Three-Quarters of Industrial AI Pilots Never Scale. The Problem Is Plumbing, Not Algorithms.

More than 75% of industrial AI pilot projects never reach large-scale deployment, and over 80% of manufacturers cannot extend AI beyond isolated use cases, according to a report by Everest Group and Capgemini Engineering — with the failure attributed not to weak algorithms but to factory systems that cannot move data between each other. The report, Operationalizing Adaptive AI Across the Manufacturing Shopfloor , was relayed by Moroccan business publication Challenge, which applied its findings