Industrial and Agentic AI – a Jump Start into Productivity and Profitability Improvement
In today’s industrial landscape, asset owners are confronted with a growing set of challenges that directly impact the performance and competitiveness of your assets. Aging brownfield installations require increasing maintenance efforts and costs, while rising labour and energy expenses continue to pressure your operational budgets. At the same time, administrative complexity and regulatory requirements add non-productive overhead. You also face a structural shortage of skilled workers, both on the shop floor and in engineering roles, making it increasingly difficult to maintain efficiency and continuity.
Against this backdrop, artificial intelligence, particularly industrial and agentic AI, offers new opportunities to address these challenges. Asset owners can leverage AI to identify best practices in plant operations, optimize processes, and improve decision-making in maintenance. In engineering, planning, and administrative functions, AI enables the automation of knowledge-driven tasks, helping you reduce workload and improve consistency.
While AI is often perceived as complex and dependent on advanced digital infrastructures or high-quality datasets, recent developments have significantly lowered these barriers. You can now implement scalable AI solutions without extensive prior investments in data architecture. Proven approaches exist to identify valuable use cases, successfully pilot them, and scale them into measurable business impact.
This webinar shows you how to navigate these opportunities and take informed, pragmatic steps towards integrating AI into your operations.
Content of the webinar
- What is industrial AI and agentic AI, and how do they work?
- Typical AI business cases for asset management improvement
- Requirements for fast implementation of AI solutions
- Role of current and future digital architecture
- Key decisions on data and digitization from the start
- Aligning AI use cases with enterprise strategy
- Concrete steps for a jump start into productivity improvement
What will you learn?
By attending this webinar, you learn how to make reliable and confident decisions on where and how to start with industrial AI, or how to deepen existing initiatives. You gain insight into how to identify valid business cases, assess profitability potential, and prepare concrete investments in pilot cases and roll-outs. The session also helps you develop a first consistent AI roadmap, ask the right questions to internal and external experts, and distinguish genuinely relevant digitization topics from marketing language and buzzwords. In addition, you strengthen your ability to discuss AI strategy at eye level with stakeholders across the organization.
About the speaker
Markus Ahorner is CEO of Ahorner & Innovators GmbH, a consultancy specialized in digital transformation based in Essen, Germany. He has an academic background in mechanical engineering, process engineering, and business administration from the Universities of Braunschweig and Hagen.
Throughout his career, he has held business and management roles in international engineering companies such as UHDE, ABB, and VA TECH, and worked as a strategic management consultant. Since founding Ahorner & Innovators in 2005, he has focused on industrial AI, operations research, applied mathematics, and management consulting. He brings extensive experience in AI, computer science, and organizational development, supporting companies in implementing sustainable and value-driven digital strategies.
Target audience
This webinar is designed for managers who want to make fast and reliable decisions on first and sustainable investments in industrial and agentic AI. It is particularly relevant for professionals active in strategy, asset steering, production, quality, engineering, supply chain, and logistics management, as well as related functions in asset-intensive industries. If you are responsible for improving performance, guiding digital initiatives, or aligning innovation with business priorities, this session offers a practical framework to help you assess opportunities and move forward with confidence.
This webinar is part of Asset Performance Conference
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