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

Automation works best when paired with human expertise A fully automated line sounds like the obvious move until you're the one staring at a six-month-old capital request that assumes 94% uptime on a product family that changes SKUs every eight weeks. Then it starts to look a lot less obvious. The factories where full automation makes sense share a few things: high volume, low mix, stable demand, and the maintenance bench strength to keep the machines running when something g