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Why Factory Data Never Reaches AI

Manufacturers have spent ten to twenty years installing sensors and connecting machines. The data flows, but it rarely reaches AI. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Jonathan Alexander of Albemarle Corporation, Peter Sorowka of Cybus, and…

What Plants Need for Prescriptive AI

Prescriptive AI tells plant operators which component to replace, which maintenance action to take, and when. Boris Scharinger, author of Industrial AI: From Pilot to Profit and R&D Excellence, DataOps and Master Data Management at Siemens,…

Scaling Time Series for Automotive Manufacturing

A Practical Guide to Historian Augmentation Sponsored by InfluxData Data historians have served automotive manufacturing for decades, capturing signals from PLCs, robots, weld cells, and test stands across body shop, paint, stamping, and final assembly. The…

How to Govern AI Agents in OT

A plant running 20 or more vendors now faces each vendor deploying its own AI agent with its own access model and its own integrations to other systems. At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, Scott Christensen,…

How Do You Secure Autonomous AI in OT?

This is the final part of three articles based on unanswered audience questions from the "From Data Streaming to Autonomous Action" session at the Industrial AI Summit 2026. Parts one and two covered context foundations and…

What Powers Industrial AI Agents?

This is part two of three articles based on unanswered audience questions from the "From Data Streaming to Autonomous Action" session at the Industrial AI Summit 2026. Where part one covered the data and context foundations,…

How Should Factories Prepare Context for AI?

At the Industrial AI Summit 2026, attendees asked questions about supplying context to industrial AI agents that the panel did not have time to answer live. Peter Sorowka, CEO of Cybus, provided answers covering how factories…

The Industrial Data Maturity Model

Manufacturers investing in AI, advanced analytics, and autonomous systems face a recurring problem: the data underneath these initiatives is not ready to support them. Amazon Web Services and HighByte published a 25-page white paper, "A Maturity…

What Industrial AI Controls Today

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…

How to Build Pharma AI Audit Trails

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,…

How Factory Data Becomes AI-Ready

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…

Why New CNC Machines Sit Idle for Months

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…