The 1.6x problem: Why India’s manufacturing AI spend is outrunning its data
Ask any CIO in Indian manufacturing where the money is going, and the answer comes quickly: sensors, digital twins, predictive maintenance platforms, AI-driven quality systems. The investment case writes itself. Indian manufacturers are now spending at 1.6 times the global rate on industrial technology — a bet on leapfrogging straight into an AI-led production era, skipping the incremental steps other markets took over the past decade.
It’s an aggressive number, and on paper, it looks like conviction. But spend alone doesn’t build intelligence. It builds capacity — and capacity is only as useful as the data flowing through it. That’s where the story gets less flattering: 60% of Indian manufacturers say their biggest internal obstacle isn’t technology adoption at all. It’s their inability to capture, interpret, and actually use the data they already have — compared with 37% of manufacturers globally, according to Rockwell Automation’s 2026 State of Smart Manufacturing...
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