Designing Workflows that Link the PLC, Unified Namespaces and AI
Learn why deterministic PLC logic remains essential in smart manufacturing, and how context-aware AI can enhance, not replace, human operators' critical decisions.
Covering industrial automation for the discrete and batch manufacturing industries.
In my last two articles (“Think Like an Operator: Building Human Intelligence into Industrial AI” and “Empowering Plant Floor Operators with LLMs Using Unified Namespace and On-Prem AI”, I explored how pairing artificial intelligence (AI) with a unified namespace (UNS) can empower industrial workers, and how augmenting AI with real plant data helps bridge the knowledge gap left by retiring experts.
AI is not here to replace operators and engineers, but to extend their reach and preserve the expertise embedded in our plants.
Author's summary: Enhancing manufacturing with AI and PLC logic.