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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Manufacturing

A K Jha

Abstract: There is no doubt that over 60% of manufacturing companies are using AI technology. AI in manufacturing cuts
downtime and ensures high-quality end products. Moreover, manufacturing companies are applying AI-based analytics
solutions to their information systems for improving work efficiency.

AI in manufacturing will have a crucial impact on the smart maintenance of the production environment. To avoid sudden
damages to machinery, manufacturers are predictive solutions. These AI-enabled solutions for manufacturing companies
can predict the failure of equipment before they get damaged.

Similarly, artificial intelligence in manufacturing also helps manufacturers to get faultless products to market on time. Thus,
AI in manufacturing impacts product quality and ensure profits.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Manufacturing Industry

Top 10 uses cases of AI in manufacturing industry

The uses of AI in the manufacturing industry are incredible. Industrial AI robot collaboration enabling manufacturers to deliver
generative products faster.

AI in the manufacturing industry is changing the way manufacturers design products. The AI solutions for manufacturing offer
insights into the best design. Similarly, AI offers manifold benefits to manufacturing companies. Herein, have listed the best 10
significant benefits of AI in manufacturing.

#1 Quality Checks
Internal defects of equipment cannot be detected easily. Sometimes experts are also unable to detect the flaws in products by
observing their functionality. But, AI and ML technologies can do this efficiently. Minor flaws in machinery are detected with AI.

AI in manufacturing processes improves quality control. Smart AI solutions monitor the productivity of machinery. That’s why
most of the manufacturing companies using AI automation in their manufacturing routines. AI-based tools detect defects of products
on the production line.
USM has developed equipment maintenance AI solutions.

#2 Predicts Equipment Failure

Manufacturers face challenges with machinery failures. A product might look perfect from the outside, but it offers low performance
when we use it. It affects productivity.

It is the second most reason behind the increased demand for AI in manufacturing. Manufacturing companies are deploying AI to
get information of equipment damages for ensuring excellent performance.

#3 Equipment Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance of devices allows the manufacturer to cut device maintenance costs. Using ML-powered predictive
solutions, AI tools for manufacturing predict when machinery require maintenance services.

Similarly, cloud and the IoT sensors are also playing a vital role in modernizing the manufacturing industry. They embedded in
machinery to better predict the maintenance and overcomes equipment issues that have to occur in the future.

AI services and applications for manufacturing helps to achieve smart manufacturing operations and reduce cost overheads.

#4 Digital Twins
Digital twin visualizes the infrastructure, products, or services. It pairs up virtual and physical attributes for analyzing vast data
collected by sensors or cameras. The ultimate goal of the digital twin is to design and test equipment virtually.

#5 Supply-Chain Management
The use of artificial intelligence in supply chain management is rapidly increasing. The technology is gaining momentum across
supply chain management operations. Machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and speech
recognition makes supply chain management tasks smarter.

AI has multiple applications in supply chain management. They include:

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 Establishes a strong communication channel among departments

Thus, the best communication channel among teams helps to improve overall business performance.

 Warehouse management & logistics

Artificial intelligence tools and apps can optimize warehouse management and logistic operations. From production to delivery,
everything can be analyzes using AI. AI-enabled devices and tools that can also manage and track fleet operations efficiently.

 Development of autonomous vehicles for logistics

Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing is going to its next level in the form of autonomous vehicles. To better manage the
distribution centers, the manufacturing companies are investing in AI-powered autonomous vehicles to automate the logistic
operations.

Hence, together with artificial intelligence robotics and tools, self-driving vehicles reduces dependency on human drivers. A big
thanks to artificial intelligence technology.

AI-driven machines are laying an easier path to the future by yielding a bunch of benefits – offering new opportunities, enhancing
production efficiencies, and bringing machine interaction closer to human interaction. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is
knowledge-based work, carried out by the automation; by creating new ways to automate tasks, we can rebuild the way people and
machines live, interact & collaborate, to make a superior, stronger digital economy.

AI facilitates to conquer many internal challenges that have been around in the industry: from expertise shortage to complexity in
decision making, issues related to integration, and overloaded information. Making use of AI in manufacturing plants enables
businesses to completely transform their proceedings. Let’s have a glance at how AI is helping the manufacturing sector to
accomplish:

 Directed Automation:
The utilisation of AI and robots is particularly observed in industrial manufacturing as they revolutionize mass-production. Robots
are capable of doing recurring activities, designing the production model, rising competence, building automation solutions,
eradicating human error and delivering superior levels of quality assurance.

 24x7 Production:
While humans are forced to work in 3 shifts for ensuring continuous production, while robots are capable to work for 24/7 in the
production line. Businesses can be witnessed to expand in terms of production capabilities and meet the high demand of customers
worldwide.

 Safer Operational Environment:

With several errors taking place on the manufacturing plant, a step towards AI means less human resource have to carry out
dangerous and overly laborious work. As robots replace humans and perform normal and risky activities, the number of workplace
accidents will decrease all across.

 Novel Opportunities for Humans:

As AI takes over the manufacturing plant and automates boring and ordinary human tasks, workers will get to focus on complex
and innovative tasks. While AI takes care of unskilled labor, humans can focus on driving innovation and routing their business to
advanced levels.

 Condensed Operating Costs:

Although, bringing AI onto the manufacturing industry would necessitate a huge capital investment, the ROI is significantly high.
As intelligent machines start taking care of day-to-day-activities, businesses can enjoy considerably lower operating cost.

Added Benefits of AI
AI and industrial automation have advanced considerably in the recent years. Development in machine learning techniques,
advances in sensors and therefore, the growth of computing power has helped produce a brand new generation of robots. AI helps
allows machines to gather and extract data, acknowledge patterns, learn and adapt to new things or environments through machine
intelligence, learning and speech recognition. Using AI, manufacturers will be able to:

 Create rapid, data determined decisions

 Facilitate enhanced production outcomes
 Advance process effectiveness
 Minimize operational costs
 Facilitate superior scalability
 Facilitate product development

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Moreover, AI is quite good at understanding the natural language and translating it, this will turn out to be simpler for workers and
managers to communicate with software. For example, software users often have a preference to look for things rather than navigate
a complex menu. AI makes the software comprehend the user’s intentions, which make the system more spontaneous, which leads
to superior output and fewer errors.

The Affect AI in the Manufacturing Industry

The manufacturing industry has always been available to embrace the innovative technologies. Drones and industrial robots have
been a part of the manufacturing industry since 1960’s. The following automation revolution is just around. With the implementation
of AI, if organisations can keep inventories lean and reduce the cost, there is a high probability that the Manufacturing Industry will
encounter an empowering development. Having said that, the manufacturing sector has to be prepared for organized manufacturing
plants where supply chain, design team, production line, and quality control are very coordinated into an intelligent engine that
provides noteworthy insights of knowledge.

The Trends of Manufacturing Industry with Emerging AI:

AI will impact manufacturing in ways we have not yet anticipated. Nonetheless, we can already look at some more noticeable
examples.

The continued enhancement in computer visualization has long been used for quality assurance by detecting product defects in real
time. But now that manufacturing involves more information than ever integrated with the fact that plant managers do not want to
pay employees to enter information—AI with computer vision can rationalize how information gets apprehended. A factory worker
should be able to acquire raw materials reserve from the shelf and have the stock transaction created automatically based on a
camera observing the process. This will be the natural user interface, just carrying out the task at hand not inputting or scanning
things into a system.

Secondly, AI will impact is with the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT will give a way to deliver supplies and services to customers who
might not comprehend that they are required. Additionally, IoT can send in-depth telemetry back to producers and distributors to
scrutinize quality and factors that might drive failures. In brief, IoT is an inward tsunami of information that AI can utilize to reason
over and evolve. This will facilitate augmented generative design processes where products are re-imagined in ways more similar
to evolution.

Some Important Statistical Information of AI in Different Sectors:

 By 2035 AI technologies have the impending to rise in production 40% or more.
 AI will boost the economic growth an average of 1.7% across 16 industries by 2035.

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The bar chart illustrates the growth forecast with AI as a new element of production:

Great Value Added in 2035 for with respect to the Manufacturing sector

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Conclusion
AI’s proponents claim that the technology is only an evolutionary form of automation, a predictable result of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. AI may be efficient at creating things, improving them, and making them cheaper. But there is no replacement for
human ingenuity in dealing with the unanticipated changes in tastes and demands—or in deciding whether to make things at all.

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