The Small and Medium Manufacturer (SMM) Data Reality Check: An AI Readiness Checklist
How do you determine if your plant is ready for Prescriptive AI? Before investing in a prescriptive AI platform, Small and…
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Activating 50-Year-Old Manuals and Drawings for AI
Manufacturers possess a vast, dormant capital asset that standard financials never capture: decades of technical documentation. These archives contain solutions…
The Industrial Data Paradox: Why Your Factory’s Messy Reality is Your Smartest Asset
The graveyard of smart manufacturing projects is filled with perfect, scalable, future-proof monoliths. They are elegant technical cathedrals, engineered on…
Smart Manufacturing
The Small and Medium Manufacturer (SMM) Data Reality Check: An AI Readiness Checklist
How do you determine if your plant is ready for Prescriptive AI? Before investing in a prescriptive AI platform, Small and Medium Manufacturers (SMMs) must verify that their data…
The Evolution of Reliability: How Agentic AI Closes the ‘Detect-to-Do’ Gap
Agentic AI moves industrial maintenance beyond simple alerts into autonomous execution. While standard predictive maintenance forecasts failures, Agentic AI coordinates…
The Digital Backbone: Bridging the Manufacturing Expertise Gap with Prescriptive AI
The manufacturing sector is currently facing an existential challenge: the “brain drain.” With approximately 30% of the workforce nearing retirement, the industry…
The New Skills Gap: What’s at Stake in the Global Chip Race
Employer-educator partnerships are key to overcoming the semiconductor talent shortage, accelerating innovation, and maintaining economic competitiveness. Fabrication labs, known as…
Energy
Feedstocks, Funding, and the Future: What’s Holding Back Industrial Decarbonization
In plants that run around the clock — refineries, chemical complexes, cement kilns — the path to lower emissions doesn’t…
How Internet of Things Modernizes Outdated Utility Infrastructure
Connected devices and sensors support automated energy management and delivery, seamless integrations and predictive maintenance.It’s no secret that much of…
AI in Energy: Why Progress Depends on People and Structure
When you talk with energy executives today, there’s no longer a debate about whether artificial intelligence belongs in operations. The…
Smart Cities & Infrastructure
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…
$175K in Non-Equity Funding to Scale Urban Resilience Solutions Globally
As climate change accelerates the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, cities around the world are facing mounting pressure to…
Cybersecurity & ICS
The Shop Floor Is Still the Weakest Link in Industrial Cybersecurity
Why modern factories remain dangerously exposedManufacturers invest heavily in IT security, cloud controls, and compliance frameworks. Yet once you step…
January 2026 Industrial IoT & ICS Cybersecurity Events
New year, new budgets, and a fresh slate of industrial priorities—secure connectivity, resilient operations, and scalable modernization. January 2026 offers…
Secure-by-Design Manufacturing: Why Compliance Is the Next Competitive Edge
Digital transformation has turned factories into networks of connected assets, data flows, and intelligent systems. But every new connection expands…