Industrial IoT
5 articles
- Which Industrial AI Demos at IMTS Are Ready for a Plant Floor?
The new Industrial AI Arena puts 32 exhibitors plus Sandia National Laboratories on one floor at McCormick Place. Five questions — data, ownership, edge, references, and a benchmarked ROI claim — will tell you which demos survive contact with a real plant, and which ones are a retrofit project wearing a software price tag.
Sep 6, 2026
- How to Keep Shipping When Your Plant Systems Go Dark
Boston Scientific's order intake kept running while its ability to ship did not. That gap — EDI up, fulfillment down — is the outage most discrete manufacturers have never rehearsed, and the fix is mostly paper, printers and pre-approved procedure.
Sep 4, 2026
- GE Vernova's Gas Turbine Backlog Stretches Past 2030 — Data Centers Are Out-Bidding Utilities for Slots
GE Vernova now has 100 GW of heavy-duty gas turbines under contract against roughly 10 GW per year of production capacity. Non-refundable slot reservation deposits are letting hyperscalers compete directly with regulated utilities for 2029-2030 frames — and they are winning on price.
Jun 6, 2026
- Hitachi Stakes Industrial AI on Mission-Critical Infrastructure — a Lane Stellantis and Laminar Don't Fit
Hitachi's CES 2026 reveals and HMAX Energy launch deliberately plant its industrial-AI flag on substations, rail, and heavy process — not the discrete-plant and fluid-line AI being sold by Stellantis/Accenture/NVIDIA and Edison-winning Laminar. The framing has real engineering consequences.
May 25, 2026
- Stellantis Just Put Accenture and NVIDIA on the Plant Floor Together — the Real Tell Is Who Now Owns the Manufacturing-Execution Stack
Stellantis and Accenture's plan to scale NVIDIA-powered digital twins isn't the story. The story is that a volume automaker is publicly naming a systems integrator and a GPU vendor as the architects of its plant-floor orchestration layer — and the brief doesn't say who owns it.
May 19, 2026