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Articles tagged as Industrial AI Summit 2026

Outcome as a Service for Manufacturing

The Rolls-Royce engine on most commercial aircraft is not owned by the airline. It is rented by air miles flown. Siemens won a train contract by guaranteeing it could move one million passengers between Cologne and…

What AI Must Prove Before Operators Act

Seventy-two percent of manufacturers have adopted AI in some form, but only 10% have deployed it at scale, according to Parsec's 2026 State of the Manufacturing Industry Report. The governance gap is even wider: Grant Thornton's…

Standards and Controls for AI in Operational Technology

No single standard covers AI in manufacturing, and if one phishing click can reach OT, the architecture is already broken. Gary Tillery of Skkynet and Matt Morris of EverLine answer audience questions on the specific standards…

Governing AI Agents in Operational Technology Cybersecurity

Boards make OT risk decisions they do not know they are making. AI agents change behavior with every model upgrade and carry no personal accountability. The most likely AI failure in OT involves no adversary, just…

Why Predictive Maintenance Lost Its Top Spot

Most predictive maintenance implementations stopped at anomaly detection, flagging that something seemed wrong without identifying what or when. Boris Scharinger of Siemens, author of Industrial AI: From Pilot to Profit, and Karthikeyan Natarajan of Infinite Uptime…

Edge Security and Lab-to-Factory AI

How should the edge be designed for security when AI applications interact with industrial control systems? Should university-industry projects follow product implementation discipline? Denis Leite, Director of Digital Transformation at Mekatronik, answers these audience questions from…

Why Factory Data Never Reaches AI

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…

What Industrial AI Controls Today

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…