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May 25, 2026 · Smart Manufacturing

The AI Problem Manufacturers Keep Misdiagnosing

An OEE analytics application that took 12 weeks and a team of developers to build a year ago can now be generated in minutes. Snowflake’s Cortex AI accepts a prompt describing the industry vertical, target use case, and boundary conditions, and produces a working solution. For manufacturers sitting on thousands of plant-floor use cases that […]

October 9, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Building the Data Foundations for Agentic AI in Manufacturing

Agentic AI in manufacturing requires unified, low-latency data access across ERP, MES, and historian systems. According to Peter Sorowka of Cybus GmbH and Sebastian Trolli of Frost & Sullivan, data silos, missing metadata, and inconsistent architectures are the primary barriers stopping autonomous AI agents from acting reliably on the factory floor.Should Agentic AI Use a […]