Best of LinkedIn: Smart Manufacturing CW 23/ 24

We curate most relevant posts about Smart Manufacturing on LinkedIn and regularly share key takeaways. We at Frenus enable smart manufacturing providers with detailed, feature-by-feature competitive intelligence, ensuring faster decision-making and stronger sales positioning. You can find more info in here: https://www.frenus.com/usecases/product-feature-benchmarking-and-sales-battle-cards-know-exactly-where-you-win-where-you-lose-and-why This edition details the rapid transition of the manufacturing sector toward an Autonomous Enterprise model, where industrial AI and digital twins move from experimental pilots to production-ready applications. Key technology providers like SAP, Siemens, AWS, and PTC are embedding agentic AI and physical AI across the entire value chain to enable self-optimizing factories that predict failures and automate complex decision-making. The texts emphasize that live, bidirectional data and a structured digital backbone are essential for achieving real-world results in areas such as predictive maintenance, quality control, and supply chain resilience. Furthermore, the industry is seeing a shift toward human-centered automation, where technologies like robotics and augmented reality support rather than replace human workers. Strategic insights highlight that competitive advantage is no longer found in simple process control but in operational intelligence and the ability to scale digital transformations effectively. Updates from global events and partnerships suggest that software-defined systems and sovereign data networks are now the fundamental infrastructure for modern industrial sovereignty. This podcast was created via Google NotebookLM.