Machine Learning Techniques for Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Challenges in Industry 4.0

The Industry 4.0 is now underway, changing traditional manufacturing into smart manufacturing and creating new opportunities, where machines learn to understand those processes, interact with environment and intelligently adapt their behaviour. Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) make machines in industrial production smarter than before addressing the question of how to build computers that improve automatically through experience. Machine learning (ML), as a subfield of AI, has become the main driver of those innovations in industrial sectors, which provides the opportunity to further accelerate discovery processes as well as enhancing decision making.

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Predictive Manufacturing Systems in Industry 4.0: Trends, Benefits and Challenges

The fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, has tendency to push the boundaries of science and technology. This is especially true for the manufacturing industry. One of the biggest challenges facing the manufacturing industry today is how to make intelligent systems for production with “self-aware”, “self-predict and “self-maintain” abilities. Predictive manufacturing systems (PMS) are new intelligent systems that provide these abilities in the production, processes and machines. 

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