Two Years Later: Which AI Actually Made It Onto The Shop Floor?

Your board wants an AI plan. Meanwhile, at least half of generative AI projects were abandoned after proof of concept, and MIT found that 95% of enterprise pilots delivered no measurable P&L impact. So which AI actually made it onto the shop floor?

Two years ago we published five predictions about AI in manufacturing. This edition grades every one of them in public: what we said, what happened, and an honest verdict.

Inside, you'll find:

• The one statistic that predicts whether your next AI project survives. AI bought and embedded in existing tools succeeded about 67% of the time. Internal builds, far less often.
• Which investments paid back within a year, and which ones quietly died after the pilot.
• The EU AI Act deadlines your compliance team needs, and why most shop-floor AI is not high-risk.
• A scorecard on all five 2024 predictions, including the three things we got wrong.
• Updated case studies on Siemens, PepsiCo, Toyota, Lenovo, P&G, Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
• Two new chapters on copilots, agents and physical AI, the trends the 2024 edition never saw coming.