Slama D., Rückert T. et al. (eds.) The Digital Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Smart, Connected Products and Solutions with AIoT

Springer, 2020. — 413 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-88220-4.This book is a practitioner's guide to smart, connected products and solutions. As a hands-on playbook, it combines the business and technical execution perspectives to help product companies, OEMs, manufacturers, and equipment operators utilize the full potential of digital enablers, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Digital Twins. The Digital Playbook provides comprehensive and actionable guidance, helping to address the challenges of creating sustainable and scalable digital business models, managing co-creation and sourcing, setting up the digital organization, and handling the legal aspects. From the technical execution perspective, the playbook includes the AIoT Framework, which explains how to combine data science and AI engineering with Digital Twins, as well as software development for cloud and edge. The integration with physical product development and retrofit integration of existing equipment is included as well. A pragmatic, agile approach is introduced that considers common agile inhibitors. A holistic AIoT DevOps approach is described, which combines key elements of DevOps for cloud, edge, and AI. Enterprise readiness is ensured by looking at trust and security as well as reliability and resilience for AIoT. A large number of real-world examples and case studies help ensure practical relevance. Readers should have a previous, general understanding of digital strategies and technologies. This book offers readers a clear understanding of the opportunities, as well as the challenges related to building and operating smart, connected products and solutions. They are given a set of tools and blueprints, which they can apply to their practical work in this space.AIoT 101:​ What, Why, How, Who.
Artificial Intelligence 101.
Data 101.
Digital Twin 101.
Internet of Things 101.
Hardware 101.
Business Strategy
Digital OEM.
Digital Equipment Operator.
Platforms.
Hybrid Models.
Scalability.
Business Execution
Business Model Design.
Product/​Solution Design.
Co-Creation and Sourcing Intro.
Rollout and Go-to-Market.
Operations.
Organization.
Technical Execution – AIoT Framework
Development Life-Cycle Perspective.
Designing Smart Connected Products and Solutions with AIoT.
AIoT Pipelines.
AIoT.​exe.
AIoT Product/​Solution Design.
Agile AIoT.
Holistic AIoT DevOps.
Trust &​ Security.
Reliability &​ Resilience.
Quality Management.
Case Studies
AIoT in a Global, High-Volume Manufacturing Network (Bosch and Microsoft).
Drone-Based Facade Inspection (TUEV SUED).
Predictive Maintenance for Hydraulic Components (Bosch Rexroth).
BaseABC:​ Addressing the AIoT Long Tail in I4.​0 (Bürkert).