Industrial-generative pre-trained transformer for intelligent manufacturing systems

Manufacturing enterprises are facing how to utilise industrial knowledge and continuously accumulating massive unlabelled data to achieve human-cyber-physical collaborative and autonomous intelligence. Recently, artificial intelligence-generative content has achieved great performance in several domains and scenarios. A new concept of industrial generative pre-trained Transformer (Industrial-GPT) for intelligent manufacturing systems is introduced to solve various scenario tasks. It refers to pre-training with industrial datasets, fine-tuning with industrial scenarios, and reinforcement learning with domain knowledge. To enable Industrial-GPT to better empower the manufacturing industry, Model as a Service is introduced to cloud computing as a new service mode, which provides a more efficient and flexible service approach by directly invoking the general model of the upper layer and customising it for specific businesses. Then, the operation mechanism of the Industrial-GPT driven intelligent manufacturing system is described. Finally, the challenges and prospects of applying the Industrial-GPT in the manufacturing industry are discussed.