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Stephen Stanley Gali’s work transforming legacy manufacturing plants into connected smart factories is grounded in a simple but stubborn observation: brilliant predictive algorithms fail in industrial settings not because the technology is wrong, but because operators on the floor never adopted them, and the graveyard of failed digital transformations is filled with sophisticated systems that plant teams simply refused to use. His approach pairs conversational generative AI with predictive maintenance engines deployed directly at the point of execution—compressing data search times by up to 70 percent and cutting unplanned downtime by 20 to 30 percent—while treating operators as co-creators rather than passive recipients of automation that supposedly knows better than they do.