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Manufacturers wants AI on the factory floor. But Few Have the data foundation to support it.

Amy Groden

A new Manufacturing Dive article puts numbers to a problem many of us see every day: while most manufacturers have a data management strategy, only about 15% actually follow it, even as data volumes double every couple of years.

Manufacturing operational data integrity The article highlights some interesting trends:

  1. The AI ambition / AI readiness gap is real. Companies are under board-level pressure to show AI returns, so they fund the use case and starve the foundation. The result, as one executive put it, is "garbage in, garbage out" — just faster.

  2. Spreadsheets are still running the show. A recent survey found roughly 60% of manufacturers manage critical specification data in Excel or Google Sheets, and teams lose hundreds of hours a year to manual spec work.

  3. The payoff for getting it right is concrete: capturing retiring workers' institutional knowledge before it walks out the door, faster audits in regulated industries, better supply chain forecasting, and predictive maintenance that saves millions in avoided downtime.

The conclusion resonated with me: the winners of the next decade won't be the manufacturers with the flashiest AI; they'll be the ones who treat data as the foundation, not an afterthought.

Full article from Sakshi Udavant at Manufacturing Dive: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/manufacturing-needs-data-standardization/824064/

Is your organization facing a gap between AI readiness and successful AI adoption?

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Still not convinced? Here's further data on the data challenges manufacturers face in the AI era:

 
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Amy Groden
Amy Groden

Amy Groden has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security, and Ziff-Davis. An expert in enterprise software strategy and data analytics, she developed marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth for Spotfire analytics products and for a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration company. Her accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, a communication strategy for launching a public company on the NYSE, and leading digital transformation branding for NASDAQ-listed firms. Amy is a dedicated mentor to future industry leaders, serving as a Guest Instructor for the Sales Practicum at Babson College. She’s also served as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, a Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge and on the inaugural planning team for Boston TechJam. Amy currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hearts and Paws Comfort Dogs, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

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