Top Smart Factory Technologies 2026: The Agentic AI and UNS Revolution
The manufacturing industry has reached a critical inflection point. The era of “pilot purgatory” is over. Based on the insights from IIoT World Days 2025, the next phase of industrial transformation is defined by three core…
2026 Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem: 27 Platforms for Industrial AI
The manufacturing sector is currently navigating a massive transition from static dashboards to Agentic AI, systems that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously. However, as highlighted by industry leaders during the sessions and discussions at IIoT…
2026 Industrial AI Trends: Driving Global Manufacturing with Agentic Systems
Agentic AI in 2026 refers to systems designed to understand complex goals, create multi-step plans, and execute actions across multiple applications, with human oversight but without constant human intervention. Unlike traditional machine learning models that predict…
15 Real-World AI in Manufacturing Use Cases: From Predictive Maintenance to Agentic AI
The industrial sector is accelerating the adoption of practical, high-impact AI applications. Based on insights from IIoT World Days 2025, industry leaders focus on scaling these technologies across global operations. From Agentic AI that autonomously manages supply chains to Computer…
Cognitive Robotics Market: The Prudent Transformation Towards Operational Intelligence
Traditional robotics were remarkable in doing one repetitive task, which helped industries to augment efficiency. But now they are not just a bulky machine configured for uniform tasks; rather they perform their task with utmost precision…
February 2026 Industrial AI/IoT & ICS Cybersecurity Events
February 2026 brings together a strong lineup of global events focused on Industrial AI/IoT, Operational Technology (OT), and ICS cybersecurity. From smart manufacturing and utility modernization to AI-driven connectivity and critical infrastructure security, these conferences and expos…
Embracing AI-Driven Decision Making in Manufacturing
When people talk about AI in manufacturing, the conversation often jumps straight to results. But in a recent interview with Alec Glenn of JSW Steel USA and Karthikeyan Natarajan of Infinite Uptime, we decided to get…
What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025
In 2025, many manufacturers implemented artificial intelligence across forecasting, logistics, and supplier risk scoring, expecting breakthroughs. By year-end, though, a pattern had emerged: AI improved awareness and decision support, but it did not eliminate uncertainty or deliver…
AI May Be Ready for Manufacturing. But Is Manufacturing Ready for AI?
For the past few years, manufacturers have heard the same message on repeat: AI is ready for industry. But a quieter question is now being asked inside control rooms and boardrooms alike — is industry ready for AI?At…
The AI Scaling Problem Nobody’s Solving: Why 140 Applications Delivered Zero Scale
Jason Schern, Field CTO at Cognite, reveals the uncomfortable truth about industrial AI: companies are building solutions that can’t scale beyond a single site, and it’s killing their ROI.The 140-to-Zero ProblemDuring a recent audit, a large…