1、DATA TRENDS 2026 MANUFACTURINGHow agentic AI and unified data are transforming the industryTable of ContentsTransformative Change:Moving from Insight to Execution.3Trends That Matter in Manufacturing.5Trend 1:AI inside everything.6Trend 2:The unified manufacturing namespace.8Trend 3:Connected produc
2、ts become connected businesses.10The State of the AI Data Cloud for Manufacturing.11Building the Future of AI-Driven,Connected Manufacturing.13Table of Contents|2 DATA TRENDS 2026:MANUFACTURINGTransformative Change:Moving from Insight to ExecutionThis year,manufacturing is operating in a fundamental
3、ly different environment,marked by such stark changes that volatility is no longer an exception but the baseline condition.Outside factors now shape daily manufacturing decisions,from geopolitics to energy uncertainty and regulation.Simultaneously,manufacturers are facing cost pressures and margin c
4、ompression while trying to meet growing expectations for resilience,sustainability and responsiveness.This multifaceted set of challenges has exposed the limits of traditional planning cycles,siloed operations and retrospective analytics and the need to leave them in the past.Even modern processes a
5、re becoming more refined as manufacturers whove invested heavily in data,dashboards and analytics realize that while their insight improved,their execution did not.And in an era of constant industry disruption,insight alone is no longer enough.In 2026,leading manufacturers are moving beyond using da
6、ta to merely explain what happened to also understand why it happened.Theres a major shift toward AI-enabled execution as it becomes central to operations and optimization.And that optimization is no longer occurring in isolation,but throughout the organization with the aid of agentic AI.“Traditiona