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When Machines Stop Waiting: Generative AI to Autonomous Operations (Week 26 · Part I)
For three years, AI on the shop floor has been an advisor. In 2026, it becomes an actor. This episode maps the decisive leap from Generative AI — systems that perceive, analyze and recommend, then stop — to Agentic AI: systems that hold a goal, reason over changing conditions, and act within bounded, safe write-access to your OT.
We walk the closed loop on the floor as it actually looks in 2026: predictive-maintenance agents that diagnose and open their own work orders, quality agents that nudge parameters back into spec in real time, multi-agent systems coordinating scheduling and material…
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