The AI-PRISM team has been working on developing a human-centred ecosystem of AI-based solutions for manufacturing scenarios for a year. Now, it is time to focus on real operational environments that will be used for demonstrations to evaluate these solutions’ performance, transferability, scalability, and large-scale deployment. To achieve this, the team will conduct four pilot programs in key manufacturing sectors, including furniture, beverages, built-in appliances, electronics, and one generic demonstration facility.
During the first few months of work, the team focused on analysing industrial scenarios and requirements. Partner WINGS has led this effort, resulting in the delivery of four technical documents. These documents include the project vision, technology landscape benchmarking, KPIs for use case scenarios, and a requirements analysis. Additionally, the team has been working on the AI-PRISM architecture, delivering a public document that describes the reference framework and an internal usage model functional and technical specification document. With this work completed, the team has now moved on to system demonstration and validation work, which partner COMAU is leading.
Our partner COMAU has coordinated the launch meeting of the demonstration and validation work aimed at integrating and deploying AI-PRISM solutions in real industrial environments. The work will cover five industrial scenarios in Spain, Poland, Turkey, Austria, and Greece. In addition to deploying and assessing the solutions, COMAU will also contribute to developing training tools and sessions to ensure that the solutions designed are user-friendly.
Project Manager Alfio Minissale, who works at COMAU, expressed: Working package 6 ‘System demonstration and validation work’ is really crucial for the AI-PRISM project since all the technologies and modules developed will find their final deployment on the five industrial pilots; validation of solutions and assessment of KPI and metrics will return a clear view of the achievements of the overall AI-PRISM project. Moreover, specific training tools will be developed and provided for an easy, correct and fast use and of the solutions implemented.
More partners will be involved in validating and monitoring AI-PRISM solutions. Robotnik (ROB) will conduct an extensive test campaign over the five real industrial environments to ensure the correct deployment of AI-PRISM solutions and maximise their replication potential in future applications. This validation process will be performed according to the specifications agreed upon in the project’s first months. In the meantime, partner WINGS will focus on assessing and analysing the system’s performance. Their objective is to quantitatively evaluate the system’s ability to meet end-users’ needs through performance metrics and identify areas where it can be improved.