Towards a Simulation-based Conversational Assistant for the Operation and Engineering of Production Plants
Franz Georg Listl, Jan Fischer, Michael Weyrich · 2021
Conversational Assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have become part of our everyday lives and faced wide adoption in industry. They support users in various tasks, such as playing songs or booking flights, making users' lives easier. Nevertheless, conversational assistants have not yet found their way into production, even though they would offer advantages, such as intuitive use through natural language and easy access to information. Simulation-based skills can also add a new layer in production by making simulation power accessible in an automated way. In this paper, we aim to discuss the concept of a simulation-based Conversational Assistant by presenting an architecture and the workflow within the architecture.