As global production continues to expand, industrial companies face a growing paradox: more assets to maintain, but fewer skilled technicians available to do the work.

Industrial AI will not transform maintenance on its own. According to Martin Lundqvist, CEO of Arundo Analytics, lasting value comes when companies manage AI with the same discipline they already apply to their most critical assets.

The sentient computer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey remains one of cinema’s most memorable visions of artificial intelligence. HAL knew the spacecraft around it, monitored systems, interpreted events, related information to the operational world in which it was acting, and relayed information to the crew.

The European Commission estimates that the EU could accumulate more than 20 million tonnes of end-of-life solar panels by 2050.

Digital worker adoption accelerates as two in three companies plan investments within the year.