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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The Evolution of Reliability: How Agentic AI Closes the ‘Detect-to-Do’ Gap
· Hybrid Manufacturing

The Evolution of Reliability: How Agentic AI Closes the ‘Detect-to-Do’ Gap

Agentic AI moves industrial maintenance beyond simple alerts into autonomous execution. While standard predictive maintenance forecasts failures, Agentic AI coordinates the entire resolution process, querying inventory (CMMS), scheduling downtime (MES), and drafting work orders without manual intervention.At IIoT World, we have tracked the maturity of Predictive Maintenance (PdM) from its early sensor-based roots to today’s advanced analytics. The global […]

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Industry 4.0 project stuck in pilot? Tackle these 5 roadblocks
· Hybrid Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 project stuck in pilot? Tackle these 5 roadblocks

Maybe you’re tired of hearing about Industry 4.0, but we’re just now getting to the good part. Attitudes about Industry 4.0 use cases—and digital transformation as a whole—are largely optimistic among industrial companies. State of the Industry research conducted by IndustryWeek in the last two years tells us that: 86% of manufacturers indicate their company […]

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