# Manufacturing data and AI: Connecting the product value chain

DevFeed: [Manufacturing data and AI: Connecting the product value chain](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/manufacturing-data-and-ai-connecting-the-product-value-chain-61221.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.databricks.com/blog/manufacturing-data-and-ai-connecting-product-value-chain>)

Author: Dr. Philip Laserstein; Dr. Max Köhler

Published: 2026-09-28T19:47:19Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/databricks.md>)

Topics: [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [industries](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industries.md>), [modern-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modern-data.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how connecting governed data across manufacturing functions can help teams investigate defects and trace supplier issues across the product value chain. It presents a modern data and AI platform as a way to make cross-system questions queryable instead of relying on manual exports and reconciliation.

## Source excerpt

A manufacturing defect rarely belongs to one system. A scrap spike may relate to...