Here at Connected World and The Peggy Smedley Show, we often talk about how to scale AI (artificial intelligence) in manufacturing. We live, eat, and breathe this topic. But if we really look at the numbers, it tells a much different story in 2026. Only 22% of organizations have successfully scaled […]

Fall has always been one of my favorite times of year. Partly, because of the beautiful colors we have here in the Midwest, but I also love the fresh start—the new routines, fuller calendars, earlier mornings, and more predictable evenings. Most of all, I love the opportunity to reset after […]

#Factoftheweek What if hospital employees no longer had to manually count inventory? That may sound like a small operational change, but Gartner says AI (artificial intelligence) and computer vision could soon make manual hospital inventory counting obsolete. The technology is moving beyond simply […]

Here’s something three decades in construction have taught me: there will always be multiple vendors. And there’s never going to be one single vendor that does everything a project team needs. So, that makes the real question more interesting: how do you work with all the data across multiple […]

The residential construction market is sending a message, and it is one we should pay attention to: We cannot build the future of housing the same way we built the past. The latest numbers from the NAHB (National Assn. of Home Builders) make the challenge clear. New single-family home sales fell […]

Technology continues to transform agriculture, as farmers and researchers look for new ways to protect crops, improve efficiency, and reduce losses. As a result, we are seeing the rise of sensors and other advanced technologies that can provide farmers with valuable information before problems […]

Digitalization, Transparency, and Beyond Digitalization continues to dominate conversations across the EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) industry. And for good reason. Projects are becoming more complex. Resources are stretched. Expectations keep rising. The conversation is no longer […]

Here at Connected World and The Peggy Smedley Show, we have spent the last few years talking about AI (artificial intelligence), and now there is an AI revolution happening—one that is much more physical, and it is happening on the factory floor. The 2026 Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence and […]

For years, construction has had an enviable title: the happiest industry in the workforce. That might sound surprising at first. Construction is hardly synonymous with easy work. Long hours, tight deadlines, unpredictable conditions, and an ongoing battle for skilled talent are all part of the job. […]

For years, construction companies have been told that technology will transform the industry. We have seen it with BIM (building information modeling), drones, reality capture, connected equipment, digital twins, cloud-based project management, and AI (artificial intelligence). Now, we are moving […]