ENEOS Materials Corporation (formerly the elastomers business unit of JSR Corporation) and Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announce they have reached an agreement that FactorialKernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP), a reinforcement learning-based AI algorithm, will beofficially adopted for use at an ENEOS Materials chemical plant. This agreement follows a successfulfield test in which this autonomous control AI*1 demonstrated a high level of performance whilecontrolling a distillation column at this plant for almost an entire year. This is the first example in theworld of reinforcement learning AI being formally adopted for direct control of a plant.