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| | The companies announced offerings of new capabilities to streamline ecommerce logistics, actuators for manufacturing, data for AI in production environments, and AI-driven machine platforms. |
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| | | | | | Top of mind for these manufacturers? Quality improvement and cost control and why AI is not their replacement for humans but a way to strengthen consistency, improve efficiency, and support increasingly complex operations. |
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| | Zayo’s Max Clauson highlights his company’s 2026 Cybersecurity Insights Report, sees a strong correlation between increasing connectedness in manufacturing IT and OT and the last few years’ wave of cyberattacks, and answers questions from Smart Industry. |
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| | A CMMS is not a magic wand. It is a sophisticated tool that is only as effective as the discipline of the organization using it. |
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| | | | | A Smart Industry Industrial Transformation Award winner in the Manufacturing category, the EV maker started with an idea that “every great transformation begins with a shift in mindset”—and over the past two years, its network engineers worked with manufacturing engineering and facilities teams to make convergence a reality. |
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| A Smart Industry Industrial Transformation Award winner in the Transportation category, Texas Department of Transportation CIO and IT Director Anh Selissen said stabilizing and securing the state agency’s network also was a top priority, so TxDOT has had cybersecurity top of mind in its digital transformation. |
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