A cement manufacturer using AI to optimize a flame that changes in fractions of seconds cannot wait for data to travel to a cloud server and back. This gap was a key topic covered at the Industrial AI Summit 2026, where David Purón of Barbara identified three factors that determine whether AI runs at the […]
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A pharmaceutical regulatory response team spends 30 days on a single agency question. Most of that time goes to finding documents. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Kristen Sauter, President and General Manager of Life Sciences, Adlib Software, and Adam Procopio, Scientific Associate Vice President, Merck, explained why: every time a contract manufacturer’s electronic batch […]
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HiveMQ launched HiveMQ Platform, expanding the MQTT infrastructure it has operated in mission-critical environments for more than 12 years into an industrial data platform that prepares operational data for agentic AI. The platform moves beyond data streaming into four capabilities: connecting across OT and IT systems, contextualizing with consistent governance rules, analyzing in real time […]
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A machine shop lays out $300,000 on a new machine and waits roughly two months before it cuts a single part. At IMTS 2026, Brent Kephart of Siemens explained what causes the delay and how the company’s “Meet at the Machine” initiative cuts that delay: a digital copy of the machine, delivered the day after […]
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When the AI model runs on the sensor, anomaly detection happens without a cloud round-trip. At IMTS 2026, Tim Gicewicz of TDK SensEI explained how edgeRX collects vibration and temperature data from motors, pumps, and gearboxes, builds a baseline of normal equipment behavior on the device, and flags deviations locally.Why Run AI on the Sensor […]
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Manufacturers have been disconnecting hard drives full of production data for years because their SCADA databases ran out of capacity. AI models now need exactly that data, full-resolution sensor readings and process histories, for training and real-time inference. Doug Pagnutti of Tiger Data, a former automation engineer who lived this cycle firsthand, explains how the […]
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A live poll at the Industrial AI Summit 2026 showed 37% of attendees targeting plant floor maintenance and quality vision inspection as their first or next AI project, while 21% had not yet selected a use case. Benson Chan of Strategy of Things presented a seven-step framework for narrowing a list of 50 or more […]
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra improved from 18% to 41% accuracy on a real workplace task automation benchmark in eight weeks. That 41% still means the model produces more incorrect outputs than correct ones across general tasks. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Maddie Zeng of NeoAI presented a three-capability framework for evaluating what industrial AI systems […]
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NVIDIA‘s Jetson Thor T5000 module delivers up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute. Industrial system builders use it for robotics, factory automation, and medical imaging at the network edge. On September 1, 2026, consumer electronics company UGREEN introduced the MasterAgent MA100, a device management hub built on that same Jetson Thor T5000, combining Arm […]
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One manufacturer ran 100 digitalization initiatives at once. Money left the company before anyone asked which ones produced results. At IIoT World Manufacturing Days 2023, panelists from Siemens, A1 Digital, Mestec, and HiveMQ explained why production directors should own factory digitalization, what causes projects to stall, and how to start.What Happens When IT Leads Factory […]
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Data quality used to be something data scientists handled on their own. The model needed clean inputs, they cleaned them, and the organization moved on. AI agents changed that. They consume data at machine speed, with no human in the loop to fix what’s broken, and 37% of manufacturers polled at a December 2025 IIoT […]
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Ten years ago, P&G tracked truck deliveries by calling every driver. Now an AI agent reschedules warehouse and distribution center appointments without human involvement. Milwaukee Tool is implementing Oracle agents for supply planning, shipping, and maintenance. Three supply chain leaders described these applications at an IIoT World panel in December 2025.Where Do AI Agents Work […]
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