IDC PeerScape: Smart Manufacturing - Practices to Deploy Agentic AI on the Shop Floor

This IDC PeerScape provides four practical examples of how industrial companies in Europe, the United States, and Asia/Pacific deploy agentic AI technology in their factory operations. "By weaving agentic capabilities directly into machines, frontline worker support, shop floor execution, scheduling, and quality workflows, manufacturers are quietly reshaping what 'normal' feels like on the shop floor. In the most advanced plants, people, equipment, and software agents operate as one entity, with humans setting the direction, and agents handling the brute-force tasks at the speed demanded by operations," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.