Data Governance

Europe’s AI Advantage Is Your Factory Data. Siemens Just Described the Deal

Europe’s AI advantage may lie less in competing on frontier models and more in applying AI to industrial processes using decades of proprietary manufacturing data, with Siemens investing heavily in this approach. For manufacturers, the key challenge is balancing the benefits of shared industrial AI with control over their data, making ownership, model-training rights, competitor access, and data withdrawal terms critical before sharing proprietary information.

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Your Estimator Just Pasted a Customer Drawing Into a Chatbot

Shadow AI is becoming a major manufacturing risk because employees can unintentionally expose valuable IP, such as customer drawings, process parameters, pricing, and PLC code, through unapproved AI tools. Rather than banning AI, manufacturers should provide secure, sanctioned alternatives and establish clear rules for what data can be shared, while actively identifying how employees are already using AI.

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