AI video analytics brings real-time visibility to the factory floor. Every AI video analytics vendor right now claims they are purpose-built for manufacturing. Some of them genuinely are. A lot of them took a retail or smart-city computer vision stack, slapped some industrial language on the website, and called it a day. The difference matters enormously when you are trying to catch a safety zone breach on a stamping press versus flagging when someone left a cart in the wrong

AI video analytics helps logistics teams see more and respond faster AI video analytics is getting pitched to logistics teams like it's magic. Vendor demos show clean footage, perfect lighting, neat overlays counting pallets as they glide past a camera. Real warehouses have fork traffic, shrink wrap glare, and aisles where the overhead lights have been out since Q3. So let's talk about what this technology actually does when it's working correctly, because there's real value