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【2023#14】Optimization Techniques for Mechanical Maintenance on Automation Production Lines: A Demonstration Project

Industry Type

  • Manufacturing (CMajor Category)
  • Electronic Component Manufacturing (Subcategory 26)

Industry Pain Points

  • Cost pressures: Fluctuations in raw material prices, rising labor costs, and increasing production costs.
  • Rapid technological change: The need for continual updates and upgrades of production equipment and processes to meet market demands and improve product quality.
  • Challenges in global supply chain management: Facing issues in transportation, logistics, and inventory management; instability and disruptions in supply chains may cause delivery delays and production interruptions.
  • Digital transformation pressures: The need to integrate data management, IoT applications, and artificial intelligence to enhance production efficiency and flexibility.
  • Shortage of human resources and skills: The industry requires technically skilled workers and professionals, but faces a shortage of these resources. There is a need to strengthen training and education systems to meet industry demands.

IntroductionAIBenefits

  • Automated production: Artificial intelligence enables automated production processes, reducing dependency on skilled workers. For example, robots and automation systems can handle simple, repetitive, and hazardous tasks, relieving workers and enhancing production efficiency and quality.
  • Smart monitoring and maintenance: AI can be utilized for monitoring and maintaining manufacturing equipment, offering real-time detection and prediction of equipment failures, facilitating proactive maintenance, and thereby reducing production disruptions and maintenance costs.
  • Effective management of resources and energy: Artificial intelligence can optimize production scheduling, resource allocation, and energy use, cutting costs and waste, and providing accurate predictions and optimization suggestions through data analysis.
  • Data-driven decision-making: AI can uncover hidden patterns and trends within extensive manufacturing data, offering decision support to optimize production processes, resource allocation, and supply chain management, improving efficiency and flexibility.
  • Skills training and knowledge transfer: AI can assist in virtual training and knowledge management, helping train new workers and transfer knowledge from experienced masters, thereby bridging skill gaps and increasing the efficiency and quality of new employees' work.

Common AI Technologies or Applications

  • Support Vector Machine: AI technologies like Support Vector Machine algorithms can analyze manufacturing processes and related data to optimize production parameters/schedules and resource allocation, thus improving equipment production efficiency.
  • Random Forest: AI technologies such as random forest algorithms can analyze historical equipment data points such as temperature, pressure, and vibrations to create models and predict the likelihood and causes of equipment failures, aiding operators in planning maintenance.
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence technologies like generative pre-trained transformers can develop smart assistants providing real-time guidance and training, combining natural language processing to analyze, preserve, and transfer the knowledge of seasoned workers, accelerating the learning and problem-solving skills of newcomers.
  • Convolutional Neural Networks and Q-Learning: Utilizing AI technologies like convolutional neural networks and Q-learning to develop smart robots, executing simple, repetitive, and hazard-detection tasks, autonomously gathering data to study and optimize workflows.

 

「Translated content is generated by ChatGPT and is for reference only. Translation date:2024-05-19」