Parsec's Eddy Azad was quoted in TechTarget's “Challenges for Manufacturing’s Digital Shift in 2025.”
Steady but slow progress
The digital transformation of manufacturing is ongoing, but it's still a work in progress, according to the recent "2024 State of Manufacturing Survey: North America" from Parsec Automation Corp., a provider of manufacturing execution system software.
"CEOs, COOs and CFOs are talking passionately about AI and its adoption and there's a very high interest level in AI within manufacturing," said Eddy Azad, CEO at Parsec. "But then you need to execute it, and the majority of manufacturers are not positioned to meaningfully use it."
"Many companies have come out with algorithms that are very mission-specific and are looking at pattern recognition to be able to predict what is going to happen," Azad said. "There's also a motion to be able to train AI agents very specifically to your operations. What are you looking for? What are you trying to prevent? What are you trying to predict?"
Manufacturers will need to educate users about how to use AI and what to use it for to fully take advantage of it, Azad said.
