Artificial Intelligence
How to Select and Fund AI Use Cases
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…
What GPT-6 Reveals About AI Readiness
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…
Cognitive Data Readiness for AI Agents
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…
What Can AI Agents Do in Supply Chains?
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.…
How NXP Scales Physical AI from Drones to Humanoids
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…
How Does AI Forecast Supply Chain Demand?
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,…
How AI Improves the Work Robots Cannot Automate
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…
AI Vision in Manufacturing Quality Inspection
Cognex reported that Schneider Electric doubled its production yield and eliminated most false rejects after deploying the OneVision AI vision platform across its manufacturing lines. At a 1,200-parts-per-day facility, AI-based inspection saves $342,000 per year compared…
How to Prove AI Value in Manufacturing Operations
Between 80% and 95% of organizations report limited financial value from their AI investments, and only 11% of CFOs have been able to concretely measure return on investment from AI, according to Gartner's 2025 and 2026…
Data Governance Fails Without Culture Change
Only 26% of data governance programs incorporate culture and communication into their strategy, according to the 2025 Gartner Evolution of Data and Analytics Governance for AI Survey of 62 organizations. The majority prioritize trust, risk, security,…
Agentic AI and Physical AI in Manufacturing
The ARC Advisory Group's Industrial AI Pacesetter Report identifies a split in how manufacturers deploy artificial intelligence. Organizations classified as Pacesetters have moved beyond single-agent AI assistants and are deploying Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems where specialized AI…
AI Governance vs Data Governance: Why They Need Opposite Approaches
Only 55% of data and analytics teams rate themselves effective at managing governance policies, the lowest score across 14 capabilities measured in the 2025 Gartner CDAO Agenda Survey. Building analytics solutions scored 85%. The gap shows…