Requirements and Use of Neural Networks for Industrial Applications

. Modern industry of today needs flexible, adaptive and fault-tolerant methods for information processing. Several applications have shown that neural networks fulfill these requirements. In this paper application areas, in which neural networks have been successfully used, are presented. Then a kind of check list is described, which mentioned the different steps, when applying neural networks. The paper finished with a discussion of some neural networks projects done in the research group Interactive Planning at the Research Center for Computer Science (FZI). Key Words. Neural network, industrial applications 1 INTRODUCTION After reincarnation in the 80th a lot of different applications where solved by neural networks. The worldwide published reports in books, conferences and journals described mainly experimental applications in fields like robotics, Artificial Intelligences, image processing or natural language processing; unlike the industrial or commercial use of neural networks..