Engineering and its affinities in the new world of AI. Metallurgy, mechanics and industrial: What makes them the dream team?

Abstract

This work is the investigative consequence of artificial intelligence and its collaboration with mechanical,
industrial, and metallurgical engineering, which is experiencing exponential growth. The main objective is to
underline the interrelationship between these specialties with efficiency and productivity. The role among the
three engineering branches is explored, highlighting their particularities, analogies, potentials, and future
possibilities. At the same time, their interactions with AI are shown. The study includes: leading industries and
small businesses that are currently competitive and making efforts focused on innovation, disruptiveness,
technological development, process integration, minimizing costs, and increasing efficiency. To achieve the
proposed objectives, a documentary and bibliographic review was conducted on the analysis of the evolution of
engineering in the context of artificial intelligence and mechanical manufacturing. Information was gathered on
the relationship between AI and the mentioned engineering fields, applied in industrial environments. The
methodological approach is qualitative-descriptive, with a comparative analysis between disciplines and
representative case studies, allowing for inquiry into theory and practice, history, future, and technology. The
adapted approach enabled a coherent essay on the role of engineering in the digital age. The results show that
artificial intelligence responds to increasingly urgent industrial needs, but also generates new expectations in
other lesser requirements. The increasingly important intervention of metallurgy, industrial, and mechanical
fields in the current manufacturing context, along with the collateral application of AI, generate significant
strategies for the technological and economic development of current manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Society
5.0.