The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, studied industry data from the UK and 24 other European countries between 1995 and 2017, and found that at low levels of adoption, robots have a negative effect on profit margins. But at higher levels of adoption, robots can help increase profits. According to the researchers, this U-shaped phenomenon is due to the relationship between reducing costs, developing new processes and innovating new products. While many companies first adopt robotic technologies to decrease costs, this'process innovation' can be easily copied by competitors, so at low levels of robot adoption, companies are focused on their competitors rather than on developing new products. However, as levels of adoption increase and robots are fully integrated into a company's processes, the technologies can be used to increase revenue by innovating new products.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can enable a new era in the digital transformation journey, offering tremendous potential to transform industries for greater efficiency, sustainability and workforce engagement. Even though the impact of AI applications in manufacturing and value chains is known, the full opportunity from their deployment is still to be uncovered due to a number of organizational and technical roadblocks. Recognizing this need, the World Economic Forum's Platform for Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains and Platform for Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, together with the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Türkiye, convened industry, technology and academic experts to shed light on these challenges and propose a step-by-step approach to overcome them.

In 2022 AI in Manufacturing is valued at USD 2.3 billion and is projected to reach 16.7 billion by 2027 according to a recent report. The result of adopting AI in any shape or form – from automation and predictive analytics, to natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, can be seen in early adopters such as IBM, Intel, GE, Siemens, and their success and business growth. In this article, we'll take a look at just some of the ways manufacturing companies can benefit from implementing AI in their processes. Furthermore, we'll share the diverse applications of AI that will help you save costs and improve processes regardless of the product specifics. As Harald von Heynitz, Head of Industrial Manufacturing, KPMG has said "Taking advantage of advances in robotics, 3D printing, and AI is critical to driving greater efficiency, lowering costs, and improving safety for many sectors and particularly niche suppliers". The benefits AI brings to Manufacturing are twofold.

AI and computer studying enable companies to accomplish unheard-of productivity, supply chain optimization, and lookup and improvement quickening. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a communal and now and again incredibly shrewd word that worries the capabilities of studying structures people see as intelligent. AI and Machine Learning (ML) applied sciences have climbed to prominence in manufacturing as they enable groups to trade their enterprise models, create new operational paradigms to inspire these models, and monetize statistics to accomplish greater stages of efficiency. Aside from hypes and fads, AI works due to the fact it offers great blessings to the manufacturing sector, maintaining clever production, predictive and preventative maintenance, furnish chain optimization, more advantageous safety, product development, and optimization, permitting AR/VR (Augmented and Virtual Reality), price decline, and great assurance, and enabling inexperienced operations (energy management), to title a few. The most prevailing utility of AI in manufacturing promotes typical gear effectivity and yield.

The fast-changing customer demands in modern society seek flexibility, innovation and a rapid response from manufacturers and organisations that, in order to respond to market needs, are creating tools and processes in order to adopt an approach that welcomes change. That approach is found to be Agile Manufacturing – and the Trinity project is the magnet that connects every segment of agile with everyone involved, creating a network that supports people, organisations, production and processes. The main objective of TRINITY is to create a network of multidisciplinary and synergistic local digital innovation hubs (DIHs) composed of research centres, companies, and university groups that cover a wide range of topics that can contribute to agile production: advanced robotics as the driving force and digital tools, data privacy and cyber security technologies to support the introduction of advanced robotic systems in the production processes. The Trinity project is funded by Horizon 2020 the European Union research and innovation programme. Currently, Trinity brings together a network of 16 Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and so far has 37 funded projects with 8.1 million euros in funding.

Industry 4.0 envisions Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) to foster adaptive production of mass-customizable products. Manufacturing approaches based on capabilities and skills aim to support this adaptability by encapsulating machine functions and decoupling them from specific production processes. At the 2022 IEEE conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), a special session on capability- and skill-based manufacturing is hosted for the fourth time. However, an overview on capability- and skill based systems in factory automation and manufacturing systems is missing. This paper aims to provide such an overview and give insights to this particular field of research. We conducted a concise literature survey of papers covering the topics of capabilities and skills in manufacturing from the last ten years of the ETFA conference. We found 247 papers with a notion on capabilities and skills and identified and analyzed 34 relevant papers which met this survey's inclusion criteria. In this paper, we provide (i) an overview of the research field, (ii) an analysis of the characteristics of capabilities and skills, and (iii) a discussion on gaps and opportunities.

Oracle's CloudWorld conference, held last week, featured a few new announcements in regards to leading large artificial intelligence and edge services, and a high-profile partnership between Oracle and NVIDIA continues the quest to make AI adoption easier as a service. Oracle Cloud also has some new applications in manufacturing and healthcare, and B2B commerce gets its own custom product. See our takes on the news from the conference below. AI from NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack is coming to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as an expansion to the two organizations' existing partnership. Specifically, OCI users will now have the opportunity to access thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU. Advertised as the world's fastest memory bandwidth, the A100 can run at over 2 terabytes per second and is suitable for the largest models and datasets.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are two technologies that are revolutionizing the industrial sector. The manufacturing area is no exception. Developing a Smart Factory is an opportunity to be competitive, to optimize timelines and make product design and production more efficient. Quality, worker safety, and sustainability are the fundamental pieces where these technologies can participate in the redesign towards high productivity, much safer, and more sustainable manufacturing. Manufacturing companies that are committed to finding their applications, understanding market trends and changes, to remain competitive.

One of my favorite projects is also a wonderful use case to analyze if Industrial Cloud is feasible. With my background in the automotive industry and industrial automation, it should be no surprise that this relates to car part manufacturing. After joining AWS re:invent as analyst where I focused on Industrial Machine Learning and Cloud in Manufacturing, I decide to revisit this project and give you an update on this USE CASE. After a very successful pilot project to optimize the process of filling casting machines with liquid aluminum, the team was eager to bring the solution to other facilities. And with that goal in mind, the team also realized that it was necessary to automate the learning process.

As the American Society of Quality reports, many organizations have quality-related costs of up to 40% of their total production revenue. A large part of this cost comes from the inefficiency of manual inspection, which is the most common way to provide quality control in manufacturing. The application of artificial intelligence for quality control automation presents a more productive and accurate way of doing a visual inspection of production lines. However, traditional machine learning methods present several limitations to how we can train and utilize models for defect detection. So in this article, we'll discuss the advantages of unsupervised learning for defect detection, and elaborate on the approaches MobiDev uses in our practical experience. AI defect detection is based on computer vision that provides capabilities for automating the whole AI quality inspection process using machine learning algorithms.