Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Manufacturing: Current Status and Future Outlook

Abstract Today’s manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, and connected. The factory operations face challenges of highly nonlinear and stochastic activity due to the countless uncertainties and interdependencies that exist. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), especially Machine Learning (ML) have shown great potential to transform the manufacturing domain through advanced analytics tools for processing the vast amounts of manufacturing data generated, known as Big Data. The focus of this paper is threefold: (1) review the state-of-the-art applications of AI to representative manufacturing problems, (2) provide a systematic view for analyzing data and process…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 1351160, CMMI-1830295, 1830295, CMMI-1853454, 1853454
• DF
  Directorate for Engineering

  Awards: 1351160, 1853454, 1830295
• DO
  Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

  Awards: 1853454, 1351160