Recent advances in manufacturing and automation enable novel production processes, where machines can be repurposed and re-used for diversified objectives over time, opening to a business model similar to cloud computing. Such reconfigurable manufacturing units pose unprecedented challenges related to the safety of the operators, usability, and efficiency of the process, but they also introduce unique opportunities to devise more sustainable production processes, where the usage of machines can be effectively “consolidated”, as already done for virtual machines in cloud data centers. In this scenario, artificial intelligence can play a significant role to help bridge the gap between the industrial operator or designer, for a more effective and safe centering of the human in the production process, as introduced by the Industry 5.0 paradigm. The S2AIM workshop aims for the first time to reunite researchers and practitioners working in this wide and multidisciplinary research area, to produce the latest advances and challenges of AI-Aided Manufactoring systems. The main research topics include, but are not limted to, dependable and safe AI for industrial equipment, cybersecurity in robotic systems, advanced human-machine interaction and orchestration for increased safety and security.

Contrubutions are particularly welcome on (but not limited to) the following list of topics:

• Aritificial Intelligence for 

  • • human-machine interaction

    • manufacturing process management

    • safety and sustainabilty management

    • machinery programming and configuration

    • orchestration of mixed-criticality and AI-based workload

• Cloud computing, orchestration and virtualization applied to industrial cyber-physical systems

• Realiability, Safety, and Security of AI-based industrial systems

• Collaborative robots management and programming

• Reconfigurable machines for manufacturing

•  Virtual prototyping and Digital Twins