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 Kuehne-Schlinkert, Co-Founder and CEO of Katulu. The panel covered where AI creates value beyond robotics and how to scale […]
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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 session at IIoT World’s AI Manufacturing Day 2026, Chris Huff and Anthony Vigliotti of Adlib Software, alongside Mathias Oppelt of […]
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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 complex, physical environment that does not easily bend to software trends. Only 20% to 25% of manufacturers have reached […]
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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 more sensors and dashboards than ever, teams are spending more time reconciling information than building products.To break this cycle, […]
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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 demos in the Microsoft booth, co-branded with clients Nissha Metallizing Solutions and Kruger, showing how AI agents embedded in […]
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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 with machines in real time. The Porto-based startup has built a system that lets someone automate a factory floor […]
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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 return on investment,” said Roxana Moldovan, Director Industrial BU EMEA at GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, in a conversation […]
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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 their larger counterparts, SLMs are proving to be the pragmatic, specialized AI tools manufacturers actually need for specific, resource-constrained […]
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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 is being applied across demand forecasting, supplier risk, and logistics. While AI depends on data, several panelists emphasized that effective […]
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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 analysis, transparent reasoning, and drift-aware model governance across OT and IT systems.Here are the key takeaways and what they […]
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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 human prompts, agentic systems can independently monitor production lines, adjust process parameters, negotiate with supply chain partners, and escalate […]
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Every factory depends on expertise — the intuition of a technician who can hear when a nozzle is misaligned, or the experience of an engineer who can trace yield loss back to a single feeder. But that expertise is disappearing fast, even as machines generate more diagnostic data than ever before.This new white paper, GenAI, Operational […]
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