Applied AI and Multimedia Technologies for Smart Manufacturing and CPS Applications

In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and multimedia technology methods for integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS), smart manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 applications in the manufacturing industries have been steadily growing in availability. However, for industrial leaders, finding applicable, cost effective, and readily implementable multimedia, AI, and data analytics methods for industrial applications remains a daunting, laborious, and very expensive endeavor since the ecosystem of these technologies keeps diverging. Applied AI and Multimedia Technologies for Smart Manufacturing and CPS Applications provides a review of the state of the art regarding the integration of AI and multimedia technologies for smart manufacturing applications. It conducts a cost-benefit analysis regarding the benefits of the integration of specific AI and multimedia technologies in specific industrial manufacturing applications. Covering topics such as cognitive lead measurement, nonlinear filtering methods, and global product development, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for business executives and managers, entrepreneurs, IT professionals, manufacturers, students and faculty of higher education, researchers, and academicians.