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As automakers face growing competition, embracing the smart factory revolution in 2025 is no longer just a strategic advantage—it’s a necessity.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The European Union launched InvestAI, an initiative that includes funding for four AI gigafactories.

Employing digital twins, virtual prototyping, and more is seen as a way to enable EV automakers to overcome challenges and seize opportunities in the ADAS and AV space.

AI agents are being used to enhance efficiency, safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of industrial operations. Use cases are expanding all the time as organizations become more familiar with the technology.

EV automakers will be hard pressed to incorporate EV innovations into design, development, and production while compressing the time from concept to delivery.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: Get them while they’re young. A number of organizations have teamed up to impart AI skills to high school students.

While MQTT and OPC UA are suitable for different use cases, they are often used together. Such a hybrid approach enhances interoperability between cloud systems and industrial networks.

IT/OT convergence is essential for digital transformation in industrial settings. Fortunately, technology innovations over the last several years help make such convergence possible.

Industrial organizations face new cybersecurity challenges as they open up access to traditionally siloed OT systems and integrate them with IT. Here are some points to consider to address the risks of an IT/OT integration.

IoT devices are poised for significant transformation in 2025. Driven by advancements in AI, connectivity, and more, these trends are likely to enhance the functionality, efficiency, and adoption of IoT in industrial operations.

Data movement and sharing is critical for industrial digital transformation. Modern protocols like MQTT and OPC UA play a key role. How do they work, how they differ, and when do you use them?

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The entry of DeepSeek-R1 resulted in a number of related announcements.