As industrial enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI, automation, and sustainability mandates, a new leadership role is emerging to align technology investments with organizational mission: the Chief Purpose Officer. In this IIoT World guide, we explore why forward-thinking manufacturers, energy companies, and infrastructure operators are creating this executive position, what responsibilities it encompasses, and how […]
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Walk any modern plant floor, and you’ll see the familiar pillars of industry: machines, materials, and people. But a new class of essential worker has emerged, one you cannot see. It doesn’t draw a salary, take a break, or retire. It is the industrial document, and its transformation from a passive record into an active, intelligent […]
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The hidden line between convenience and dependencyManufacturers are adopting more cloud services, partner integrations, and data-driven applications every year. That shift creates a simple but decisive test for data sovereignty: does production continue if a major external service has an outage? If the answer is no, the problem is bigger than data ownership. It becomes an operational […]
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AI-driven decision making in manufacturing delivers measurable results when leadership commitment, operator trust, and incremental scaling align. In a conversation between Alec Glenn of JSW Steel USA and Karthikeyan Natarajan, Co-CEO of Infinite Uptime, concrete outcomes emerged: one tire plant increased output by 15% in a year without adding equipment, another facility achieved a 2.5% […]
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In 2025, manufacturers implemented AI across forecasting, logistics, and supplier risk scoring expecting breakthroughs, but a clear pattern emerged: AI improved awareness and decision support without eliminating uncertainty or delivering automatic resilience. Based on a panel at IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day 2025 featuring Procter & Gamble’s Jamie McIntyre Horstman, Srinivasan Narayanan, and […]
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One of the most persistent barriers to supply chain resilience is not a lack of analytics tools, but reluctance to share data.During IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day in December, speakers discussed how AI is being applied across demand forecasting, supplier risk, and logistics. While AI depends on data, several panelists emphasized that effective […]
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Stale data is more dangerous than downtime in manufacturing because downtime is visible and gets immediate attention, while data decay goes unnoticed. When operators unknowingly act on outdated or incomplete data, quality suffers first, followed by efficiency and safety. At the Honeywell User Group in The Hague, Claudia Chandra, Chief Product Officer at Honeywell, and […]
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Manufacturing plants face a persistent challenge: bridging the gap between monitoring equipment and improving production outcomes. While sensors and dashboards flood facilities with data, most solutions stop at detection, leaving operators to figure out what happens next.Beyond Monitoring: The Prescriptive AdvantageThe evolution from reactive to proactive plant operations requires more than hardware installations. True transformation […]
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This guide covered January 2026 events. For upcoming conferences, see the Industrial AI Events in May 2026: Conference Guide or browse the full IIoT World Events Calendar.New year, new budgets, and a fresh slate of industrial priorities—secure connectivity, resilient operations, and scalable modernization. January 2026 offers a compact and high-impact set of gatherings where Industrial IoT […]
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Industrial organizations are no strangers to transformation. While technology has long been a catalyst for progress, the accelerating speed and complexity of change means that tools alone can no longer deliver a lasting competitive advantage. The real differentiator of organizational success now lies in how people, processes, and platforms come together to create lasting value.The […]
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Industrial intelligence is rapidly becoming the defining competitive advantage for manufacturers, energy providers, and infrastructure operators worldwide. In this IIoT World analysis, we examine what Siemens showcased at CES 2026 and why it signals a turning point for how industrial enterprises adopt AI, digital twins, and data-driven automation. From the factory floor to the power […]
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AI, prescriptive maintenance, and edge analytics are reshaping how process plants run. Yet the gap between a successful pilot and full-scale impact rarely closes on technology alone. The differentiators are culture, operating model, and data foundations.Build versus partner: keep the core, rent the niche Keep in-house: architecture, data governance, cybersecurity, product ownership, and integration with […]
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