IIoT World’s sixth annual Industrial Data and AI Readiness Survey is open. Last year, 272 industrial professionals across manufacturing, energy, pharma, and oil and gas responded. Only 7% had AI embedded in core processes, while 44% expected to reach that level within three years. The 2027 edition measures whether the industry has narrowed that distance.The […]
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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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The industrial landscape of 2026 has evolved beyond “growth at all costs” to a focus on technological survival. As we navigate a sluggish business cycle, rising power costs, and a staggering labor gap of 425,000 workers, automation is a macroeconomic necessity. According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), 86% of employers now view AI, machine […]
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