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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Industrial AI: Built for reality, operation, and people

Freya Menzel , Timo Brenningmeyer

An ungrounded LLM hallucination on a factory floor is a severe physical safety hazard. Discover how the Model Context Protocol safely bridges modern AI with decades-old legacy machinery.

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#1 about 2 min

Connecting legacy manufacturing environments to modern AI systems

Connecting decades-old factory machines to modern AI systems requires addressing their unique operational realities.

#2 about 1 min

Financial impact of unplanned downtime in manufacturing operations

Resolving expensive equipment failures quickly requires deep operational context beyond simple anomaly detection.

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Navigating the AI adoption gap in the manufacturing sector

Organizations struggle to move beyond isolated pilots to generate enterprise-wide value in industrial settings.

#4 about 2 min

Challenges of deploying software in brownfield manufacturing environments

Integrating modern AI solutions into legacy production lines requires navigating multiple machine generations and proprietary protocols.

#5 about 1 min

Evaluating operational risks of replacing legacy manufacturing infrastructure

Tearing out existing production assets creates unacceptable operational risks and unjustifiable investment challenges for manufacturers.

#6 about 2 min

Bridging operational technology with modern AI reasoning systems

Building foundational bridges between raw machine data and large language models preserves existing functional production systems.

#7 about 2 min

Building scalable industrial software using ready-to-deploy component blocks

Combining domain expertise, industrial connectivity, and AI architectures creates out-of-the-box ecosystems that deliver rapid value.

#8 about 2 min

Creating unified modular ecosystems for better operational decisions

Connecting edge services, digital assistants, and AI agents transforms disconnected machine data into actionable operational knowledge.

#9 about 2 min

Solving the actionability gap in industrial AI projects

Failing to ground advanced models in deterministic facts leaves operators overwhelmed by abstract error codes and anomalies.

#10 about 2 min

Abstracting physical machine boundaries using industrial edge gateways

Deploying containerized protocol adapters translates legacy proprietary fieldbus signals into a clean software layer without modifying fragile PLC code.

#11 about 2 min

Structuring raw telemetry data into a unified namespace

Cleaning and aligning high-frequency sensor metrics into contextualized time-series databases ensures accurate AI ingestion.

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Implementing the Model Context Protocol for multimodal grounding

Standardized bilateral gateways allow AI agents to dynamically fetch precise telemetry windows based on semantic requests without custom connectors.

#13 about 2 min

Wrapping multimodal cores in closed-loop agentic workflows

Cross-referencing live telemetry against documented tolerances generates safe, deterministic step-by-step resolution paths rather than hallucinated instructions.

#14 about 4 min

Designing multimodal AI interfaces for shop floor operators

Combining voice, vision, and operational context delivers intuitive guidance tailored for noisy physical environments.

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Introduction to building real-world AI agent solutions

Dennis Zielke Dennis Zielke +1 · World Congress 2025

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Scaling AI applications within standard manufacturing processes

Antonella Mei-Pochtler Antonella Mei-Pochtler +3 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:21 min

Overcoming operational challenges in AI adoption

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Overcoming barriers to infrastructure automation and AI

Alfonso Sandoval Rosas Alfonso Sandoval Rosas · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:12 min

Introduction to hybrid AI and production challenges

Jan Schweiger · World Congress 2022

2:03 min

Addressing institutional inertia and AI pilot failures

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