Removing the Barriers to Connected Factories (Webinar)

The real winners in satellite IoT in 2026 will be those who treat resilience, migration planning, and data discipline as strategic priorities.

For manufacturing organizations that embraced smart manufacturing in 2025, the payoff extended beyond operational metrics to strategic value creation.

The industrial sector has always thrived on adaptation. AI, IoT, software-defined systems, and digital twins represent the next stage of that evolution.

IoT data is the fuel that powers adaptive edge intelligence. By analyzing IoT data directly at the edge, organizations gain the ability to interpret context the moment it occurs.

Real-time analytics is often approached as a technology upgrade. In practice, it is an organizational outcome. Organizations that succeed treat real-time analytics as the final stage of a deliberate progression.

The new Mplify Carrier Ethernet certifications provide independent, third-party validation of network performance for demanding AI workloads.

To operationalize sub-second RAG, the author proposes the FLASH Framework (Fast Latency Architecture for Streaming Hybrid retrieval), a 4-step methodology distilled from deploying 50+ enterprise pipelines since 2024.

Far from accelerating Excel’s extinction, AI agents are extending Excel’s lifespan by making it more accessible and more powerful.