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Informatics

Japan’s Eneos uses AI to run plant

by Michael McCoy
April 10, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 12

 

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Credit: Eneos Materials
Eneos Materials says it successfully ran these distillation columns with an artificial intelligence algorithm.

In what it calls a world first, Eneos Materials is using autonomous control artificial intelligence to run a manufacturing operation. Eneos Materials, formerly the elastomers business of the chemical maker JSR, conducted a yearlong test of the technology on a distillation column in Japan. It says the AI, from Yokogawa Electric, was able to run the column across a broad range of temperatures while lightening the human workload, improving safety, and reducing the facility’s environmental impact.

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