IDC Survey Finds Manufacturers Lack AI-ready Networks

The Common Question

Are US manufacturers actually ready to scale AI across operations?

The Lesson in This Case

Zero US manufacturers in the IDC survey of 800 senior technology leaders report a fully ready network for AI – and 86% say adoption remains confined to pockets of the business rather than scaled across operations. The bottleneck is infrastructure: predictive maintenance, computer vision, and real-time data systems all degrade when connectivity is inconsistent, which explains why a quarter of manufacturers whose AI initiatives underperformed globally pointed to network and connectivity failures as a contributing cause. If your AI projects are only partly meeting expectations – as half of US manufacturers report – audit the network before you audit the model.

Originally reported by Manufacturing Dive. Read the full story here.