Know-How and Expertise: European Companies Hoping to Take the Global Lead in Industrial AI

Rückert's focus, though, is on more proactive AI applications that can make decisions on their own and control processes. Such AI agents, she believes, will give industry a boost comparable to the erstwhile advances triggered by smartphones and the internet. If a machine breaks down, the agent will check if the same problem has already been experienced in a different Bosch factory, examines handbooks and scans shift logs – before then proposing a possible solution within seconds. For more complex tasks, several agents can be combined, which then communicate with each other. Comprehensive use of such tools, says Rückert, can translate into millions in savings for individual factories.