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Automation

Robots, software, and the long road to a lights-out plant.

September 2026

In depth · Automation

Most plant simulations never get used on the shift

The useful models cover one bottleneck with live data. A picture of the whole site, last updated at the last improvement workshop, does not run a shift.

The Industrial Brief · 11 Sept 2026 · 8 min

News · Automation

A lights-out lab in Pune is selling the autonomous plant as a service

TCS opened a fully robotic battery-pack line that manufacturers can use to prototype AI-first production without betting a live factory on the first attempt.

The Industrial Brief · 10 Sept 2026 · 3 min

News · Automation

Samsung puts on-prem language models on the fab floor

A Paris-announced deal with Mistral will take large models inside Samsung’s semiconductor operations — memory, logic, and foundry — where the data cannot leave the building.

The Industrial Brief · 9 Sept 2026 · 4 min