Agentic AI in manufacturing needs a reliable data foundation because generative models are unpredictable. The speaker proposes virtual tabulation as a guardrail to create trustworthy data sources that let AI agents and digital threads work safely in manufacturing.
As we move to agentic AI and try to look at how we can use that to automate processes in manufacturing, you begin to quickly realize that you're going to need some reliable data foundation underneath it. GenAI and agentic AI are not inherently deterministic. And you need that in manufacturing. You need to have some predictability in what you're doing and repeatability. That's not what GenAI is designed to offer you. But when you combine that together with technology like we have with virtual tabulation, that can provide the guardrails that you need and the reliable data source that can power an agentic AI or a digital thread in what you're doing.
