Manufacturers generate enormous volumes of data from machines, equipment, and enterprise systems, yet 84% of companies report that data access is slowing them down, according to a panel discussion at IIoT World featuring experts from HighByte, HiveMQ, CrateDB, and Deloitte. The session, moderated by Hamish Mackenzie, examined why data usability, governance, and architecture are the […]
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This article is part of an awareness campaign. Editorially Independent, Sponsored by TDK SensEI.Manufacturers testing AI agents for maintenance face a dependency most teams overlook: the agent is only as reliable as the prediction feeding it. When a diagnostic agent pulls machine manuals, checks parts inventory, and schedules a technician based on a false alarm, […]
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Historian renewal notices show up as a procurement line item, usually larger than the previous year, and most teams sign and move on. Ryan Nelson, Director of Product Marketing at InfluxData, explains that the renewal moment is worth using to ask whether the current architecture can carry what the business needs over the next three […]
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When an AI system recommends a quality action and the recommendation turns out to be wrong, the model does not carry the production loss, answer to the customer, sign the quality record, or explain the safety event. The people who relied on that recommendation do. And as AI moves beyond answering questions toward routing supplier […]
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Manufacturers are adding more digital connections to production environments. AI programs, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset analytics, and cloud platforms all depend on some level of connectivity between OT, IT, and external systems.That creates a practical question for manufacturers: how should the OT environment be built so one failure, one misconfiguration, or one compromised system […]
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MQTT can connect the data. But scaling a Unified Namespace across plants requires shared structures, clear ownership and governance across IT and OT.There is no universal standard for the Unified Namespace. But without an internal standard, it cannot remain unified. That apparent contradiction captures one of the most important realities of industrial data architecture.A Unified […]
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I started out as a control systems engineer, working in plants where everything important happened in one place. There was just one site, one control room, and one process to watch. You could stand right in the middle of it all.The energy systems being built now have none of that. A single operator’s portfolio might […]
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Manufacturing is the most targeted sector for ransomware, with attacks rising 56% year over year, according to OPSWAT. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded 1,607 confirmed breaches in manufacturing, an 89% increase. Up to 80% of new ransomware is now AI-generated, according to industry estimates cited by OPSWAT, and smart factory technologies adopted in […]
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EDF Power Solutions North America manages 16 gigawatts of power across wind, solar, and battery energy storage systems, with equipment from dozens of OEMs that was never designed to interoperate. To bring all of that data into a common format, the company deployed an edge solution across more than 50 sites and adopted the IEC […]
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Sensors, cloud infrastructure, and algorithms keep improving, but the hardest input to capture for any manufacturing AI system is the knowledge held by a maintenance engineer who has been watching, listening to, and repairing the same equipment for 15 years. That engineer knows which vibration pattern means a bearing is failing versus which one is […]
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Most manufacturers know they need to start with AI. The common advice, “start small” with a use case, prove value, and scale, is incomplete on its own. Starting small without first thinking big leads to a collection of disconnected experiments that never compound into enterprise capability.At IIoT World’s AI Manufacturing Day 2026, a panel featuring […]
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Most plants were built to make products, not to feed AI agents. The operational knowledge that AI needs is locked in formats that were never designed to be searched, structured, or consumed by machines.During a session at IIoT World’s AI Manufacturing Day 2026, Chris Huff and Anthony Vigliotti of Adlib Software, alongside Mathias Oppelt of […]
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