AI Manufacturing Implementation: Cloud vs Edge vs Hybrid Architectures

Choosing the Right Infrastructure for Your Production Environment One of the first decisions in any AI Manufacturing Implementation project is where the intelligence actually runs. Should your predictive models execute in the cloud, at the edge on factory floor hardware, or in some hybrid configuration? This isn't just a technical question - it affects latency, data security, total cost of ownership, and how well the system integrates with existing SCADA and CMMS infrastructure.