| | | | | | | | Such studies give manufacturers information to plan investments and prepare to modernize based on what’s installed now—instead of relying upon incomplete records or assumptions. This is essential before initiatives like AI or advanced analytics can advance. |
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| | | | | | Models are good, dashboards are polished, the pilots get funded, extended, and occasionally turned into a press release. What they mostly don't do is show up in a quarterly number the leadership team is willing to defend. |
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| | Ransomware group Clop reportedly targeted a specific vulnerability in software commonly used by manufacturers, allowing access to documents from 43 companies in total. |
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| | As manufacturing digitally transforms—adopting AI, robotics, digital twins, and connected production systems—frontline roles are expanding beyond traditional boundaries, so train people to perform work beyond their assigned job titles. |
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| | | | | | The S7 Series is part of a family of programmable logic controllers that are used widely in manufacturing and in critical U.S. infrastructure. The intrusions follow warnings, including those on this site, that AI is supercharging cyberattacks on plant gear. |
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| | On the shop floor the winning tools are small, narrow, and built for one job. |
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| | Where agentic AI is emerging as an ally, it’s also being weaponized as a threat to factory IT and OT operations. |
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| | | | | Getting to functional, effective AI-optimized operations is about having data health and infrastructure that makes it all possible. AI must enter an environment ready for it. |
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| Fiber has quietly become one of the tightest constraints in the AI buildout, and most companies aren't managing it well. |
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