The Digital Product Passport is emerging as a machine-readable trust layer for industry, and that shift puts governance, provenance, and access control at the center of the fight over value.
In factories and connected plants, the real risk is not whether AI can generate a prediction, but whether the surrounding data, edge systems, IoT devices, wireless links, and governance can support it safely in real time.
Industrial AI is being sold as a productivity upgrade, but in manufacturing the real bottleneck is often far more basic: whether the plant data is complete, trustworthy, and visible enough to support decisions.