Artificial intelligence - overrated hype or future technology? It is a fact that artificial intelligence has long since arrived in our everyday lives. Particularly in the industrial context, there is considerable potential for the use of artificial intelligence as a result of constantly growing data availability and improved analysis options. Especially for indirect business areas such as research and development (R&D), this creates a wide variety of potentials, but also corresponding challenges.

Targeting at a comprehensive exploration of this topic, an international benchmarking study is being conducted by the Complexity Management Academy and RWTH Aachen University (WZL) in cooperation with an industrial consortium consisting of 24 manufacturing companies.

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The benchmarking study is designed in three phases over 10 months. During the initial Screening phase data is captured in a global context based on the questionnaire. As part of the Evaluation phase, the returns are analyzed while all participants are provided with an individual positioning within the overall study results. In collaboration with our industrial and scientific expert network promising approaches are further analyzed by case studies with the respective participants of the study. According to the overall motto “Learn from the best”, best practices are shared across the successful practice companies and the consortium in the course of five Company Visits.