The Intelligent Factory: Navin Nathani on How Manufacturing’s Next Competitive Edge Is Being Built on Data, Resilience, and Industrial AI

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Manufacturing has entered a new era of competition — one where the decisive advantage no longer lies on the shop floor alone, but in the speed and quality of decisions made across the entire enterprise.

For decades, industrial companies competed on scale, cost, and production capacity. Those advantages remain necessary, but they are no longer sufficient. Today, a raw material disruption, a cyber incident, or a sudden demand shift can ripple through operations in hours. The organisations that weather these pressures best are not simply the largest or most efficient — they are the most connected, the most informed, and the most adaptive.

The technology agenda in manufacturing is being rewritten accordingly. Cloud modernization, IT-OT convergence, AI-driven operational intelligence, and cyber resilience have moved from the periphery of the CIO’s agenda to its very center — not as infrastructure projects, but as the foundations of competitive strategy.

In this interview, ...

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