In this episode, Colin Masson hosts a discussion with experts from Edgescale AI and Red Hat about the challenges and solutions in deploying industrial AI at the edge. They explore how to overcome data integration hurdles, the role of cloud-native platforms, and real-world use cases that demonstrate rapid deployment and operational impact.

Guest Names:
Brian Mengwasser (Edgescale AI's CEO) and Cole Wangsness (Red Hat's Edge Program Lead)

Keywords:
#Industrial AI #IndustrialEdge #industrialautomation #AI #edgecomputing #dataintegration #redhat #edgescaleai

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In this edition of DTV, ARC vice president of research Larry O'Brien talks to NetFoundry founder and CEO Galeal Zino about the challenges facing end users when it comes to OT cybersecurity in the age of AI and digitalization. NetFoundry was created to address fundamental weaknesses in traditional networking and cybersecurity. We discuss how traditional networking is not designed for today’s digital transformation requirements. Complexity created by layered security tools increases risk and reduces reliability. NetFoundry replaces IP‑centric networking with cryptographically verifiable identities and policy‑based authorization, aligning networking more closely with zero‑trust principles.

NetFoundry also maintains and actively invests in OpenZiti, its open‑source secure networking platform. The goal is to create a “Linux of secure networking,” supported by a growing global community.

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In this episode of the ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation podcast, Craig Resnick of ARC speaks with Manishi Tiwari, Senior Director of EcoStruxure Power & Process Programs at Schneider Electric, about the accelerating convergence of electrical power management and process automation. The discussion explores the mega trends reshaping industrial operations—including process electrification, renewable energy integration, grid resilience, AI-driven demand, and digitalization—and why siloed power and process systems are no longer viable. Drawing on real-world examples, digital twin technology, and lifecycle integration from design through operations, the conversation highlights how unified architectures enable better decision-making, improved resilience, lower CapEx and OpEx, and faster progress toward sustainability and net-zero goals.

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The director of Consulting at ARC, Rick Rys interviews Utility Industry Principal, Daniel Foster, at Seeq to explore how utilities are using data analytics and AI to plan for the unprecedented increases in power loads from data centers and electrification of transportation and building HVAC. The discussion also provides insights on how to keep a stable grid with new distributed generation assets like solar PV and batteries.

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At Innovation Summit 2025, Deepu Chawla, Senior Vice President, Industrial Control and Drives, Schneider Electric, Sophie Borgne, Water & Environment Segment President, Schneider Electric sat down with ARC’s Peter Manos to record an episode of ARC’s Digital Transformation Viewpoints. The three provide detailed examples of how industrial operators of all sizes across the globe are innovating at the intersection of energy and water resource optimization, electrification, and digital transformation. Listeners will learn how the replacement of carbon-heavy turbines with electrified "in a box" solutions improves heavy industry’s ability to meet net-zero targets. The discussion also emphasizes the rationale and value behind the inevitable shift from reactive to predictive maintenance, powered by IoT connectivity and open technologies. The importance of localized manufacturing and cybersecurity in securing critical infrastructure like water utilities is addressed. Ultimately, integrating hardware optimization with advanced digital services is presented as the essential path for modern operational resilience.

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In this podcast, ARC Advisory Group’s Craig Resnick and Schneider Electric’s Christina Volkringer explore the fundamentals of Software Defined Automation (SDA)—what it is, why the industry is ready for it, and how it transforms traditional control systems. They discuss how SDA shifts functionality from proprietary hardware to open, software-centric platforms, enabling virtualization, centralized orchestration, and flexible deployment across diverse environments.

The conversation also dives deep into Foxboro SDA’s differentiators, including vendor-agnostic openness, cybersecurity by design, and application-centric engineering that reduces costs and accelerates time-to-value. The podcast will address how Foxboro SDA supports IT/OT convergence, enables autonomous operations, and provides a clear modernization path that protects legacy investments while embracing future-ready architectures. Topics covered will include how SDA can drive resilience, scalability, and innovation in industrial automation.

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2024 was the year of "Generative AI Hype," AWS re:Invent 2025 was the moment the cloud officially got physical.

Fresh off the event in Las Vegas, Colin Masson, Director of Research for Industrial AI, ARC Advisory Group sat down with Steve Blackwell, Leader of the Worldwide Manufacturing Center of Excellence at AWS, to compare notes. He had just published ARC’s Top 10 Takeaways for Industrial AI, and Steve came prepared with his own list: the Top 7 Strategic Announcements that he believes will reshape the manufacturing landscape.

Colin's conversation zeroed in on the practical realities of deploying AI—from the "silicon to the edge." They discussed the massive potential of AWS Transform to pay down technical debt, the shift to "Frontier Agents" like Kiro, and the critical need for a new kind of talent through the Physical AI Fellowship.

You can listen to the full conversation Here on Buzzsprout or watch the video episode on the ARC Advisory Group YouTube Channel.

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The energy at AWS re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas was undeniable. The narrative has shifted decisively from the passive "Industrial Copilots" of last year to active, autonomous Agentic AI. Everywhere you looked, the talk was of autonomous swarms, "Supervisor Agents," and the new Strands Agents SDK empowering developers to build digital workers that can reason and act.

However, as I (Colin Masson of ARC Advisory Group) noted in my recent Top 10 Takeaways for Industrial AI from AWS re:Invent 2025, there is a stark divergence between the "hyperscaler dream" and the "brownfield reality." For manufacturers dealing with 20-year-old assets, proprietary protocols, and disparate silos, building these agents often hits a brick wall—the "Factory Wall." An AI agent is only as intelligent as the context it is fed, and in most factories, that context is trapped in the machine layer.

To explore how the industry is breaking through this barrier, I sat down at re:Invent with Joe Rosing, Worldwide Head of Smart Manufacturing at AWS, and Torey Penrod-Cambra, Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer at HighByte. We discussed the critical role of Industrial DataOps in untangling the mess of industrial data to fuel the next generation of AI.

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