Abstract:

Artificial intelligence and collaborative robotics are today two extremely trending topics not only in industry but in society as a whole. Yet, despite the growing interest related to these technologies, their full potential is far from making its way in the productivity statistics. Many unanswered questions still stand between the wish to increase process performance and the reality of failed approaches. How can manufacturing companies select the processes with the greater potential for applying these technologies? How can they choose where to start from? How should their value network change for generating and sustaining the adoption of AI and cobotics? How can cobots symbiotically interact with workers and increase their well-being?
This seminar will delve deep into these topics presenting the results of a recently concluded European project named KITT4SME aimed at providing tailored AI kits to manufacturing SMEs. Methodologies for assessing the maturity model of manufacturing companies will be discussed and examples of applications of AI and cobotics in industry will be presented.