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Smart Manufacturing Trends: Four Years, One Stuck Number

I have read four editions of the Rockwell State of Smart Manufacturing Report back to back, and I keep coming back to the same number. In 2024, manufacturers said only 44% of the data they collected got used well. Two years later, in a report branded the “execution era”, that figure sits at 43%. Almost …