Data Trends 2026: Manufacturing

How leaders are optimizing agentic AI, the unified manufacturing namespace and connected product data to navigate a volatile industry

Manufacturing is operating in a fundamentally different environment, where change is the baseline condition and outside factors shape daily decisions. These challenges have exposed the limits of siloed data and surface-level information that provides no actionable insights. Success as an industry leader means making AI foundational to all business processes, unifying operations by unifying data across supply chain, smart manufacturing, finance, shop floor and more.

Read this ebook to discover:

• How AI has become embedded into all operations across manufacturing, and everything that needs to be in place before it can be implemented meaningfully and strategically
  
  
• What the unified manufacturing namespace is, why it’s essential for AI readiness and the role it plays in creating a unified data foundation
  
  
• Why manufacturers are making connected products a core part of their business and how they’ve become valuable sources of customer and product data — and serious revenue drivers