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Industrial AI is spreading through factories but leaving frontline teams behind

Manufacturers are expanding industrial AI across inspection, maintenance and production, but frontline employees are receiving far less support. New Hitachi research raises questions about whether ...
Oct. 29, 2026
Features, AI, Data and Analytics

Factories can count their defects but struggle to prevent them

Manufacturers are increasingly effective at recording defects but often lack the process information needed to prevent them. New Minitab research reveals why better data collection ...
Oct. 27, 2026
Features, AI, Data and Analytics

The most valuable data may belong to somebody else

Improving industrial performance increasingly depends on information held by suppliers, infrastructure operators and other businesses. Research from the World Economic Forum examines why that information ...
Oct. 22, 2026
Features, Business Strategy & Management

Why the connected factory still struggles with the handover

Most US manufacturers believe their operations are connected, yet new research reveals persistent gaps between design, production and quality. These weaknesses are restricting the benefits ...
Oct. 20, 2026
Features, Data, IT and Communications

Industrial AI moves closer to the factory floor as workers gain control of automation

Artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond analysing manufacturing data towards managing the everyday activities of factory workers. The development raises questions about how manufacturers ...
Oct. 15, 2026
News, AI, Data and Analytics

Factories can count their defects but struggle to prevent them

Manufacturers are increasingly effective at recording defects but ...

The most valuable data may belong to somebody else

Improving industrial performance increasingly depends on information held ...

Why the connected factory still struggles with the handover

Most US manufacturers believe their operations are connected, ...

Industrial AI moves closer to the factory floor as workers gain control of automation

Artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond analysing ...
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Industrial AI moves closer to the factory floor as workers gain control of automation

Artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond analysing manufacturing data towards managing the everyday activities ...
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Semiconductor manufacturing faces a growing computational bottleneck

The increasing complexity of advanced semiconductors is creating a manufacturing challenge that cannot be resolved ...
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Precision and productivity are reshaping industrial robot design

Manufacturers are demanding more from industrial robots as production requirements become increasingly complex. Higher output ...
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Industrial AI faces a new challenge in managing intelligence at the edge

As manufacturers move beyond experimenting with artificial intelligence towards deploying applications on factory floors, the ...
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Industrial AI is spreading through factories but leaving frontline teams behind

Manufacturers are expanding industrial AI across inspection, maintenance and production, but frontline employees are receiving ...
Features

Factories can count their defects but struggle to prevent them

Manufacturers are increasingly effective at recording defects but often lack the process information needed to ...
Features

The most valuable data may belong to somebody else

Improving industrial performance increasingly depends on information held by suppliers, infrastructure operators and other businesses. ...
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Is it the year of the cloud?

Elliot Clarke UKi Regional Director at PTC gives us his five trends for digital transformation ...
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Industrial Metaverse

Industrial Metaverse: Why Does It Matter?

Tibor Merey and colleagues at Boston Consulting Group detail the applications, layers, infrastructure and benefits ...
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Leasing is the fiscally prudent future of industrial procurement

Mike Fergusson, industrial sector at CHG-Meridian, explains why leasing is the present and future of ...
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New digital skills needed to power growth

April – Data proficiency in areas such as AI is the catalyst for digital transformation ...
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The connected factory

May – The rising demands made upon manufacturing to meet efficiency, productivity and commercial objectives ...
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AI process optimisation in manufacturing

June – Manufacturing processes are being revolutionised by the use of artificial intelligence to eliminate ...
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EP02. Building Sustainability Into Product Design

Up to four-fifths of a product’s lifetime emissions are determined by decisions made at the design stage. By building on proven cost-optimization techniques, companies can get those choices right. To discuss the importance of embedded sustainability in a products lifecycle I talk to Dave Duncan, Vice President of Sustainability at PTC, James Mullineux, Head of Digital Engineering at Ricardo, and Eddie Hamilton , Product Experience Designer, Sustainability Lead at seymourpowell

 

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