A savvy approach to artificial intelligence can radically enhance productivity and slash costs. You're not imagining it: the pace of technological change is indeed quickening and it's placing tremendous competitive pressures on every corner of the global economy Manufacturers are acutely feeling the squeeze. Eighty-five percent of industrial equipment execs surveyed by Accenture say they need to innovate ever faster just to keep up. That puts them in a perilous catch-22: it's prohibitively expensive to upgrade equipment to meet customer demands, yet they risk losing customers altogether if they don't. Enter artificial intelligence, the great equalizer for manufacturers.