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Working teams of AI² members. Each group has a lead from industry or research, a defined Industrial AI topic, and ongoing work.
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An expert group is a small, ongoing working team - not a mailing list and not the Monthly Industrial AI Call. The same people stay with one topic and try to produce something others can use.
Each group has one or two leads. They set the scope, invite contributors, and keep the work moving. Leads are listed on each group below - for example Vlad Larichev on the Digital Reasoning Thread, or Davy Demeyer and Olga Afremova on Industrial Automation.
Current topics are the Digital Reasoning Thread (connecting engineering data, models, and decisions), AI strategy and maturity, embedding AI in V-Model product development, AI in industrial automation (PLC, SCADA, and engineering toolchains), and physical AI and robotics. Two groups are still forming: AI in process industry, and ontology & knowledge graphs.
After you join the association and create a portal account, you apply to that group's Member hub room. Welcome is open to every portal member. Group rooms are only for people working on that topic. Leads review join requests.
Released examples include the Industrial AI Maturity Model (Strategy & business models) and DRT Loom (Digital Reasoning Thread). Drafts and working files stay behind sign-in until the lead publishes them. Public releases also appear under Publications.
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Led by Dr. Tobias Moritz Guggenberger · Dr. Lukas Moschko
This expert group frames how AI creates measurable value in industrial settings – from investment cases and operating models to partnerships, data economics, and the shift from pilot projects to scaled adoption.
Current focus: Industrial AI Maturity Model (Draft v0.1)
DataSovereignty
Led by Vlad Larichev
The Digital Reasoning Thread (DRT) is a layer that connects data, models, tools, and decisions across the industrial toolchain so AI systems can reason consistently over engineering and operational processes.
Current focus: DRT Loom (v1)
DataEngineeringIndustrial AIManufacturingPLMReasoning
Led by Prof. Dr. Martin Eigner · Dr. Dirk Alexander Molitor
The group focuses on embedding AI in structured development lifecycles – requirements, design, implementation, and verification – so intelligent features remain safe, testable, and release-ready in regulated industrial products.
DataEngineeringIndustrial AIPLM
Led by Davy Demeyer · Olga Afremova
This expert group aims to accelerate adoption of AI at the industrial-automation layer, spanning PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMIs, and the broader connected engineering toolchain.
AutomationDataIndustrial AIManufacturingPLC
Led by Andrew Smith · Amine Kharrat
This expert group works on physical AI and robotics in industrial settings - perception, motion, and control where a machine has to act next to people, equipment, and the automation already on the floor.
AutomationIndustrial AIRobotics
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Forming
Led by Matthias Barbian
This thread targets continuous processes – chemicals, energy, food, materials – where physics, control systems, and operations data meet AI for monitoring, optimization, and decision support on the plant floor.
Forming
Led by Eelco Weichert
The group advances shared meaning for industrial data – taxonomies, standards-aligned ontologies, and knowledge graphs that connect equipment, products, and processes so AI can query and reason over heterogeneous sources.
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