Course Industrial Process Innovation by AI tools

Course Industrial Process Innovation by AI tools

Innovators need this course to know which AI tools can help them to generate new process and product concepts, and which AI tools help them in each innovation stage to reduce the risks of commercial implementation failure. The course also shows them the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the use of AI tools.

The course is about:

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. The Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of AI tools for their applications.
  4. Established process innovation and scale-up knowledge and on how AI tools knowledge is suitable for each specific process innovation step.
  5. 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

  1. Knowledge of what specific AI tools can do for each innovation stage
  2. Pitfalls and SWOT analysis of use of AI tools
  3. Answers to your questions
  4. Course Certificate

 

Who should attend?

  • Researchers
  • Innovators
  • Engineers
  • Managers R&D
  • Plant technologists
  • Plant managers

Practical information

  • The course location is Delft. This is near Schiphol airport and easy to reach by train
  • Course date is Wednesday 10th of June 2026.
  • Course fee: € 1500.-  exclusive of VAT
  • Course entering: The course  can be entered by sending an email to jan@harmsenconsultancy.nl
  • Course fee should be paid by 31st of May 2026, to G.J. Harmsen, Harmsen Consultancy IBAN: NL23 ABNA 059 209 0086, Swift (BIC) code: ABNANL2A

Course program and schedule:

09.30 Walk in, coffee

10.00 Introduction to the course and participants

10.30 First Module: Introduction Generative AI

11.45 Interactive Q&A

12.00-13.00 lunch

13.00 Module 2: ideation, concept, feasibility innovation, and AI tools

14.00-14.10 break

14.15 Module 3: Development and commercialization and AI tools

15.15 Introduction Practical online modules by the Harmsens

15.30 Questions and Answers

15.45 Feedback on the course and certificates

16.00 End

 

Your course conductors: Jan Harmsen and 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

He authored the following books relevant to the course content:

[1] Jan Harmsen, Industrial Process Scale-up, 2nd revised Edition – A Practical Innovation Guide from Idea to Commercial Implementation, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2019).
[2] Jan Harmsen, André B. de Haan, P.L.J Swinkels, Product and Process Design – Driving Sustainable Innovation, DEGRUYTER, 2nd revised edition, Berlin (2024).
[3] Harmsen, Jan; Verkerk, Maarten. Process Intensification: Breakthrough in Design, Industrial Innovation Practices, and Education. De Gruyter, Berlin, (2020).

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.

Publications:

[1] Maaike Harmsen, Gijsbert den Brink.  Should We Pass the Great Filter? The Search for Multiplanetarism in Light of Herman Dooyeweerd’s Theory of Ground Motives. Philosophia Reformata, 1(aop), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1163/23528230-bja10091 (2024).

[2] Maaike Harmsen What Silicon Valley’s New Ethical Thinking Gets Right—and Wrong – Christianity Today (2024).

[3] Maaike Harmsen. Colonizing Mars: Evaluating the why. Colonizing Mars: Evaluating the Why – Article – BioLogos. (2021).

For a complete list of her publications, maaikeharmsen.com