Towards Resilient Manufacturing Ecosystems Through Artificial Intelligence – Symposium Report

In 2020, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing and Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence articulated cross-agency interest in the value and timeliness of organizing a symposium to outline benefits of AI adoption in manufacturing and identify issues that inhibit widescale adoption. In response, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sponsored a three-workshop Symposium entitled “Strategy for Resilient Manufacturing Ecosystems Through Artificial Intelligence (AI)” to seek input from industry, academia, and government experts. The workshops focused on potential roles of each sector in performing research and development (R&D) and ideas for implementation of AI in manufacturing that could inform the development of the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing strategic plan. This paper documents the Symposium recommendations with a roadmap organized to overcome the current lack of industry tools, trust, confidence, and experience with industry R&D focused on the barriers to AI scaling and deployment.