How AI-powered telemetry is transforming predictive maintenance across distributed assets
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The operations treating their vehicle data as a source of real decisions, not just a box to check for compliance, are the ones quietly avoiding the next 5:47 a.m. phone call while everyone else waits for it.
How to Choose the Best Manufacturing ERP System for Your Operations
Organizations need an ERP strategy that supports automated business operations by challenging outdated assumptions about static, monolithic software architectures. Forward-looking implementations balance AI-enabled capabilities with foundational investments.
The ERP Decision That Almost Made Me Walk Away
The manufacturer had grown from roughly $5 million to $50 million in annual sales in eighteen months. The company operated since 1986 on spreadsheets and a single licensed copy of Peachtree Accounting, and for years that was enough. Until it wasn't.
The CMMC Scoping Gaps Most Defense Manufacturers Don't Know They Have
Most manufacturers approach scoping thinking about their servers, their network, their email, and the shared drive where controlled drawings live. That covers part of the picture.
Why Warehouse Software Go-Lives Fail - and What Global Supply Chains Pay for It
The recommendations below apply to any warehouse management system implementation. I'll use SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) as my primary example, since that's where I spend most of my time.
How to Maintain Consistent Weld Strength During High-Speed Automated Production
The need for quality control doesn't disappear when facilities install robotic welding cells. High-speed automated weld penetration depends on thermal management, adaptive controls, continuous monitoring and nondestructive testing.
Addressing Patch Management Challenges of IT/OT Convergence
Manufacturing facilities that understand the fundamental differences between IT and OT systems can implement best practices that protect critical assets and maintain operational continuity.
Your AI Needs Training. Not Your Workers.
The AI isn't the problem. And neither are your workers. The problem is that nobody treated the AI like what it actually is: a new hire who hasn't stood on your floor yet.
The IIoT Environmental Monitoring Blind Spot: Why Your Connected Factory's Sensor Data May Be Drifting — and Nobody Knows
The technology argument is settled. IoT environmental monitoring in manufacturing is more capable, more scalable, and more cost-effective than what it replaces. The verification argument has to catch up.
A3's Automate 2026 Opens Next Week in Chicago
North America's largest robotics and automation event brings humanoids, AI, industrial robots and the future of automation to McCormick Place June 22-25
AI Is Making Manufacturing Careers More Secure, Not Less
The challenge for manufacturers is no longer proving that these jobs are safe. It is convincing young people to choose manufacturing over other trades like electrical work, green technology, and healthcare.
How Physical AI Is Closing the Gap Between Simulation and the Shop Floor
The manufacturers who will gain competitive ground in the next two to three years are not necessarily those with the largest automation budgets. They are the ones who recognize that the constraint is no longer hardware. The constraint is intelligence.
Universal Orchestration: Managing the Agentic AI Era in Manufacturing
When enterprises lack the control layer to route, govern, or make AI-generated data useful at scale, interoperability and accuracy breaks down. "Confabulation" will compound without human interaction and applied supervision.
The Real Reason Your Manufacturing AI Won't Scale
The real issue is that most manufacturers are trying to scale AI on top of fragmented data, disconnected systems and operational processes that were never designed to support it.
The Hidden Cost of Tail Spend in Manufacturing
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A lack of visibility and coordination across tail spend often masks pricing inconsistencies, supplier duplication, and missed opportunities, making it harder for manufacturers to control costs and reduce risk in an increasingly uncertain global environment.
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