Utilizing LLMs for Industrial Process Automation
This work addresses the underexplored utility of LLMs for software development in the industrial process automation domain, which uses specialized and proprietary languages, aiming to accelerate development cycles for manufacturing systems.
This research explores the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to industrial process automation, focusing on highly-specialized programming languages. The goal is to solve real-life programming tasks, such as generating robotic arm movement routines, to accelerate manufacturing system development cycles.
A growing number of publications address the best practices to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for software engineering in recent years. However, most of this work focuses on widely-used general purpose programming languages like Python due to their widespread usage training data. The utility of LLMs for software within the industrial process automation domain, with highly-specialized languages that are typically only used in proprietary contexts, remains underexplored. This research aims to utilize and integrate LLMs in the industrial development process, solving real-life programming tasks (e.g., generating a movement routine for a robotic arm) and accelerating the development cycles of manufacturing systems.