The human infrastructure behind AI-ready manufacturing

I spend much of my time these days in rooms with plant heads, automation leads, system engineers and almost every conversation about "AI-ready manufacturing" starts with machines and ends with people. We talk about sensors, digital twins, predictive models, robotics on the shop floor and then someone asks, "But who's going to run all this?"

Chief Human Resources Officer at STL

For manufacturing organizations, workforce transformation is becoming a fundamental part of the infrastructure required to support AI-ready operations. It…