{"id":2440,"date":"2026-09-21T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:01:47","slug":"what-comes-next-for-ai-and-smart-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/what-comes-next-for-ai-and-smart-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Comes Next for AI and Smart Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Creating a successful <strong>#CyberSecurity<\/strong> strategy is increasingly difficult as the systems running our businesses become more connected. A small issue can quickly become a major production problem when it affects <strong>#ERP<\/strong>, machine connectivity, or access to critical data. AI is adding another layer to this security challenge, but the fundamentals still matter. Prioritizing strong access to controls, reliable backups, good monitoring, and disciplined processes are the essentials when it comes to keeping secure production moving forward <strong>#ITLeadership<\/strong> <strong>#DataProtection<\/strong> <strong>#CyberSecurity<\/strong> <strong>#SmartManufacturing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cognitiveworld\/2026\/09\/03\/cybersecurity-2026-the-year-ai-became-the-battlefield-and-what-comes-next\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cognitiveworld\/2026\/09\/03\/cybersecurity-2026-the-year-ai-became-the-battlefield-and-what-comes-next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a successful #CyberSecurity strategy is increasingly difficult as the systems running our businesses become more connected. A small issue can quickly become a major production problem when it affects #ERP, machine connectivity, or access to critical data. AI is adding another layer to this security challenge, but the fundamentals still matter. Prioritizing strong access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manufacturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernchilders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}