Inside Tony Trim's Manufacturing AI Strategy: Data, Scale and Shop-Floor Execution at Eaton

Tony Trim, Manufacturing Operations AI Leader at Eaton, explains why the biggest obstacle on the factory floor was never the equipment itself but the tribal knowledge trapped in people's heads and scattered across disconnected systems. In conversation with Stephen Hooper, SVP Operations Solutions at Autodesk, Trim breaks down the digital thread concept and the three traits that separate manufacturers who scale AI across hundreds of facilities from those stuck running one-off pilots.