Administration and documents
Classify records, extract fields, monitor deadlines and prepare summaries.
Final validation and administrative use remain human responsibilities.
How to read this page
These sections describe possible reuse of workflow patterns.
They are not a catalogue of pre-packaged services. Any real use requires checking sources, access rights, requirements, responsibilities and metrics for the target context.
Problemwhat must be observed
Datasources, cadence, licences
Automationtriggers, rules, models
Outputcards, reports, dashboards
Controlgates and supervision
Evaluationmetrics and limits
Use cases
Ten use cases, without generic promises.
Each example separates the activity that may be automated, the possible technique and the decision that must remain human. Labels do not mean the case is already implemented.
Industry, process and quality
Detect anomalies, estimate properties between laboratory assays and compare operating strategies on controlled data or simulators.
RPA · PCA/CUSUM · Soft sensor · ML · Optimization
Experimental output does not replace DCS/APC, analysers, operating procedures or plant accountability.
Energy and industrial chemistry
Compare hydrogen routes, gas→fertilizer transmission, D+1 renewables and utility dispatch.
Physical balances · Time series · ML · LP/MILP
Scenarios and benchmarks are not the same as site-specific costs, availability or measured savings.
Logistics and supply chains
Compare routes, availability and delays and flag exceptions.
Rules · RPA · Forecasting
Quality depends on source freshness and coverage.
Environment and territory
Collect sensors and bulletins, update maps and recognise events.
RPA · Image AI · Geospatial
It does not replace official sources or warning systems.
Research and universities
Update bibliographies, classify papers and extract concepts.
RPA · ML · Text AI
Citations, interpretation and scientific correctness require review.
Culture and heritage
Catalogue images, transcribe texts and build narrative paths.
RPA · Text AI · Image AI
Attribution, historical context and rights remain central.
Communication and information
Compare sources and prepare controlled summaries or publications.
RPA · NLP · Generative AI
Editorial review prevents a draft from automatically becoming a fact.
Accessibility
Produce chart descriptions, simplified versions and alternative formats.
Text AI · Image AI · Human oversight
Quality should be tested with users and assistive technologies.
Economic and financial analysis
Calculate indicators, classify regimes and compare scenarios.
Statistics · ML · Time series
It is not a recommendation or guarantee of results.
Connections to implemented workflows are provided in the sections and matrix below.
Transferability map
From implemented workflows to possible new contexts.
| Workflow | Technical pattern | Possible industrial or organisational applications | Possible research and communication applications | Required condition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WF-1 · Weather automation | Rule-based multi-variable index | comfort, maintenance, operational risk, multi-site priority | rule transparency and risk-communication studies | domain-validated thresholds, without clinical inference |
| WF-2 · The New Margin | Derived KPI + forecast + track record | energy, yield, efficiency, cost or margin indicators | model-baseline comparison and temporal stability | economic definition of the KPI and matured outcomes |
| WF-3 · Market Overview | Cross-source radar, regime and anomalies | operational monitoring, KPI portfolios, early warning | drift, anomaly review and regime interpretability | classification must not become an automatic decision |
| WF-4 · AI Supply Chain | Thematic baskets, normalisation and z-scores | value chains, suppliers, technologies or industrial assets | proxy construction, basket robustness and network analysis | documented proxies and survivorship-bias controls |
| WF-5 · Satellite | Event trigger + geospatial fusion + safety gate | environmental events, distributed infrastructure, territorial monitoring | sensor fusion, uncertainty propagation and educational scenarios | separate observations, simulations and official sources |
| WF-6 · Energy Crisis Thermometer | Composite index + confidence-aware fallback + state machine | energy stress, supply chains, country risk and operating continuity | research on proxies, regimes and decisions under uncertainty | public weights, quality, confidence and limitations |
| WF-7 · Etna Forecast | Multimodal nowcasting + modality gate + scorecard | rare-event monitoring and systems with incomplete sensors | calibration, Hawkes baseline and modality comparison | strict separation from alerts and authoritative sources |
| WF-8 · Bluesky multi-source | Multi-source NLP + source policy + facts-only templating | bilingual technical dissemination and thematic observatories | source independence, communicability and anti-reuse gates | copyright-aware publication, disclosure and source links |
| WF-9 · World Economy Engine | Macro nowcasting + model ensemble + structural graph + point-in-time governance | economic intelligence, planning, stress testing, KPI portfolios and supply-chain intelligence | forecast comparison, regimes, graph ablation, revision/vintage bias and uncertainty | graph assumptions disclosed; benchmarks and time-t data only; not financial advice |
| WF-10 · Etna Sentinel | Multi-source ingestion + deterministic model + ML anomaly context + fail-closed event relay | event monitoring, infrastructure screening, digital operations and governed automated communication | trajectory comparison, anomaly context, policy gates and quality degradation | not a concentration/deposition model, alert, safety or navigation aid |
| WF-11 · Hydrogen Route Observatory | Physical balance + prices + carbon policy + sensitivity | route economics, make-or-buy scenarios and decarbonisation | emissions boundaries, sensitivity and break-even robustness | PPA is a scenario; no site-specific cost representation |
| WF-12 · Ammonia & Fertilizer Chain | Physical cost chain + econometric transmission + maturation | fertilizers, feedstocks, cost pressure and procurement intelligence | lags, elasticity and ML-vs-physical-model comparison | global benchmark kept distinct from modelled European cost |
| WF-13 · Italy Variable Renewable Forecast | Capacity-normalised point-in-time forecasting | load shifting, energy planning, storage and flexibility | vintage bias and skill versus physical/operator baselines | V1 covers solar+wind only and does not certify RFNBO |
| WF-14 · Process Sentinel | Multivariate monitoring + frozen synthetic evaluation era | condition monitoring, early warning and assisted diagnosis | detection-delay/false-alarm trade-off and model gating | performance applies only to the stated benchmark/simulator |
| WF-15 · Virtual Analyzer | Delayed-label estimation + OOD abstention | soft sensing, inferential measurement and quality monitoring | conformal coverage, OOD as domain distance and model error versus laboratory uncertainty | truth and laboratory are simulated; no real performance claim |
| WF-16 · Energy & Steam Optimizer | Utility balances + LP/MILP + frozen reference policy | energy management, steam balancing and capacity debottlenecking | LP duality, unit commitment and sensitivity | synthetic utility demand; modelled opportunity, not measured plant savings; electrical balance not modelled |
Four application families
Periodic intelligence
Collection, normalisation, control, synthesis and publication of updated sources.
Conditions and anomalies
Triggers, thresholds, regimes and cases for human review.
Documentable indicators
Readable outputs that expose sources, uncertainty and reasons.
Reproducible protocols
Versioned datasets, baselines, temporal splits, ablations and outcome reports.
Before reuse
A pattern is not transferred by copying the model.
- define who will use the output and for which decision;
- verify access, licence, quality and cadence of sources;
- build a relevant baseline;
- define block gates and missing-data handling;
- separate prototype, pilot and production;
- document responsibility, maintenance and failure modes.
Operating boundary
Applications described here are transfer hypotheses based on public workflows. They do not imply that a system is already suitable for corporate processes, regulated decisions or production environments.
Applications described here are transfer hypotheses based on public workflows. They do not imply that a system is already suitable for corporate processes, regulated decisions or production environments.
Discuss a possible application
A preliminary discussion only needs a non-confidential description of the problem and sources.