Course description
- How Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can assist chemical engineers, process engineers, process manufacturing support engineers, managers, research and development professionals, and process engineering contractor professionals and managers in all innovation stages for new processes and products
- What 10 AI tools can do for each process innovation stage from idea to and including commercial implementation will be explained. The stages treated are Ideation, Concept, Feasibility, Development, Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC), Commercial operation.
- Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis will be applied to all AI tools for their applications.
- The course content is based on established process innovation and scale-up knowledge and on AI tools knowledge suitable for specific process innovation steps.
- The course format is interactive live lectures on specific subjects.
Key topics
- What is new with generative AI tools compared to classic software tools;
- AI knowledge and information;
- AI statistical information base;
- Specific AI tools for specific process innovation stages.
Key takeaways
- Knowledge of what specific AI tools can do for each innovation stage
- Pitfalls and SWOT analysis of use of AI tools
- Answers to your questions
- Course Certificate
Who should attend?
- Researchers
- Innovators
- Engineers
- Managers R&D
- Plant technologists, Plant managers
Your course conductors: Jan Harmsen & Maaike Harmsen
Jan Harmsen is an independent sustainable process innovation consultant. He has more than 40 years of industrial experience in research, development, design, and commercial scale implementation of processes in oil & gas, bulk chemicals, fine chemicals, biofuels, food, and minerals. He has more than 25 years of experience in conducting courses on sustainable process design, process innovation, and process scale-up for industrial practitioners. He has been a part-time professor of sustainable chemical technology at Delft Technical University and Groningen University
Maaike Harmsen, MA, is an independent trainer and consultant in ethics of technology and business ethics. She started as an Advisor for Shell Chemicals Technology Europe in 2001 and has since then worked as a consultant and trainer in business ethics for various companies and organisations, in the Netherlands and China. She is doing ethical-philosophical research on emerging technologies of AI, Geoengineering, and Space Exploration at the Free University of Amsterdam.
For more information on this course, read the course page on this website.