2nd AI in Manufacturing Systems Workshop

(In-person only event)

Date: October 7, 2026

Event Location: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

Organized by: ASTM Committee F50 on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Systems

Registrants will be emailed the digital Program Booklet, which will include the Technical Program and the full abstracts, approximately one week before the event, and also the morning of the start of the event. For more information, contact symposia@astm.org.

About the Event

Accelerate AI Adoption on the Factor Floor: Building Foundations with Standards

Artificial intelligence is moving out of pilot projects and into production environments across the manufacturing enterprise. Whether it holds at scale depends on the infrastructure underneath it: shared terminology, data that transfers between systems, methods for measuring model performance, and criteria for validating AI behavior when safety and quality are at stake. Those are standards questions, and most of them are still open.

The second AI in Manufacturing Systems Workshop examines where AI is being deployed on the factory floor today and which consensus standards must exist for that deployment to be reliable, interoperable, and trusted. The program is vendor-neutral. Sessions address data interoperability and reference architectures, performance metrics and benchmarking, data quality and model standards, safety and cybersecurity, system integration, human-AI teaming, AI-driven quality and predictive maintenance, and governance and trustworthiness, with a sector spotlight that examines one production environment in depth.

The workshop follows the inaugural edition, held June 3, 2026 in Dallas immediately before the founding meeting of Committee F50. In the months since, F50 has organized into an executive subcommittee and four working subcommittees — Terminology, Data, Critical Requirements, and Planning — and has set its first standards priorities. This edition reports on that work, tests it against current industry practice, and opens it to the wider community for input.

Who Should Attend

The program is built for anyone applying artificial intelligence in a manufacturing context:

Manufacturing engineers, production managers, and plant leaders deploying AI in operations
Technology and platform providers building AI systems for industrial environments
Quality, reliability, safety, and cybersecurity professionals
Researchers and academics working on industrial AI and smart manufacturing
Government, defense, and national laboratory stakeholders
Standards, regulatory, and conformity assessment professionals

Members of Committee F50 are a core constituency, and the day is designed to deliver value to the broader manufacturing community first.

Abstract Submission

To participate in the symposium, authors must submit a 250 to 300-word preliminary abstract using the online Abstract Submission Portal no later than DATE. To ensure your abstract was received into the ASTM database, please email symposia@astm.org and let us know that you have submitted an abstract.

The abstract must include a clear definition of the objective and approach of the work discussed, pointing out material that is new, and present sufficient details regarding results. The presentation and manuscript must not be of a commercial nature, nor can it have been previously published. Because a limited number of abstracts will be accepted, be sure that your abstract submission is complete to allow for careful assessment of the paper's suitability for this symposium. The symposium chair(s) will notify you via email by DATE of your paper’s acceptability for presentation at the symposium. If the preliminary abstract is accepted, the author will be requested to submit a final abstract a few months before the symposium. The final abstracts will be distributed in a program booklet at the symposium.

What Participants Gain

A current view of how AI is being used across manufacturing operations, presented by practitioners rather than through product roadmaps
Working knowledge of the data, measurement, and validation problems that determine whether an AI deployment scales beyond a pilot
Case studies from production environments, including implementations that did not work and what was learned from them
Two moderated panels: one on where F50 standards must move next, one on scaling trustworthy AI across the enterprise
Structured networking with engineers, technology providers, regulators, and researchers working on the same problems

Agenda at a Glance

The full agenda, with confirmed speakers and session titles, will be published by the end of August.

Time	Session Details
8:00 am	Registration and networking
8:30 am	Welcome Address Sergio Sanchez, ASTM International Mohsen Seifi, ASTM International
8:45 am	Opening Address and ASTM F50 Presentation Prof Jay Lee, University of Maryland
9:00 am	Keynote: State of AI Standards for Manufacturing Vincent Paquit, ORNL
9:25 am	The Strategic Imperative and Impact of Manufacturing Data Foundations: Enabling Interoperability, AI, and Industrial Competitiveness John Dyck, CESMII
9:45 am	Networking Break
10:00 am	AI testing, evaluation, verification, and validation: approaches to measurement and standardization Jesse Dunietz, NIST
10:20 am	Closing the Data-Quality Gap: A Case Study in Training Surrogate Models for Bio-Inspired Composite Manufacturing Ashok Ghosh, New Mexico Tech
10:40 am	AI in Smart Manufacturing – Can I trust? Soundar Kumara, Penn State University
11:00 am	Panel Discussion: Roadmap to Action, Year Two - Where F50 Standards Must Move Next moderated by Yan Lu, NIST
12:00 pm	Midday Break
1:00 pm	From AI Tools to AI Teammates: Situating and Evaluating Scheduling Capability for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Peter Denno, NIST
1:25 pm	Pathways for the Integration of AI into Coatings Manufactured by Thermal Spray John Saputo, Reliacoat
1:50 pm	Right Data for the Right Model: Multi-sensor intelligence in Manufacturing Suchi Khurana, Addiguru
2:15 pm	The Convergence of Digital Twin Frameworks and AI for Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Kira Barton, University of Michigan
2:45 pm	Networking Break
3:00 pm	Panel Discussion: From Pilot to Production - Scaling Trustworthy AI Across Enterprise moderated by Ramesh Subramanian, Siemens Energy
4:00 pm	5C Architecture Discussion - Q&A Session led by Jay Lee, Univeristy of Maryland
5:00 pm	Adjourn

Registration

Registration opens approximately 10 weeks before the start of the SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOP.

Registration

Registration is now open. The fees to attend this event are listed below.

	Through MONTH DAY, YEAR	After MONTH DAY, YEAR
ASTM Member	$100.00	$200.00
Non-member	$200.00	$300.00
Presenter	Waived	Waived
Student*	Waived	Waived

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Workshop Co-Chairs

Dr. Jay Lee, University of Maryland — Chair, ASTM Committee F50
Dr. Yan Lu, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ramesh Subramanian, Siemens Energy
Dr. Mohsen Seifi, ASTM International

For program and speaking related inquiries please contact Khalid Rafi, ASTM International.

Continuing Education Credits

Attendees earn 0.7 Continuing Education Units and receive a Verification of Completion certificate. Certificates are issued online within two weeks after completion of the event.

Hotel Information

All meetings will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, 225 E Coastline Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32202.

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