Advanced Control Systems in Industry 5.0 Enabling Process Mining

This paper merges new research topics in Industry 5.0 using the Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) approach able to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in production processes. The goal is to provide an innovative approach to model production management in industry, adopting a new “proof of concept” of advanced Process Mining (PM) automatizing decisions and optimizing machine setting and maintenance interventions. Advanced electronic sensing and actuation systems, integrating supervised and unsupervised AI algorithms, are embedded in the PM model as theoretical process workflows suggested by a Decision Support System (DSS) engine enabling an intelligent decision-making procedure. The paper discusses, as examples, two theoretical models applied to specific industry sectors, such as food processing and energy production. The proposed work provides important elements of engineering management related to the digitalization of production process matching with automated control systems setting production parameters, thus enabling the self-adapting of product quality supervision and production efficiency in modern industrial systems.