Development and application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing systems – one approach

Artificial intelligence (AI) that is applied in the entire chain of the new value creation and product life cycle has become the most important part of the Industry 4.0/5.0 model. The history of AI is a little more than eight decades long, and in research and development for manufacturing, it has been applied since the mid-1980s. Expert systems (ES) were the first AI tools implemented in this field. The aim of this paper is to perform a systemic analysis of the state of development and application of AI in manufacturing, which is originally used as support to the engineer, planner, designer and manager of various mechanical products. It is also used to manage processes and systems in manufacturing engineering. The paper is structured in such way that it provides answers to the following questions: how did AI models in manufacturing systems come about and develop, what are today’s models and the perspectives of applying AI in them, and some directions of future research in this area. As a special point of this paper, a review of some of our research results in this area obtained in the last few decades are presented.