Humans still performed 75 to 80% of tasks in even the most advanced factories, Zeeshan Zia, CEO and Co-Founder of Retrocausal, told a Sustainability Day 2024 panel with Eve Psalti, Senior Director at Microsoft, and Michael…
Most plants were built to make products, not to feed AI agents. The operational knowledge that AI needs is locked in formats that were never designed to be searched, structured, or consumed by machines. During a…
The industrial sector is flooded with claims about fully autonomous operations, but for manufacturing executives, separating marketing from operational reality is critical. Despite the billions projected for artificial intelligence this year, the factory floor remains a…
For decades, the promise of the digital factory was simple: more data equals more efficiency. Yet, as discussed at the ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026, many manufacturers find themselves trapped in a productivity paradox. Despite having…
One Avanade client, a global snack food brand, used AI agents to cut inventory by 20%. Another, an electronics manufacturer, recovered $35 million in a year in lost fees. At Hannover Messe 2026, Avanade presented two…
Gil Silva, Partnership, Learning & Development Manager at Coreflux, walked through a live demo at Hannover Messe 2026 where a Raspberry Pi running the company's Language of Things processed factory data, managed energy systems, and communicated…
GlobalLogic built procurement systems that save some clients $5 million a year by modernizing invoicing processes, and contributed to Hitachi Rail's most digitally advanced factory worldwide, a 300,000 ft² facility in Hagerstown, Maryland. "It's time for…
While the industrial world is captivated by the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), a quieter, yet equally transformative, revolution is happening at the industrial edge: the rise of Small Language Models (SLMs). Often overshadowed by…
One of the most persistent barriers to supply chain resilience is not a lack of analytics tools, but reluctance to share data. During IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day in December, speakers discussed how AI…
AI agents embedded directly inside industrial data pipelines, rather than layered on top as analytics, are now operationally viable for manufacturers. At Cognite's 2025 event, SVP Laxmi Akkaraju outlined how this approach delivers autonomous root cause…
Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift in how manufacturers deploy artificial intelligence, moving from passive analytics and dashboards to autonomous agents that perceive, decide, and act within operational workflows. Unlike traditional AI copilots that wait for…
AI copilots in manufacturing embed expert knowledge directly into factory systems, giving operators real-time, human-expert-level diagnostics at the point of decision. According to a white paper published by Arch Systems, one high-volume facility using this approach…