Machine Learning for Production Process Optimization at IOI Oleo GmbH, Witten, Germany
The German production site of IOI Oleochemical is one of the leading European providers for oleochemicals. Besides active ingredients for pharmaceutics, emollients, emulsifiers, texturizers, and a large selection of multifunctional ingredients for cosmetics, IOI Oleo GmbH provides special esters and additives for the food industry. Process auxiliaries and greases for [...]
European Artificial Intelligence Act – European Regulation of AI is on its Way
The “Proposal for Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence” – in short, the Artificial Intelligence Act – of the EU aims at regulating AI in Europe. The document is interesting, although time-consuming, to read, as it includes both a risk-based [...]
Finding Fast-to-Compute Proxies for Engineering Optimization Problems
Due to their time-consuming evaluation function, requiring a simulator run, it is difficult to understand the characteristics of engineering optimization problems that make them hard for optimization algorithms. Moreover, it makes it impossible to perform many optimization runs with these problems and to tune optimization algorithms towards improving their performance [...]
Presentation at the hybrid conference ForTech Bulk 2022
May 18, Thomas Bäck and Dr.Ingo Heinle gave a presentation at the hybrid conference ForTech Bulk 2022: “Machine Learning for Production Processes: Bringing the Technology into Production”. The conference which is taking place every year at Stuttgart University deals with different topics from the field of bulk metal forming, e.g. [...]
Articles on Crash and Vehicle Control Dynamics Accepted at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
GECCO is a leading conference in the field of optimization algorithms gleaned from principles of natural evolution. The conference takes place in Boston, MA, from July 9 –13. Many world-leading experts in the field, PhD students and industry experts will come together to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in the [...]
Presentation at the 22nd colloquium »Joint Research in Adhesion Technology«
Next Tuesday, February 15, Thomas Bäck (divis) and Paulina Sierak (Fraunhofer IIS, Munich) will give a presentation on the “Application of AI in adhesion technology: Foundations and a Practical Example” at the 22nd colloquium “Joint Research in Adhesion Technology”. For more than 20 years, this colloquium has been an event [...]
Member of BITMi
Since january we are members of the BITMi, Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand e.V. This association represents the interests of SMEs from the IT-branch, due to the membership in Digital-SME also at a European level. For us it is very important to contribute to this association so that the interests of our branch [...]
Video – Case Study: Product Optimization at IOI Oleo GmbH
For our customer IOI Oleo GmbH in Witten, Germany, we reduced the failure rate of a product for the cosmetics industry from about 50% to zero. Based on our artificial intelligence and data-driven analytics methods, we identified the critical process parameters und process steps, such that the process experts of [...]