By 2030, food and beverage manufacturers are projected to lose 36% of potential revenue to inefficiencies, three percentage points more than life sciences. Life sciences companies built digital data infrastructure earlier, correlating with FDA compliance requirements…
Eighteen percent of U.S. product cost comes from manufacturing delays and downtime. Many CPG plants track line performance through overall equipment effectiveness, but those systems run offline on spreadsheets, clipboards, or disconnected software. The data to…
Between 80% and 95% of organizations report limited financial value from their AI investments, and only 11% of CFOs have been able to concretely measure return on investment from AI, according to Gartner's 2025 and 2026…
AI accelerates both sides of OT cybersecurity. When AI writes the malware, defenders need to understand exactly how capable the threat is and where the real risks lie. Attackers use AI coding assistants to speed up…
Most industrial AI systems on the factory floor are limited to monitoring: they read sensor data, populate dashboards, and trigger alerts without ever sending an instruction back to the machine. Coreflux, a company based in Porto,…
An OEE analytics application that took 12 weeks and a team of developers to build a year ago can now be generated in minutes. Snowflake's Cortex AI accepts a prompt describing the industry vertical, target use…
For decades, the promise of the digital factory was simple: more data equals more efficiency. Yet, as discussed at the ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026, many manufacturers find themselves trapped in a productivity paradox. Despite having…
A predictive maintenance system flags that a motor will fail in three weeks. What happens next usually involves three to four people, spans up to two weeks, and touches the CMMS, ERP, workforce scheduling, and production…
Agentic AI will bring thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of AI agents to the factory floor. Every one of them will need data, and not all data. Agents do not perform well when exposed to massive…
TwinThread customers have been running fully closed-loop AI quality optimization in production for five years, with no human adjusting the set points. Andrew Waycott, President and Co-founder of TwinThread, described at Hannover Messe 2026 how the…
A technician walks up to a faulty measurement device, scans the QR code on its display, and gets a plain-language diagnosis with step-by-step repair instructions, all before picking up the phone. David Lincoln, Digital Lead of…
Software-defined automation moves control logic from dedicated PLCs onto industrial PCs and standard server hardware, while the physical equipment, inputs/outputs, drives, and motors, stays on the shop floor. Engineering changes too, from predefined toolchains with fixed…