The Reality of Agentic AI in the Smart Factory
The industrial sector is flooded with claims about fully autonomous operations, but for manufacturing executives, separating marketing from operational reality…
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Industry 4.0 Was Introduced 15 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?
Industry 4.0 began with a clean and practical idea: connect the physical world of manufacturing to the digital world so…
Predictive Maintenance ROI: The Executive Guide
Manufacturing executives today are navigating a severely stressed business environment. Facilities face margin pressures, patchy demand recovery, extreme energy volatility,…
Smart Manufacturing
Industry 4.0 Was Introduced 15 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?
Industry 4.0 began with a clean and practical idea: connect the physical world of manufacturing to the digital world so…
The AI Problem Manufacturers Keep Misdiagnosing
An OEE analytics application that took 12 weeks and a team of developers to build a year ago can now…
Why More Data Creates More Waste in Manufacturing
For decades, the promise of the digital factory was simple: more data equals more efficiency. Yet, as discussed at the…
Energy
Scaling AI at the Energy Edge: Why Pilots Succeed and Deployments Stall
I’ve been involved in distributed and embedded computing for about 30 years now, and one of the things I see…
3 Things a DER Fleet Needs Before Edge AI Works
At an IIoT World Energy Day 2026 panel on scalable edge solutions for modern grids, Andrew Foster of IOTech Systems,…
Deploying AI at the Energy Edge Is the Easy Part. Governing It Is the Hard Part.
The energy sector has made real progress in deploying AI closer to operations. Battery storage operators are running predictive models…
Smart Cities & Infrastructure
Five 90-Day Municipal Innovation Pilots Now Open for Funding
Leading Cities is inviting municipalities worldwide to apply for one of five fully funded, no-cost innovation projects designed to help…
Top 10 Technologies Powering Urban Resilience in 2025
Last year marked the hottest ever recorded on Earth. In the United States alone, 27 separate billion-dollar disasters disrupted communities—wildfires,…
The tech backbone creating the future of infrastructure
Connecting infrastructural ecosystems are driving smarter decisions and improving sustainable outcomes. Now we must use them to build resilient, future-ready…
Cybersecurity & ICS
Removable Media Is Still OT’s Biggest Blind Spot
A plant operator plugged a personal phone into an HMI to charge it and accidentally tethered the device, giving an…
How One Utility Secured 650,000 Power Connections
IIoT World covers OT cybersecurity for energy infrastructure, including removable media risks, air gap strategies, and ICS security frameworks for…
Securing Automation: Why the Specification Stage Is the Right Time to Embed OT Cybersecurity
Only 19% of manufacturers plan to invest in cybersecurity despite 56% planning new automation projects in 2026, according to the…
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