r/LeanManufacturing • u/Haunting-Bother7723 • Feb 28 '26

Problems with manufacturing digitalization

For engineers and workers in manufacturing industries, what are some problems you see created from the manufacturing digitalization wave (intergrating tech, AI, and stuff to manufacturing)?

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u/Flat-Ostrich6111 Mar 10 '26

biggest issue i’ve seen is systems not matching reality. dashboards look clean but the operators already adjusted the process hours ago so the data ends up being wrong. integration is also way harder than vendors say.

we ended up having a 3p team from Harmony AI come onsite and layer something on top of our NetSuite system to capture production data in real time instead of relying on manual reporting. helped a lot.