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Four 2026 studies tested time-series foundation models on industrial data, comparing them with task-specific models trained on the data of each plant.
From 20 January 2027 Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 replaces the Machinery Directive and gives manufacturer obligations to anyone who substantially modifies a machine.
How Istat's manufacturing production index is compiled, how to read the August 2026 figure and which indicators to read alongside it, from turnover to the PMI.
An MIT study of 28 companies and an RSM US survey point to scattered, inconsistent or PDF-locked technical data as the first obstacle to agentic AI in engineering.
In August the plant changes, the documentation does not. September restarts on procedures describing a different machine, and the bill arrives as scrap and set-up hours.
AI adoption in Italy has doubled, but it stops short of the shop floor. The real limit isn't the technology, it's the shape of operational knowledge.
One in four cyberattacks on manufacturing worldwide hits an Italian company. With NIS2, governing factory data becomes a legal obligation.
ISO 9001:2026 lands this autumn, but the real audit risk isn't the new clauses: it's documented procedures that no longer match how the work is actually done on the floor.
Industrial sensors (accelerometers, telemetry) excel at monitoring machines but remain blind to manual operations: they detect a signal, not the context of what the workforce is doing.
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