Nearly one half million unfilled manufacturing positions (Deloitte), low productivity and strong competition for new products are driving significant need for increasingly intelligent, agile, and collaborative manufacturing. Significant advanced manufacturing activities are underway across the world from global manufactures in a multiplicity of verticals including pharmaceuticals, medical products, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, construction, power and hand tools, materials, and industrial. Intelligent machines are addressing an increasingly complex range of manufacturing tasks including product design, material handling, machine tending, assembly, packaging, and distribution. Intelligent systems can provide a range of potential benefits to include speed, flexibility, accuracy.

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The purpose of this Spring Symposium is to bring together leading experts from across diverse communities to craft a 10-year road map for AI in manufacturing. 

 

Intelligent manufacturing is necessarily a cross AI discipline, drawing from (supervised and unsupervised) machine learning, image understanding, spoken language dialogue, media extraction, search, and knowledge representation, among other areas. The AI and Manufacturing Spring Symposium reported on new directions in burgeoning area of advanced manufacturing, including, but not be limited to:

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• Generative design for products and processes 

• Predictive analytics (e.g., avoiding down time, reducing costly failures)

• Collaborative robots (e.g., for picking, machine tending, kitting)

• Human machine teaming on the manufacturing floor

• Intelligent Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) 

•  Smart planning algorithms for automated factories

• Mobile material planning and autonomous vehicles

•  Spoken dialogue interfaces to machines, factories, and supply chains

• Automated defect detection

•  Knowledge based modeling and simulation of manufacturing

• Smart warehouses

•  Evaluation of advanced manufacturing

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This digital collection represents 57 authors of 18 papers from a diversity of 22 institutions in addition to 3 special keynote speakers. It is augmented by recognized expert keynote speakers. 

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On behalf of the organizing committee, we hope you are able to benefit from this collection and help to further advance intelligent manufacturing for the benefit of humankind. 

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Dr. Mark Maybury

Chair, AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Manufacturing