IIoT World

The convergence of IT and OT networks across manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure has brought industrial control systems (ICS) into direct contact with the same threat actors targeting enterprise IT. Threat actors now pursue industrial data as aggressively as system access, using AI to accelerate attack sophistication while defenders adopt frameworks like IEC 62...

A Gatorade bottling line at a FIFA World Cup stadium, producing on site instead of shipping from a central plant, with flavors adjusted by region and Doctor Pepper for the Texas crowd. At Hannover Messe 2026, Siemens demonstrated how AI makes this kind of pop-up manufacturing work, connecting design, simulation, PLCs, sensing technologies, and an […]

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Someone responsible solely for operating a CNC machine or an extruder can now generate a production-ready application through a prompt. At Hannover Messe 2026, Cybus CEO Peter Sorowka described enterprise manufacturers already experimenting with this: generating applications and bringing them into production within a single week. The expected result is a “tsunami” of AI-gener...

When agentic AI can write attack code and deploy it autonomously, securing OT networks requires removing the inbound attack surface entirely. At Hannover Messe 2026, Skkynet CEO Gary Tillery describes how the company’s outbound-only architecture does exactly that: Skkynet’s Cogent DataHub platform keeps all inbound firewall ports closed across more than 30,000 installations i...

A temperature reading with a timestamp does not tell you whether it is Fahrenheit or centigrade, which factory generated it, which production line, or which asset. Without that context, the data cannot drive a decision. At Hannover Messe 2026, InfluxData and Litmus described how their integrated architecture solves this: Litmus Edge connects to shop floor […]

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