{"id":1009925,"date":"2026-05-26T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009925"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:58:02","slug":"ai-takes-the-wheel-for-smarter-factory-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/ai-takes-the-wheel-for-smarter-factory-floors\/","title":{"rendered":"AI takes the wheel for smarter factory floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers are co-opting AI as an engine for growth and faster decision-making rather than a tool for slashing costs, according to the AI Readiness &amp; Adoption Survey conducted by Cisco in collaboration with The Economic Times. <\/p>\n<p>The survey, for which 70 CXOs from manufacturing firms were interviewed, found that meeting customer expectations (49%) and boosting operational efficiency (47%) were the primary forces driving AI adoption. However, cost reduction, often touted as a top reason for AI adoption in enterprises, ranked last at just 23%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers are co-opting AI as an engine for growth and faster decision-making rather than a tool for slashing costs, according to the AI Readiness &amp; Adoption Survey conducted by Cisco in collaboration with The Economic Times. The survey, for which 70 CXOs from manufacturing firms were interviewed, found that meeting customer expectations (49%) and boosting operational efficiency (47%) were the primary forces driving AI adoption. However, cost reduction, often touted as a top reason for AI adoption in enterprises, ranked last at just 23%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009943,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009925\/revisions\/1009943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}