Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a core enabler of smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and digital transformation. Manufacturing organisations are increasingly using AI to improve production efficiency, quality control, predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility, energy optimisation, and decision-making.
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI has expanded AI adoption beyond engineers and data scientists. Today, production managers, quality teams, planners, and executives can directly use AI tools to analyse data, interpret reports, summarise machine logs, support root-cause analysis, and automate documentation.
However, AI adoption in manufacturing requires a clear understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, especially when AI is used to support safety-critical, operational, and compliance-related decisions.
This course provides a practical, business-oriented introduction to AI for manufacturing professionals. Participants will learn AI fundamentals, understand how AI technologies interconnect, and gain hands-on experience with leading AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Claude, Manus, DeepSeek, Qwen, and NotebookLM. The focus is on real manufacturing use cases, responsible AI usage, and measurable productivity and operational improvement, without requiring programming skills.