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…
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…
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 agents in manufacturing can now negotiate trade-offs between energy use, uptime, and quality in real time, without human intervention. According to Technology Advisor Omid Givehchi of ATELIC, this approach, called intelligent autonomy, keeps humans in…
On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, IIoT World will host AI Frontiers 2025: Driving the Next Revolution in Smart Manufacturing, a free online event bringing together global leaders in AI, industrial data, IIoT, and digital transformation. This one-day virtual conference…
The manufacturing skills gap continues to grow. Rather than viewing AI as a wholesale replacement for human labor, forward-thinking manufacturers are deploying it as a skill multiplier , amplifying the expertise of existing workers so that…
Most conversations about AI in manufacturing focus on algorithms, data pipelines, and compute infrastructure, but the evidence increasingly points to a different success factor: leadership. According to industry research, over 70% of AI pilot projects in…
Manufacturing faces a widening AI readiness gap: AI capability is doubling every 3.5 months, a 100x improvement in a single year, according to data cited during an IIoT World panel session. Yet industrial adoption remains slow…
You can tell something's shifting in manufacturing—not by the headlines, but by the way small teams are solving problems that used to be ignored. At IIoT World’s Manufacturing Day in May 2025, a group of founders…
Interview with Andreas Dick, Member of the Board for Production & Logistics at Škoda Auto Škoda Auto, a Volkswagen Group brand, was founded in 1895—making it one of the oldest car manufacturers still in operation today.…
At the MES & Industry 4.0 Summit in Porto, May Yap, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Jabil, offered a clear message for manufacturers navigating global digital transformation: technology isn’t the hard part—alignment is. Across…
Traditional Manufacturing Execution Systems were designed for a world where data flowed in one direction, from the shop floor up to enterprise dashboards, in batch intervals measured in minutes or hours. That architecture cannot support the…