From agile to autonomous – building adaptive production with digital twins and industrial AI
July 8, 2026
Manufacturing has always been defined by constraints: material limits, workforce capacity, supply chain reliability. The most competitive manufacturers are now doing something different, they are redesigning the system that generates constraints in the first place. This is the core discussion Zvi Feuer, Senior Vice President of Digital Manufacturing, and Mark Hindsbo, Head of Operations Software at Siemens Digital Industries Software, made in their recent keynote on building adaptive production with the digital twin and industrial AI. The path from where most manufacturers are to where they need to be is neither simple nor instantaneous. But it is, for the first time, within reach.
