Top Smart Factory Technologies 2026: The Agentic AI and UNS Revolution
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

Top Smart Factory Technologies 2026: The Agentic AI and UNS Revolution

The manufacturing industry has reached a critical inflection point. The era of “pilot purgatory” is over. Based on the insights from IIoT World Days 2025, the next phase of industrial transformation is defined by three core pillars: Agentic AI, Unified Namespaces (UNS), and Industrial DataOps.While these three form the structural “backbone,” a total of six […]

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How Data is Rebuilding Manufacturing from the Edge Up
· Discrete Manufacturing

How Data is Rebuilding Manufacturing from the Edge Up

An industry conversation with Pugal Janakiraman, Global Manufacturing CTO at Snowflake, and Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. Manufacturing’s Data Mindset Is ChangingManufacturers have long relied on data to understand what went wrong—after the fact. When a production line stalled, or equipment failed, teams scrambled to gather scattered information to trace the root cause. That reactive model […]

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Real-Time Industrial Data: Why Architecture, Not Hype, Determines Success
· Discrete Manufacturing

Real-Time Industrial Data: Why Architecture, Not Hype, Determines Success

At Hannover Messe 2025, a compelling conversation unfolded between HiveMQ and Snowflake leadership on a topic often underestimated in industrial transformation: data movement architecture. Behind all the talk of AI, analytics, and predictive insights lies a more foundational challenge—how to reliably, securely, and cost-effectively get data from machines to the cloud in real-time.For industrial companies […]

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