Individuals and teams of students, young professionals and start-ups can still register for the ACHEMA Innovation Challenge. Attractive prizes and valuable contacts await those who develop the best solutions for the use of digital methods and artificial intelligence in the process industry and make it to the final at ACHEMA Pulse in June.
Large quantities of data have been accumulating in the process industry for a long time - but what do you do with them? That's what the ACHEMA Innovation Challenge is all about. The questions on predictive maintenance in water management and the use of artificial intelligence in the process industry come from the practical experience of developers and users who know exactly where there is a need for action:
Predictive maintenance in water management is the topic of the MAIN hack, which is being organized jointly with HTAI. Teams can choose between two questions: The monitoring of plant components is the subject of the first challenge, while the second deals with the monitoring of optimal sewage sludge treatment by dosing chemicals. Based on sensors or assemblies already available on the market, solution concepts are to be developed that could be integrated into existing data networks of companies and sewage treatment plants. 1000 euros will be awarded to the winning teams.
As part of the KEEN platform challenge, ABB AG is challenging participants to develop an intelligent pipeline that pre-processes, cleanses and labels collected data sets - and does so automatically. The second KEEN challenge comes from TU Dortmund University. Artificial intelligence is to be used in image recognition to determine the operating conditions in an extraction column with liquid-liquid flow. 1500 euros will be awarded to each of the winners; in addition, depending on the maturity of their solutions, the teams will have the opportunity to further develop their approaches together with experts.
Participants will find out the exact task at kick-off events on March 5, 2021 for the KEEN Challenge and March 9, 2021 for the MAIN Hack. The students, young professionals and start-ups as well as university working groups will then have until the beginning of May to develop their concepts, get feedback in a workshop and convince the jury in the pre-selection process. The selected concepts will be presented at ACHEMA Pulse on June 15 and 16, 2021. At this unique event for the process industry, the finalists will have the opportunity to present themselves to the global community and talk to potential cooperation partners. At the award ceremony, they are sure to attract the attention of experts worldwide.
