As physical AI moves from conference-stage ambition into real industrial experimentation, the infrastructure question is becoming harder to ignore. Robots, humanoids, autonomous systems and industrial AI workloads do not just need more compute. They need faster…
July 2026 features 17 industrial conferences across 7 countries, with physical AI emerging as a standalone conference category through MACHINA in Paris and AUTONOMOUS in San Francisco. The Farnborough International Airshow (July 20-24) returns with 1,400+…
Agentic AI will bring thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of AI agents to the factory floor. Every one of them will need data, and not all data. Agents do not perform well when exposed to massive…
Most manufacturers face the same starting point: brownfield operations with equipment from multiple vendors and departments that work toward different objectives. The scope of what needs connecting creates enough resistance that many companies never take the…
At an IIoT World Manufacturing Day panel on data sovereignty and industrial AI, Peter Sorowka of Cybus and leaders from MaibornWolff, SCHUNK, and Schwarz Digits outlined how competitive advantage in manufacturing is forming well before AI…
Georgia-Pacific saved up to $1 million per machine using machine learning for condition-based predictive monitoring on AWS. At Hannover Messe 2026, Steven Blackwell of AWS described how cloud infrastructure helps manufacturers transform across the whole value…
If the 2026 mandate for manufacturers is the synchronization of physical goods, digital data, and human intelligence, the immediate challenge is execution. While the vision of "Liquid Computing" sets the stage, the transition to a zero-defect floor…
Choosing the right 5G network architecture is one of the most consequential connectivity decisions a manufacturer can make. Private 5G offers dedicated spectrum and ultra-low latency for mission-critical automation; public 5G provides broad coverage with minimal…
Someone responsible solely for operating a CNC machine or an extruder can now generate a production-ready application through a prompt. In this IIoT World interview recorded with Lucian Fogoros at Hannover Messe 2026, Peter Sorowka (CEO,…
Most factory data architectures today serve between 10 and 50 consuming systems. Agentic AI will push that number into the thousands, a 100x increase in edge-based data consumers. The ISA-95 layer-by-layer model was not designed for…
In 2026, the primary barrier to manufacturing efficiency is the abundance of data. Modern plants now monitor tens of thousands of assets and hundreds of thousands of individual points. However, this connectivity has created a new…
The data challenge facing energy operations today Power grids, renewable energy sites, battery storage facilities, substations, and smart meter networks generate millions of time-stamped data points every second. This telemetry from sensors, SCADA systems, and field…