Manufacturers have spent ten to twenty years installing sensors and connecting machines. The data flows, but it rarely reaches AI. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Jonathan Alexander of Albemarle Corporation, Peter Sorowka of Cybus, and…
This is the final part of three articles based on unanswered audience questions from the "From Data Streaming to Autonomous Action" session at the Industrial AI Summit 2026. Parts one and two covered context foundations and…
This is part two of three articles based on unanswered audience questions from the "From Data Streaming to Autonomous Action" session at the Industrial AI Summit 2026. Where part one covered the data and context foundations,…
At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, attendees asked questions about supplying context to industrial AI agents that the panel did not have time to answer live. Peter Sorowka, CEO of Cybus, provided answers covering how factories…
A cement manufacturer using AI to optimize a flame that changes in fractions of seconds cannot wait for data to travel to a cloud server and back. This gap was a key topic covered at the…
MQTT can connect the data. But scaling a Unified Namespace across plants requires shared structures, clear ownership and governance across IT and OT. There is no universal standard for the Unified Namespace. But without an internal…
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…
Manufacturing knowledge is fragmented and mostly unused European manufacturers collectively hold decades of deep production knowledge: how materials behave, how machines are tuned, how quality issues emerge, how processes fail and recover. Yet this knowledge remains…
Why Manufacturers Can’t Scale Digital Innovation Without Internal Data Governance The real blocker isn’t technology, it’s trust Manufacturers often agree that wider data sharing across plants, partners, and supply chains is necessary to stay competitive. The…
Why modern factories remain dangerously exposed IIoT World covers industrial cybersecurity risks at the shop floor level through practitioner articles and ICS Cybersecurity Day on October 14, 2026. Manufacturers invest heavily in IT security, cloud controls,…
Why access to machine data is becoming a strategic issue For years, many manufacturers operated with limited access to the data generated by their own machines. Interfaces were proprietary, extraction was restricted, and meaningful reuse often…
The hidden line between convenience and dependency Manufacturers are adopting more cloud services, partner integrations, and data-driven applications every year. That shift creates a simple but decisive test for data sovereignty: does production continue if a major…