Computer Aided Industrial Engineering - Analyzing Process Chart Information Using AI Models - Computer Aided Process Chart Analysis

Earlier work by Narayana Rao 

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2560888548

Computer Aided Industrial Engineering (CAIE) - IE Now in CIM - Prof. Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/09/computer-aided-industrial-engineering.html

Analyzing Process Chart Information Using AI Models   - Computer Aided Process Chart Analysis

The success of ChatGPT makes us aware of the potential of Generative AI. GPTs can take images as input and can analyze them. It can create new images. For example it can create pictures of one cat, two cats or a dog and cat. GPTs can also take tables as input.

For instance, the following information is given.

Make a table

Serial Number  Operation   Time taken in seconds

1             pick material         20

2             Go to machiine      40

3             Drop the material  20

4             Go to bin                40

ChatGPT made a formatted table.

For the question: What is time taken for pick material?

It gave the answer: The time taken for pick material is 20 seconds, as indicated in the table.

So can see that GPT can understand the process chart symbols, element or operation description, time taken for the element, machine used, tools used, operator employed etc.

Industrial engineers can give process charts as input to GPTs. They can capture discussions on the process chart based on brain storming. They can give improved process charts subsequently as inputs. Based on these inputs and training based on them, GPT can give suggestions for process improvement for a new process submitted to it for analysis. It can find elements in earlier processes, similar to elements in the current process and retrieve information from the brain storming data and improved process charts.

In computer aided process planning there are retrieval systems and generative systems. In computer aided process chart analysis also we can think of retrieval support and generative support.

Now You have ChatGPT for Industrial Engineering 

Kaizen Copilot - Your AI Partner for Industrial Engineering and Continuous Process Improvement

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2023/04/chatgpt-for-industrial-engineering.html

Apr 25, 2023

First study to look at AI in the workplace finds it boosts productivity

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/artificial-intelligence-workplace-productivity

About Image GPT

https://openai.com/research/image-gpt

TableGPT: Few-shot Table-to-Text Generation with Table Structure Reconstruction and Content Matching

COLING 2020  

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/tablegpt-few-shot-table-to-text-generation

Tables in chatGPT - Useful information.

https://chatgpt-guide.se/tables-in-chatgpt-and-what-you-can-do-with-them/

Process/Generate Images with OpenAI GPT – Visual ChatGPT

BY TSUYOSHI MATSUZAKI ON 2023-03-15

https://tsmatz.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/openai-gpt-process-images-in-react-visual-chatgpt/

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