AI agents could transform how factories manage complex operations
A new survey shows that intelligent software agents can help industrial systems handle complexity, adapt to failures, and operate with minimal human oversight. For manufacturers and industrial operators, this suggests a viable path to more efficient, flexible, and resilient production—though widespread adoption still faces technical and integration hurdles.
Originaltitel: Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
<p>Future industrial systems can be realized using the cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that advocate the coexistence of cyber and physical counterparts in a network structure to perform the systems functions in a collaborative manner. Multiagent systems share common ground with CPSs and can empower them with a multitude of capabilities in their efforts to achieve complexity management, decentralization, intelligence, modularity, flexibility, robustness, adaptation, and responsiveness. This work surveys and analyzes the current state of the industrial application of agent technology in CPSs, and provides a vision on the way agents can effectively enable emerging CPS challenges.</p>