The New Industrial Internet of Things & Cybersecurity startups are popping up daily and it is easy to understand why. Who would not want to be part of the next big sensation and secure or take their piece of the IoT pie, which some market research companies estimate to far exceed $6 trillion in less than 10 […]
Read more →IHS Markit manufacturing technology experts representing a variety of industrial segments provide their predictions on what the 7 biggest trends and developments will be for the market in 2017. These are: Global market to grow despite headwinds Remote cloud-based analytics to shift to local and edge computing Industrial automation to become more influential in outsourced […]
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The OpenFog Consortium announces the release of the OpenFog Reference Architecture, a universal technical framework designed to enable the data-intensive requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The RA marks a significant first step toward creating the standards necessary to enable high-performance, interoperability and security in complex digital transactions.Fog […]
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Tesla’s Optimus program holds an estimated 1,000 to 1,200 humanoid robot units deployed across Fremont and Giga Texas as of mid-2026, yet the company reports zero external sales, publishes no uptime figures, and Musk himself described those units on the Q4 2025 earnings call as “primarily for learning and data collection rather than performing productive […]
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Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Design Studio Copilot now runs Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a 9-billion-parameter open-source model from NVIDIA, directly on HMI panels and air-gapped edge appliances on factory floors. Siemens expects its Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany to become the first fully AI-driven adaptive manufacturing site in 2026, built on a joint platform with NVIDIA that delivered a […]
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This article is part of an awareness campaign. Editorially Independent, Sponsored by TDK SensEI.Manufacturers testing AI agents for maintenance face a dependency most teams overlook: the agent is only as reliable as the prediction feeding it. When a diagnostic agent pulls machine manuals, checks parts inventory, and schedules a technician based on a false alarm, […]
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AGIBOT’s G2 completed 140 continuous hours on a Longcheer Technology consumer electronics production line with a 99.9% success rate. Agility Robotics’ Digit handles bearing components at Schaeffler’s South Carolina factory and has accumulated over 65,000 operating hours across customer facilities, with more than $300 million in multi-year Digit v5 orders. UBTECH’s Walker S2 has orders […]
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This is Part 2 of a four-part series. Part 1 covered the workforce crisis and market forces driving industrial remote work. Part 3 covers human costs, regulatory compliance, and recommendations. Part 4 covers critical perspectives, the conclusion, and the full FAQ.From Passive Monitoring to Proactive IntelligencePart 1 of this series showed that workforce scarcity, not technology […]
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When an AI system recommends a quality action and the recommendation turns out to be wrong, the model does not carry the production loss, answer to the customer, sign the quality record, or explain the safety event. The people who relied on that recommendation do. And as AI moves beyond answering questions toward routing supplier […]
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According to an IDC InfoBrief, 82% of companies experienced at least one unplanned outage over the past three years, with an average cost of $2 million per event. Among heavy IIoT adopters, 63% report productivity and competitiveness gains, and 54% anticipate cost savings from connected asset strategies. Among the sponsors of the 30th Annual ARC […]
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Sensors, cloud infrastructure, and algorithms keep improving, but the hardest input to capture for any manufacturing AI system is the knowledge held by a maintenance engineer who has been watching, listening to, and repairing the same equipment for 15 years. That engineer knows which vibration pattern means a bearing is failing versus which one is […]
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Most manufacturers know they need to start with AI. The common advice, “start small” with a use case, prove value, and scale, is incomplete on its own. Starting small without first thinking big leads to a collection of disconnected experiments that never compound into enterprise capability.At IIoT World’s AI Manufacturing Day 2026, a panel featuring […]
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