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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One Avanade client, a global snack food brand, used AI agents to cut inventory by 20%. Another, an electronics manufacturer, recovered $35 million in a year in lost fees. At Hannover Messe 2026, Avanade presented two demos in the Microsoft booth, co-branded with clients Nissha Metallizing Solutions and Kruger, showing how AI agents embedded in […]
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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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Georgia-Pacific saved up to $1 million per machine using machine learning for condition-based predictive monitoring on AWS. At Hannover Messe 2026, Steven Blackwell of AWS described how cloud infrastructure helps manufacturers transform across the whole value chain. In engineering and R&D, that means developing products faster and bringing them to market quicker. Within the factory, […]
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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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David Reger, founder and CEO of Neura Robotics, stood next to a 4NE1 Mini humanoid robot at the AWS booth during Hannover Messe 2026 and laid out the math: China, Japan, and Europe together face a deficit of 101 million workers by 2030. His company’s answer is a line of cognitive humanoid robots built to […]
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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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Manufacturers with large production sites face a connectivity question that did not exist five years ago: should AGVs, humanoid robots, tablets, and video cameras run on private 5G, public 5G, or a hybrid of both? This IIoT World article is based on a video interview recorded at Hannover Messe 2026. The answer depends on which […]
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A Gatorade bottling line at a FIFA World Cup stadium, producing on site instead of shipping from a central plant, with flavors adjusted by region and Doctor Pepper for the Texas crowd. In this IIoT World article based on a video interview recorded at Hannover Messe 2026, Ujjwal Kumar (CEO, Siemens Industrial Automation) explains how […]
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Someone responsible solely for operating a CNC machine or an extruder can now generate a production-ready application through a prompt. In this IIoT World interview recorded with Lucian Fogoros at Hannover Messe 2026, Peter Sorowka (CEO, Cybus) describes how enterprise manufacturers are already experimenting with this. At Hannover Messe 2026, Cybus CEO Peter Sorowka described […]
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When agentic AI can write attack code and deploy it autonomously, securing OT networks requires removing the inbound attack surface entirely. At Hannover Messe 2026, Skkynet CEO Gary Tillery describes how the company’s outbound-only architecture does exactly that: Skkynet’s Cogent DataHub platform keeps all inbound firewall ports closed across more than 30,000 installations in 86 […]
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