07/02/2022 The 1st general meeting of the European project AI-PROFICIENT in Nancy
On December 14 and 15, 2021, the partners of the European AI-PROFICIENT project met in Nancy for the first time for their general meeting. Coordinated by the Université de Lorraine, this project brings together a consortium of 10 industrial and academic partners from 6 European countries around issues related to AI by and for humans in the manufacturing industry of the future. About thirty scientists and industrialists from the consortium came to the conference to review the progress made since its launch in November 2020. Organized in a hybrid face-to-face/visio-conference format, this meeting was an opportunity to discuss ongoing actions and to share, more concretely, a vision of the project's expectations with regard to the requirements of the European Commission.
The day of December 14 was dedicated to the visit of the Continental pilot site in Sarreguemines, one of the French industrial partners of the project.
This visit allowed the partners to understand the problems of production, quality and maintenance through concrete examples of use cases on the Combiline machine, a rubber extruder at the beginning of the tire production line.
These problems are the subject of an in-depth study in terms of detection, diagnosis, prognosis, decision support and control in order to propose solutions based on AI and improve the performance of the machine. Numerous exchanges between consortium members and Continental experts have helped clarify these use cases and understand the important issues involved.
On the second day, the participants reviewed this first year of activity and presented the actions to be carried out until the mid-term of the project (month 18), when the European Commission has scheduled an official evaluation review.
Even if the health crisis context has induced organizational changes, the development of the project is in line with the initially approved schedule. In this first year, the partners focused on the definition of use cases and methodology for the development of AI-based solutions. The second year is therefore focused on the specification of these solutions and their first developments, all in an "Ethics by Design" approach.
AI-PROFICIENT is an interdisciplinary project that brings together CRAN's expertise in intelligent production and predictive maintenance technologies with Loria's expertise in Deep-Learning and AI ethics to meet the challenge of an industry of the future by and for humans.
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