Workshop: Aligning AI and U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness

“人工智能与美国先进制造业竞争力对接研讨会”将召集先进制造业研究和从业者社区、相关公司、联邦机构和国家实验室、美国制造业研究所以及人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）应用、信息技术和计算机科学领域的专家，全面评估人工智能在制造业竞争力中的作用。该研讨会由国家科学技术委员会先进制造小组委员会和机器学习与人工智能小组委员会主办，抓住了全球制造业加速数字化转型、先进制造业和人工智能/机器学习的主要全球竞争力驱动因素的融合效应带来的机遇。以及新冠疫情对制造业供应链的持续影响。综上所述，有必要：加快美国制造业对弹性制造业的共识，将其作为优先事项，解决制造业的数字化转型如何形成和受到这种转型的影响，并在国家制造业优先事项的背景下，将国家注意力集中在人工智能/机器学习技术上。该研讨会将是一个专业管理的虚拟电话会议，将强调以下与数字化相关的制造业优先事项：制造业生态系统和供应链重组、连通性、可见性、互操作性和敏捷性，以准备和应对全球和国家的中断；先进工艺和机器操作的更高性能和精度是弹性制造生态系统的关键资产；拥有一支安全、健康、技能广泛、精通数据的员工队伍，可以更灵活地部署；工业数据流和交换，网络机遇，以及国家网络和数据安全。研讨会将就人工智能在提高美国制造业竞争力、促进先进制造业和人工智能/机器学习研究界合作制定涵盖劳动力、技术和实施的国家战略方面已经和可以发挥的作用达成跨利益相关者共识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Workshop on Aligning AI and U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness will convene the advanced manufacturing research and practitioner communities, relevant companies, federal agencies and national laboratories and the Manufacturing USA Institutes and experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications, information technology, and computer science to comprehensively assess the role of AI in manufacturing competitiveness. The workshop, held under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing and the Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence of the National Science and Technology Council, seizes on a moment of opportunity that results from the converging effects of the accelerating digital transformation of the global manufacturing industry, major global competitiveness drivers for both advanced manufacturing and AI/ML, and the sustained impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing supply chains. When taken together, there emerges a need to: accelerate a U.S. manufacturing consensus on resilient manufacturing as a priority, address how the digital transformation of manufacturing shapes and is shaped by that transformation, and focus national attention on AI/ML technologies in the context of the nation’s manufacturing priorities. The workshop will be a professionally-managed, virtual teleconference that will emphasize the following manufacturing priorities related to digitalization: manufacturing ecosystem and supply chain restructuring, connectedness, visibility, interoperability, and agility in preparing for and responding to global and national disruptions; greater performance and precision in advanced process and machine operations as key assets in resilient manufacturing ecosystems; a safe and healthy, broadly-skilled, and data-savvy workforce that can be more flexibly deployed; and industry data flow and exchange, cyber opportunity, and national cyber and data security. The workshop will generate a cross-stakeholder consensus on what roles AI has and can have in improving U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and promoting collaboration by the advanced manufacturing and AI/ML research communities in formulating a national strategy that encompasses the workforce, technology and implementation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.