At an IIoT World Energy Day 2026 panel on scalable edge solutions for modern grids, Andrew Foster of IOTech Systems, Cody Falcon of ABB, Brenna Wood of EDF Power Solutions North America, and Janko Isidorovic of Fluence Energy discussed what distributed energy resource fleets require before edge AI can produce useful results. The panel, moderated […]
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Most manufacturers face the same starting point: brownfield operations with equipment from multiple vendors and departments that work toward different objectives. The scope of what needs connecting creates enough resistance that many companies never take the first step. At Hannover Messe 2026, Thomas Roehrl of Siemens described this as the biggest mistake in platform deployment: […]
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At an IIoT World Manufacturing Day panel on data sovereignty and industrial AI, Peter Sorowka of Cybus and leaders from MaibornWolff, SCHUNK, and Schwarz Digits outlined how competitive advantage in manufacturing is forming well before AI reaches full deployment. Many manufacturers are waiting for clearer AI winners, the right platform, the right models, the right […]
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ABB resolves 80% of measurement device faults through an AI copilot, without a support call. HighByte compressed Alcon’s one-year plant-wide digital transformation to less than one month. InfluxData and Litmus take manufacturers from three sites to 300, with positive ROI in 60 to 90 days. Cybus reports 9% less downtime and 23% lower cloud costs […]
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During the “Edge AI: Driving Smarter Machine Health Monitoring for Energy Infrastructure” panel at IIoT World Energy Day 2026, poll results showed that most energy operators are just beginning to explore AI for asset monitoring. Some have completed a first deployment, but only a small percentage have scaled these solutions across multiple assets or sites. […]
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Anthony Vigliotti, Chief Product Officer at Adlib, identifies a foundational distinction in enterprise AI that most industrial organizations have not yet fully reckoned with. In brownfield manufacturing and regulated industrial operations, the cost of that gap is becoming harder to ignore.The distinction is this: a document can be treated as a data source, or it […]
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Factories generate massive volumes of time series data from every sensor, controller, and production line, but many manufacturers reduce the fidelity of that data or discard it entirely because their existing infrastructure makes retention too expensive or too difficult. “It always pains me to see customers reducing fidelity or throwing data away for resource or […]
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Gil Silva, Partnership, Learning & Development Manager at Coreflux, walked through a live demo at Hannover Messe 2026 where a Raspberry Pi running the company’s Language of Things processed factory data, managed energy systems, and communicated with machines in real time. The Porto-based startup has built a system that lets someone automate a factory floor […]
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GlobalLogic built procurement systems that save some clients $5 million a year by modernizing invoicing processes, and contributed to Hitachi Rail’s most digitally advanced factory worldwide, a 300,000 ft² facility in Hagerstown, Maryland. “It’s time for return on investment,” said Roxana Moldovan, Director Industrial BU EMEA at GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, in a conversation […]
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Data breaches in the manufacturing industry rose 89% year over year, reaching 1,607 confirmed cases in 2025 compared to 849 in 2024, according to Verizon’s DBIR Report. The driver is the increasing connection between IT and OT systems. Files that once stayed within isolated networks, such as CAD designs, predictive maintenance logs, and supplier updates, […]
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The energy sector has made real progress in deploying AI closer to operations. Battery storage operators are running predictive models at the site level. Renewable fleet managers are using AI to accelerate troubleshooting and optimize asset performance. Grid-connected systems are beginning to rely on edge-based inference to make decisions that must occur in under a […]
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Every machine vibrates differently, and sensor placement on a machine can make or break the data quality. This IIoT World article is based on a video interview recorded at Hannover Messe 2026 with Julien Romala (Application Engineer, Tronics Microsystems, a TDK Group company). Where a vibration sensor sits, how quickly it learns what normal looks […]
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