Who actually runs AI in their factory

Analysts at the KBR Innovation Studio Bengaluru will use Seeq to investigate anomalies flagged by Orbital in KBR's INSITE platform.

Spanish metal manufacturer Oliva Torras runs MIG/MAG welding and automated polishing of medium-sized parts on a UR20 cobot with automatic tool change.

Stated result Productivity up by up to 50%

Boston Dynamics opened a testbed and training center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America where Atlas humanoid robots are trained on logistics and sequencing of automotive parts.

AGC selected Cognite's industrial AI and data platform as the manufacturing data integration platform for its Chemicals Company; after a proof of concept, a phased rollout to major domestic sites is scheduled.

Kansai Electric Power adopted Cognite as the integrated data platform for its hydro power business under its Next Generation Hydro Reborn Project.

Domtar monitors equipment at its Kingsport, Tennessee mill with 748 Waites AI-assisted vibration sensors, with a Waites analyst and the mill reliability team reviewing alerts.

Stated result 1,546.65 hours of unplanned downtime saved, as estimated by Domtar's reliability superintendent.

Endress+Hauser Flow in Reinach uses MVTec MERLIC, integrated into its MES, to verify manual flowmeter assembly steps by camera; in use since March 2025.

Stated result rollout to other global sites began in fall 2025

Welsh Water signed a three-year agreement running until 2029 for Samotics SAM4 monitoring of critical wastewater assets; the system has monitored a selection of its assets since 2022.

Anglian Water extended its condition monitoring framework with Samotics by two years; SAM4 monitors more than 250 clean water assets and will cover new Strategic Pipeline Alliance pumping stations.

Mariana Minerals is deploying Spot at its Copper One copper facility in Utah to automate routine inspections and collect field data for its operations software.

La Próxima Estación runs two KEYENCE IV4 AI vision sensors on its line in Irapuato to detect foreign matter and off-color vegetables, linked to a rejection system it built itself.

Spot runs thermal, ultrasonic and visual inspection routes on the four bottling lines at the Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plant in East Kilbride, feeding findings to the maintenance system.

Stated result Found a couple of air leaks on site that engineers then inspected and resolved.

Cadillac Casting replaced manual vibration routes with Tractian continuous monitoring on critical assets at its 280,000 square foot foundry in Michigan.

Stated result Bearing wear caught on a 200 HP motor, which was swapped over a weekend before failure.

Powder coater Assars automated coating touch-ups with a UR20 cobot, using application engineering from Nordbo and software from Mimic.

Stated result Material consumption down about 25%

Yorkshire Water has around 2,500 pumping assets monitored by Samotics SAM4 electrical signature analysis and is adding 1,200 sewage pumping station assets and 300 clean water pumping assets.

Stated result 726 developing faults detected, 40 pollution events prevented and £12.87 million confirmed detection value across the partnership, per Samotics.

In a pilot completed in 2025, Figure 02 humanoid robots inserted sheet-metal parts for welding in the body shop at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg.

Stated result Supported the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months.

BMW Group will start using Figure 03 humanoid robots at Plant Spartanburg for a logistics sequencing use case: sorting delivered components into sequencing trolleys.

Resistance welding parts maker Tuffaloy runs MachineMetrics on 14 connected lathes in Greer, South Carolina, linked to its Epicor Kinetic ERP for cycle times, downtime and part counts.

Stated result 85% year-over-year reduction in inventory corrections from 2024 to 2025.

Toast installed 6 Instrumental stations across 2 hardware programs to inspect each assembly stage of its restaurant point-of-sale hardware at its factory partners.

Stated result 5.3X ROI, per the vendor

Ørsted is piloting ABB's AI-based fault prediction at Avedøre Power Station: data from ABB protection relays and the centralized control system is analyzed to spot early signs of electrical faults.

Borouge International ran a live proof of concept of Honeywell Experion Cognition, an AI-enabled control system platform for autonomous control room operations, at its Ruwais facility in Abu Dhabi.

Lonza developed an OEE solution in Seeq with real-time monitoring at its Portsmouth, New Hampshire facility and is expanding it globally.

Stated result asset capacity up 22 percent in the first campaign

PBF Energy uses Seeq for real-time visibility of energy efficiency across six refineries, with reusable projects on fuel firing and steam systems.

International Paper uses Seeq as part of its analytics ecosystem, supporting 15 mills, 300+ users and 48 data source connections.

US Farathane went live with KCF SMARTdiagnostics across its injection molding facilities in 2025, including Georgetown, Texas.

Stated result Enterprise-wide gains by Q1 2026 about three times those of the second half of 2025, per the source.

A Unilever food plant in Latin America deployed Tractian condition monitoring from June 2025: 320 sensors on 40 critical assets, with expansion to 520 sensors planned.

Stated result 19 failures prevented and 117 hours of unplanned downtime avoided in 112 days; over $796K in corrective costs protected.

Danone implemented Tractian condition monitoring on critical assets of a dairy plant, such as homogenizers, pumps and compressors.

Stated result One homogenizer alert avoided up to $40,000 in maintenance costs and an estimated $120,000 to $600,000 in commercial impact.

Catalyst Brands and Figure AI announced a commercial partnership starting at the Reno, Nevada Distribution Logistics Center, where humanoids will first support pouch sorting system sequencing.

GSI Ceramica runs 40 KUKA KR QUANTEC and KR IONTEC robots in the casting, finishing, glazing and internal transport departments of its sanitaryware factory.

Aramco uses Emerson's AI-driven Aspen Hybrid Models in its refinery planning framework, implemented for continuous catalyst regeneration and platformer units across its refining network.

Stated result Yield and quality prediction accuracy of up to 98.5% in key refinery units

Emerson's measurement instrumentation production facility uses UR10e cobots for kitting, thread tapping and O-ring handling.

Stated result Cycle times reduced by 18–22%; ergonomic exposure down more than 60%

Tiffany & Co. uses Tulip apps across jewelry production, from material control to work instructions, at four North American sites with 1,700 users.

Stated result rework down 40%; training time down 80% for select products

Toyota Industries uses Sight Machine on Microsoft Azure at its Nagakusa Plant to unify paint shop data and find the drivers of paint defects in bumper production.

Stated result seeding-related defects down about 25%; analysis cycles cut from 5 days to under 4 hours

Honeywell Performance+ Services, delivered through Honeywell Forge, will be deployed on core units of the Dangote refinery in Lekki, with operator training simulators built on digital twins of the facilities.

A fleet of 22 KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile robots moves TV panels and components between the warehouse and ten assembly lines at the Gorzów Wielkopolski TV plant.

At MAB Möbel in Muotathal, a HOMAG robot cell uses a 3D laser scanner and MVTec HALCON to pick wooden workpieces from a chaotic stack and load a CNC machining center.

VEKA, a vinyl window and door extrusion manufacturer, runs Tulip for ERP-driven inspections and production tracking at its Pennsylvania plant, then scaled to Texas, Nevada and North Carolina.

Stated result quality escapes from barcode errors down 88%; returns down 60%

ANDRITZ selected IndustrialMind.ai to deploy AI agents for drawing review, BOM generation and root cause analysis in hydraulic equipment parts manufacturing; a pilot phase is moving to a broader rollout.

Stated result early observations: engineering drawing review time reduced by up to 30%

Aker BP launched a program to deploy AI-driven anomaly detection on equipment such as wells and heat exchangers, feeding data from Cognite's platform into NVIDIA NV-Tesseract models.

Kari-Out runs Formic robotic palletizers under a robots-as-a-service contract at its Totowa, New Jersey, plant and has ordered 6 more identical palletizing robots.

Stated result 25% increase in output and 100% uptime since deployment

Gupta Permold runs a robotic beam-sanding cell with a FANUC robot, 3D vision and AI guidance, built by Premier Automation with PushCorp, across all three shifts.

Stated result productivity up by a minimum of 60%

Pirelli deployed Tractian condition monitoring sensors on critical assets at a tire plant with 2,800 people, with weekly monitoring reviews.

Stated result 98% alert check-in rate; 77 failures identified; no recorded breakdowns on monitored exhaust systems since deployment.

The dairy Gebr. Baldauf uses a mobile cheese-care robot from Eberle whose 4K camera and MVTec HALCON deep learning inspect ripening cheese wheels for mold and defects.

Stated result 100% inspection rate

Industrial printing manufacturer DNP uses MachineMetrics machine data with MaintainX work orders at its North Carolina operation for live downtime tracking and usage-based maintenance.

Stated result Machine availability up 17% year-over-year on key production equipment.

After a year-long pilot, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service agreement for seven Digit humanoids to load and unload parts totes on a tugger at its Woodstock plant.

Sheet metal fabricator Fu Zhuan Steel uses a UR12e cobot for laser welding in small-batch, high-mix production.

Stated result Operator learning time cut from one month to one day

Test Devices by SCHENCK replaced paper travelers with Tulip apps for routing, validation and quality records in spin testing of serialized aerospace parts.

Stated result testing volume up 50%; administrative work down 79%

Plains deployed HighByte Intelligence Hub as a central integration layer for Electronic Flow Measurement meter data, from AVEVA PI System to Azure Event Hubs.

Stated result scaled from one proof of concept on a single meter to the full EFM meter fleet in a matter of days

Cosmetics maker Mandom built an unmanned production line for trial product bottles in-house around UR3e, UR5e and UR10e cobots.

Stated result About 40,000 to 50,000 trial product bottles per month, previously outsourced, now made in-house

Trident Maritime Systems partnered with Gecko Robotics to deploy Gecko's robots and Cantilever software on its factory floors, across 20 fabrication facilities that supply the U.S. Navy.

Illinois contract manufacturer MattPak deployed three Formic palletizing systems under a robots-as-a-service contract and is adding automated case packing on one line.

Xiang Piao Piao runs ABB FlexPicker IRB 360 robots with AI-based vision and PickMaster Twin digital twin software to pick and place milk tea ingredients at its Huzhou, Chengdu and Tianjin factories.

Stated result Line efficiency up 40 percent; picking speed up 15 percent

PepsiCo is building digital twins of U.S. manufacturing and warehouse facilities with Siemens Digital Twin Composer to test and validate new line configurations before changing the plant.

Stated result 20% increase in throughput on initial deployment

Whirlpool installed Tractian condition monitoring sensors on critical machines at an appliance plant and prioritizes maintenance by failure risk.

Stated result $1M+ in avoided costs; 95% coverage of previously unmonitored vibration points; 85% insight validation rate.

Aker Solutions, Aker BP and Cognite completed an offshore pilot of a Taurob Inspector robot on the Edvard Grieg platform, with inspection data contextualized in Cognite Data Fusion.

Marquis deployed two Formic automated palletizing systems at its industrial complex in central Illinois to stack cases of ethanol-based consumer products.

Stated result labor costs reduced by roughly 40% compared with manual staffing

Fruit cooperative OP Kiwi Sole seals pear stems with wax on a line built by Conkreta Robotics: computer vision locates each stem and ABB GoFa cobots follow an AI-calculated dispensing trajectory.

Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics announced a commercial agreement to bring the Digit humanoid robot into Mercado Libre's facility in San Antonio, Texas, for fulfillment tasks.

Masters Gallery Foods moved its California cheese packaging facility from manual to automated palletizing with a Formic system paid for at a fixed monthly rate.

Lidl plans to deploy 22 Stretch robots by mid-2026 to unload floor-loaded cases from containers at import warehouses in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain, after a test phase.

GIZ and the Water Authority of Jordan selected the ABB Genix Industrial IoT and AI Suite to track and reduce energy use in pumping stations, water treatment plants and distribution networks.

Southern Water signed a six-year framework with Samotics after a one-year trial; SAM4 monitors 1,458 wastewater and clean water assets on around 600 sites in southern England.

Stated result 63 equipment failures detected during the one-year trial, avoiding an estimated £5 million in equipment damage and penalties.

Tosoh implemented Cognite Data Fusion at its Nanyo and Yokkaichi chemical complexes; the project started at both sites in June 2025 and implementation was completed in December 2025.

Stellantis put Tractian energy monitoring sensors on welding robot control panels at one plant to track each robot's electrical behavior; the project is being scaled to 134 machines.

Stated result 17% reduction in energy consumption per welding point; estimated savings of 1 GWh a year.

A camera-guided UR cobot cell built by integrator Archytas Robotics feeds small medical parts such as dental implants to a laser marking machine, running day and night.

Stated result Up to 30,000 parts engraved per month; productivity gain of around 50%

Digit humanoid robots move totes between AMRs and conveyors and stack them at the GXO Logistics facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Stated result More than 100,000 totes moved.

Utah candy maker Taffy Town runs a Formic robotic palletizer at the end of its line, its first end-of-line automation.

Stated result 5.5 million pounds of taffy handled, more than 279,000 cases stacked

TotalEnergies is piloting Honeywell's AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant in the control room of the Delayed Coking Unit at its Port Arthur Refinery to forecast alarm events before they happen.

Stated result Preliminary: five potential events forecast, on average 12 minutes before an alarm incident.

ConocoPhillips uses HighByte Intelligence Hub to standardize OT data from SCADA and several historians across business units and deliver it to Snowflake in a common data model.

Stated result over 1 billion rows of sensor data ingested daily; more than 400 dashboards on the common data model

Steelmaker USIMINAS marks metal coils with paint, text and QR codes using a UR10e cobot, after proof-of-concept and pilot tests.

Stated result Annual paint savings of R$130,000; more than 100,000 coils marked

Multiple coordinated autonomous control AI agents (FKDPP reinforcement learning), integrated with CENTUM VP, directly control and optimize acid gas removal operations at Aramco's Fadhili Gas Plant.

Stated result Initial results: 10% to 15% less amine and steam usage and around 5% less power usage.

NVIDIA uses Instrumental's visual AI across its manufacturing network to catch assembly errors on GB200 and GB300 NVL72 server trays before functional test.

Stated result final system builds sped up by up to 14 days

Westburg Greenhouse in the Netherlands deployed a fleet of Four Growers GR-200 harvesting robots, built on FANUC LR Mate arms with AI vision, to pick grape and cherry tomatoes.

The Mercedes-Benz factory in Juiz de Fora applies glue to stringers with a UR10e cobot on its production line.

Stated result Reduced rework and production delays

National Grid replaced legacy batch ETL with a streaming pipeline built on HighByte Intelligence Hub and Snowflake to deliver grid asset data for forecasting and operations.

Stated result latency under 15 minutes; legacy process was limited to hourly updates and 60,000 assets

Kyoto craft brewer Craft Bank and Yokogawa Digital ran a proof of concept in which FKDPP autonomous control AI generated the fermentation temperature schedule for Bank IPA; brewers applied it manually.

Stated result Fermentation time shortened from 336 hours to 240 hours, a 28% reduction.

BlueScope uses Siemens Senseye Predictive Maintenance at steel plants in Australia, including Springhill Works in Port Kembla, and at sites in New Zealand and Southeast Asia.

Stated result About 2,000 hours of unplanned downtime avoided over three years; 53 complete process interruptions prevented

Mariani installed a Formic robotic palletizing workcell at the end of a packaging line in its Vacaville, California, dried fruit plant, its first robotic automation.

At its Werlte plant, KRONE uses KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile robots to deliver compressed air tanks to welding cells where KUKA handling and welding robots process them.

In the greenfield factory in Ibbenbüren, built by KRONE subsidiary GTS, nine KUKA welding and handling robots work with autonomous mobile robots to make welded assemblies for agricultural machinery.

Paper maker Hokuetsu Corporation and Hokuetsu Logistics adopted a Yokogawa Digital AI solution that automates outbound shipment loading planning for paper products, after a proof-of-concept test.

Stated result Loading plans generated in less than 10 seconds.

Saddle Creek uses Anyware Robotics' Pixmo, an AI-powered mobile box-handling robot built on a FANUC CRX cobot, to unload containers at its Modesto, California, hub.

Stated result dock injuries for unloading down to zero; more than 1,700,000 pounds picked

KCF's SMARTdiagnostics flagged rising vibration on an extruder motor at SABIC's Bay St. Louis plant; the cause was traced to a clogged filter and a product change.

Stated result An estimated 8 hours of downtime and $107,000 in losses avoided.

BorgWarner's Changnyeong plant inspects EV power train assemblies with Cognex 3D vision and checks Park-Lock assembly with In-Sight 2800 edge learning systems.

TotalEnergies will roll out Emerson's AspenTech Inmation data fabric across its industrial sites worldwide over a two-year period, together with Emerson advanced process control, as a base for AI use cases.

Lakeside Book Company depalletizes mixed cases at its fulfillment center with a FANUC R-2000iC robot, FANUC 3DV vision camera and AI Box Locator software, built by APT and FlexPAC.

Stated result more than nine cases per minute; 45 million pounds of manual lifting removed annually

BPMI and its suppliers are using Gecko robotic and AI platforms to inspect forged components for U.S. Navy nuclear propulsion and to build digital twins of critical components.

Stated result Inspection spans for forged components reduced by up to 90% in initial trials

Boxed Water chose Formic automated palletizers for the end of its line in Holland, Michigan, to replace manual stacking of 28-pound cases.

Since mid-2024 the Cargill Amsterdam Multiseed plant has run a pilot with Spot for routine maintenance inspections and visual safety checks in its oilseed crush and refinery plant.

Formetal uses KUKA autonomous mobile robots, coordinated by KUKA.AMR Fleet software, to bring furniture panels to a KUKA robotic palletizer that builds mixed-product pallets.

Stated result Pallet cycle time cut from ten to seven minutes

Sachsenmilch ran a pilot of Siemens Senseye Predictive Maintenance with Siplus CMS 1200 vibration monitoring at its Leppersdorf milk processing plant.

Stated result Early detection of a faulty pump saved a low six-figure sum

Audi and Siemens brought the AI-based Weld Splatter Detection check into series production in the Neckarsulm body shop; it detects possible weld splatter on vehicle underbodies.

Nutrien uses Emerson AMS Device Manager and Fisher ValveLink diagnostics with remote monitoring by Spartan Controls to spot failing valves and instruments at its potash mines, on more than 3,500 devices.

Stated result About $7.6 million saved over about six years

AbbVie monitors steam traps at its Illinois campuses in real time with Emerson Rosemount 708 wireless acoustic transmitters and Plantweb Insight software, replacing the annual plant-wide audit.

Stated result $214,000 in cost avoidance over two years; maintenance rounds reduced by 445 hours

Petrobras monitors 114 pressure safety valves and six steam traps at its RPBC refinery with Emerson wireless acoustic transmitters and Plantweb Insight analysis software to trace leaks behind flaring.

Stated result Leaks identified equal to 20,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent over six months; $220,000 saved

backaldrin replaced a more than 30-year-old palletizing system for canisters of baking agents at its Asten site with a KUKA KR IONTEC robot.

After a pilot on 40 machines at its Fiberon plant in North Carolina, Fortune Brands Innovations is rolling out Augury Machine Health to 1,000 machines across 16 sites in the U.S., UK and Mexico.

Stated result 2.5x ROI in eight months at the pilot site; deployed on two-thirds of the targeted machines at the halfway mark.

Equinor runs inspection and water-sampling robots as a pilot at its Sture oil terminal and Mongstad refinery; robot data is streamed to Cognite Data Fusion and analyzed for anomalies.

Stated result Spot robot has run more than 1000 autonomous inspection rounds

Ingredion rolled out Tractian vibration sensors and AI diagnostics for real-time condition monitoring at key plants, including North Kansas City.

Stated result $1.0M in production savings and $223K in maintenance savings at one facility; up to 168 hours of downtime avoided.

Tate & Lyle monitors 280+ critical assets, including fermenter agitators, with Tractian vibration sensors and AI diagnostics at its San Diego facility.

Stated result $446.9K total cost savings, including $380K in production uptime; 84 hours of downtime avoided.

Daikin and Hitachi began a trial of a generative AI agent for equipment fault diagnosis at Daikin's Rinkai commercial air conditioner factory in Sakai, Osaka.

Stated result Earlier proof of concept: cause and countermeasures answered within 10 seconds with over 90% accuracy.

Stove maker HASE welds unfinished stoves with two KUKA KR CYBERTECH nano robots on a linear unit and programs every welding sequence offline on a digital twin in KUKA.Sim.

Innovafeed uses Tulip for production, warehousing and MES functions at its insect farm in Nesle, including container tracking and automated container movements.

Stated result infrastructure supports growth from 5K to 30K pallets/day

Iron-ore pellet maker Bahrain Steel is adopting Nanoprecise energy-centered predictive maintenance, with a dashboard for energy use and machine health anomalies.

Rumiano Cheese selected Formic to automate palletizing at its packaging plant in Willows, California, under a no-upfront-cost service model.

TICO Tractors uses Tulip apps for digital work instructions, order tracking and quality inspection in terminal tractor production.

Stated result quality inspection and rework time down by an estimated 50%-60%

POSCO uses Spot with a thermal camera for blast furnace inspections at Gwangyang Steelworks, running two Autowalk missions around the furnace several times a day.

Glass maker Vivix built an industrial data foundation with HighByte Intelligence Hub and AWS for maintenance operations across its plants in Brazil, and is adding generative and traditional AI.

Fiberglass insulation maker AFICO, a Zamil Industrial subsidiary, is adopting Nanoprecise IoT sensors and AI for machine health and energy monitoring in its manufacturing operations.

Södra Cell ordered ABB advanced process control for the bleaching process on one production line at its Mörrum pulp mill, after earlier APC projects at its Mönsterås and Värö mills.

Gap Inc. uses Stretch robots to unload boxes from trailers at its distribution centers, including the Gallatin, Tennessee site.

Stated result One or two people in inbound can process 10,000 cases in a day, a task that took 12 to 15 people before automation.

thyssenkrupp Rasselstein records stock movements automatically: forklifts carry SICK 2D LiDAR sensors whose position data feed IdentPro's warehouse software and a digital twin.

Coca-Cola Consolidated is working to digitalize manufacturing operations at its Nashville plant with Sight Machine's Manufacturing Data Platform, Microsoft Fabric and NVIDIA Omniverse.

In a pilot project, a Digit humanoid robot has been loading and unloading a washing machine at the Schaeffler plant in Cheraw, South Carolina, since the beginning of 2025.

Meal-kit maker Gousto uses HighByte Intelligence Hub to model data from its factory PLCs at the edge and publish it to AWS, with a unified namespace on AWS IoT Core.

Power plant operator NAES signed a multi-year agreement worth more than $100 million with Gecko Robotics to modernize U.S. power plants with robots and AI.

Chilean water utility Aguas Andinas installed Samotics electrical signature analysis monitoring on its critical pumps in Santiago; results of the project are still to come.

Formic deployed five gantry-style palletizing robots at Land O'Frost's Lansing, Illinois, meat plant under its palletizer rental program.

Stated result 20% saving on daily labor-related operating expenses

After a pilot in 2024, ink maker INX International implemented AssetWatch condition monitoring at four U.S. manufacturing facilities and plans a North America rollout.

Italian water utility Gruppo SMAT launched a pilot of Samotics SAM4 electrical signature analysis on water infrastructure assets; installation took four weeks and data collection has begun.

General Motors automated top-coat paint inspection and repair on a moving line with FANUC robots, 3M's Finesse-it robotic paint repair system and Inovision's SMARTInspect.

Boise Cascade scaled AssetWatch wireless vibration monitoring from 1 to 17 wood products manufacturing sites between November 2023 and December 2024, covering 362 assets.

Stated result 130 documented saves and $4M in estimated cost avoidance at the 13-month mark; 5x ROI.

Hamilton Company connected 86 machines in its Nevada machine shop to MachineMetrics for real-time production data, utilization reports and cycle time tracking.

Stated result Yearly output per machine up from 1,600 to 3,400 hours.

Idemitsu Kosan completed the implementation of Cognite Data Fusion at four refining and chemical sites to centrally manage P&IDs, repair history, operating data and equipment drawings.

Stated result approximately 10,000 P&IDs consolidated; more than 6 million data items can be checked instantly

ClonBio signed a multi-year agreement to implement Seeq across its biorefinery assets in Europe and the U.S., starting with the Pannonia Bio grain biorefinery and ethanol facility in Hungary.

Life Line Emergency Vehicles sands ambulance truck bodies with a GrayMatter Robotics AI cell built on a single FANUC M-710 series robot arm.

Stated result gains of 30-40% in production times

Formlabs built an app-based MES on Tulip to manage built-to-order part printing and post-processing at its sample parts facility in Ohio.

Stated result cycle time down 20%; defect logging time down 60%

Rossmann classifies incoming pallets in goods receiving with SICK's camera-based, deep-learning PACS system and assigns them to suppliers with the Tag-LOC real-time localization system.

Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan signed a contract with Gecko Robotics and is to start using its robots to generate data for machine-learning algorithms at its operations.

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions selected Cognite Data Fusion as one foundation for operational data, to support maintenance strategy and turnaround execution across its plants.

Packaging maker Zaleco, headquartered in Oradea, uses Tulip apps for digital work instructions, in-process quality control and real-time production tracking.

Stated result scrap rate down 20% in two months; operational availability up at least 30%

Bottler Swire Coca-Cola USA uses Sight Machine to bring structured manufacturing data into Databricks alongside supply chain, customer and finance data, and to find the causes of line faults.

Wall Colmonoy uses MachineMetrics for real-time production monitoring of EDM, CNC wire cutting and turning machines at its facility in Pontardawe, Wales.

Stated result 20% increase in machine utilization, 83% reduction in overtime hours and 25% increase in on-time delivery.

Arla's dairy in Sipoo, Finland checks every packed yogurt box on its packaging line with a SICK TriSpector1000 3D vision sensor and rejects damaged or incomplete boxes.

Stated result saves a couple of work hours per week

North Carolina contract manufacturer Southern Fabricators uses Eigen Innovations' AI vision system to check welds during production, according to Intel's newsroom.

Stated result paid for itself within six months; fewer rejects on the shop floor

Siemens Gamesa uses HighByte Intelligence Hub to model plant data into a local unified namespace, used by engineers to monitor the blade casting mold control system.

Catalent uses HighByte Intelligence Hub in its process development labs to model bioreactor and at-line equipment data and publish it to a HiveMQ broker for analytics and remote monitoring.

Equinor signed a multi-year agreement to implement Seeq across its global assets, initially to monitor well and process behavior.

Plastic film recycler Circulus uses Augury Machine Health in its plants to move from reactive to predictive maintenance.

Stated result Average uptime up from around 65 to 70% to 85 to 90%, per the CEO.

Meta's Reality Labs uses Instrumental imaging stations and AI defect discovery across seven hardware programs, including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

Stated result 900+ engineering weeks saved and 6X return on investment in one year

After a first pilot phase, ADNOC Gas signed a multi-year contract, at an estimated ceiling of $30 million, to deploy Gecko's wall-climbing robots and Cantilever platform across its sites.

Stated result Pilot phase: asset coverage up 99.6%, efficiency up more than 93% versus manual processes

CNC machining supplier Kirby Risk Precision Machining replaced manual data collection with MachineMetrics production data used by engineering, maintenance and other departments.

Stated result Machine utilization up 52%; output up from 600 to 800 hours per week; material request times down from 51 to 26 minutes.

Covestro runs Emerson's DeltaV PredictPro model predictive control on one of four polyester reactors at its Barcelona plant to manage reflux flow in the esterification batch process.

Stated result Throughput up by an estimated 1% annually; reduced reflux water use and shorter reaction duration

Owens Corning uses Waites wireless vibration and temperature sensors at its Tessenderlo plant, where an alert on Ball Mill #5 exposed a cracked shaft; the program covers 24 facilities.

Stated result 5,376 hours of downtime and over $11 million in costs avoided on the ball mill, per the Waites case study.

EDEKA and SICK developed the Pallet Classification System at EDEKA's Berbersdorf warehouse: two color cameras and a neural network identify deposit pallet types at goods receipt.

Orchid Orthopedic Solutions replaced paper hour-by-hour sheets with MachineMetrics tablets and automated data capture at its Chelsea, Michigan plant, which operates 54 machines.

Stated result Utilization up from 28% to 47% on the ten initial machines; 24 hours of manual data collection per day eliminated.

Arbec deployed AssetWatch continuous vibration monitoring on its oriented strand board lines from early 2024, starting with 200 sensors per plant.

Stated result 15 equipment failures prevented in the first six months; 12x six-month ROI.

Under a three-year partnership, Gecko Robotics' data-collecting robots and Cantilever platform are to be deployed at the 80-MW Grant Town coal refuse power plant to reduce forced outages.

Nature Fresh Farms harvests greenhouse tomatoes with a Four Growers system that pairs a FANUC LR Mate robot with AI that detects ripeness and plans the picking path.

Deutsche Bahn's E-Check at the Cologne-Nippes ICE plant inspects trains with a camera arch of 32 Basler ace 2 cameras and AI that flags missing screws, wear and damage.

thyssenkrupp Steel monitors conveyor rolls of its Duisburg hot rolling mill with Samotics SAM4 Health; after a pilot on 100 rolls it extended use and integrated it into its maintenance process.

Stated result Faults including mechanical unbalance and bearing degradation detected early in the pilot; affected machines replaced before failure (no figures given).

Tokuyama runs ABB Ability Expert Optimizer, an advanced process control system, on the calciner, kiln and cooler of its Nanyo cement plant.

Stated result Kiln thermal energy consumption down 3 percent; operator manual operations down about 70 percent

Parkland's Burnaby refinery uses Seeq for daily monitoring and incident investigation of its main air blower, sitewide inferential modeling, boilers, wet gas compressor and flare stack.

Stated result flow-anomaly analysis completed in one hour instead of more than 40 hours

Performance Composites sands fiberglass and composite transport parts with a FANUC CRX cobot running GrayMatter Robotics' AI surface-finishing software.

Stated result 90-95% of sanding dust removed; operators trained in 1 day

London Stansted Airport selected Samotics SAM4 Health to monitor baggage handling equipment; the system is to be rolled out to dozens of baggage handling systems in arrival and departure halls.

Water utility Dublin San Ramon Services District monitors pumps and blowers with Petasense wireless Vibration Motes, kept in use after an initial pilot at its Dublin, California facilities.

Stated result Nearly 86% less spent on equipment repairs than typically allocated, per the Petasense case study.

Elementary and Rapid Robotics deployed a vision inspection system on site at medical device maker Plas-Tech Engineering to check printed ink on syringes for defects.

ENEOS Materials officially adopted Yokogawa's FKDPP reinforcement learning AI for direct control of a distillation column at its chemical plant, after a field test of almost a year.

Stated result Steam consumption and CO2 emissions down 40% versus conventional manual control.

South East Water is running a 12-month proof-of-value trial of Samotics SAM4 on drinking water assets, including partially submerged borehole pumps, plus SAM4 Energy for efficiency insights.

Tinplate packaging maker Blechwarenfabrik Limburg adopted Hitachi Vantara's Lumada DataOps platform (Pentaho) for real-time data analysis, combining energy reporting with anomaly detection.

Stated result More than 700 reports generated in seconds; energy costs expected to fall by half a million euros per year.

Votorantim Cimentos installed ABB Ability Expert Optimizer and Knowledge Manager at cement plants in Spain, Turkey, Tunisia and Morocco to optimize the process and standardize laboratory data analysis.

A Mujin robotic palletizer with 3D vision builds mixed-SKU pallets on the fly at the Planet Saitama distribution center, placing boxes on pallets positioned by AMRs.

Kerry Group started AssetWatch continuous vibration monitoring on roughly 20 critical assets with about 100 sensors, including fluidizing dryers and blowers.

Stated result Three issues caught in the first 2 months; an estimated $43,000 in avoided costs.

Sango runs a finished goods warehouse inside its factory with two Mujin depalletizing robots and 18 AGVs under one MujinOS control platform, handling automotive components.

Stated result Manual logistics labor down 67%; about 2,080 truck journeys per year eliminated

Toyota Boshoku automated finished goods storage and transport in its manufacturing facility with MujinOS, combining robotic palletizing, seven AGVs and a digital twin.

Stated result Deployed in approximately six months

Tepco automated high-mix case picking and order fulfillment with MujinOS, which coordinates robotic mixed-case palletizing and a fleet of 17 AGVs.

At its Osaka logistics center, FANCL uses MujinOS-powered piece-picking robots with 3D vision for mixed-SKU picking, sorting and six-side barcode scanning.

Kyowa Shiko uses a Mujin depalletizing robot with MujinVision3D to unload mixed-load pallets without SKU registration or robot teaching.

Stated result Shipping efficiency up 70%

LOGISTEED uses MujinOS-powered piece-picking robots with 3D vision and barcode verification for the secondary sorting of pharmaceutical products.

Methanex feeds AVEVA PI System data through CONNECT into a time-series foundation model to forecast steam turbine discharge pressure at one site, and into AI agents that assist operators.

Spanish meat producer Prolongo-Faccsa applied AI-powered vision on OMRON's FH Series Vision System to six inspection applications across drying, processing and packaging, in the ALIMENTE21 R&D programme.

Minerals producer Omya uses AVEVA Predictive Analytics in a centralized predictive maintenance program that monitors equipment variables in real time across its plants.

Stated result 15,000 hours of downtime avoided in the first two years; issues detected up to three months ahead

Schneider Electric's Chasseneuil plant inspects contactors with Cognex In-Sight cameras and AI models built in OneVision, as a standard to replicate in other factories.

Stated result false reject rate cut by a factor of 70; inspection extended from 5 to 17 control areas; cycle time from 400 ms to 200 ms

Privatmolkerei Bauer palletizes open trays of yogurt pouch bags with a Yaskawa cobot in a fenceless Profipack palletizing system, in use since January 2026.

Stated result cycle time of 20 seconds per tray

H&H Group replaced manual label checks with an OCR inspection system built by Shenzhen Jiangrun Xuneng Technology on MVTec HALCON that verifies batch and expiry codes on packaging.

The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts use AVEVA PI System, AVEVA Advanced Analytics and CONNECT, with machine learning models that optimize pumping plant operations and predict issues.

SQM centralizes nitrate plant data in AVEVA PI System and CONNECT, runs predictive and optimization models in Databricks, and shows the recommendations to operators in AVEVA PI Vision.

Stated result nitrate yield up 1%; process variability down 10-15%

Chocolate maker Alfred Ritter uses four fenceless Bayer PLT HC palletizing systems, each built around a Yaskawa HC-series cobot, at its Reichenbach logistics hub.

Weißer + Grießhaber produces radar radomes in Mönchweiler on an injection moulding cell from EGS Automation where Yaskawa six-axis robots automate the complete handling process.

Steelmaker Çolakoğlu Metalurji applies AVEVA Predictive Analytics, fed by SCADA and wireless sensor data, to anomaly detection on its two melt shop cranes.

Stated result about 350 tons of steel production loss prevented; unexpected crane wheel failures reduced to nearly zero

At its Telfs plant, Liebherr builds bulldozer track roller frames in an autonomous manufacturing cell from Yaskawa with three Motoman robots that handle and weld the parts.

Aspen's Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville site inspects filled ampoules for foreign particles with twelve cameras and MVTec HALCON deep-learning segmentation, replacing manual checks.

TC Energy runs an AI-powered Compression Optimization Tool built on AVEVA PI System and CONNECT to optimize the compressor fleet of its natural gas pipeline network.

Stated result 180 optimization recommendations implemented between June 2023 and January 2025; 54,000 metric tons of CO2e eliminated

Octapharma runs an IT/OT blueprint project in Stockholm with OEE monitoring on Siemens Industrial Edge and Senseye predictive maintenance in the cloud, and seeks to scale it.

HMT automated loading and unloading of its MiniTec industrial parts cleaning system in St. Georgen with eight Yaskawa Motoman GP12 robots.

At HydraSpecma's Våxtorp plant, two Yaskawa Motoman HC cobots pick parts next to operators, with cameras above the conveyors selecting the picking job.

Stated result assembly productivity up 17%; about 3500 parts picked daily

Panasonic Energy's Kansas battery plant uses MVTec HALCON deep learning alongside rule-based vision to inspect cylindrical lithium-ion cells at each step after slitting.

Stated result 57.3% fewer over-detections in the verification test at a plant in Japan

Chroff Kunststofftechnik sorts randomly placed injection-molded parts into containers with an FMB handling system: a Yaskawa GP12 robot guided by a Keyence AI camera.

AtkinsRéalis deployed a digital twin of the Dragon LNG terminal in Milford Haven using AVEVA Process Simulation and AVEVA PI System to recommend process setpoints that cut energy use.

Stated result $1M energy savings identified

FedEx used HighByte Intelligence Hub to contextualize and standardize operational data from PLC systems, deploying data models across 41 sites in six months to support robotics and site automation.

Vaccine manufacturer AJ Vaccines ran a proof of concept with OMRON's FH vision system to count vials automatically in production, as a retrofit to the existing line.

Stated result 100% success rate in vial counting during testing.

Medical device maker WaveLight uses a Pinger Robotic cell with four Yaskawa Motoman GP robots to load a camera-based tester and pack applanation cones into blisters.

New Enterprise Stone & Lime expanded KCF monitoring equipment after pilots at one aggregate plant and one asphalt plant.

Stated result About 2,000 triggers and 100 actionable insights in six months.

During a 30-day pilot, KCF's SMARTdiagnostics caught an over-greased dryer motor bearing at Altoona Water Authority's wastewater facility.

Stated result $14,904 saved in the first 30 days of the pilot.

Anchor Glass uses KCF's predictive maintenance platform, with sensors on critical equipment, across its five glass container facilities.

Stated result Two saves in the pilot avoided an estimated $200,000 of downtime.

Nabors ran a 5-month trial of KCF vibration sensors on drilling rig mud pumps: 96 sensors on 12 mud pumps across 4 rigs in Texas.

Stated result $320,000 in equipment costs avoided during the pilot.

Georgia-Pacific has deployed 62,000 sensors across more than 100 sites since 2017 and uses KCF's remote monitoring tools with its own support center.

Stated result 50% reduction in unplanned events.

Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear station deployed KCF wireless vibration, ultrasonic and temperature sensors to detect steam valve leaks and thermal losses.

Stated result Losses on the order of 10 MW identified, much of it corrected in the Spring 2024 refueling outage.

RYAM piloted KCF sensors at one facility in early 2021 and expanded to all sites; its Jessup facility has approximately 2,600 sensors on about 95% of critical machinery.

Lithium producer Albemarle built its AI and analytics system, branded Albemarle Intelligence, on AVEVA PI System to find process optimization opportunities across its global sites.

Stated result $150M in estimated annual improvements; 75% reduction in environmental incidents

Metallurgy group Aubert & Duval uses Braincube Real-Time Process Optimization at its Ancizes plant to adjust processes and energy use during production, and has extended it to multiple sites.

Stated result 32% improvement in process stability; 18% reduction in defects; 19% reduction in gas consumption

Saint-Gobain Weber uses Braincube Real-Time Process Optimization across 9 production sites, including on its bagging process to limit overfilling.

Stated result 90% reduction in problem-solving time for engineering teams

Tata Steel Nederland uses Siemens Senseye Predictive Maintenance at the Coldmill Annealing Bay of its IJmuiden steel plant to warn maintenance teams of emerging equipment issues.

Stated result Equipment breakdowns reduced by 67%

Bäckerei Görtz in Ludwigshafen uses an ADM system with four Yaskawa Motoman GP180 robots to move baking sheets of frozen dough into trolleys, running since November 2024.

Pulp and paper producer Sappi uses Braincube Real-Time Process Optimization, which gives mill teams real-time operating prescriptions; 165+ optimization models are deployed across 18 mills.

Stated result 80% reduction in data preparation time

Třinecké železárny piloted the Siemens Predictive Service Analyzer on an edge device to monitor the Sinamics S120 drives of the sizing mill at its Ostrava tube mill.

VOSS Automotive uses Litmus Edge to connect old and new production machines, model data in a unified namespace, calculate KPIs such as OEE at the edge and send them to the cloud.

Ingredients producer Döhler rolled out Litmus Edge across multiple plants to connect shopfloor assets, standardize OEE data and send it to Microsoft Azure, with anomaly detection for energy monitoring.

Stated result 90% data compression rate at the edge; multiple plants rolled out within 3 months of project kick-off

Mi Rancho uses six Formic robotic palletizers, collaborative units on its tortilla lines and an industrial unit on its chip line, at its Elk Grove plant.

Electrical motor distributor Brd. Klee uses an OMRON LD250 autonomous mobile robot serving 10 carts to move goods from the warehouse to the shipment area.

At a Nucor metal grating facility, Eigen's OneView software combines thermal images of grate welds with welder process data to inspect every weld inline.

Stated result 100% weld inspection

Henderson Stamping images every stamped home-appliance part and uses Eigen's OneView and a machine-learning algorithm to detect surface defects through the protective film.

Aramco's Riyadh Refinery deployed Yokogawa's Dynamic Real-Time Optimizer (RT-OP) on its hydrocracker unit, using a high-fidelity simulation model to send optimized setpoints to advanced process control.

SolarEdge e-Mobility uses OMRON autonomous mobile robots in a FasThink solution to bring materials from the warehouse to production lines at its Umbertide facility.

Koppers monitors seven critical hot-oil pumps at an unstaffed pumping facility with two Emerson AMS Asset Monitors, whose edge analytics identify faults and recommend maintenance actions.

Stated result Two pumps changed out after the monitors flagged them; significant wear found in carbon bushings

Chip manufacturer Polar Semiconductor added OMRON LD 60/90 mobile robots to move work-in-progress between tools in its facility.

Unilever's Knorr plant in Heilbronn rented two Bayer palletizing cobots built on Yaskawa arms for one week in spring 2023 while a palletizing station was shut down.

DuPont moved from route-based to predictive maintenance with Augury Machine Health at proof-of-concept sites and is rolling it out across its businesses.

Stated result 7x ROI at the proof-of-concept sites in less than a year.

Osem-Nestlé has used Augury Machine Health since 2020 to avoid unexpected downtime; one alert on its Sabra hummus line allowed an early repair.

Stated result One early repair avoided a shutdown of the entire factory, per the source (no figures given).

Barilla implemented Augury's Process Health solution (formerly Seebo), starting with one baked goods line, to find the causes of production losses from waste.

Stated result Waste reduced by 37% in a few months, per Barilla.

Lindt uses Augury's Process Health solution (formerly Seebo) on its chocolate production lines for cause analysis, throughput and quality.

Worthington Steel installed AssetWatch vibration sensors across its hot-dipped galvanizing plant near Toledo; an early furnace roll bearing detection allowed a planned replacement.

Stated result 18% less machine-related downtime and 17% fewer reworks; about 48 hours of downtime and $500k in lost gross margin avoided on one bearing.

After a first deployment in Columbus, OH, Worthington Steel expanded AssetWatch monitoring to 17 steel processing and pressure cylinder facilities in North America.

Stated result More than 1,800 sensors on 650+ machine assets; 260+ downtime risks resolved; $16M+ in potential lost gross margin saved.

Grupo Antolin uses OMRON autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots to load and transport car interior components from the injection area to the assembly area at its Aragusa plant in Burgos.