AI for control engineers
This 3-minute video, “What is AI – for industrial automation” by Walker Reynolds, quickly defines artificial intelligence (AI), and compares it to regular programs, especially from the perspective and concerns of industrial automation.
4.0 Solutions podcast/IIoT University
Process and optimize
This 57-minute podcast/video, “Real-time industrial process optimization and control with AI” by Kudzai Manditereza and Aldo Ferrante, show how real-time, AI-based process optimization can deliver immediate value, while laying the groundwork for autonomous manufacturing operations. It also covers how AI can outperform human decision-making; predictive maintenance and energy optimization use cases; centralized and decentralized AI development; empowering local teams with edge AI and no-code tools; and a host of other topics.
Industry40tv and Sorba AI
Gen AI for automation
This 54-minute video, “Gen AI application for industrial automation” by Tony Kgatle and Tshepiso Morabe covers practical implementations of Gen AI in industrial automation, focusing on how technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reinforcement learning and model distillation are deployed to build scalable, efficient and interpretable AI solutions. It emphasizes use cases such as real-time monitoring, automated quality control through computer vision and dynamic workflow optimization. Technical considerations including data integration, edge deployment, model reliability, and safety in automated environments will are also addressed.
Engineering Institute of Technology
Inspection and machine vision
This 6-minute video, “How to use AI in industrial automation,” covers basic machine vision, and demonstrates how it can be aided by AI-driven visual inspections, and supports it with a use case in about how AI can enable primary inspection.
State of smart
This online report, “10th annual state of smart manufacturing,” shows how companies are driving real results with AI, cybersecurity and digital transformation, overcoming resistance and training their workforces. It lets readers benchmark their own strategies, explore best practices, and take advantage of investments in AI, machine learning (ML), generative AI (gen AI) and causal AI. It requires a brief registration.
AI takes over from APC
This 27-minute video, “Advanced process control for manufacturing with AI agents” by Joseph Hernandez, engineering VP at Liveline Technologies, covers how it employs AI agents to automate factory processes. Its approach allows rapid deployment of real-time process controls that can handle complex situations, including nonlinear systems and non-numeric goals. By leveraging AI for system modeling and controller design, the total cost to engineer and maintain advanced process controls (APC) is superior to legacy solutions.
Liveline Technologies and AWS Events
Integrate with Matlab
This 54-minute video, “Harnessing AI in industrial automation and machinery with Matlab” by Dr. Chong Shin Horng of the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), covers how AI is reshaping industrial automation and machinery, and shows how to integrate AI technologies using Matlab and Simulink software. It also introduces viewers to several applications of AI, including predictive maintenance, visual inspection, and operationalizing AI-driven systems.
AI on the plant floor
This 14-minute video, “How AI is changing manufacturing” from Newlab Detroit, examines how AI is deployed on plant-floors, shows how large language models (LLM) write job safety analyses (JSA); details the differences between ML, deep learning and physical AI; demonstrates liquid neural networks that let robots adapt to their settings, and shows how manufacturers like Atomic Industries, Fleet Glue, Machina Labs and Hyundai Singapore are applying AI tools.
Understand, create agents
This 10-minute video, “AI agent, clearly explained” by Jeff Su, breaks down their three primary evolutionary steps from LLMs like ChatGPT to AI workflows, and onward to AI agents, and also presents a real-world case study.
In a second, 17-minute video, “The AI agent tutorial that should have been your first,” Su shows how to build an AI agent using n8n software, including creating an automated subscription tracker that processes natural language input, and updates Google Sheets software automatically. It also covers how to configure the agent’s brain, including using chat model and memory, connect tools like Google Sheets, and write system prompts that control agent behavior.
Automate and control AI
This 8-minute video, “Make AI control system-automations in real time (no code),” reports that, as AI agents and automations scale, workflows lose transparency. Consequently, users need greater observability and a control system for their AI. It show how to build an AI nervous system with Make software, and implement decision nodes, change propagation, add reaction and observer layers, and develop a grid architecture solution.
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