Just as 2024 was the year AI went from an experiment to a mainstream business enabler, 2025 will be the year it begins to revolutionize the industrial sector at scale. While the technology is still maturing, it has sufficiently advanced to help address the industrial sector’s three most important objectives—increasing throughput, maximizing availability, and upskilling people.
The need to make certain our processes work more efficiently, our machines work harder, and our people work smarter is a universal constant that wise leaders (and savvy investors) should focus on every day. While you can approach each of these challenges in isolation, the smart play is to tackle them together by accelerating the move from automation to autonomy, and that is what I believe industry is ready to do in the year ahead.
