Industrial environments have been built one use case at a time, leaving most large manufacturers with fragmented IT and OT infrastructure. A manufacturer with 10 sites might run four different home-grown MES platforms, three different ERPs, and entirely custom data connections between them. As organizations deploy artificial intelligence, that absence of standardized data architecture has […]
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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 amounts. They need focused, usable data scoped to their task. So, how much should manufacturers let them do without […]
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ABB resolves 80% of measurement device faults through an AI copilot, without a support call. HighByte compressed Alcon’s one-year plant-wide digital transformation to less than one month. InfluxData and Litmus take manufacturers from three sites to 300, with positive ROI in 60 to 90 days. Cybus reports 9% less downtime and 23% lower cloud costs […]
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For two decades, manufacturers have tried to make analytics, machine learning, and AI work with industrial data, and for most of that time the bottleneck had nothing to do with the technology itself. It was the data layer. This IIoT World article, based on a pre-Hannover Messe 2026 interview with Torey Penrod-Cambra (VP Marketing, HighByte), […]
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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 this volume, and manufacturers need to rethink their data infrastructure before scaling AI agents. IDC reports that 56.6% of […]
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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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Life sciences manufacturers operate in environments where innovation and compliance must coexist. But how is that possible in practice, and what use cases are emerging across the industry?In a recent webinar hosted by IIoT World, “Adapting GxP Operations for Modern Compliance with Regeneron,” industry leaders explored how regulated manufacturers can modernize operations, adopt new technologies, and maintain […]
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Modern manufacturers face a paradox: despite generating more data than ever, as much as 80–95% of valuable operational data remains unused. The result? Missed opportunities, fragmented visibility, and stalled digital transformation efforts.Our new executive booklet, based on the expert panel “The Connected Factory Playbook: Actionable Insights for C-Level Manufacturing Leaders,” delivers critical insights for manufacturing leaders looking to […]
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The convergence of edge AI and centralized intelligence hubs is creating a new operational architecture for manufacturers seeking real-time decision-making without sacrificing data governance or scalability. In this article, IIoT World examines how pairing local inference at the machine level with a cloud or on-premises intelligence hub delivers the best of both worlds: sub-millisecond response […]
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Industrial AI initiatives fail far more often from poor data foundations than from flawed algorithms. For C-level leaders overseeing digital transformation, the strategic question is not which AI platform to buy but whether their organization’s data architecture can support the models they plan to deploy. In this IIoT World guide, we explore why industrial data […]
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At Hannover Messe 2025, John Harrington of HighByte offered a timely reminder: as AI races ahead in the industrial sector, the infrastructure supporting it—specifically, DataOps—needs to keep up.While AI dominates the headlines, its power is fundamentally limited without access to the right data. Harrington put it bluntly: “Data is the oxygen for AI.” But not just any data—clean, […]
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What does it take to make digital transformation stick—beyond pilots, platforms, and buzzwords?At Hannover Messe 2025, the conversation around industrial transformation reached a new level of clarity—and urgency. From AI and agentic automation to modular MES platforms and resilient supply chains, one message was consistent: transformation is no longer a long-term goal. It’s a right-now […]
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