David Reger, founder and CEO of Neura Robotics, stood next to a 4NE1 Mini humanoid robot at the AWS booth during Hannover Messe 2026 and laid out the math: China, Japan, and Europe together face a deficit of 101 million workers by 2030. His company’s answer is a line of cognitive humanoid robots built to […]
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The convergence of IT and OT networks across manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure has brought industrial control systems (ICS) into direct contact with the same threat actors targeting enterprise IT. This IIoT World analysis covers the seven trends and frameworks shaping ICS/OT cybersecurity in 2026, from AI-powered threats to Zero Trust architectures. Threat actors now […]
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May 2026 brings 14 industrial AI, IoT, and energy conferences across 6 countries, anchored by SPS Italia (May 26-28, Parma) and the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo (May 4-6, Orlando). Manufacturing and supply chain events span from Orlando to Dublin to Munich. Energy and digital twin conferences convene in Houston and Milan. IIoT World hosts AI […]
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The industrial manufacturing sector is operating in an era of persistent volatility. To maintain global competitiveness,organizations are increasingly turning to the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). According to recent research from IDC: “71% use AIoT for predictive maintenance. Predictive maintenance is the most widely adopted use case across industries.” The financial return is undeniable. Organizations that deeply employ AI in […]
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Energy Tech Summit – top energy tech industry event in Europe returns to Bilbao, Spain on April 15-16, gathering over 1,500 attendees and 100+ speakers from over 50 countries to tackle the challenges, opportunities and policies for pushing the energy transition forward. Hosted by Contrarian Ventures with a main partner BBVA and supported by the Government […]
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For manufacturing leadership, every capital request comes with a projection: a return on investment, a payback period, a net present value. These metrics are designed to filter good bets from bad. But there is a new, critical filter emerging in the era of artificial intelligence, and it has nothing to do with financial modeling. It […]
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Before an energy company can use artificial intelligence to predict a pipeline fault or optimize a drilling schedule, it must solve a physical problem. The industry’s most valuable data isn’t in the cloud; it’s in filing cabinets, on shared drives, and in the handwritten logs of technicians nearing retirement. This legacy knowledge, decades of inspections, […]
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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 pillars: Agentic AI, Unified Namespaces (UNS), and Industrial DataOps.While these three form the structural “backbone,” a total of six […]
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A fundamental change in expectations is reshaping how manufacturers evaluate artificial intelligence systems. The long-standing benchmark of 80% accuracy in document processing is no longer acceptable. In the context of AI-driven product and supply-chain decisions, this level of performance constitutes failure. When two out of every ten data points extracted from a critical document—such as […]
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A decisive shift is underway for manufacturers implementing artificial intelligence. The focus is moving from the selection of large language models to the systems that prepare data for them. The accuracy and trustworthiness of any AI-driven decision—from supply chain logistics to predictive maintenance—are determined long before a query reaches an LLM. They are determined by […]
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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 automatic resilience. AI doesn’t replace judgment — it augments it Procter & Gamble’s Jamie McIntyre Horstman explained that machine […]
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Industrial organizations are no strangers to transformation. While technology has long been a catalyst for progress, the accelerating speed and complexity of change means that tools alone can no longer deliver a lasting competitive advantage. The real differentiator of organizational success now lies in how people, processes, and platforms come together to create lasting value.The […]
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