Gartner AI-ready PLM and Digital Thread

Explore strategic insights from Gartner® on why the transition to AI-ready architecture is crucial for manufacturing leaders.

Inside the Gartner report: 

  • AI Innovation: Why rapidly evolving systems are leveraging AI to power the majority of product innovation, enabling autonomous design and optimization of the customer experience.
  • Breaking the Silo Cycle: How to move beyond brittle, manual integrations that fragment product context.
  • The Interoperability Hub: Why an API-first approach (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) is the only way to support real-time data exchange.
  • UX as a Strategy: How AI assistants and natural language queries are solving the user frustration that kills PLM adoption.
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Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner, Drive Faster Innovation Through AI-Ready PLM and Digital Threads, By Sudip Pattanayak, Marc Halpern, 17 September 2025

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By 2028, over 60% of product innovation will be powered by AI-driven systems, up from 25% today.