Embracing AI-Driven Decision Making in Manufacturing
· Artificial Intelligence

Embracing AI-Driven Decision Making in Manufacturing

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 emerged: one tire plant increased output by 15% in a year without adding equipment, another facility achieved a 2.5% […]

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What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025
· Artificial Intelligence

What Manufacturing Leaders Misjudged About AI in 2025

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 at IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day 2025 featuring Procter & Gamble’s Jamie McIntyre Horstman, Srinivasan Narayanan, and […]

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AI May Be Ready for Manufacturing. But Is Manufacturing Ready for AI?
· Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Ready for Manufacturing. But Is Manufacturing Ready for AI?

For the past few years, manufacturers have heard the same message on repeat: AI is ready for industry. But a quieter question is now being asked inside control rooms and boardrooms alike — is industry ready for AI?At this year’s Honeywell User Group in The Hague, that question came into focus. Beneath the enthusiasm around artificial intelligence […]

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The Most Effective Strategies for Integrating Agentic AI Into Legacy Manufacturing Environments Without a Full Overhaul
· Hybrid Manufacturing

The Most Effective Strategies for Integrating Agentic AI Into Legacy Manufacturing Environments Without a Full Overhaul

Answering the audience’s questionsIntegrating agentic AI into legacy manufacturing does not require replacing existing infrastructure. Panelists from Litmus, ZF Group, CESMII, and Arch Systems at AI Frontiers 2025 outlined a practical six-part approach: free trapped data, add semantic context through ontologies, respect brownfield reality using interface classes, target repetitive tasks nobody wants to do, start […]

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