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Source: KAMAZ – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
On Friday, March 13, the KAMAZ Visitor Center hosted an educational and practical seminar titled "Modern Trends in the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and the Automotive Industry," featuring Vladimir Knyagin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg.
The business meeting was attended by KAMAZ PJSC CEO Sergey Kogogin, the company's top managers, Marina Lipetskaya, Director of the North-West Center for Strategic Research Foundation, Dmitry Sanatov, Partner of the North-West Center for Strategic Research Foundation, representatives of Yandex LLC, Sberbank PJSC, Severstal PJSC, and others. Experts from various KAMAZ divisions were also present.
Sergey Kogogin, CEO of KAMAZ PJSC, addressed the audience with a welcoming speech. The company's CEO noted that the implementation of intelligent systems in production is becoming a prerequisite for ensuring technological sovereignty and maintaining leadership in a rapidly changing global market. "It's clear that artificial intelligence technologies are becoming key, strategic. This topic is being addressed at the state level – the direction has been set by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As the head of state noted, for Russia this is a matter of state, technological, and value sovereignty. Our country must possess a full range of its own technologies and products in the field of generative artificial intelligence," Kogogin emphasized.
"Artificial intelligence has now penetrated communications: document management, image recognition, and automated response generation. Almost every large organization has a robot answering calls. We see the use of AI growing. But the greatest expectations are still associated with its penetration into industry. For the automotive industry, this is a matter of transitioning to autonomous vehicle control. The next step is the widespread adoption of robots. And not the traditional manipulators of the 1970s, but autonomous robots capable of navigating tasks and space, and assessing the performance of various operations. The key, however, is the management of large multi-domain sites such as workshops. Sooner or later, we will achieve intelligent manufacturing," commented Vladimir Knyagin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg.
"We, like most companies both globally and in Russia, have already begun using artificial intelligence in certain processes. Our employees use it in one way or another. But we understand that AI is more than just an assistant. In some processes, AI will take on the role of first pilot, leaving humans in the supporting role—the role of second pilot," noted Eldar Shavaliev, Director of the Digital Transformation Center at KAMAZ PJSC.
The second part of the seminar featured intensive group work, during which specialists and experts exchanged practical experiences. In summing up, the participants noted the highly productive nature of the business meeting.
During the visit, business negotiations were also held between the seminar participants and KAMAZ PJSC top managers. The parties discussed promising areas of cooperation and the implementation of joint high-tech projects. Additionally, some guests were given a tour of KAMAZ facilities. The group visited the automobile plant, where they were shown the main assembly line and the cab assembly line, and toured the press and frame plant, where they were shown the chassis shop and paint shop.
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