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Industrial operations present AI challenges that don’t show up in typical enterprise software. In most facilities, plant data and control logic are spread across separate systems from different vendors: programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control systems (DCS) run the equipment logic, historians record time-series tags under site-specific naming schemes, supervisory control and data acquisition…

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method development is still largely trial and error, and the experiments can quickly use up a laboratory’s time, solvent and instrument capacity. In this interview, Maximilian Besenhard of University College London (UCL) discusses his group’s recent Journal of Chromatography A paper.1 which proposes a hybrid framework that combines mechanistic and data-driven…