Manufacturing: Page 9

Manufacturing Complexity Exposes Cross-Functional Gaps in AI, Digital Transformation

The report found that complexity now impacts every stage of the manufacturing value chain.

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Procurement Software

High-Tech Procurement Spend Climbed More Than 40%

The BSI is predicting that procurement spend will contract in sectors of high tech, financial services, and healthcare and life sciences over the summer.

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Manufacturing Industry to Experience Surge in AI Adoption

Quality is rapidly emerging as a core business driver, with 71% of organizations planning to increase quality investment in 2026.

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Risk/Compliance

Securing Global Supply Chains From the Chip Up

Giving every device a secure, verifiable birth certificate can rebuild trust in the electronics supply chain from the bottom up, and create a safer, more resilient world in the process.

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Actemium Avanceon to Help Manufacturers Improve Operational Performance Through Plant Floor Data

Actemium Avanceon

The DataOps approach is designed to help manufacturers improve how plant floor data is structured, contextualized, and used within production environments.

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Software Solutions

OMP’s New Solution Offers Complete Planning Solutions Out of the Box

Unison Express offers a disciplined and predictable path to professionalized supply chain planning.

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Slips, Trips and Falls Leading Causes of Costliest Claims: Travelers Injury Impact Report

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Injuries involving employees 60 years of age and older represent 16% of all lost-time claims.

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Manufacturing Security Professionals Concerned About Employee Use of AI Agents

Concerns across the manufacturing sector show growing anxiety about the range of AI-powered attack routes, most pressingly of adaptive malware that evolves in real-time.

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Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award

Future-Proofing Your Supply Chains (and You): Women in Supply Chain Forum™

Learn about what to expect come 2027 with regards to geopolitical disruptions, risk trends, how to prepare for what’s to come, what is the future of manufacturing and digitalization and lessons learned from a serial entrepreneur.

Bindiya Vakil, Founder & CEO of Accio3D, speaking on market trends at Women in Supply Chain Forum conference in Charleston, November 2026

Emerging Technologies

How Machine Learning Makes Complex Knowledge Useable in Real-World Conditions

The focus has been on optimizing systems, when the bigger opportunity is enabling people.

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Augury Develops Industrial AI Workforce to Bridge Insight to Action for Manufacturers

At the core of the Industrial AI Workforce is the Industrial Context Graph, a dynamic, continuously evolving enriched context layer that connects machine health signals with operational, process, and environmental data.

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Procurement Software

Procurement’s Real Problem isn’t Strategy: It’s Execution at Scale

The challenge is rarely identifying where costs are increasing. It is responding to those changes consistently across the full supplier base.

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