Explainability as the key ingredient for AI adoption in Industry 5.0 settings.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has gained significant attention as a means to address the transparency and interpretability challenges posed by black box AI models. In the context of the manufacturing industry, where complex problems and decision-making processes are widespread, the XMANAI platform emerges as a solution to enable transparent and trustworthy collaboration between humans and machines. By leveraging advancements in XAI and catering the prompt collaboration between data scientists and domain experts, the platform enables the construction of interpretable AI models that offer high transparency without compromising performance. This paper introduces the approach to building the XMANAI platform and highlights its potential to resolve the "transparency paradox" of AI. The platform not only addresses technical challenges related to transparency but also caters to the specific needs of the manufacturing industry, including lifecycle management, security, and trusted sharing of AI assets. The paper provides an overview of the XMANAI platform main functionalities, addressing the challenges faced during the development and presenting the evaluation framework to measure the performance of the delivered XAI solutions. It also demonstrates the benefits of the XMANAI approach in achieving transparency in manufacturing decision-making, fostering trust and collaboration between humans and machines, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing business value.

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Copyright © 2023 Agostinho, Dikopoulou, Lavasa, Perakis, Pitsios, Branco, Reji, Hetterich, Biliri, Lampathaki, Rodríguez Del Rey and Gkolemis.

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CA was employed by UNINOVA and Knowledgebiz Consulting. ZD was employed by AiDEAS. KP and SP were employed by Ubitech. RB was employed by Knowledgebiz Consulting. SRe and JH were employed by Fraunhofer FOKUS. EB and FL were employed by Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions. SRo was employed by Innovalia Association. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.