A predictive maintenance system flags that a motor will fail in three weeks. What happens next usually involves three to four people, spans up to two weeks, and touches the CMMS, ERP, workforce scheduling, and production…
Agentic AI will bring thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of AI agents to the factory floor. Every one of them will need data, and not all data. Agents do not perform well when exposed to massive…
Software-defined automation moves control logic from dedicated PLCs onto industrial PCs and standard server hardware, while the physical equipment, inputs/outputs, drives, and motors, stays on the shop floor. Engineering changes too, from predefined toolchains with fixed…
At an IIoT World Energy Day 2026 panel on scalable edge solutions for modern grids, Andrew Foster of IOTech Systems, Cody Falcon of ABB, Brenna Wood of EDF Power Solutions North America, and Janko Isidorovic of…
Most manufacturers face the same starting point: brownfield operations with equipment from multiple vendors and departments that work toward different objectives. The scope of what needs connecting creates enough resistance that many companies never take the…
At an IIoT World Manufacturing Day panel on data sovereignty and industrial AI, Peter Sorowka of Cybus and leaders from MaibornWolff, SCHUNK, and Schwarz Digits outlined how competitive advantage in manufacturing is forming well before AI…
ABB resolves 80% of measurement device faults through an AI copilot, without a support call. HighByte compressed Alcon's one-year plant-wide digital transformation to less than one month. InfluxData and Litmus take manufacturers from three sites to…
During the "Edge AI: Driving Smarter Machine Health Monitoring for Energy Infrastructure" panel at IIoT World Energy Day 2026, poll results showed that most energy operators are just beginning to explore AI for asset monitoring. Some…
Anthony Vigliotti, Chief Product Officer at Adlib, identifies a foundational distinction in enterprise AI that most industrial organizations have not yet fully reckoned with. In brownfield manufacturing and regulated industrial operations, the cost of that gap…
Factories generate massive volumes of time series data from every sensor, controller, and production line, but many manufacturers reduce the fidelity of that data or discard it entirely because their existing infrastructure makes retention too expensive…
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…