MsFormer: Enabling Robust Predictive Maintenance Services for Industrial Devices
Jiahui Zhou, Dan Li, Ruibing Jin
et al.
Providing reliable predictive maintenance is a critical industrial AI service essential for ensuring the high availability of manufacturing devices. Existing deep-learning methods present competitive results on such tasks but lack a general service-oriented framework to capture complex dependencies in industrial IoT sensor data. While Transformer-based models show strong sequence modeling capabilities, their direct deployment as robust AI services faces significant bottlenecks. Specifically, streaming sensor data collected in real-world service environments often exhibits multi-scale temporal correlations driven by machine working principles. Besides, the datasets available for training time-to-failure predictive services are typically limited in size. These issues pose significant challenges for directly applying existing models as robust predictive services. To address these challenges, we propose MsFormer, a lightweight Multi-scale Transformer designed as a unified AI service model for reliable industrial predictive maintenance. MsFormer incorporates a Multi-scale Sampling (MS) module and a tailored position encoding mechanism to capture sequential correlations across multi-streaming service data. Additionally, to accommodate data-scarce service environments, MsFormer adopts a lightweight attention mechanism with straightforward pooling operations instead of self-attention. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, MsFormer outperforms across industrial devices and operating conditions, demonstrating strong generalizability while maintaining a highly reliable Quality of Service (QoS).
Multimodal Industrial Anomaly Detection via Geometric Prior
Min Li, Jinghui He, Gang Li
et al.
The purpose of multimodal industrial anomaly detection is to detect complex geometric shape defects such as subtle surface deformations and irregular contours that are difficult to detect in 2D-based methods. However, current multimodal industrial anomaly detection lacks the effective use of crucial geometric information like surface normal vectors and 3D shape topology, resulting in low detection accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Geometric Prior-based Anomaly Detection network (GPAD). Firstly, we propose a point cloud expert model to perform fine-grained geometric feature extraction, employing differential normal vector computation to enhance the geometric details of the extracted features and generate geometric prior. Secondly, we propose a two-stage fusion strategy to efficiently leverage the complementarity of multimodal data as well as the geometric prior inherent in 3D points. We further propose attention fusion and anomaly regions segmentation based on geometric prior, which enhance the model's ability to perceive geometric defects. Extensive experiments show that our multimodal industrial anomaly detection model outperforms the State-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in detection accuracy on both MVTec-3D AD and Eyecandies datasets.
Validation of KESTREL EMT for Industrial Capacitor Switching Transient Studies
Shankar Ramharack, Rajiv Sahadeo
Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation is essential for analyzing sub-cycle switching phenomena in industrial power systems; however, commercial EMT platforms present significant cost barriers for smaller utilities, consultancies, and academic institutions, particularly in developing regions. This paper validates KESTREL EMT, a free and open-source electromagnetic transient solver with Python integration, through three progressive case studies involving industrial capacitor switching transients. This work investigates energization, switching resonance and VFD interactions with capacitor banks. The results demonstrate that KESTREL, when supported by appropriate circuit modeling techniques, produces EMT responses consistent with analytical predictions and established IEEE benchmarks. This work establishes a validated and reproducible methodology for conducting industrial EMT studies using freely available, open-source tools.
Industrial AI Robustness Card: Evaluating and Monitoring Time Series Models
Alexander Windmann, Benedikt Stratmann, Mariya Lyashenko
et al.
Industrial AI practitioners face vague robustness requirements in emerging regulations and standards but lack concrete, implementation ready protocols. This paper introduces the Industrial AI Robustness Card (IARC), a lightweight, task agnostic protocol for documenting and evaluating the robustness of AI models on industrial time series. The IARC specifies required fields and an empirical measurement and reporting protocol that combines drift monitoring, uncertainty quantification, and stress tests, and it maps these to relevant EU AI Act obligations. A soft sensor case study on a biopharmaceutical fermentation process illustrates how the IARC supports reproducible robustness evidence and continuous monitoring.
Bounding Box-Guided Diffusion for Synthesizing Industrial Images and Segmentation Map
Emanuele Caruso, Alessandro Simoni, Francesco Pelosin
Synthetic dataset generation in Computer Vision, particularly for industrial applications, is still underexplored. Industrial defect segmentation, for instance, requires highly accurate labels, yet acquiring such data is costly and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we propose a novel diffusion-based pipeline for generating high-fidelity industrial datasets with minimal supervision. Our approach conditions the diffusion model on enriched bounding box representations to produce precise segmentation masks, ensuring realistic and accurately localized defect synthesis. Compared to existing layout-conditioned generative methods, our approach improves defect consistency and spatial accuracy. We introduce two quantitative metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of our method and assess its impact on a downstream segmentation task trained on real and synthetic data. Our results demonstrate that diffusion-based synthesis can bridge the gap between artificial and real-world industrial data, fostering more reliable and cost-efficient segmentation models. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/covisionlab/diffusion_labeling.
Industrial brain: a human-like autonomous neuro-symbolic cognitive decision-making system
Junping Wang, Bicheng Wang, Yibo Xuea
et al.
Resilience non-equilibrium measurement, the ability to maintain fundamental functionality amidst failures and errors, is crucial for scientific management and engineering applications of industrial chain. The problem is particularly challenging when the number or types of multiple co-evolution of resilience (for example, randomly placed) are extremely chaos. Existing end-to-end deep learning ordinarily do not generalize well to unseen full-feld reconstruction of spatiotemporal co-evolution structure, and predict resilience of network topology, especially in multiple chaos data regimes typically seen in real-world applications. To address this challenge, here we propose industrial brain, a human-like autonomous cognitive decision-making and planning framework integrating higher-order activity-driven neuro network and CT-OODA symbolic reasoning to autonomous plan resilience directly from observational data of global variable. The industrial brain not only understands and model structure of node activity dynamics and network co-evolution topology without simplifying assumptions, and reveal the underlying laws hidden behind complex networks, but also enabling accurate resilience prediction, inference, and planning. Experimental results show that industrial brain significantly outperforms resilience prediction and planning methods, with an accurate improvement of up to 10.8\% over GoT and OlaGPT framework and 11.03\% over spectral dimension reduction. It also generalizes to unseen topologies and dynamics and maintains robust performance despite observational disturbances. Our findings suggest that industrial brain addresses an important gap in resilience prediction and planning for industrial chain.
Autonomy of Regulatory Authorities in Romania vs. Independence of Regulatory Authorities in France: Comparative Analysis
CĂRĂUȘAN Mihaela Victorița, ZORZOANĂ Ionela-Alina
This research conducts a comparative analysis of the concepts of "autonomous" and "independent" as they relate to national regulatory authorities, with explicit focus on Romanian and French legislation. Given the increasing importance of these authorities in the communications and energy sectors, the analysis begins by examining European legislation that requires their establishment in member states. Through a detailed examination of national legislation, specialised literature, and relevant case law - including decisions from the Court of Justice of the European Union - the study aims to clarify the distinct yet overlapping interpretations of autonomy and independence. The findings will highlight how these concepts affect the effectiveness and accountability of regulatory authorities in different national contexts. The research shows both differences and similarities in the regulatory frameworks of Romania and France, offering insights into how each country manages the complexities of regulatory independence. The analysis concludes with several proposals (lege ferenda) to improve operational collaboration among independent regulatory authorities. These recommendations will emphasise alignment with EU and OECD best practices and provide practical strategies to help countries establish or reform their regulatory bodies. By fostering an understanding of these foundational concepts, this study seeks to make a significant contribution to the discussion on regulatory governance and to support the development of stronger regulatory frameworks across Europe.
Public relations. Industrial publicity, Political institutions and public administration (General)
Study on Spatial Adaptability of Tangjia Village in the Weibei Loess Plateau Gully Region Based on Diverse Social Relationships
Qin He, Guochen Zhang, Jizhe Zhou
et al.
In the context of rapid urbanization, traditional villages in the Weibei Loess Plateau gully region are facing compounded pressures from social structure disruption and physical space reconstruction. It is urgent to deeply analyze the influence mechanism of social relations on spatial adaptability. This study attempts to construct an analytical framework that couples social relationships with village spatial development. With Tangjia Village in the gully region of the Weibei Loess Plateau as an example, the study integrated various data sources such as satellite imagery, interviews, and policy documents. Through social network analysis and an improved cascade failure model, the spatial adaptation processes and characteristics based on changes in kinship, occupational ties, and geographical networks were explored. The findings indicate that (1) before 2001, kinship networks led to the formation of a monocentric settlement structure. From 2001 to 2011, occupational ties fostered the differentiation of industrial and residential zones. After 2011, geographical networks drove the multifunctional integration of space. (2) Clan-based settlement zones (consisting of 80 kinship nodes) and core cultural tourism facilities are key units in maintaining spatial adaptability. The research reveals the impact mechanism of social network fission on spatial function reorganization and proposes adaptive planning strategies, aiming to provide theoretical and practical value for the coordinated governance of society and space in traditional villages.
Industrial Cabling in Constrained Environments: a Practical Approach and Current Challenges
Tanureza Jaya, Benjamin Michalak, Marcel Radke
et al.
Cabling tasks (pulling, clipping, and plug insertion) are today mostly manual work, limiting the cost-effectiveness of electrification. Feasibility for the robotic grasping and insertion of plugs, as well as the manipulation of cables, have been shown in research settings. However, in many industrial tasks the complete process from picking, insertion, routing, and validation must be solved with one system. This often means the cable must be directly manipulated for routing, and the plug must be manipulated for insertion, often in cluttered environments with tight space constraints. Here we introduce an analysis of the complete industrial cabling tasks and demonstrate a solution from grasp, plug insertion, clipping, and final plug insertion. Industrial requirements are summarized, considering the space limitations, tolerances, and possible ways that the cabling process can be integrated into the production process. This paper proposes gripper designs and general robotic assembly methods for the widely used FASTON and a cubical industrial connector. The proposed methods cover the cable gripping, handling, routing, and inserting processes of the connector. Customized grippers are designed to ensure the reliable gripping of the plugs and the pulling and manipulation of the cable segments. A passive component to correct the cable orientation is proposed, allowing the robot to re-grip the plug before insertion. In general, the proposed method can perform cable assembly with mere position control, foregoing complex control approaches. This solution is demonstrated with an industrial product with realistic space requirements and tolerances, identifying difficult aspects of current cabling scenarios and potential to improve the automation-friendliness in the product design.
A Cost-Sensitive Transformer Model for Prognostics Under Highly Imbalanced Industrial Data
Ali Beikmohammadi, Mohammad Hosein Hamian, Neda Khoeyniha
et al.
The rapid influx of data-driven models into the industrial sector has been facilitated by the proliferation of sensor technology, enabling the collection of vast quantities of data. However, leveraging these models for failure detection and prognosis poses significant challenges, including issues like missing values and class imbalances. Moreover, the cost sensitivity associated with industrial operations further complicates the application of conventional models in this context. This paper introduces a novel cost-sensitive transformer model developed as part of a systematic workflow, which also integrates a hybrid resampler and a regression-based imputer. After subjecting our approach to rigorous testing using the APS failure dataset from Scania trucks and the SECOM dataset, we observed a substantial enhancement in performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, we conduct an ablation study to analyze the contributions of different components in our proposed method. Our findings highlight the potential of our method in addressing the unique challenges of failure prediction in industrial settings, thereby contributing to enhanced reliability and efficiency in industrial operations.
User Experience Evaluation of AR Assisted Industrial Maintenance and Support Applications
Akos Nagy, Yannis Spyridis, Gregory J Mills
et al.
The paper introduces an innovative approach to industrial maintenance leveraging augmented reality (AR) technology, focusing on enhancing the user experience and efficiency. The shift from traditional to proactive maintenance strategies underscores the significance of maintenance in industrial systems. The proposed solution integrates AR interfaces, particularly through Head-Mounted Display (HMD) devices, to provide expert personnel-aided decision support for maintenance technicians, with the association of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. The study explores the user experience aspect of AR interfaces in a simulated industrial environment, aiming to improve the maintenance processes' intuitiveness and effectiveness. Evaluation metrics such as the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) and the System Usability Scale (SUS) are employed to assess the usability, performance, and workload implications of the AR maintenance system. Additionally, the paper discusses the technical implementation, methodology, and results of experiments conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed solution.
Survey for Landing Generative AI in Social and E-commerce Recsys -- the Industry Perspectives
Da Xu, Danqing Zhang, Guangyu Yang
et al.
Recently, generative AI (GAI), with their emerging capabilities, have presented unique opportunities for augmenting and revolutionizing industrial recommender systems (Recsys). Despite growing research efforts at the intersection of these fields, the integration of GAI into industrial Recsys remains in its infancy, largely due to the intricate nature of modern industrial Recsys infrastructure, operations, and product sophistication. Drawing upon our experiences in successfully integrating GAI into several major social and e-commerce platforms, this survey aims to comprehensively examine the underlying system and AI foundations, solution frameworks, connections to key research advancements, as well as summarize the practical insights and challenges encountered in the endeavor to integrate GAI into industrial Recsys. As pioneering work in this domain, we hope outline the representative developments of relevant fields, shed lights on practical GAI adoptions in the industry, and motivate future research.
Resource base of the building materials industry as the basis for sustainable development of the economy
O. E. Astafyeva
The study of the resource base impact on the development of building materials industry economy is presented. The proposed analysis showed the need to synchronise intersectoral interactions aimed at the progressive development of the construction industry. The suggested approach to the formation of a mechanism for sustainable development predetermines the business model within the framework of sustainable development concept and the opportunities, the emergence of which is due to digitalisation of industrial relations. In the study, the author defines the contexts that form the approach to sustainability of development. It is offered to consider the given phenomenon in the economic context through the reproduction component. The offer made it possible to formulate an approach to the creation of a mechanism for this occurrence based on the resource potential formation, the use of which should lead to increasing returns when changing a business model of a set of enterprises. The mentioned model of interaction between enterprises is oriented towards sustainable industrial development, contributes to application of new approaches to reproduction of basic funds, distribution of resources and resource base formation. The usage of the ecosystem approach while considering the issue of sustainable economic development of building materials industry stipulated interaction of related sectors as the main priority. This is done to increase competitiveness and provide the strategy of building materials industry development.
Sociology (General), Economics as a science
MCTAN: A Novel Multichannel Temporal Attention-Based Network for Industrial Health Indicator Prediction
Lei Ren, Yuxin Liu, Di-Wei Huang
et al.
Health indicator prediction, such as remaining useful life prediction and product quality prediction, is an important aspect of industrial intelligence. It is essential to process the massive multichannel industrial time series collected from the Industrial Internet of Things for the industrial health indicator prediction. At present, there are still three issues that need to be considered for industrial health indicator prediction. First, it is difficult to directly connect the distant positions in the industrial time series to extract the temporal relations, which decreases the efficiency of extracting the potential long-distance temporal relations and training networks. Second, it should be fully considered that data from different channels have different contributions. Equally dealing with the contributions of each channel will weaken the representational ability of prediction networks. Third, the loss function deals with early predictions and delay predictions equally, which will lead to high risks caused by delay predictions. In this article, for these issues, a novel multichannel temporal attention-based network (MCTAN) is proposed for industrial health indicator prediction, which can weigh contributions of different channels through the channel attention while avoiding the loss of the temporal information and directly connect each time series position to the local fields of the sequence through the multi-head local attention mechanism to efficiently extract potential long-distance temporal relations. Then, a weighted mean square error loss function differently dealing with early predictions and delay predictions by setting dynamic weights is presented to reduce delay predictions. Next, to deal with the above-mentioned issues systematically, a framework combining data preprocessing and MCTAN collaboratively is introduced to predict industrial health indicators through multichannel time series. Finally, the experiments are carried out on the commercial modular aero-propulsion system simulation dataset to measure the performances, including the accuracy of industrial health indicator predictions and the inference speed.
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Computer Science, Medicine
Challenges of the Creation of a Dataset for Vision Based Human Hand Action Recognition in Industrial Assembly
Fabian Sturm, Elke Hergenroether, Julian Reinhardt
et al.
This work presents the Industrial Hand Action Dataset V1, an industrial assembly dataset consisting of 12 classes with 459,180 images in the basic version and 2,295,900 images after spatial augmentation. Compared to other freely available datasets tested, it has an above-average duration and, in addition, meets the technical and legal requirements for industrial assembly lines. Furthermore, the dataset contains occlusions, hand-object interaction, and various fine-grained human hand actions for industrial assembly tasks that were not found in combination in examined datasets. The recorded ground truth assembly classes were selected after extensive observation of real-world use cases. A Gated Transformer Network, a state-of-the-art model from the transformer domain was adapted, and proved with a test accuracy of 86.25% before hyperparameter tuning by 18,269,959 trainable parameters, that it is possible to train sequential deep learning models with this dataset.
Capability-based Frameworks for Industrial Robot Skills: a Survey
Matteo Pantano, Thomas Eiband, Dongheui Lee
The research community is puzzled with words like skill, action, atomic unit and others when describing robots' capabilities. However, for giving the possibility to integrate capabilities in industrial scenarios, a standardization of these descriptions is necessary. This work uses a structured review approach to identify commonalities and differences in the research community of robots' skill frameworks. Through this method, 210 papers were analyzed and three main results were obtained. First, the vast majority of authors agree on a taxonomy based on task, skill and primitive. Second, the most investigated robots' capabilities are pick and place. Third, industrial oriented applications focus more on simple robots' capabilities with fixed parameters while ensuring safety aspects. Therefore, this work emphasizes that a taxonomy based on task, skill and primitives should be used by future works to align with existing literature. Moreover, further research is needed in the industrial domain for parametric robots' capabilities while ensuring safety.
Resilience in Industrial Internet of Things Systems: A Communication Perspective
Hao Wu, Yifan Miao, Peng Zhang
et al.
Industrial Internet of Things is an ultra-large-scale system that is much more sophisticated and fragile than conventional industrial platforms. The effective management of such a system relies heavily on the resilience of the network, especially the communication part. Imperative as resilient communication is, there is not enough attention from literature and a standardized framework is still missing. In awareness of these, this paper intends to provide a systematic overview of resilience in IIoT with a communication perspective, aiming to answer the questions of why we need it, what it is, how to enhance it, and where it can be applied. Specifically, we emphasize the urgency of resilience studies via examining existing literature and analyzing malfunction data from a real satellite communication system. Resilience-related concepts and metrics, together with standardization efforts are then summarized and discussed, presenting a basic framework for analyzing the resilience of the system before, during, and after disruptive events. On the basis of the framework, key resilience concerns associated with the design, deployment, and operation of IIoT are briefly described to shed light on the methods for resilience enhancement. Promising resilient applications in different IIoT sectors are also introduced to highlight the opportunities and challenges in practical implementations.
HFedMS: Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Memorable Data Semantics in Industrial Metaverse
Shenglai Zeng, Zonghang Li, Hongfang Yu
et al.
Federated Learning (FL), as a rapidly evolving privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm, is a promising approach to enable edge intelligence in the emerging Industrial Metaverse. Even though many successful use cases have proved the feasibility of FL in theory, in the industrial practice of Metaverse, the problems of non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.) data, learning forgetting caused by streaming industrial data, and scarce communication bandwidth remain key barriers to realize practical FL. Facing the above three challenges simultaneously, this paper presents a high-performance and efficient system named HFEDMS for incorporating practical FL into Industrial Metaverse. HFEDMS reduces data heterogeneity through dynamic grouping and training mode conversion (Dynamic Sequential-to-Parallel Training, STP). Then, it compensates for the forgotten knowledge by fusing compressed historical data semantics and calibrates classifier parameters (Semantic Compression and Compensation, SCC). Finally, the network parameters of the feature extractor and classifier are synchronized in different frequencies (Layer-wiseAlternative Synchronization Protocol, LASP) to reduce communication costs. These techniques make FL more adaptable to the heterogeneous streaming data continuously generated by industrial equipment, and are also more efficient in communication than traditional methods (e.g., Federated Averaging). Extensive experiments have been conducted on the streamed non-i.i.d. FEMNIST dataset using 368 simulated devices. Numerical results show that HFEDMS improves the classification accuracy by at least 6.4% compared with 8 benchmarks and saves both the overall runtime and transfer bytes by up to 98%, proving its superiority in precision and efficiency.
Responsabilidade solidária no grupo econômico por infrações da ordem econômica
Alexandre Ditzel Faraco
Contextualização. O presente artigo discute parâmetros para aplicação do artigo 33 da Lei 12.529/11, o qual estabelece responsabilidade solidária por infrações da ordem econômica entre empresas que integram um grupo econômico.
Objetivo. Demonstrar que a aplicação literal da regra a partir da identificação do grupo econômico com base em vínculos societários formais levaria a resultados inconsistentes.
Método. Identificação e análise de normas e decisões pertinentes.
Resultados. O grupo econômico, para fins do direito da concorrência, não pode ser definido de forma abstrata, mas deve ter como referência a conduta investigada e as relações entre sociedades que permitem identificar, em dado caso concreto, uma direção unitária da estratégia competitiva.
Conclusão. A correta definição de grupo econômico terá reflexos sobre como o tema deve ser tratado em processos administrativos voltados a sancionar infrações da ordem econômica e sobre o cálculo de multas.
International relations, Commercial law
The Cost of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Quality of Life of Vulnerable Workers: The Case of the Philippines
Ronahlee Asuncion
Public aspects of medicine