Today is about shaking summer doldrums with interesting b2b journalism—specifically a story about new Zayo Group research that shows a surge in bandwidth demand brought on, in no small measure, by digital transformation in manufacturing and AI adoption.

Quite a piece by Ramsés Gallego of DXC Technology on how digital transformation technologies like AI, digital twins and IoT mean factories can no longer be isolated silos of machines, meaning the old moats are drained and zero trust must be the way.

The podcast takes a fresh look at additive manufacturing and the disconnect between market comings and goings and the processes themselves, this time with perspective from Robert Brooks of American Machinist.

Occasionally we really get into the weeds . and learn a lot in the process, this time from Yoram Novick of Zadara, who tells us all about sovereign AI clouds.

We have a siren call live from Thor Wuest at the U. of South Carolina on why it’s time for factory leaders, engineers, and tech vendors to stop talking and start testing this new data playbook: federated learning, linked to blockchain.

Writing from over the pond today about the $27.25 million M&S incident is James Holt of IAMTech and how the costly cyberattack reminds everyone about the constant threats to their digital systems, from critical infrastructure to manufacturing.

We're always happy to showcase a digital transformation success, and Texas Pride Trailers and Bradly Walker handed us a nice story at Hexagon LIVE. So away we went with an episode of the Great Question podcast. Give a listen!.

From Vegas we write about a startling new survey from Hexagon. https://w/ww.smartindustry.com/industry-news/article/55298042/perception-problem-pours-from-new-survey-that-us-manufacturing-remains-too-technologically-outdated.

Fresh off the Kiteworks survey showing "widespread governance failures" in AI data security, Ryan Lougheed of Onspring joins the conversation with his take that, without strict security governance, AI could become a liability.

A new Kiteworks study shows that manufacturing maintains a risky status quo despite vulnerabilities brought on by AI. In-depth research here.

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Gray work. Anthony Offredi of Quickbase writes about it where the hodge-podge of processes comes into play when managing a nuclear power plant. But his piece is really a digital transformation discussion, and it's a good one.

Another great webinar in our series on Trump's tariffs. This one names the true, current, sky-high costs of establishing U.S. operations. Get it straight from our roundtable of five experts.

The certainty that digital transformation is now imperative for industrials only is reinforced more by the 2025 version, just out, of Rockwell Automation's State of Manufacturing Report.

Ready to reshore? Not so fast. Two new studies see some irony in manufacturing investment back to the U.S. when tariffs might erode their ability to re-up in America, including necessary technology upgrades.

Speaking of digital transformation, David Mierau of Life Cycle Engineering, a reliability engineering expert and first-time SI contributor, reminds us that digitalization can't succeed without efficiencies built in beforehand.

While more and more manufacturers leverage AI for efficiency, these new connections create a perfect storm of vulnerabilities targeted by cyberattackers, Tim Freestone of Kiteworks writes.

Sponsor Tobii, global leader in eye-tracking and a pioneer in so-called “attention computing,” helped bring us this episode that explores how manufacturers can utilize eye-tracking to improve training, transfer expertise, and boost performance on the job.

Welcome back from the long weekend! So what's our angle to the tariff chaos? This from Vick V Vaishnavi of Hexagon AB division ETQ.

With tariffs and shaken supply chains rattling business models, modernization is an imperative, a point driven home by Creighton Fearrington of Polytron, who has tips today on transformation—something to think about going into the Memorial Day weekend.