A live poll at the Industrial AI Summit 2026 showed 37% of attendees targeting plant floor maintenance and quality vision inspection as their first or next AI project, while 21% had not yet selected a use case. Benson Chan of Strategy of Things presented a seven-step framework for narrowing a list of 50 or more […]
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra improved from 18% to 41% accuracy on a real workplace task automation benchmark in eight weeks. That 41% still means the model produces more incorrect outputs than correct ones across general tasks. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Maddie Zeng of NeoAI presented a three-capability framework for evaluating what industrial AI systems […]
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NVIDIA‘s Jetson Thor T5000 module delivers up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute. Industrial system builders use it for robotics, factory automation, and medical imaging at the network edge. On September 1, 2026, consumer electronics company UGREEN introduced the MasterAgent MA100, a device management hub built on that same Jetson Thor T5000, combining Arm […]
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One manufacturer ran 100 digitalization initiatives at once. Money left the company before anyone asked which ones produced results. At IIoT World Manufacturing Days 2023, panelists from Siemens, A1 Digital, Mestec, and HiveMQ explained why production directors should own factory digitalization, what causes projects to stall, and how to start.What Happens When IT Leads Factory […]
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Data quality used to be something data scientists handled on their own. The model needed clean inputs, they cleaned them, and the organization moved on. AI agents changed that. They consume data at machine speed, with no human in the loop to fix what’s broken, and 37% of manufacturers polled at a December 2025 IIoT […]
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Ten years ago, P&G tracked truck deliveries by calling every driver. Now an AI agent reschedules warehouse and distribution center appointments without human involvement. Milwaukee Tool is implementing Oracle agents for supply planning, shipping, and maintenance. Three supply chain leaders described these applications at an IIoT World panel in December 2025.Where Do AI Agents Work […]
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A delivery drone and a humanoid robot face the same core challenge: they need to reason, coordinate, and react at three distinct levels simultaneously. NXP Semiconductors’ Neural Access Architecture splits robotic intelligence into cerebral, cerebellum, and reflexive processing layers, each mapped to specific silicon. Presented at NXP Tech Days 2026 in Santa Clara by Ravi […]
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P&G evaluates 20 AI models every day to forecast six weeks of demand for Charmin and Bounty, Jaimie McIntyre Horstman, Director of Demand Forecasting at P&G, told a December 2025 IIoT World panel with Maria Araujo, formerly VP of Innovation Engineering at McCain Foods, and Srinivasan Narayanan, Oracle Solution Delivery Lead at Milwaukee Tool.Which AI […]
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Humans still performed 75 to 80% of tasks in even the most advanced factories, Zeeshan Zia, CEO and Co-Founder of Retrocausal, told a Sustainability Day 2024 panel with Eve Psalti, Senior Director at Microsoft, and Michael Kuehne-Schlinkert, Co-Founder and CEO of Katulu. The panel covered where AI creates value beyond robotics and how to scale […]
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In July 2026, a coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota, prompting the FBI and EPA to issue a broader warning that water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states had reported incidents involving internet-facing PLCs. Attackers changed IP addresses and passwords, and the FBI reported operational […]
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Physical AI systems that interpret sensor telemetry, predict equipment behavior, and trigger automated responses require two data capabilities that traditional historians were not designed to provide: high-resolution historical datasets for model training and continuous real-time telemetry for inference. In a new article, Conrad Chuang of InfluxData identifies four specific gaps between what historians deliver and […]
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Two-thirds of manufacturers now report very or extremely complex product portfolios, a 20-point jump in a single year according to Tacton’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Report, which surveyed 280 leaders across eight countries. That complexity is bleeding revenue: 62% experience moderate to severe margin loss between quote and delivery, and 43% cite customization as the […]
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