameters to its maximum performance. This study will help identify the diffusion of chemical elements between the aluminum-silicon coating and the electrode during the welding process.^[1]

2020: The center "Artificial Intelligence in Industry" will appear in St. Petersburg

In early November 2020, the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, signed a decree on the creation of the scientific and educational center "| Artificial Intelligence in Industry" in the city, which will develop and introduce AI technologies for the needs of the Russian economy.

Our task is to contribute to the emergence in St. Petersburg of scientific organizations that will conduct world-class research and development. In addition to the center "Artificial Intelligence in Industry," we have a REC in the field of 5G networks and promising networks 2030, a scientific and educational center "ITMO Highpark" is being created, - said the governor.

Artificial Intelligence in Industry Center to open in St. Petersburg

It is noted that the document was developed in order to implement the decree of the President of Russia "On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024" and in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation "On measures of state support for world-class scientific and educational centers based on the integration of educational organizations of higher education and scientific organizations and their cooperation with organizations operating in the real sector of the economy."

According to the press service of the city governor's administration, a world-class scientific and educational center is an association (without a legal entity) of federal state universities and (or) scientific organizations with enterprises in the real sector of the economy.

His activities are aimed at ensuring world-class research and development, obtaining new competitive technologies and products and their commercialization, as well as training personnel to solve large scientific and technological problems in the interests of developing the branches of science and technology according to the priorities of the scientific and technological development of Russia, the head of the city said in a statement.^[2]

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