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Your AI projects are failing before they start

The root cause of failed AI projects is not your model. It is your data architecture. This is according to the Gartner® Manufacturing CIO’s Guide to Industrial AI Data Readiness report.

The 2024 Gartner® AI Mandates for Enterprises Survey revealed that over 50% of AI projects are failing to reach production and that data issues are blocking 40% of initiatives. Read the Gartner Manufacturing CIO’s Guide to Industrial AI Data Readiness report to identify the fix. We are making it available to you as a complimentary report.

Manufacturing CIO's Guide to Industrial AI Data Readiness

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What Gartner says

The data problem is bigger than most teams admit.

"Clean data alone is insufficient as scalable AI will require context-rich, domain-specific, contextualized and continuously governed data" - Source: Gartner, Manufacturing CIO's Guide to Industrial AI Data Readiness, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, 18 December 2025, ID G00841619.

Building blocks to fix industrial data for AI

Data governance for industrial AI

Applying governance structures across machine parks, sites, and enterprise systems to create a unified, scalable data model with domain-specific language foundations.Covers alignment across ERP, MES, MOM, BOM, and CRM, where the systems that define how manufacturing data is structured, owned, and consumed by AI.

Data curation through industrial data management at the edge

Converting raw sensor and machine data into AI-ready, contextually enriched streams at the point of generation before it reaches the cloud or enterprise layer.Implemented using Unified Namespace, MQTT, and OPC UA at the edge, enabling transparent, high-quality data exchange for AI applications at scale.

IT/OT metadata management

Transitioning from passive, static metadata to active metadata management that are continuously updated, enriched, and actionable rather than catalogued and forgotten.Implemented through data fabric or digital thread architectures, including operational knowledge graphs that track production cycles, material weights, carbon footprint, and compliance requirements.
Gartner®, Manufacturing CIO’s Guide to Industrial AI Data Readiness, by Bettina Tratz-Ryan, 16 December 2025 GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

How HiveMQ delivers this

Unified Namespace

Gartner says:Establish a Unified Namespace as the single, structured, real-time source of truth for all operational AI data.How HiveMQ delivers:A governed, MQTT-native UNS backbone across every plant and site with schema enforcement, data lineage, and real-time publishing built in.

MQTT/OPC UA edge curation

Gartner says:Use MQTT and OPC UA to curate, filter, and normalize manufacturing data at the edge before it reaches AI applications.How HiveMQ delivers:The HiveMQ Broker curates and normalizes OT data at the source, thus reducing noise, latency, and data drift before it enters your AI pipeline.

Active IT/OT metadata

Gartner says:Transition from passive to active IT/OT metadata management to enable semantic, AI-ready data flows across the production lifecycle.How HiveMQ delivers:HiveMQ Pulse adds a semantic intelligence layer - ontology management, dynamic enrichment, and continuous data observability so AI agents can reason, predict and act with precision.
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