AIOTI organised an online webinar on 19 February presenting the AI in Manufacturing Paper.
The paper at the basis of this webinar was realised thinking about the new challenges and regulations in the manufacturing sector. The goal of it is to share with the European stakeholders an idea on how we can grow with the advancement of the new tecnologies. AI is no longer a lab topic, but a strategic lever. This paper was written to make sense of this transition. This is a technology that requires to be handled, also from an ethical point of view. The sustainability of the model and the future of it are central. The paper is particularly important because we are assisting to a real revolution in front of our eyes: the establishment of AI, IOT and Edge Continuum inside the manufacturing world.
This paper examines how the integration of AI is reshaping manufacturing by aligning productivity gains with regulatory compliance, sustainability goals, and human-centric innovation. It aims to catalyse informed dialogue across the European manufacturing ecosystem bringing together industry, research institutions, technology providers, and policymakers to collectively define pathways for the responsible and effective integration of AI into the sector’s foundational structures.
Objectives of this paper are to provide a shared European perspective on AI in manufacturing, to connect technology, business models and policy, to Identify trajectories, not hype. For this reason the content are architectures and data, business models and sustainability, use cases and future directions.
There is in fact a need to give new directions to the sector in this sense. The manufacturing realm is a place where data come from the real world, not the cloud. This paper and this webinar have been a demonstration of how much the AIOTI community is important for the data spaces and the idea of a responsible AI.
Fundamental actors to take into consideration in this context are the European Innovation Hubs, together with the AI factories and the data labs. There was also a need of analising some use cases in this ambit. This paper is very relevant for the implementation of the new ecosystem resulting from the technological revolution that the sector is experiencing. This is the reason why it tries to give a context to the AI in manufacturing. AI in fact produced a big industrial paradigm shift. SMEs sometimes do not know how to apply this important technological innovation. AI in fact is not only changing the values, but also the models and the regulations. A decisive aim is to answer the question of how can AI be sustainable. Manufacturing in fact is a complex environment and the paper tries to explore it. The use cases show several regional collaborations, with the core motivation of elevating the product quality increasing sustainability.
Find here the presentation and the video of the webinar.