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
IIoT World analyzed the defining industrial AI trends shaping manufacturing in 2026, based on conference sessions, expert interviews, and deployment data from companies including Suzano, Danfoss, and C3 AI. Agentic AI in 2026 refers to systems…
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
This guide covered February 2026 events. For upcoming conferences, see the Industrial AI Events in May 2026: Conference Guide or browse the full IIoT World Events Calendar.February 2026 brings together a strong lineup of global events…
Embracing AI-Driven Decision Making in Manufacturing
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…
What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025
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…
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
An upstream oil company in Asia built 140 AI applications across 11 offshore assets. Every application was critical to operations. None of them scaled beyond the site where it was built. Jason Schern, Field CTO at…
From Predictive to Proactive: Key Takeaways from Cognite’s Impact 2025
How Industrial AI Is Transforming Operations, Workforce, and Decision-Making at ScaleCognite’s Impact 2025 made one thing clear: the era of reactive operations is over. Across both days, the narrative centered on proactive intelligence, powered by industrial…
Building Trust in Autonomous AI for High-Stakes Manufacturing
When factories run on thin margins and even a few minutes of downtime can cost millions, the conversation about autonomous AI shifts from can we to should we. At the “Agentic AI in Manufacturing: From Copilots to Autonomous Systems”…