Today marks the start of my researcher-in-residence at the Digital Catapult in London. I will be meeting with Tim Lawerence and Tim Stephenson from the Digital Supply Chain Hub (DSCH). They will then introduce me to the DSCH testbed teams and flagship projects under the DSCH Made Smarter programme.
Over the coming weeks, I will be evaluating the data used by the different supply chains (Spare Parts On Demand, Hydrogen, Fashion and Food) and understand the challenges they have in creating responsive, resilient and sustainable supply chains. I will also be reviewing the technologies being developed and deployed by the Digital Catapult to overcome these challenges.
I will also be presenting by Artificial Intelligent agents (AIgents) and how we have been using them in Additive Manufacturing (AM) where AIgents act on behalf of machines and jobs. The AIgents then enter into peer-to-peer networks where the negotiate and co-ordinate work with one another making for an extensible, responsive and resilient methods of co-ordinating work.
I am looking forward to eliciting the challenges in making AIgents a reality in a real-world indsutrial context.