Rio Tinto documents a 30-year-old manufacturing system with AI

Rio Tinto documents a 30-year-old manufacturing system with AI

By @iTnews_au
Publication Date: 2026-05-25 20:37:00

Rio Tinto has developed an AI domain assistant that documents the knowledge, dependencies and decision logic used by a key manufacturing system in its aluminum operations.




Rio Tinto’s Ke Shi.

Ke Shi, senior data science consultant, said at the AWS Summit Sydney that the assistant unlocks “accumulated knowledge and complexity” embedded in one of its most critical systems, a 30-year-old manufacturing execution system (MES) called…