Manufacturers with large production sites face a connectivity question that did not exist five years ago: should AGVs, humanoid robots, tablets, and video cameras run on private 5G, public 5G, or a hybrid of both? The answer depends on which devices need low latency, which data must stay on site, and how often the production […]
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A Gatorade bottling line at a FIFA World Cup stadium, producing on site instead of shipping from a central plant, with flavors adjusted by region and Doctor Pepper for the Texas crowd. At Hannover Messe 2026, Siemens demonstrated how AI makes this kind of pop-up manufacturing work, connecting design, simulation, PLCs, sensing technologies, and an […]
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Someone responsible solely for operating a CNC machine or an extruder can now generate a production-ready application through a prompt. At Hannover Messe 2026, Cybus CEO Peter Sorowka described enterprise manufacturers already experimenting with this: generating applications and bringing them into production within a single week. The expected result is a “tsunami” of AI-generated factory […]
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When agentic AI can write attack code and deploy it autonomously, securing OT networks requires removing the inbound attack surface entirely. At Hannover Messe 2026, Skkynet CEO Gary Tillery describes how the company’s outbound-only architecture does exactly that: Skkynet’s Cogent DataHub platform keeps all inbound firewall ports closed across more than 30,000 installations in 86 […]
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A temperature reading with a timestamp does not tell you whether it is Fahrenheit or centigrade, which factory generated it, which production line, or which asset. Without that context, the data cannot drive a decision. At Hannover Messe 2026, InfluxData and Litmus described how their integrated architecture solves this: Litmus Edge connects to shop floor […]
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Most factories are sitting on a goldmine of machine data that never reaches the people who need it, because the middleware stack between the PLC and the dashboard takes a full quarter to configure. Coreflux, a startup based in Porto, Portugal, consolidates the typical five or six integration tools into a single MQTT broker running […]
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For two decades, manufacturers have tried to make analytics, machine learning, and AI work with industrial data, and for most of that time the bottleneck had nothing to do with the technology itself. It was the data layer. Now that AI adoption is accelerating, that gap is becoming harder to ignore. According to HighByte Co-Founder […]
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A battery cell is roughly the size of a cell phone. A battery enclosure is the size of a shipping container. A single site can have thousands of those containers, and for each individual cell inside, operators need state of charge and state of health readings every one to 10 seconds, or even faster during […]
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A German automotive manufacturer with 37,000 employees and 3 production sites used to stop the line for up to three hours every time it needed a configuration update. Each update cost between €280,000 and €1,700,000. The risk was so high that updates only happened twice a year, during production holidays. Today, the same manufacturer deploys […]
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Sensor origin has never been a line item on factory procurement specs. Quality and price decided everything. According to Dr. Antoine Filipe, CTO of Tronics Microsystems, a TDK Group Company, that is changing. Tariff disruptions, tightening export controls, and China’s rare earth restrictions are forcing manufacturing procurement teams to ask a question their aerospace counterparts […]
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After years of pilot programs and proofs of concept, manufacturers want one thing from Industrial AI in 2026: proof that it works in production. Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20 to 24, Hannover, Germany) runs under the theme “Think Tech Forward.” Industrial AI and Physical AI sit at the center of this year’s program, and the […]
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Figure AI’s humanoid robots completed an 11-month deployment at BMW’s Spartanburg plant, loading 90,000+ sheet metal parts across 1,250 operational hours and contributing to the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. This article examines the deployment economics behind physical AI in manufacturing, drawing on data from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Figure AI, Tesla, and the […]
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