Industrial AI: from PILOT to PROFIT
ISBN: 978-1-56990-610-1 (Hardcover)
- A Foreword by Prof. Wil van der Aalst, the "godfather" of Process Mining
- Familiarize yourself with foundational concepts – from Digital Twins and the Industrial Metaverse to Object-Centric Process Mining and Agentic AI.
- Gain insights into establishing key AI capabilities such as access to data, technology, and talent.
- Navigate adoption hurdles such as brownfield environments, legacy integration, and the physical constraints of industrial assets.
- Get inspired by more than 100 solution briefs across all enterprise functions as starting points for your AI initiative(s).
”A timely and practical guide to closing the gap between AI experimentation and real industrial value — where the true challenge is not models, but scalable systems.”
Prof. Jay Lee
Clark Distinguished Professor, Director of Industrial AI Center, University of Maryland, USA
Originator of the term Industrial AI .
”This book powerfully demonstrates how AI creates real value in industrial practice.
With its extraordinary range of application areas and tangible use cases, it serves as a unique source of inspiration for decision-makers and users alike.
Anyone seeking to understand how AI actually works in a business setting and how it can be implemented will find this an indispensable reference work.”
Prof. Dr. Marco Huber
Professorship for Cognitive Production Systems
at the University of Stuttgart and
Head of the Centre for Cyber-Cognitive Intelligence
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA.
”Importantly, the book also looks beyond today’s hurdles to offer an inspiring outlook on the next frontier of industrial intelligence.”
Prof. Wil van der Aalst
Professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science group;
Chief Scientist at Celonis.
”We always need good translators of our research findings.
Boris Scharinger does an excellent job of this in his book. Without resorting to buzzword bingo, he explains how to make AI industrial-grade.”
Prof. Sepp Hochreiter
Head of the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz
”Industrial AI: From Pilot to Profit is the book I wish had existed when we started building Blockbrain. It calls out, without sugarcoating, why 95% of GenAI initiatives fail
– and provides the compass that startups need to avoid the same traps.
Brownfield complexity, legacy integration, physical constraints – this is our daily reality. Boris explains it in a way that resonates equally with the CIO on the customer side and the engineering team at your startup.
For every founder in the Industrial AI space who is serious about scaling:
This is a must read!”
Antonius Gress
Startup CEO & Co-Founder, Blockbrain