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Velo3D and Mears Machine expand distributed advanced-manufacturing capacity

Toyota commits $3.6 billion to double its San Antonio manufacturing campus

East West Manufacturing acquires Vexos

Pelico brings AI-powered manufacturing orchestration to Farnborough

HashMicro expands its manufacturing platform with AI-native operational capabilities

Canada funds Huys Industries to commercialise AI-driven manufacturing technology

BoCloud raises new funding to expand AI deployment in manufacturing

Queensland funds a new regional manufacturing hub in Maryborough

Shyam Steel opens its first international manufacturing facility in Sharjah

Cisco and Rockwell Automation launch software-defined manufacturing framework in India

Vertiv opens Malaysian manufacturing facility for AI and high-density infrastructure

CISCE showcases industrial AI across advanced-manufacturing value chains

David Simchi-Levi examines how LLMs are reshaping manufacturing and Supply Chain decisions

Lisa Anderson is named among the Top 50 Manufacturing Thought Leaders for 2026

FICG links Johor manufacturing with Singapore sourcing and innovation through a JS-SEZ strategy

Haizol launches HaiBot, an agentic AI system for manufacturing sourcing

TCS puts physical AI and aerospace manufacturing readiness on the Farnborough agenda

Standard Motor Products forms Thailand sensor-manufacturing joint venture

South Korean groups commit $195 billion to AI, robotics and advanced manufacturing

RELEX expands AI-powered manufacturing planning from IBP to execution

World Economic Forum adds 16 Lighthouse awards as AI scales across manufacturing and supply chains

SWARM Engineering raises $10 million for agrifood and manufacturing decision intelligence

SAP embeds agents into manufacturing and supply-chain workflows at Hannover Messe

NVIDIA-backed factory upgrade expands AI-component manufacturing in Texas

China’s factory recovery is increasingly concentrated in AI-related exports

PlanetTogether expands detailed scheduling for process manufacturing

Zebra showcases intelligent automation for manufacturing and warehouse operations

NetAcct launches AI-native ERP with embedded procurement and inventory workflows

Global Lighthouse Network reaches 238 factories

ATLANT 3D, A*STAR IMRE and NAMIC Partner on AI-Driven Materials Discovery

Manufacturing Manager II, Robotics Manufacturing Technical Operations

External Manufacturing Supply Chain Manager

Senior Solution Sales Executive, SCM for Discrete and Manufacturing

Accelerator Digital Product Owner — Manufacturing & Supply Chain AI

Category Manager — Manufacturing

Supply Chain & Manufacturing AI Specialist

Solution Architect — Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing

Logistics Engineer

Production Intern

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Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Presales Solutions Consultant — Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Manager, Strategic Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Account Executive, SAP Academy for Customer Success

Principal Engineer, Supply Chain Transformation

Lead Agentic AI Engineer

Production Planning Analyst

Manufacturing Master Scheduler

Interim Supply Chain Manager — Food Manufacturing

Digital Product Owner — M&S Accelerator

Data and Controls Engineer

AI Architect — AI and Data, Industries

Supply Chain Strategy & Planning Manager

Material Planning Analyst

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AI and Data Analytics Intern

EVENT: Advanced Manufacturing Summit runs July 9–11

EVENT: Aluminium China opens with intelligent-manufacturing and restructuring themes

EVENT: AI-based demand forecasting in manufacturing course starts

EVENT: AIM 2026 concludes its programme on AI in materials and manufacturing

EVENT: Virginia launches an AI cohort for manufacturing, logistics and Supply Chain

EVENT: Smart Manufacturing Day convenes industrial data and automation practitioners

EVENT: Manufacturing NEXT Tokyo closes with planning and AI-agent tools

EVENT: ASU explores multimodal AI from engineering design through manufacturing process planning

EVENT: RoboCup 2026 closes in Incheon as South Korea links robotics talent to manufacturing AI

WARNING: OEE Optimization Can Increase Queues and Manufacturing Lead Times

RISK: Manufacturing Remains the Leading Ransomware Target

EVENT: AMTS 2026 opens in Shanghai

EVENT: Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable examines AI and systemic resilience

EVENT: TDWI, SAP and Databricks examine real-time context for production Supply Chain AI

WARNING: Canadian factories stockpile as delivery times deteriorate

EVENT: SAP demonstrates business AI across supply-chain planning and execution

NOMINATION: Mitchell Arends begins as Hershey Chief Supply Chain Officer

EVENT: Automate 2026 opens in Chicago

NOMINATION: Jeff Rowe takes over ADM's newly created Chief Operating Officer role

EVENT: Production Scheduling AI — how it works and where it fits

NOMINATION: Suntory Global Spirits names Manuel Cabañas Chief Supply Chain Officer

NOMINATION: Crompton Greaves appoints Anuj Lall as Head of Integrated Supply Chain

EVENT: ARC Industry Leadership Forum India concludes in Bangalore

NOMINATION: Vineet Khanna Joins Kearney PERLab as Advisor

SECURITY: AI-Accelerated Attacks Exploit Basic Enterprise Security Gaps

OUTAGE: Nucor Halts Production After Unauthorized Access to IT Systems

NOMINATION: J.M. Smucker appoints Douglas Guilherme SVP, Operations and Supply Chain

EVENT: ARC Industry Leadership Forum Asia opens in Tokyo

EVENT: Manufacturers review supply-chain resilience strategies

WARNING: Digital twins can create a second version of capacity if planning systems are not synchronized

Manufacturing copilots need production-state authority, not only ERP access

Regional manufacturing support must be tied to order-winning capability

Aerospace manufacturing orchestration must connect blockers to recovery decisions

Additive-manufacturing resilience depends on qualification throughput

Regional metals manufacturing depends on the reverse Supply Chain

Manufacturing AI should be prioritized by operational value and readiness

AI priorities in manufacturing: talent, operating model and data foundation come before agentic AI

Manufacturing localisation is a network redesign, not a plant announcement

Canada’s manufacturing expansion is partly inventory-driven

APS and manufacturing execution are converging around the same constraint model

Manufacturing agent adoption is moving faster than data readiness

Lisa Anderson examines how tariffs, AI and reshoring are reshaping US industrial manufacturing

Manufacturing Forecasting Needs More Than a Better Algorithm

Lighthouse factories must prove transferability, not only local performance

US Manufacturers Front-Load Orders While Factory Employment Falls

Schneider Electric’s lighthouse network shifts industrial AI from isolated pilots to operating-system design

Always-on demand forecasting changes the infrastructure assumptions behind planning AI

AI-native ERP will test whether SMEs can maintain one operational truth

Industrial AI programmes should count changed decisions, not participating companies

Component resilience decisions belong before production release

RELEX separates general agents from planning-specific agents

Aerospace AI must be constrained by production-rate reality

AI-infrastructure growth is becoming an industrial-material planning problem

Metrology is becoming a production-control layer

Supply-chain AI depends on governed data foundations

How OEE Optimization Can Damage Lead Time and Flow

Reacting Before the Ripple Becomes a Wave with SAP Autonomous Supply Chain

Lisa Anderson identifies three Supply Chain priorities for manufacturers in 2026

Seven ways AI planning software addresses meat manufacturing constraints

Industrial AI scaling depends on interoperable operating architecture

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