The field of industrial monitoring and control is experiencing a significant shift towards data-driven approaches, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency, resilience, and trust. Hybrid solutions that combine the transparency of rule-based logic with the analytical power of machine learning are emerging as a promising direction. Notable papers in this area include:
- A Comparative Study of Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches in Industrial Monitoring, which proposes a basic framework to evaluate the key properties of these methodologies and suggests hybrid solutions as a future direction.
- Real-Time Thermal State Estimation and Forecasting in Laser Powder Bed Fusion, which presents a real-time thermal state forecasting framework for additive manufacturing, enabling predictive thermal control and paving the way toward closed-loop control.
- Process-Informed Forecasting of Complex Thermal Dynamics in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, which introduces process-informed forecasting models for temperature in pharmaceutical lyophilization, outperforming data-driven counterparts in terms of accuracy, physical plausibility, and noise resilience.