India’s manufacturing AI has a data trust problem that starts at the sensor
By Ritesh Raj, Growth Engineer, Mindlabs Cloud
India’s Industry 4.0 market reached $6.3 billion in 2025 and is projected to nearly triple to $17.8 billion by 2034. The Production Linked Incentive scheme has committed $24 billion to modernise fourteen critical manufacturing sectors. Digital technologies are expected to account for 40% of total manufacturing technology spend in India — double their share just four years ago. By almost any measure, the country’s investment in smart manufacturing has moved past ambition into execution.
And yet a survey published in August 2026 found that only 4% of Indian organisations consider their enterprise data fully ready to support AI at scale. 58% describe their data as partially ready. 30% call it mostly ready. For a sector betting heavily on AI-driven quality analytics, digital twins, and predictive maintenance, this gap between investment and data readiness is the defining challenge of the moment.
What the survey...
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