Anass ELHOUD - Writing https://aelhoud.com/writing/ Articles on industrial AI, data strategy, and digital transformation. By Anass ELHOUD. en-us Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Forward Deployment Is the Next Frontier of Digital Transformation in Industry https://aelhoud.com/writing/why-forward-deployment-is-the-next-frontier-of-digital-transformation/ Why I am convinced that FDE will be the next real chapter of digital transformation Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://aelhoud.com/writing/why-forward-deployment-is-the-next-frontier-of-digital-transformation/ Why Trade-offs Are Steering Industrial AI https://aelhoud.com/writing/why-trade-off-are-steering-industrial-ai/ A software heuristic and a hand catching a frisbee are running the same trick: skip the perfect calculation, grab the first answer that is good enough, fast. This piece uses that idea, plus hill-climbing, simulated annealing, and a Mona Lisa built out of triangles, to argue that industrial AI runs on trade-offs, not optimality — and that digital transformation is really just organizations getting deliberate about the trade-offs they used to make by accident. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://aelhoud.com/writing/why-trade-off-are-steering-industrial-ai/ Swarm Intelligence-Based Framework for Accelerated and Optimized Assembly Line Design in the Automotive Industry https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10845-023-02182-5 Two discrete metaheuristics for hybrid assembly line balancing beat expert-tuned baselines by up to 20% on cycle time. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10845-023-02182-5 Online Reinforcement Learning for Designing Automotive Hybrid Assembly Sequence: A Task Clustering-Guided Approach https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=anQcJ10AAAAJ&hl=en#aiai-2024 A task-clustering-guided reinforcement learning approach for sequencing hybrid automotive assembly lines. IFIP AIAI 2024, Corfu. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=anQcJ10AAAAJ&hl=en#aiai-2024 A Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Assembly Line Key Performance Indicators Between a Real-world Industrial Setting and a Fast Discrete Event Simulator https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=anQcJ10AAAAJ&hl=en#ieem-2023 Comparing KPIs measured on a real hybrid assembly line against a fast discrete-event simulator. IEEE IEEM 2023, Singapore. Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=anQcJ10AAAAJ&hl=en#ieem-2023 ManufactSim: Manufacturing Line Simulation Using Heterogeneous Distributed Robots https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359601087_ManufactSim_Manufacturing_Line_Simulation_Using_Heterogeneous_Distributed_Robots A manufacturing line simulator built on heterogeneous distributed robots. IEEE AINA 2022, Sydney. Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359601087_ManufactSim_Manufacturing_Line_Simulation_Using_Heterogeneous_Distributed_Robots Parameters Correlation of Deep Learning Model for Visual Inspection in the Automotive Industry https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9790250/ Combining model confidence scores with visual explanation heatmaps to improve automotive weld-seam inspection accuracy. IEEE ICCCR 2022, Shanghai. Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:00:00 GMT https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9790250/ What After Watching Westworld? https://aelhoud.com/writing/what-after-watching-westworld/ Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same, the next question is. Who in the world am I? Ah, that is the great puzzle! Fri, 18 May 2018 12:00:00 GMT https://aelhoud.com/writing/what-after-watching-westworld/