Before an energy company can use artificial intelligence to predict a pipeline fault or optimize a drilling schedule, it must solve a physical problem. The industry’s most valuable data isn’t in the cloud; it’s in filing cabinets, on shared drives, and in the handwritten logs of technicians nearing retirement. This legacy knowledge, decades of inspections, […]
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As manufacturing moves toward 2026, the landscape of predictive maintenance is shifting from simple condition monitoring to “Agentic AI”, systems that don’t just alert you, but autonomously plan and execute multi-step resolutions. This evolution requires a robust data backbone to succeed.The following 10 platforms, highlighted in IIoT World Days 2025 panel discussions, represent the specialized […]
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As manufacturers face volatile energy costs and aggressive decarbonization targets, the focus for 2026 is shifting from passive monitoring to active grid interaction. The following 10 platforms and technologies were highlighted by industry leaders during IIoT World Days 2025 as critical for optimizing energy consumption, stabilizing smart grids, and monetizing distributed assets. Toshiba (Virtual Power Plants) […]
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Executive Summary: The Industrial AI State of Play 2026The ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026 revealed a definitive structural divide in the industrial sector. While 12.9% of “Pacesetters” have successfully scaled AI by decoupling intelligence from hardware via Industrial Data Fabrics (IDF), the remaining 87% struggle with basic connectivity and “pilot purgatory.”Top 3 Actionable Insights: From Assistance to Agency: Industrial AI has evolved from […]
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Machines and software are everywhere. The next competitive edge no longer comes from owning more of them — it comes from connecting, learning, and evolving faster than the competition. For manufacturers, the challenge is no longer adopting technology but turning it into a measurable, repeatable advantage.From Efficiency to IntelligenceTechnology is rewriting the rules of manufacturing […]
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The manufacturing sector faces a persistent tension: should organizations build all digital capabilities in-house or leverage external partners? The answer, increasingly, is neither—it’s both, strategically combined.The Cost of Doing Everything YourselfMany industrial leaders assume that maintaining complete control over digital transformation requires building every capability internally. This approach creates hidden costs that compound over time. […]
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Across the industrial sector, many companies launch promising IIoT pilots. Yet only a fraction of them manage to expand those proof-of-concepts into enterprise-wide deployments. The difference isn’t usually about ambition—it’s about execution. At AI Frontiers 2025, our speakers explored this very challenge, outlining what separates pilots that fizzle from those that successfully scale.Data Foundations FirstScalable […]
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Industrial companies produce more machine data than ever before. Sensors, connected equipment, and automated systems generate terabytes of raw data every single day. Yet, most of this information never translates into measurable value. It either sits unused in data lakes or overwhelms networks and cloud storage with its sheer volume.The result is that this vast […]
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When you talk with energy executives today, there’s no longer a debate about whether artificial intelligence belongs in operations. The question has shifted to how to make it work.Natalia Klafke, Executive Vice President of Energy & Sustainability at Radix, has spent over a decade helping energy companies modernize complex operations. At Impact 2025, she noted a clear […]
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During AI Frontiers 2025, participants raised important questions about the growing role of agentic AI in manufacturing—covering topics such as regulation, interoperability, and the management of autonomous systems. While we did not have enough time to address all the questions during the live session, Peter Sorowka, CEO of Cybus, offers in this article a practical direction for […]
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At Cognite’s 2025 event, Laxmi Akkaraju, SVP Global Services and Solutions, Cognite, spotlighted a new paradigm in industrial AI: agents embedded directly into data workflows, not merely layered on top as analytics. For manufacturers, this shift promises to unlock decisions and use cases that were previously difficult to operationalize reliably — and to do so with […]
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For years, AI in energy meant better dashboards, faster analytics, and smarter reports. Useful — but limited. Now, something more important is happening: AI is moving from describing what happened to deciding what to do next.This shift is already reshaping how operators, engineers, and managers run critical energy systems. It’s not hype — it’s a practical […]
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