How IIoT Is Bringing Data-Driven Quality to Industrial Fabrication
Industrial fabrication is transforming as manufacturers shift from manual inspection to intelligent, data-driven systems. Through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), machines, sensors and analytics platforms communicate seamlessly to create a connected production ecosystem. This integration…
By 2028, Plants Won’t Just Run Themselves—They’ll Tell You Why
In a few short years, the most visible change inside industrial plants won’t be new machinery—it will be silence. No more scribbled shift logs, no frantic data reconciliation between operators, and no confusion over what happened…
The AI Scaling Problem Nobody’s Solving: Why 140 Applications Delivered Zero Scale
Jason Schern, Field CTO at Cognite, reveals the uncomfortable truth about industrial AI: companies are building solutions that can’t scale beyond a single site, and it’s killing their ROI.The 140-to-Zero ProblemDuring a recent audit, a large…
When Yield Becomes Sustainability — Redefining Efficiency in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Sustainability used to sit on the periphery of semiconductor manufacturing — an environmental checkbox managed by a separate team. That era is over. The next generation of fabs is proving that sustainability is not a corporate…
Standardize Before You Scale: A CFO/COO Playbook for Best-of-Breed Without the Bloat
Every plant in a multi-site network ends up with its own stack: different sensors, dashboards, line apps, and even naming conventions. When you start planning for agentic AI—software that can coordinate and recommend actions across operations—the…
The Next Manufacturing Advantage: From Products to Intelligent, Connected Services
Machines and software are everywhere. The next competitive edge no longer comes from owning more of them — it comes from connecting, learning, and evolving faster than the competition. For manufacturers, the challenge is no longer…
Beyond Dashboards: Manufacturers Want Predictive Data, Not Pretty Graphs
Walk into any modern factory and you’ll see walls of dashboards. Vibration graphs, torque curves, temperature plots, even “traffic-light” alarms glowing red or green. It looks sophisticated — until a critical press fails and the line…
Industrial AI in Practice: Siemens Transforms Factory Data into Performance
At the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Artificial Intelligence is not an experiment—it’s part of everyday production. The facility shows how industrial AI can improve how machines sense, analyze, and act, helping teams turn factory data into measurable results.…
Building Digital Reliability: Why Your Maintenance Strategy Needs External Expertise
The manufacturing sector faces a persistent tension: should organizations build all digital capabilities in-house or leverage external partners? The answer, increasingly, is neither—it’s both, strategically combined.The Cost of Doing Everything YourselfMany industrial leaders assume that maintaining…
IIoT and Agentic AI in Manufacturing: Audience Questions, Expert Answers
At the AI Frontiers event, the session “Agentic AI & Integrated Data Workflows: Extracting Value from Existing Manufacturing Systems” drew an engaged audience eager to probe real-world challenges. Their questions cut straight to the heart of…