Learning Areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming one of the integral and important parts of industrial automation systems with respect to the industrial digital transformation, including the “Industrie 4.0” initiative. High fidelity information based on shop floor data or Model-Based System Engineering data is the starting point for creating this information as an input for AI.
This course facilitates understanding and adoption of AI methods and approaches. It is introduced by the topic “Introduction in Artificial Intelligence” with a general introduction on AI and how it is used in industry. Next, the course is divided according to the central topics into four main areas. Except for this course structuring, the course is divided into nuggets – the smaller learning units.
The participant will obtain the certification after fulfilling all requirements according to the assessment plan and selected course nugget or their combination.
4 Main Areas
Data Analytics
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Control & Decision Making
Learning Nuggets
Nuggets are short learning units of the course accessible online via the EIT Manufacturing Guided Learning Platform – SKILLSMOVE. Every nugget addresses at least one competency and may have different formats (pdf, video, html, etc.).
Participants have the possibility to choose a particular nugget, their arbitrary combination, or may select from predefined study plans.
Duration: 15 – 30 min, Language: English
The cornerstone of the course is formed by the information nuggets carrying the learning content. Two different categories of nugget characteristics are distinguished – nugget specific characteristics & common characteristics.
These characteristics are available to participants for facilitating the selection of the best fitting nugget according to their needs.
Course Content

1.
Introduction in Artificial Intelligence
A general introduction, on AI and how it is used in industry
Area I: Data Analytics
Nuggets
2.
Exploratory Data Analysis in Melamine-faced boards
Understand how to prepare a dataset for modelling and extract knowledge for future decision making. Application to an industrial application (wood-based panels)
Content
- Data Wrangling, Cleaning & Understanding to ensure quality
- Plotting tools for data interpretation
- Feature Selection & Extraction for data modelling
- Data Exploration & Mining to extract new insights about the business without any modelling;
3.
Big Data analysis for the hydroelectric powerplant
Determine a suitable moment for restarting the turbine to clean turbine vanes by shockwave to increase power.
Approach: Find out generator output power based on input parameters with the help of predictive analysis.
Content
- Prediction of generator output power of hydroelectric power plant with respect to Big Data processing
- Data pre-processing
- Correlation analysis of input data
- Neural network for the prediction of generator output
- Practical part: Yes
4.
Data analytics of the production & digital twins
Discussion of raw data from a production line of similar production units.
Content
- How historical data from production units can be used to analyse operational differences among the same (or similar) production units.
- Feature extraction for similarity analysis. Looking at similarity analysis techniques
- Constructing a digital model of a production line based on the extracted important features
- A historical dataset from a number of similar production units is provided for the students to get familiar with and perform feature extraction
5.
Control of production process in the semi-conductor industry
Modelling data analytics for industry
Content
- Analysis of predictive maintenance events
- Impact of non-precise assumptions in sequenced and dependent processes
Area II: Machine Learning
Nuggets
6.
Quality prediction for Laser Seam Welding
Understanding how predictive models work and how to take advantage of their properties for quality prediction. Application in a Laser Seam Welding industrial scenario.
7.
Document processing & text mining for requirement classification
Product lifecycle management: identification, extraction & classification of requirements from prescriptive documents into their corresponding disciplines.
Content
Specificity of text data & method: objectives, limitations and parameters
8.
Bin picking AI-based image recognition
Automatic detection of position & orientation of a metallic part without knowing its geometry. Building & training the convolutional neural network (CNN) in the TensorFlow framework.
Content
- Description of CNN structure
- Preparation of training image data set
- Implementation of CNN model in Python
- Practical part: Yes
Area III: Deep Learning
Nuggets
9.
Predictive maintenance of Electrical Machining
Predictive maintenance of Electrical Machining from the MANTIS project
Content
- What is predictive maintenance?
- What is the data you have?
- What predictive models are out there and what do you do with them?
- How do you integrate your models?
10.
Design rules from design manuals in the aeronautics industry
Content
- Identification of suitable methods and algorithms for data analysis: logistic regression, neural network, convolutional neural network
- Performances frameworks’ analysis: predictability, explainability, feasibility, interpretability
11.
Quality control & anomaly detection in production
Out-of-control state detection based on one-class classifier for multivariate process control
Content
- Two quality characteristics measured on engine head after machining operation & used for detection of potential out-of-control state production process
- Commonly used control limits, applied individually on each characteristic, wrap the data unnaturally
- One-class support vector machine is trained on in-control state data & its more flexible decision boundary encloses the data points much better
- Practical part: Yes
12.
Natural language processing (NLP)
For more consistent traceability of requirements into design documentation & testing suites as a part of the MANTIS project
How to use Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing to extract features & concepts from Requirement Documents, & trace them into the Design & testing phase
- Requirements and how to format them
- Regular expressions and how detect patterns in structured documents
- Extracting features & topics from requirement documents
- Mapping features + topics into design user stories
- Tracing requirement features + topics into testing
Area IV: Control & Decision Making
Nuggets
13.
Explainable defect detection and Recipe recommendation for wood-based panels
Content
- Understand how search algorithms can be used in optimization based on heuristics for parameter estimation.
- Understand how model-agnostic explainable AI approaches work and apply them to a practical defect detection case
- Application to a wood-based panels and laser seam welding (extra) industrial scenario
14.
Configuration of requirements management tool & PLM based on NLP + ML processing of specification documents
Content
- Identification of necessary data
- Feeding of a requirement management tool from prescriptive documents
- Method/algorithm for problem resolution and risk assessment
15.
AI-driven control of counting machines
Automatic configuration of a counting machine based on a large set of historical data capturing collective
expert knowledge of various human operators.
Content
- Representation of the knowledge base data
- Clustering method used for identification of distinct groups of counting machine settings
- Data preprocessing needed as an initial step of the clustering
- Selection of the most important clusters and their representatives; cluster visualization
- Practical part: Yes
16.
Model-based control of dynamic adaptive production of Philips
Production environment with a set of sensors to understand the environmental context situation and a set of actuators to control the production.
Content
- Representation of production rules in predicate or first-order logic (using declarative model-based approach)
- Dynamic constraint satisfaction problem – a way to solve and adhere to production rules
- Changes and adaptivity in rules: dynamic computational efficiency.
- Including a Practical part