(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) -- Datanomix, which builds data-powered production software for precision manufacturers, will bring its production-tested AI to Booth 12059, North Building, at Automate 2026, June 22–25, 2026, in Chicago’s McCormick Place. The company’s AI is already running on customer floors—embedded in the rhythm of production, producing answers operators can act on during their shift.

“There’s going to be a lot of AI at Automate this year, and most of it will be a demo on top of a static dataset,” says Greg McHale, founder and CEO of Datanomix. “The question every shop owner asks at the end of the week is the same: Are we getting better? That’s what our AI is built to answer. If it can’t answer that with real machine data on a real floor, it’s not AI for manufacturing.”

Three AI capabilities running on real shop floors today 

Datanomix has embedded AI in three product areas, each tied to a specific shop-floor reality.

FactoryMate is a digital floor supervisor. It reads through production and labor data, revealing the trends and bottlenecks your team would otherwise spend the morning hunting down. It powers gemba walks, kaizen reviews, and job-tracking work that get schedules back under control and improve on-time delivery.

TMAC ai, built with Caron Engineering, reads high-resolution machine data (spindle load, vibration, and tool wear) and uses AI to catch process drift before it turns into scrap, rework, or a broken tool. It runs in the background and only speaks up when something needs attention.

G-Code Cloud + DNC uses AI to catch errors in programs, annotate files for operator training, and clean up program lists. It’s an assistant for the engineer who’s been at it for 10 hours.

Same principle across all three: AI should make the answer clearer, not add another dashboard for someone to ignore.

AI reaches beyond the largest factories 

For most of the past decade, the kind of visibility that mattered in precision manufacturing, predictive quality, real-time labor analytics, and autonomous tool monitoring lived only inside the largest plants. That’s changing.

“A 12-machine shop can now see their floor the way a Fortune 500 plant did five years ago,” says McHale. “That changes who can compete, and how. The future isn’t more automation for the sake of it. It’s automation that earns its keep. And that only works when shops have the data foundation underneath them.”

See it live at Automate 2026 

The Datanomix team at Automate 2026 will be running live demos on real machine data. Shop owners walking the floor with a quote in their pocket for a robot, cobot, or pallet pool can also sit down with the team and run the numbers through the company’s Automation Investment Calculator. Machine count, shift coverage, and quoted hourly rate: all real numbers from their shop.

For background, read “AI in Manufacturing—Why Now Matters.”