Smart Industry

Smart Industry is a publication available in print and online, offering valuable information through a variety of formats including webinars, podcasts, and a comprehensive library. Its purpose is to speed up the digital transformation in manufacturing and similar sectors, focusing on the integration of information and operational technologies. The platform also highlights significant trends like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrie 4.0, and big data analytics.

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AI can expose manufacturing data to risk, so audit your implementations, third-party links

1 week ago | smartindustry.com | Tim Freestone

What you’ll learn:While 77% of manufacturers leverage AI for efficiency, these connections create a perfect storm of vulnerabilities targeted by attackers. Modern manufacturing operations generate and process data assets that extend far beyond traditional production metrics. The integration of AI into manufacturing operations fundamentally transforms existing security challenges into exponentially greater threats.
Podcast: Best practices for utilizing AI agents in industrial workflows

1 week ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

This episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast features Thomas Wilk, chief editor of Smart Industry sister brand Plant Services, joined by Christine Nishimoto, director of asset management software at IBM, for an insightful discussion on how AI agents are reshaping data-driven asset management. Together, the pair explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in improving productivity, sustainability, and safety across manufacturing sectors.
Podcast: Eye-tracking powers the next generation of workforce training

1 week ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

Sponsored ContentFor an episode sponsored by his company, Tobii’s director of products and solutions, Keith Bartels, joins Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl for a conversation about how visual data is helping teams streamline onboarding of employees, reduce errors, and strengthen standard operating procedures—all without adding complexity to day-to-day work.
Split surfaces in survey over product quality and teams' understanding of AI

2 weeks ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

What you’ll learn:Management is significantly more assured in their understanding of quality management than frontline workers. Quality issues are going unaddressed. Nearly half of frontline operators have experienced quality issues being ignored or covered up, with a substantial portion remaining silent. Operators are less familiar with AI’s role in product quality than management believes.
Can AI take over automation? What our editors witnessed at the big show

2 weeks ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

What you'll learn:AI adoption is surging, but real-world applications—not just hype—are key to proving its value on the factory floor. Simulation is evolving from concept to core tool, enabling better design and predictive maintenance in manufacturing. Integration speed and accessible automation now cater more to small- and midsize manufacturers, not just large operations. Open architectures and interoperability are breaking down silos, allowing seamless collaboration across industrial systems.
Manufacturers cite widespread labor shortages, use of automation and AI to help

3 weeks ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

What you’ll learn:70% of respondents in the U.S. stated that their organizations are impacted by a labor shortage. 49% plan to implement AI in the next two years (up slightly from 47% in 2024), with 33% already using it. The 2025 poll revealed other widespread issues such as stubborn product recalls and safety incidents in plants and their consequences, such as damage to brand reputation.
Podcast: In tariff times, how manufacturers can design an agile supply chain

3 weeks ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

During a May 7 webinar, our group of manufacturing brands, which includes Smart Industry, took on how manufacturers can survive and even thrive in the Trump tariff economy. "Uncertainty is the new certainty" was the theme. A focus of that program was supply chains and making them resilient in case overseas sources of materials become a lot more difficult to obtain and/or turn out to be prohibitively expensive. Upcoming webinar: Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S., What Will it Cost?
Webinar replay: As tariff war whipsaws world economy, ‘uncertainty is the new certainty'

1 month ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

With our group of manufacturing brands, Smart Industry’s sister brand IndustryWeek on May 7 led the first of a series of webinars on the brewing trade war ignited by U.S. President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth threats and active tariffs on other world economic powers such as China and the impact on manufacturers from the resulting chaos.
Survey: Firms see ‘smart’ manufacturing investments paying off in productivity, capacity gains

1 month ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

“Smart” manufacturing’s value is very much being realized, according to the newly released results of a late summer/early fall 2024 Deloitte survey, with respondents reporting up to 20% improvement in production output, a 20% gain in employee productivity, and 15% more in unlocked capacity.
Podcast: Has additive peaked or is the marketplace for 3D manufacturing simply shifting?

1 month ago | smartindustry.com | Scott Achelpohl

What you'll learn from this episode:Additive manufacturing hit $21.9 billion in 2024, with materials seeing the strongest growth—signaling broader industrial adoption. China doubled AM machine exports in two years, now leading global growth with rapid expansion into consumer and electric vehicle applications. U.S. AM growth is driven by government funding and reshoring efforts, with support from programs like AM Forward and America Makes.