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AI Predictive Maintenance in 2026: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know

August 7, 2026• by

Somewhere right now, a bearing is failing. The vibration pattern shifted twelve days ago, and nobody noticed. By Thursday, that $800 bearing will trigger a...

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Four Shifts from AI Hype to Real Results

August 6, 2026• by

Neil Hoyne, Chief Strategist at Google, author of Converted (Penguin Random House), and Executive Faculty at The Wharton School, delivered a keynote at GE...

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6 Signs Your Data Historian Can’t Keep Up

August 5, 2026• by

Historian renewal notices show up as a procurement line item, usually larger than the previous year, and most teams sign and move on. Ryan Nelson, Director of...

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Who Owns the Risk When Factory AI Acts?

August 4, 2026• by

When an AI system recommends a quality action and the recommendation turns out to be wrong, the model does not carry the production loss, answer to the...

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Defensible OT Architecture for AI-Connected Manufacturing

August 3, 2026• by

Manufacturers are adding more digital connections to production environments. AI programs, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset analytics, and...

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80% of Plant Measurement Faults Fixed Without Support

July 31, 2026• by

A technician walks up to a faulty measurement device, scans the QR code on its display, and gets a plain-language diagnosis with step-by-step repair...

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How PPG Built MES Blueprints for 140 Plants

July 30, 2026• by

At GE Vernova Accelerate 2026, Clark Rexrode, Colin Reilly, Chris Grega, and Ben Hoff from PPG presented how the company deploys Proficy MES across a...

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How Procurement Budgets Fix OT Supply Chain Security

July 29, 2026• by

Most OT security spending goes to defending networks after equipment is installed. The presentations at S4x26 in Miami made a different case: the...

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AI Agents in MES: Beyond the Chatbot

July 28, 2026• by

At GE Vernova Accelerate 2026, Smita Bhat and Brian Johnson presented the Proficy AI roadmap spanning seven initiative themes across MES, Historian, and SCADA....

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The Hidden Challenge in Energy AI: Coordination Across Distributed Systems

July 28, 2026• by

I started out as a control systems engineer, working in plants where everything important happened in one place. There was just one site, one control room, and...

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