Most manufacturers face the same starting point: brownfield operations with equipment from multiple vendors and departments that work toward different objectives. The scope of what needs connecting creates enough resistance that many companies never take the…
One Avanade client, a global snack food brand, used AI agents to cut inventory by 20%. Another, an electronics manufacturer, recovered $35 million in a year in lost fees. At Hannover Messe 2026, Avanade presented two…
Factories generate massive volumes of time series data from every sensor, controller, and production line, but many manufacturers reduce the fidelity of that data or discard it entirely because their existing infrastructure makes retention too expensive…
Gil Silva, Partnership, Learning & Development Manager at Coreflux, walked through a live demo at Hannover Messe 2026 where a Raspberry Pi running the company's Language of Things processed factory data, managed energy systems, and communicated…
Georgia-Pacific saved up to $1 million per machine using machine learning for condition-based predictive monitoring on AWS. At Hannover Messe 2026, Steven Blackwell of AWS described how cloud infrastructure helps manufacturers transform across the whole value…
GlobalLogic built procurement systems that save some clients $5 million a year by modernizing invoicing processes, and contributed to Hitachi Rail's most digitally advanced factory worldwide, a 300,000 ft² facility in Hagerstown, Maryland. "It's time for…
David Reger, founder and CEO of Neura Robotics, stood next to a 4NE1 Mini humanoid robot at the AWS booth during Hannover Messe 2026 and laid out the math: China, Japan, and Europe together face a…
Every machine vibrates differently, and sensor placement on a machine can make or break the data quality. This IIoT World article is based on a video interview recorded at Hannover Messe 2026 with Julien Romala (Application…
Choosing the right 5G network architecture is one of the most consequential connectivity decisions a manufacturer can make. Private 5G offers dedicated spectrum and ultra-low latency for mission-critical automation; public 5G provides broad coverage with minimal…
A Gatorade bottling line at a FIFA World Cup stadium, producing on site instead of shipping from a central plant, with flavors adjusted by region and Doctor Pepper for the Texas crowd. In this IIoT World…
Someone responsible solely for operating a CNC machine or an extruder can now generate a production-ready application through a prompt. In this IIoT World interview recorded with Lucian Fogoros at Hannover Messe 2026, Peter Sorowka (CEO,…
When agentic AI can write attack code and deploy it autonomously, securing OT networks requires removing the inbound attack surface entirely. At Hannover Messe 2026, Skkynet CEO Gary Tillery describes how the company's outbound-only architecture does…