From Zero to AI: Why most manufacturers are skipping the step that matters most

In our last session, Factbird CEO, Søren Schønnemann, walked through the path from OEE to AI: three phases (Production Insights, Connected Operations, and Knowledge Excellence) that take a plant from spreadsheets to genuine manufacturing intelligence.

His session gave us the destination. Now, it's time we talk about the starting line, and why most manufacturers are still stuck on it.

Walk onto any shop floor today, including the ones at big, well-run manufacturers, and you'll likely find that production is tracked on whiteboards, clipboards, and Excel files buried on a supervisor's laptop. That's the reality. It's also why so many industrial AI projects stall before they go anywhere: the conversation is too far ahead of the shop floor.

Join LNS Research's James Wells and Factbird's Matthew Craven for a 45-minute fireside chat about that gap. They'll explain why decision speed matters more than your data volume, what LNS's research shows about the plants actually making progress, and where to start if you're still in the early stages.

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