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A view to the future
Looking ahead, achieving success in the competitive field of manufacturing will not go to those who take a broad approach to AI system deployment, but to those who implement and deploy enterprise and Agentic AI practically. Closing the gap between AI’ s promise and reality ultimately requires manufacturers to move beyond experimentation and the idea of a one-sizefits-all solution. Instead, the key to success lies in their ability to focus on approaches that allow customers to benefit from AI that is easy to activate, trained on real industry-specific business data and processes, and identify areas where AI is an enabler to productivity and efficiency gains.
Many manufacturers are already demonstrating the value of this approach. Organizations using process mining and workflow automation, for example, are gaining clearer visibility into their own operational bottlenecks and identifying the steps that slow down sales order processing, materials
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