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AI agents in manufacturing: reshoring production?
Is AI the secret sauce that lets the West deglobalize supply chains and bring factories back home?
In this episode of TechFirst, I talk with Federico Martelli, CEO and cofounder of Forgis, a Swiss startup building an industrial intelligence layer for factories. Forgis runs “digital engineers” — AI agents on the edge — that sit on top of legacy machinery, cut downtime by about 30%, and boost production by roughly 20%, without ripping and replacing old hardware.
We dive into how AI agents can turn brainless factory lines into adaptive, self-optimizing systems, and what that means for reshoring…
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