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Why manufacturers are slow to adopt agentic AI

Legacy systems and safety requirements make the factory floor a harder sell than the back office.

By Nakoda Newsroom

·6 min read

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While agentic AI tools have spread quickly through white-collar functions like finance and marketing, manufacturing has lagged.

Executives point to integration with decades-old control systems, strict safety certification requirements, and a smaller pool of AI-literate floor staff as the main obstacles.

Several vendors are now building narrower, safety-certified agents aimed specifically at predictive maintenance rather than open-ended automation.

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