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,…
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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…
What Happens When AI Runs on the Sensor
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,…
Factories Threw Away the Data AI Needs Now
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…
Why Firewalls Cannot Isolate OT Networks
In July 2026, a coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota, prompting the FBI and EPA to issue a broader warning that water and wastewater utilities in at least…