What Gartner® Research on AI in Manufacturing Means for Your Network
Gartner's research on AI in manufacturing points to a shift from generative AI toward agents, automation and physical AI. This briefing covers what that shift asks of operations and network infrastructure.
Jeff Winter, VP of Commercial Strategy at Belden, and Raj Rajani, Director of Product Management for Manufacturing, Warehousing and Logistics at Belden, discuss the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, 2026. Moderated by Dev Bhatt, Product Marketing Director at Belden.
Topics covered:
• What changed in the research between 2026 and last year
• What agentic AI actually means in a plant, and how to spot agent washing
• The right level of autonomy versus maximum autonomy
• Why physical AI puts latency, bandwidth and network availability on the critical path
• A brewery running autonomous vehicles through a difficult RF environment
• Where to focus now: infrastructure, data and organizational ownership
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