8th Intelligent Maintenance Conference

3 - 4 September 2024

Lausanne, Switzerland

The Intelligent Maintenance Conference is an international event on new diagnostic and intelligent monitoring methods for industrial systems! Our objective is to be a place to share fruitful discussions on predictive maintenance between experts from the industry and the academic world. Renowned speakers from varied backgrounds, including railway, healthcare, energy, and chemical industries, academics, and others, will be present.

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Confirmed talks

Biologically-inspired Design and Control of Robots for Agile Flight and Locomotion

Prof. Dario Floreano

Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL

Animals display compliance, agility, and adaptability to a range of environmental situations that are still challenging for today's robots. In this talk I will describe the translation of biological principles of collision resilience, variable stiffness, morphological adaptation and multi-agent coordination into robots that could be deployed for inspection missions in challenging situations.

Responsible AI Development and Legal Compliance: Navigating the New Landscape of AI Regulation

Dr. Rialda Spahic

Sr Analyst Digital SW Eng, Responsible AI, Equinor

Responsible AI algorithms are crucial for organizations to ensure AI adoption is aligned with ethical standards and societal values, while enhancing trust and emphasizing safety in AI systems. With the upcoming EU AI Act, organizations are facing new legal obligations centered around risk management, data governance, bias mitigation, and accountability, with an emphasis on high-risk use cases. Therefore, it is crucial to examine the best practices and guidelines on designing and adopting responsible AI algorithms through ethical considerations, technical best practices, and regulatory compliance.

Leveraging AI and Non-Intrusive Monitoring as Intelligent Maintenance Enablers for Electromechanical Systems

Dr. Javier Diaz-Rozo

Aingura IIoT

This presentation outlines the integration of novel non-intrusive monitoring techniques with cutting-edge probabilistic machine learning advancements, establishing a robust and scalable intelligent maintenance approach for electromechanical systems. Through the analysis of two real-world case studies involving high-capacity water pumps and airport baggage inspection systems, the efficacy of this approach is demonstrated in not only detecting and predicting failures but also providing comprehensive diagnostic capabilities through explainability methodologies. Thus, a holistic methodology is showcased, from data analysis to actionable insight generation.

AI for Human Empowerment

Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar

University of Cambridge

Potential Impact of Causal Inference on Railway Predictive Maintenance

Alexandre Trilla

Senior Data Scientist Alstom

The technical field of Predictive Maintenance leverages data science to maximize the availability of industrial assets through their degradation models. In this sense, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have proven to be effective techniques for extracting latent patterns from the available data. However, the observed data may sometimes be incomplete and misleading because real-world condition monitoring records rarely exhibit all of the operating regimes and wear rates of the machines. Therefore, to increase the reliability of the Predictive Maintenance solutions in a scenario where the behavior patterns change, Causal Inference emerges as an avenue of improvement by elegantly blending data-driven and expert-driven criteria to ultimately help maintainers make better informed decisions to manage their assets. In this talk, we review the potential of Causal Inference for Predictive Maintenance through two specific case-studies.

Revolutionizing Anomaly Detection in Industry: The Convergence of Large Language Models for Semantic Insights

Han Sun

EPFL IMOS

Anomaly detection is a crucial task across different domains and data types. However, existing anomaly detection models are often designed for specific domains and modalities. Recently, the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ushered in a new era of possibilities across various domains, including industrial operations. In this talk, we will delve into the potential of LLMs for enhancing industrial anomaly detection, highlighting their promising performance in generic anomaly detection and understanding. We will introduce our recent research work on Diffusion Models for anomaly generation with text guidance. Empowered by LLMs, we are able to generate authentic, diverse and semantically meaningful anomaly samples, and effectively improves the performance of downstream anomaly inspection tasks.

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Ralph Fasler

Vice President Manufacturing, Ypsomed AG

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Indranil Roychoudhury1, Jose Celaya2

1Principal Scientist, Machine Learning and AI, SLB 2Principal Scientist and Manager, SLB

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Vincent Cheriere

Airbus

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Philippe de Laharpe

SNCF

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Vinay Sharma

EPFL IMOS

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Olga Fink

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Christine Gabriel

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Florent Forest

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Vinay Sharma

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Sergei Garmaev

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Keivan Faghih Niresi

Keivan Faghih Niresi

Ismail Nejjar

Ismail Nejjar

Mengjie Zhao

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Raffael Theiler

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Han Sun

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