(19b) Transforming the Process Industries Through AI and Digitalization

The process industries are faced with an increasingly volatile, uncertain and competitive business environment, with new and changing requirements, regulations and opportunities coming at breakneck speed. At the same time developments and trends in AI and digitalization (e.g. connected devices, IIoT, the data explosion, Cloud and Edge computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning) are providing new opportunities to react effectively. In this presentation, Antonio Pietri will discuss examples of how AI and digitalization are being combined with domain knowledge to transform process engineering, production optimization, and plant reliability. He will also present his vision of the “Smart Enterprise” where plants will become increasingly self-learning, self-adapting, and self–sustaining.