AI is not only used for Process Control, Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis/Maintenance, but also for Scheduling and Planning.

The reasons for using AI for scheduling and planning is that as more factors have to be taken into account in a larger business, there is a need for fast service and good quality products. As well as offering speed, it can take many factors into account and produce for the user different ways of planning to choose from.

Because AI is programmed, it has greater potential not to miss information given to it.

Because of it’s speed, its analytical abilities and it non-biased point of view, AI can be an important tool in making management that could take ethics into account and increase management productivity.

With good planning and the use of AI, processes can become more Energy Efficient, have better Quality and be more Productive. This, in the end, means more money and better business.