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The AI manufacturing operations software map

222 companies sell AI to manufacturing operations teams: plant managers, production, quality, maintenance and manufacturing engineering. This map shows what each one sells across the six stages of manufacturing operations, and 299 dated events since May 2025: 202 product launches, 64 of them agents that do multi-step work or run on their own. Each event links to its source.

We read each company’s own site, press releases and changelogs, and the trade press, on 11 November 2026, and logged what shipped between 1 May 2025 and 11 November 2026. Nothing here is a ranking: a launch count measures how much a company announces, not how good its product is.

The AI manufacturing operations software mapThe AI manufacturing operations software map: 222 companiesEvery company we track that sells AI to manufacturing operations teams, grouped by what it mainly sells. A purple edge marks a company that shipped an agent or always-on AI since May 2025.
The AI manufacturing operations software map222 companies in 13 categories, grouped by what each mainly sells

MES and operations management 31

Run production on the shop floor: work orders, tracking, genealogy and performance, with AI that dispatches work and explains losses.

Machine monitoring and OEE 16

Connect machines and count output, downtime and OEE, with AI that finds the causes of lost time.

Quality management systems 19

Run nonconformances, CAPAs, audits, documents and supplier quality, with AI that drafts, triages and finds root causes.

AI visual inspection 22

Inspect parts and products with cameras and deep learning models that find defects on the line.

Maintenance management 18

Plan and track maintenance work, assets and spare parts in a CMMS or EAM, with AI that writes work orders and guides technicians.

Predictive maintenance and asset performance 22

Watch machine health from sensor and process data, with AI that predicts failures before they stop a line.

Industrial data platforms 15

Collect, store and model plant data from machines, historians and systems, with AI that contextualizes it and answers questions.

Connected worker and work instructions 21

Guide frontline operators with digital work instructions, checklists and apps, with AI that writes the steps and answers questions.

Production scheduling 14

Sequence jobs on machines and lines against finite capacity, with AI that builds and repairs the schedule.

Industrial AI agents and process optimization 26

Standalone AI for plant work: copilots and agents for operations, and models that tune process settings for yield, quality and energy.

Digital twins and simulation 8

Model lines, plants and processes to test changes before making them, with AI that builds and runs the scenarios.

Manufacturing ERP and MRP 9

Run the plant's materials, orders and production plan, with AI added to planning and scheduling.

Supply chain planning suites 1

Plan demand, supply, inventory and S&OP in one suite, now with planning agents.

A purple edge marks a company that shipped an agent or an always-on AI feature in the window. A launch the vendor has only announced does not count. Click a name to jump to its row. A company sits in one category, the one its own headline sells; suites sell much more, and the list in Section 03 shows the rest. A company on another Newsprint map keeps that map's category.
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AI launches per month202 product launches, 1 May 2025 to 11 November 2026
AssistiveAgentAlways-on
051015202530May 2025: 8 assistiveMay 2025: 1 agentMay 2025Jun 2025: 7 assistiveJun 2025: 1 always-onJul 2025: 5 assistiveJul 2025: 1 agentJul 2025Aug 2025: 1 assistiveAug 2025: 1 agentAug 2025: 1 always-onSep 2025: 4 assistiveSep 2025: 3 agentOct 2025: 8 assistiveOct 2025: 1 agentOct 2025: 1 always-onNov 2025: 4 assistiveNov 2025: 1 agentDec 2025: 3 assistiveDec 2025: 1 agentJan 2026: 6 assistiveJan 2026: 1 agentJan 2026: 1 always-onJan 2026Feb 2026: 8 assistiveMar 2026: 7 assistiveMar 2026: 3 agentMar 2026: 3 always-onApr 2026: 10 assistiveApr 2026: 3 agentApr 2026: 4 always-onMay 2026: 16 assistiveMay 2026: 5 agentMay 2026: 3 always-onJun 2026: 6 assistiveJun 2026: 4 agentJun 2026: 3 always-onJul 2026: 4 assistiveJul 2026: 1 agentJul 2026: 1 always-onJul 2026Aug 2026: 12 assistiveAug 2026: 3 agentSep 2026: 14 assistiveSep 2026: 5 agentOct 2026: 14 assistiveOct 2026: 9 agentOct 2026: 3 always-onNov 2026: 1 assistive
Each bar counts the AI product launches we dated to that month. Assistive AI drafts, ranks or suggests when a person asks. An agent completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going. Always-on AI runs continuously without being asked. Recent months are better covered than older ones, because a vendor’s newest pages are the easiest to find, so read the trend with care. November 2026 runs to the 11th.

01What we’re seeing

Five things the data shows, from 222 companies and 202 AI launches between May 2025 and early November 2026. Each example links to its source.

Agents reached the plant in 2026, and most keep a person in the loop

Of the 202 AI launches, 64 (32%) are agents or always-on AI. 45 companies have shipped at least one, and most of their 54 shipped launches are dated 2026. Siemens introduced industrial AI agents behind its copilots in May 2025, and UpKeep shipped Nova that September: it creates work orders, assigns technicians and orders parts, and a person sets the rules and approves its actions. In 2026 maintenance vendors put agents into the work order. Ultimo added digital workers for planners, technicians and safety, which act alone on low-risk steps and hand higher-risk decisions to a person, and SAP shipped six maintenance agents from first request to final debrief. Infor’s Manufacturing Agent recommends and starts corrective action and its Quality Inspection Agent starts containment, inside what Infor calls governed approval workflows, and Honeywell made a TrackWise complaint processing agent generally available in October. Frontline platforms let plants build their own: Tulip’s Composable AI Agents let a team define an agent’s role and actions, and Poka’s AI Studio lets it set each agent’s approvals too.

Plant data opened to outside AI assistants

20 companies shipped an MCP server, an agent API or an app inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot in the window, so an engineer can ask an outside assistant about a machine or an order and get an answer from plant data. The data layer went first: Litmus released an open-source MCP server for Litmus Edge in May 2025, and HighByte built an Industrial MCP Server into its Intelligence Hub in July. In 2026 maintenance, ERP and data platforms followed. IBM added an MCP server to Maximo in June so customers can bring their own agents. Katana let Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini create manufacturing orders in August, with each change confirmed by the user. ThingWorx 10.2 made its MCP server generally available in September, and Cognite opened Industrial MCP to Claude and Microsoft Copilot in public preview the same month.

Inspection moved to models that watch the line

17 companies shipped AI that inspects parts from cameras or scans. Some of it now runs without a prompt: the model watches the line and a person reviews what it flags. Elementary’s VisionStream learns what normal looks like and flags defects with no labeling. Cognex put its AI tools on a dedicated processor in the In-Sight 3900, and Overview added thermal and bring-your-own cameras to its edge platform. Inspection also moved inside the part: Lumafield made its Mars in-line X-ray system generally available for 100% production inspection, then added a Quality Agent that finds defects and their root cause in CT scans for an engineer to review.

Buyers agreed to pay billions for maintenance and plant data

We logged 21 acquisitions in the window. The two largest priced deals came within five weeks in 2026: Autodesk agreed to buy MaintainX for about $3.6 billion, and Schneider Electric agreed to buy Cognite for $3.1 billion, to join AVEVA in its industrial automation business. Private equity carved plant software out of industrial groups: TPG agreed to buy GE Vernova’s Proficy for $600 million, then closed it with PTC’s ThingWorx and Kepware and put all three into a new company, Velotic. ERP vendors bought the shop floor: SYSPRO bought Evocon and ECI bought Amper, both for machine monitoring. Prometheus Group made three deals, among them Webalo, a connected worker platform.

Investors backed maintenance, frontline apps and AI-native newcomers

We logged 33 funding rounds and investments. The three largest disclosed rounds went to maintenance and frontline platforms. MaintainX raised a $150 million Series D in July 2025, ten months before Autodesk agreed to buy it. Tulip raised a $120 million Series D led by Mitsubishi Electric at a $1.3 billion valuation, and Tractian raised a $130 million Series D at $1.4 billion. Smaller rounds backed AI-first plant software: Squint raised a $40 million Series B for frontline guidance, Arch Systems took $30 million for its agentic AI roadmap, Maneva a $27 million Series A and Cerrion an $18 million Series A for video AI agents on the line.

02What they have in common

How many companies in each category sell each AI capability today, read from their own sites. Darker cells mean a larger share of the category sells it. Hover a cell for the count.

CapabilityAllMES and operations managementMachine monitoring and OEEQuality management systemsAI visual inspectionMaintenance managementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceIndustrial data platformsConnected worker and work instructionsProduction schedulingIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationDigital twins and simulationManufacturing ERP and MRPSupply chain planning suites
Companies22231161922182215211426891
Assistant127271116316410124969
Production analytics105201543107101331217
Named agent87104936810951643
Predictive maintenance614817227102
Visual inspection45421221186
Maintenance work and troubleshooting443118131611
Production execution37124127263
Quality event analysis355173541
Work instructions3161621411
MCP or agent API306222172224
AI scheduling284221141121
Data contextualization2321992
Digital twin and simulation221111558
Process optimization191216

Agentic and always-on: every launch (64)

The launches where the AI does more than draft or suggest: 64 in the window, 21 of them always-on. Each row says what a person still does, where the vendor says it.

DateCompanyLaunch
27 Oct 2026AMESAIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationAMESA launches AutonomyStack Agent
AutonomyStack builds, trains, validates and deploys modular autonomous agent teams for industrial process control and supply chains, with Autonomy Studio, AMESA Compute and AMESA Connect.
Human role: Sets goals and constraints and trains the agents with feedback
26 Oct 2026SAP Asset ManagementMaintenance managementSAP ships six maintenance agents in the Asset Operations Assistant Agent
Six agents released in Q3 2026 cover the maintenance cycle from first request to final debrief: operational maintenance planning, event planning, request initiation from natural language, job debrief, equipment insight and task list management. SAP says general availability is under way in phases.
Human role: handles exceptions and high-value work
22 Oct 2026L2LMES and operations managementShop Floor Execution platform launches with Execution AI Agent
L2L announced the public launch of Shop Floor Execution, with Execution AI embedded in maintenance, production and dispatch workflows. It is available now for enterprise deployments.
Human role: supervisors review recommendations and technicians do the repair
21 Oct 2026TrackWiseQuality management systemsHoneywell makes the TrackWise Digital AI Processing Agent available Agent
An agent that processes customer complaints through resolution and links complaint details to risk. It ran in production for five months at a medical device company before general availability.
Human role: Not specified; Honeywell says it reduces manual oversight
20 Oct 2026Akselos Structural Performance ManagementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceAkselos launches SPM for Cokers Always-on
SPM for Cokers feeds each cycle's operating data into one structural twin of the coke drum and reports remaining life for fatigue, bulging and crack growth separately. Released on the announcement date.
Human role: Operations tune cycles and integrity teams assess remaining life
15 Oct 2026Oden TechnologiesIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationOden introduces agentic root cause analysis Agent announced
Agentic root cause analysis combines LLM reasoning, conventional machine learning, site-specific knowledge and statistical checks to surface early warning signs of production failures, with a playbook of setpoint adjustments and work instructions for each root cause.
Human role: Confirms or dismisses each alert and carries out the playbook
14 Oct 2026PokaConnected worker and work instructionsPoka launches no-code AI Studio for building agents Agent
Poka AI Studio is a no-code agent builder for managing human processes on the factory floor. The release announces global launch together with the Poka MCP server.
Human role: Operations team designs the agent and sets its approvals
13 Oct 2026AssetWatchPredictive maintenance and asset performanceAssetWatch adds continuous electrical monitoring for AC motors Always-on
AssetWatch Electrical Monitoring continuously measures RMS current across all three phases of AC motors to flag overload, slipping belts, failing couplings and current unbalance, in the same platform as vibration, temperature and oil analysis.
Human role: experts validate findings and teams act
8 Oct 2026TwinThreadIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationTwinThread launches Anomaly Action Center Always-on
The solution ranks anomalies from asset health and process models by persistence and distance from operating limits and attaches cases and notebooks when alert rules fire.
Human role: Responds to each anomaly and writes the fix as a procedure
8 Oct 2026SAP Asset ManagementMaintenance managementSAP adds agentic capabilities for maintenance requests, planned for Q4 2026 Agent announced
New agentic capabilities for the Asset Operations Assistant will support initiating, screening and simulating maintenance requests. General availability is planned for Q4 2026.
Human role: authorizes the actions agents trigger
7 Oct 2026SymphonyAI IRIS FoundryIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSymphonyAI releases IRIS Foundry 2.0 Agent
The release adds a Cortex knowledge graph, a Cortex Agent in Copilot that traces each answer to its tag, document and work order, workflows a user describes in plain language, a library of apps and agents, and ML Studio models such as Remaining Useful Life.
Human role: Describes the task and reviews the answer
6 Oct 2026Infor CloudSuite IndustrialManufacturing ERP and MRPInfor adds Manufacturing Agent and Quality Inspection Agent Agent
The Infor 2026.10 release adds a Manufacturing Agent that pinpoints constraints on throughput, quality and delivery and then recommends and initiates corrective action, and a Quality Inspection Agent that catches quality issues and nonconformances early and initiates containment. Infor says agents work inside governed approval workflows.
Human role: Approves actions at governed decision points
22 Sep 2026RedzoneMachine monitoring and OEEPersona-based frontline Champions and Implementation Agents Agent
QAD | Redzone extended ChampionAI for the frontline into a roster of persona-based Champions and added Implementation Agents that cut launch timelines from 12 weeks to as little as one month.
Human role: frontline leads and operators decide and act
22 Sep 2026PlataineProduction schedulingPlataine unveils AI Agents for long-term production planning Agent announced
New agents simulate future production scenarios against real factory constraints to check ability to deliver, test added machines, tooling or shifts, and support capex decisions. They run attended or unattended with controlled autonomy.
Human role: decides on commitments and investments
15 Sep 2026AugmentirConnected worker and work instructionsAugmentir launches Augie Command Center and Procedure Studio Agent
Command Center lets frontline leaders deploy AI agents, build workflows and dashboards and schedule work by describing what they want. Procedure Studio turns an SOP or a one-sentence description into an interactive procedure. Both are generally available.
Human role: Person describes the goal and previews changes before publishing
3 Sep 2026LumafieldAI visual inspectionLumafield introduces Quality Agent Agent
Quality Agent is an agentic AI system in Voyager, built on a foundation model trained on industrial X-ray CT data, that automates defect detection and root-cause analysis.
Human role: Engineers review findings and decide the fix.
2 Sep 2026SYSPROManufacturing ERP and MRPSyspro launches Torque, an industrial AI agent platform Agent beta
Syspro Torque detects operational problems, recommends the next step and takes approved action inside the systems manufacturers already run, and connects to ERP, production and shop floor systems through MCP. It runs in a controlled availability program ahead of general availability.
Human role: Chooses how much to delegate and approves actions
24 Aug 2026SquintConnected worker and work instructionsSquint introduces the Lean Manufacturing Agent Agent
The agent takes uploaded video of a real cycle and returns a time and motion study that classifies every second as value-added, necessary or waste, documents the job and suggests sized fixes.
Human role: Industrial engineer reviews the study and picks the fixes
10 Aug 2026FactoryTalk AnalyticsIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationFactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI adds VisionStream and VisionLink Agent
VisionStream learns the normal look of a product from live production data, so teams do not label images by hand to start. VisionLink adds AI inspection to existing cameras and vision systems. Inspection results can feed control and supervision systems for automatic corrective action in a closed loop.
Human role: People train and deploy the inspection models and oversee quality results
10 Aug 2026Eyelit APSProduction schedulingEyelit launches Agent EyeQ in release 10.1 Agent
Agent EyeQ exposes more than 1,700 operations across planning, scheduling, MES and quality as tools. It executes scheduling and planning decisions itself, logs every action, and lets customers set how autonomous each agent is.
Human role: sets approvals, guardrails and notification routing
22 Jul 2026LumafieldAI visual inspectionLumafield makes Mars inline X-ray inspection generally available Always-on
Mars is an in-line arrayed X-ray system for 100% production inspection that uses AI on the scans.
Human role: Operators review flagged parts.
15 Jul 2026Eyelit MESMES and operations managementEyelit Version 10.1 runs on Agent EyeQ Agent
Version 10.1 is powered by Agent EyeQ, an agentic AI engine that executes planning and scheduling decisions rather than only supporting them, with every decision logged, traceable and explainable.
Human role: sets guardrails and reviews the decision log
29 Jun 2026Siemens Tecnomatix Process SimulateDigital twins and simulationTecnomatix 2606 adds simulation agents and AI robotic path creation Agent
Release 2606 says "simulation agents automate complex tasks", automates robotic path creation from location generation to trajectories, converts 2D sketches to 3D layouts and optimizes picking sequences. AI Simulation Copilot is available on demand through token-based licensing.
Human role: Engineer gives the natural-language command and checks the result
25 Jun 2026NanoprecisePredictive maintenance and asset performanceNanoprecise launches ReliabilityOS, an agentic AI platform for reliability teams Agent
ReliabilityOS builds on Condition Intelligence. AI agents gather supporting data, diagnose likely causes and prepare an evidence-backed analysis for each important alert. It connects to CMMS, APM systems and customer AI agents through an open architecture that supports Model Context Protocol.
Human role: Analysts review the evidence and make the final call
24 Jun 2026PokaConnected worker and work instructionsPoka announces Industrial AI agents, AI Studio early access and an MCP server Agent beta
Poka's governed AI agents trigger workflows in MES, CMMS and ERP and execute steps under human approval. AI Studio opened to selected customers in an early access program, and a production MCP server ships so enterprise AI assistants can reach Poka data.
Human role: Person approves the steps the agent executes
22 Jun 2026OverviewAI visual inspectionOverview adds OVX high-resolution and thermal cameras Always-on
OVX High Res, OVX Thermal and OVX Core bring high-resolution, thermal and bring-your-own-camera inspection to the same edge AI platform and software.
Human role: Teams build inspections, backtest changes and monitor models for drift.
15 Jun 2026UnitXAI visual inspectionUnitX launches the DeteX AI smart camera Always-on
DeteX is an AI smart camera with segmentation, classification, dimensional measurement and OCR that operators can set up in about a minute. It was commercially available from the release date.
Human role: Operators set up the camera through a guided interface.
11 Jun 2026Sight MachineIndustrial data platformsSight Machine launches its agentic manufacturing platform Always-on
The new platform pairs a Manufacturing Context Layer with agents that work continuously on quality drift, downtime and yield. The Blueprint small language model maps tags to assets.
Human role: Process experts validate and approve the findings
3 Jun 2026PlataineProduction schedulingPlataine launches conversational AI Agents in its TPO platform Agent
A suite of Planning, Scheduling, Material and Asset Agents watches production, finds root causes of disruptions, builds a re-optimized recovery plan and sends it to the right role for approval. Users can ask what-if questions in natural language.
Human role: approves the recovery plan
28 May 2026IFS UltimoMaintenance managementUltimo adds digital workers for planning, maintenance and safety Agent
Ultimo announced three purpose-built digital workers for maintenance planning, technicians and HSE, available through Microsoft Teams, Slack and the Ultimo EAM. Agents manage non-disruptive actions on their own; higher-risk decisions trigger human intervention.
Human role: decides higher-risk actions and oversees the agents
21 May 2026Nulogy Smart FactoryMachine monitoring and OEENulogy Intelligence launches with the Nora AI agent Agent
Nulogy launched Nulogy Intelligence, the AI layer of its manufacturing operating system. Its first capability, Nora, answers questions about production performance and can create maintenance orders and tasks inside Smart Factory and Maintenance.
Human role: plant staff ask the questions and use the answers
20 May 2026ElementaryAI visual inspectionElementary launches VisionLink worldwide Always-on
VisionLink upgrades existing FTP-enabled vision cameras with machine learning by linking them to the QualityOS platform. It was US-only before this launch.
Human role: Teams plug existing cameras into the edge workstation and set up QualityOS.
18 May 2026TrendMinerIndustrial data platformsTrendMiner Agent and Routines go live at AVEVA World Agent
The Agent works inside the app on historian and asset data and delivers conclusions, a root cause report and recommended actions. Routines document an analysis as steps that can become a monitor in one click.
Human role: An engineer reviews the report and acts on it
14 May 2026SAP Digital ManufacturingMES and operations managementSAP announces Production Excellence Agent and Manufacturing Assistant at Sapphire Always-on announced
At SAP Sapphire, SAP described new Joule Assistants, including a Manufacturing Assistant, and Industry AI agents that monitor production, quality and machine signals. General availability is phased through 2026.
Human role: approve and act on flagged production issues
14 May 2026SAP Asset ManagementMaintenance managementSAP announces the Asset and Service Assistant and asset agents at Sapphire Agent announced
SAP announced Joule assistants for autonomous supply chain management, including an Asset and Service Assistant that turns signals and anomalies into action. The Asset Performance Alert Processing Agent and Technician Briefing Agent are designed to assess asset conditions, prioritize work and raise first time fix rates. SAP says general availability is phased through 2026, starting now.
Human role: stays in control and sets the guardrails
5 May 2026Cognex OneVisionAI visual inspectionCognex launches In-Sight 3900 embedded AI vision system Always-on
The In-Sight 3900 runs Edge AI, Advanced AI and rule-based tools on a dedicated AI processor, with no external PC, at up to 4X the speed of the prior generation. It pairs with OneVision for cloud-to-edge model training.
Human role: People set up and validate the inspections
4 May 2026Eyelit MESMES and operations managementAgent EyeQ introduced alongside Microsoft Copilot MES integration Agent announced
Eyelit and Microsoft presented AI-assisted MES integration with Copilot at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo and introduced Agent EyeQ, an emerging capability that deploys electronic employees to plan, schedule and execute operations.
Human role: sets the process parameter guardrails
28 Apr 2026PlataineProduction schedulingPlataine Production Scheduler folds maintenance into the schedule Always-on
The Production Scheduler now monitors equipment and tool usage, starts maintenance actions from actual usage and adjusts the production schedule, driven by the Practimum Optimum engine.
Human role: sets maintenance rules and priorities
21 Apr 2026Dot Compliance eQMSQuality management systemsDot Compliance launches Dottie AI 5.0 with agentic personas Agent
The release title says Dottie AI 5.0 introduces agentic AI personas for a hybrid workforce. The AI page lists a Research Agent, a Review Agent and Document to Protocol.
Human role: An expert approves before critical steps move forward
20 Apr 2026SymphonyAI IRIS FoundryIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSymphonyAI launches eight industrial AI apps for energy operators Agent announced
Apps include rotating equipment failure prediction, a refinery yield and margin optimizer and pipeline leak detection, built on IRIS Foundry with IRIS Forge; the release says failures are predicted up to 30 days ahead and work orders triggered.
Human role: Teams act on triggered work orders and can override recommendations
20 Apr 2026Sight MachineIndustrial data platformsSight Machine introduces crews of AI agents Always-on preview
Crews of autonomous agents work around the clock on throughput, quality and cost, using Sight Machine's semantic layer and analysis tools within guardrails. The launch was shown at Hannover Messe.
Human role: People set the guardrails and review what the agents find
20 Apr 2026SAP Asset Performance ManagementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceSAP announces an Asset Health Agent for condition-based maintenance Always-on announced
The Asset Health Agent analyzes time-series health indicators to assess and summarize the current and projected health of technical objects and alerts users in real time. SAP plans general availability for Q3 2026. The same release names AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert processing in SAP Asset Performance Management.
Human role: Reliability teams decide the maintenance action
15 Apr 2026ApprenticeMES and operations managementApprentice launches A1, a standalone AI agent for manufacturing Agent
A1 sits above the plant's systems of record, ingests data from ERP, MES, SCADA and historians and runs role-matched agents for troubleshooting, investigations, documentation and risk assessments. It is available now, with a free individual tier.
Human role: Person reviews, edits and shares the documents it generates; the team defines the workflows it runs
13 Apr 2026Invisible AIConnected worker and work instructionsInvisible AI launches Vision Execution System with NVIDIA Always-on
The Vision Execution System uses NVIDIA Jetson edge devices with 3D depth cameras to capture and analyze every production cycle in real time. It builds a video digital twin and a unified cycles database ready for agentic workflows.
Human role: Team acts on the insights and changes the process
25 Mar 2026UptimeAIIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationUptimeAI launches four AI Reasoning Agents Agent
The Root Cause, Maintenance Optimization, Process Optimization and HAZOP Analysis agents diagnose causes, recommend actions and keep learning from outcomes. UptimeAI unveiled them at CERAWeek and says they are available now, deployable in weeks on cloud or on-premises.
Human role: Engineers review the diagnosis and approve the action
16 Mar 2026InstrumentalAI visual inspectionInstrumental launches Synchronized Learning for high-density connectors Always-on
A new AI-powered quality control system detects subtle defects in high-density, blind-mate connectors in compute system manufacturing.
Human role: Engineers train the pin model; OEMs validate thresholds.
13 Mar 2026Eigen InnovationsAI visual inspectionEigen shows AI thermal inspection for blow molding Always-on
Several thermal cameras around each parison feed AI that checks every shot for shape, length, heat distribution and die wear without extending cycle time.
Human role: Operators respond to the alerts.
11 Mar 2026TrendMinerIndustrial data platformsTrendMiner introduces the Analytics Agent Agent
TrendMiner's first agentic AI for process analytics searches time series, asset and event data on its own, explains process behavior, speeds root cause analysis and can write production reports. Customers can bring their own LLM over TrendMiner's MCP servers.
Human role: An engineer reviews the findings and picks the action
3 Mar 2026SeeqIndustrial data platformsSeeq introduces Seeq Intelligence with Agent Q Agent
Seeq Intelligence adds Agent Q, a natural language analyst, and Build Your Own Agent for repeatable multistep workflows. It is in the Seeq Enterprise package and available now.
Human role: A person builds each agent and decides on its recommended actions
2 Mar 2026TractianPredictive maintenance and asset performanceTractian launches a 2-in-1 vibration and ultrasonic sensor Always-on
The new sensor captures vibration at up to 64 kHz and continuous ultrasound in one device, and the platform correlates vibration, ultrasound, temperature and RPM data. Insights go into CMMS and EAM systems.
Human role: technicians act on alerts and confirm repairs
27 Jan 2026Schaeffler OPTIMEPredictive maintenance and asset performanceSchaeffler adds FAG OPTIME E-CM to monitor electrically driven machines Always-on announced
FAG OPTIME E-CM monitors current and voltage in three-phase motors from the control cabinet and sends the data to the Schaeffler Cloud, where machine learning finds patterns and creates maintenance recommendations. It complements OPTIME vibration sensors.
Human role: maintenance managers act on alerts
22 Jan 2026Canvas EnvisionConnected worker and work instructionsCanvas Envision adds agentic AI to Evie in Release 5.10 Agent
Evie AI Agents take existing PDFs and instructional videos and convert them into structured work instructions inside Envision Creator, using specialized agents for each content type.
Human role: Author reviews and edits the generated instruction
17 Dec 2025Ideagen Quality ManagementQuality management systemsIdeagen launches its agentic AI, Mazlan Agent
Mazlan is Ideagen's agentic AI framework for quality and safety work, with human approval of its outputs. Ideagen says early pilots cut 30 minute tasks to two minutes.
Human role: People review and approve Mazlan outputs
6 Nov 2025MachineMetricsMachine monitoring and OEEMax AI launches as the agentic layer of the MES Agent
MachineMetrics launched Max AI, which unifies machine, ERP and documented knowledge data. It ships an Operator Assistant, Planner and Supervisor Agents, Max Reporter for shift handovers and an Onboarding Agent.
Human role: operators and supervisors act on the guidance
15 Oct 2025QualioQuality management systemsQualio makes Compliance Intelligence generally available Always-on
Maps quality data to requirements such as FDA QMSR and ISO 13485, flags gaps as evidence changes and guides remediation, with audit trails.
Human role: Quality teams review gaps and approve remediation
7 Oct 2025TulipConnected worker and work instructionsTulip unveils Composable AI Agents Agent beta
Tulip launched configurable AI agents for frontline operations that can enforce quality checks, reschedule production tasks and automate rework. Teams build agents in an agent builder or take pre-built ones from the Library.
Human role: Team defines the agent's roles, instructions and actions
16 Sep 2025Sight MachineIndustrial data platformsSight Machine launches industrial AI agents and AppBuilder CoPilot Agent
The agents let operators without data engineering skills work with plant data. AppBuilder CoPilot uses several agents to build a complete industrial application from one plain-language prompt.
Human role: A person describes the application and uses the result
9 Sep 2025Cognite Data FusionIndustrial data platformsAtlas AI major release adds agent templates Agent
Cognite released a major version of Atlas AI, a low-code agent workbench. It adds templates for time series analysis, work packages, shift handover summaries and work order classification, and granular access controls for agents.
Human role: Users build the agents and set their access
3 Sep 2025UpKeepMaintenance managementUpKeep launches Nova, an AI agent for maintenance work Agent
Nova reviews CMMS history, asset records and maintenance patterns, then creates work orders, assigns technicians, orders parts and updates records through natural language. It is embedded in the core platform and priced by credits that charge when Nova takes action.
Human role: sets the rules and reviews and approves Nova's actions
21 Aug 2025ApprenticeMES and operations managementAgentic AI added to the Apprentice pharma MES Agent beta
Apprentice briefed analysts on agents for authoring, quality and process in its MES. Authoring and quality agents were due in the September 2025 release, process in limited release, scheduling and continuous improvement agents by year end.
Human role: sets each agent's limits and approves the work
4 Aug 2025TDengine IDMPIndustrial data platformsTDengine releases IDMP, an AI-native industrial data platform Always-on
IDMP detects application scenarios from collected data, then builds dashboards, analyzes in real time and monitors anomalies on its own. It was available for download and as a 15-day trial on TDengine Cloud.
Human role: Engineers review the output and act on anomalies
Jul 2025IFS UltimoMaintenance managementUltimo launches its first digital worker for HSE incident reporting Agent
Ultimo launched its first AI digital worker, for health, safety and environment incident reporting, in July 2025.
Human role: reviews the incidents and actions the digital worker suggests
18 Jun 2025ElementaryAI visual inspectionElementary introduces VisionStream Always-on
VisionStream is an edge AI that watches the production line, learns what normal looks like and flags defects within seconds, with no labeling, vision expertise or line stoppage.
Human role: Operators review edge cases and guide the AI.
12 May 2025Siemens Industrial CopilotIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSiemens introduces industrial AI agents behind its copilots Agent announced
Siemens introduced industrial AI agents that run behind its Industrial Copilots, with an orchestrator for specialized agents and a planned agent marketplace on Siemens Xcelerator. The copilots named are Design, Planning, Engineering, Operations and Services (Senseye).
Human role: People handle complex problem-solving; agents run routine steps

03The companies

Core means the product is built on that stage of manufacturing operations. Partial means the stage is present, secondary or bolted on. An empty cell means we did not find it on the company’s own site, not that it cannot exist. Open a row for its AI and its dated updates.

CompanyWhat it doesPlanRunQualityMaintainMonitorImproveUpdates

MES and operations management31

Applied SmartFactoryMES and operations managementOwned by Applied MaterialsSuggest an editApplied Materials sells SmartFactory to semiconductor fabs and battery makers as "AI-powered automation and integrated manufacturing software." Production and process teams use its MES (PROMIS, FACTORYworks, FAB300), SPC and fault detection, advanced scheduling and dispatch (RTD), and material control. SmartFactory AI IQworks adds a framework to build and deploy AI models without coding.
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SmartFactory AI IQworks is a scalable AI framework with an AI Simulator engine that makes training data, and lets users deploy and monitor AI models without coding. Applied says AI predicts equipment failures, schedules maintenance and supports dynamic scheduling. It bought minds.ai, a reinforcement learning company for fabs, in 2026.

AI capabilities: Production execution, Predictive maintenance, AI scheduling

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AVEVA Manufacturing Execution SystemMES and operations managementOwned by Schneider ElectricSuggest an edit"AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System is a market-leading MES software." It is a composable, model-driven MES for batch and make-to-order plants such as consumer goods and specialty chemicals. Plant teams use it for production control, genealogy, OEE and quality. The AI today: industrial AI insights and recommendations on the CONNECT platform, and GenAI that helps users find and understand information across sites.
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AVEVA says the MES helps users "optimize yield, quality, and productivity" with industrial AI-generated insights and recommendations on its CONNECT platform. Its 2026 AVEVA World session says GenAI helps users find and understand information across plants.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

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DELMIA AprisoMES and operations managementOwned by Dassault SystèmesSuggest an edit"DELMIA Apriso is an advanced Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solution designed to help manufacturers modernize and optimize global production operations." Plants use it for MES, quality, material, maintenance and analytics across sites. The AI today is DELMIA Augmented Experience, an AI-enabled AR layer with computer vision for assembly and defect detection, and Dassault's Virtual Companions such as LEO that answer plant questions in natural language.
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DELMIA Apriso is enhanced by DELMIA Augmented Experience, which uses AI, computer vision and deep learning for assembly guidance and automated defect detection. Dassault's AI-powered Virtual Companions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including LEO, let users ask about OEE, losses and open nonconformances in natural language.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Visual inspection

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Infor MESMES and operations managementOwned by KochSuggest an editInfor sells MES as "smart manufacturing execution system (MES) software" that orchestrates and tracks production and integrates with ERP. It covers production, quality, inventory, maintenance and energy modules. The product came from Infor's 2021 purchase of Lighthouse Systems. The page offers AI-driven analytics and GenAI to speed analysis of KPIs such as OEE.
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The MES page says users can "use GenAI to accelerate analysis" of built-in KPIs and build dashboards. Infor's industry AI agents on AWS, including a Quality Management agent, are in limited availability for CloudSuite customers.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics

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Oracle Fusion Cloud ManufacturingMES and operations managementOracle Corporation is a public company (NYSE: ORCL)Suggest an edit"Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing is a cloud suite for supply chain and manufacturing work across product development, planning, procurement, execution, order management, logistics, analytics, and built-in AI." This row covers its shop floor and manufacturing execution side for production supervisors and plant teams. The AI today: the Production Shift Operations Workspace and a Batch Process Manufacturing Workspace, both built from AI agents that flag exceptions and recommend actions.
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The Production Shift Operations Workspace is an AI agentic app with Work Order, Production Health, Assigned Operators and Exceptions advisors and an Ask Oracle chat, built on Oracle AI Agent Studio. The Batch Process Manufacturing Workspace "uses specialized AI agents to monitor yield and conformance signals, detect production issues early, and guide corrective actions before execution".

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics

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Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformMES and operations managementOwned by Rockwell AutomationSuggest an editRockwell Automation's Plex cloud-based MES platform, with Plex QMS and Plex Connected Worker, used by plant, production and quality teams. The AI today: a Plex QMS link to FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI for camera-based inspection, an AI-powered authoring agent in Plex Connected Worker that turns CAD files and technical assets into step-by-step work instructions, and an AI agent in Plex Reporting and Analytics that users query in natural language.
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Plex QMS connects to FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI to run AI inspection on new and existing camera systems. Plex Connected Worker has an AI authoring agent that turns CAD files and technical assets into step-by-step work instructions. Plex Reporting and Analytics has an embedded AI agent that users query in natural language.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions, Visual inspection

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SAP Digital ManufacturingMES and operations managementOwned by SAP SESuggest an editSAP's cloud manufacturing execution and operations product, sold with SAP S/4HANA to plant and production teams. SAP says "updates to SAP Digital Manufacturing will strengthen compliance and traceability in regulated environments". The AI is Joule: a Manufacturing Assistant that links shop-floor signals to wider context, and agents such as the Production Excellence Agent and the Production Master Data Readiness Agent, announced in May 2026 and rolling out in phases through 2026.
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Joule Manufacturing Assistant connects shop-floor signals with broader operational context. The Production Excellence Agent and Production Master Data Readiness Agent "continuously monitor production, quality, and machine signals to detect issues early and keep routings and work instructions aligned with enterprise plans".

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution

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Siemens OpcenterMES and operations managementOwned by Siemens AGSuggest an edit"Opcenter is a unified manufacturing operations management (MOM) solutions portfolio." It covers execution, quality, planning and scheduling (Opcenter APS) for discrete, process and regulated plants. Plant managers, production and quality teams buy it. The AI today is Opcenter Copilot, a chat assistant that answers questions from product documentation across the Opcenter X applications, and a Configurator agent that works through an MCP server with GitHub Copilot.
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Opcenter Copilot is an AI assistant that reads product documentation and answers in context inside the Opcenter X applications and Configurator. A Configurator Agent runs on an MCP server and adds Opcenter X knowledge and tools to GitHub Copilot in agent mode.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API

  • 21 May 2026 Configurator Agent MCP server in Opcenter X 2604
    Opcenter X 2604 adds a Configurator Agent on a new MCP server. It gives GitHub Copilot in agent mode Opcenter X knowledge and tools to support configurators in their workflow.
  • 12 Feb 2026 Opcenter Copilot arrives in Opcenter X 2601
    Opcenter X 2601 adds Opcenter Copilot, "an intelligent assistant designed to read and understand available product documentation", to the Configurator and to all applications.
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42QMES and operations managementOwned by Sanmina CorporationSuggest an edit42Q is a cloud MES from Sanmina: "a full featured, cloud-based MES solution." Electronics, medical, automotive and industrial plants buy it for shop order tracking, genealogy and multi-plant visibility. Arthur is its AI agent: operators and managers ask questions in plain language, in many languages and by voice, and Arthur reads live MES data and plant documents through MCP.
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Arthur, 42Q's "AI Orchestrator", runs on Amazon Bedrock. It answers from SOPs and manuals, looks up shop orders and genealogy in live 42Q data through the Model Context Protocol, draws charts, and raises event-driven alerts on shop floor anomalies.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

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Aegis FactoryLogixMES and operations managementOwned by Peak Rock Capital (affiliate)Suggest an editAegis sells FactoryLogix, a discrete-manufacturing MES that runs from CAD data to the shop floor, and it now pairs MES with digital twin simulation and planning from Simio. Its own words: "Where execution, planning, intelligence, and simulation work together." Electronics, aerospace and defense, medical device and automotive plants buy it. ARIA, built with Arch Systems, is the AI copilot that finds issues and acts through the MES.
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ARIA is the joint AI copilot from Aegis and Arch Systems: it "automatically identifies issues, implements improvements, and continuously validates results on the shop floor" through FactoryLogix. The site also describes MES built on an "AI-powered digital twin".

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Digital twin and simulation

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Aptean MESMES and operations managementSays it is trusted by more than 12,000 organizations across its products.Suggest an editAptean sells MES for mid-size and complex manufacturers: "Aptean MES software helps you monitor production, identify issues faster, improve quality and keep operations aligned with your plans." Its operations page says AI agents flag equipment issues before stoppages, assist inspection planning, surface answers from quality records and guide shift handoffs and onboarding.
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Aptean Intelligence, the AI layer on AppCentral, runs embedded agents on connected ERP and MES data. In operations the agents flag equipment issues, assist inspection planning and answer questions from quality records.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Work instructions, Predictive maintenance, Quality event analysis

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Critical Manufacturing MESMES and operations managementOwned by ASMPTSuggest an edit"Critical Manufacturing, part of ASMPT, provides an MES-powered Industrial Operations Platform for manufacturers operating complex production environments, including semiconductor, electronics, medical devices and industrial equipment manufacturing." Plant and manufacturing engineering teams run execution, traceability and quality on it. The AI today: a catalog of purpose-built AI agents that answer production questions and build dashboards and pages on the MES data model, plus MES and Analytics Copilots.
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Version 12.0 adds "a catalog of purpose-built AI agents that answer questions and build dashboards on the same governed data model that runs manufacturing execution", and customers can add their own agents. AI Copilots inside the MES let users ask about manufacturing data in natural language and generate charts and dashboards. The 2025 Convanit purchase adds the c-Alice AI image analysis engine.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Visual inspection

  • 20 Oct 2026 Version 12.0 adds a catalog of purpose-built AI agents
    The Industrial Operations Platform version 12.0 introduces AI agents that answer questions and build dashboards and user interface pages on the platform's Canonical Data Model, and customers can add their own agents.
  • 19 Mar 2026 AI Copilots shown inside the MES at Hannover Messe preview
    Critical Manufacturing said visitors would see AI Copilots within the MES that answer questions about manufacturing data in natural language and generate charts, dashboards and insights.
  • 29 Jul 2025 Critical Manufacturing acquires Convanit for AI image analysis
    Critical Manufacturing bought Convanit, an AI specialist in image-based analytics for high-tech manufacturing. Its c-Alice engine lets manufacturers build and deploy custom visual inspection AI models without data science skills.
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Eyelit MESMES and operations managementSays it has delivered "100+ clients and 1000+ solutions" across planning, scheduling and execution.Suggest an editEyelit sells planning, scheduling and execution software for complex manufacturing: "AI-native production orchestration for complex manufacturing." SIOP, APS and MES close the loop, and Agent EyeQ "tells you what happened, why it happened, and what to do next." Semiconductor, medical device, automotive, industrial and aerospace plants buy it.
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Agent EyeQ deploys "electronic employees" that plan, schedule and execute operations, interactively with plant staff or on their own within process parameter guardrails. Every decision is logged and explainable. A Microsoft MCP server connects Copilot to Eyelit MES.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, MCP or agent API, Quality event analysis, AI scheduling

  • 15 Jul 2026 Eyelit Version 10.1 runs on Agent EyeQ Agent
    Version 10.1 is powered by Agent EyeQ, an agentic AI engine that executes planning and scheduling decisions rather than only supporting them, with every decision logged, traceable and explainable.
  • 4 May 2026 Agent EyeQ introduced alongside Microsoft Copilot MES integration Agent announced
    Eyelit and Microsoft presented AI-assisted MES integration with Copilot at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo and introduced Agent EyeQ, an emerging capability that deploys electronic employees to plan, schedule and execute operations.
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FORCAM ENISCOMES and operations managementSays more than 100,000 systems worldwide are monitored and optimized with its technology.Suggest an editFORCAM ENISCO sells MES for discrete manufacturers, including MES FLEX ("AI-Ready MES for your Smart Factory"), plus add-ons for SAP Digital Manufacturing. ENI.one is a voice-controlled AI agent at the SAP DM terminal: workers talk, and it starts and stops orders and reports quantities directly in the system.
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ENI.one, built with 4IoT, is "the voice-controlled AI agent for SAP Digital Manufacturing". It picks an action from a skill library and runs it through SAP DM APIs. MES FLEX builds structured production data for AI analysis.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution

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iBase-t SoluminaMES and operations managementGrowth investment from TA Associates, amount not disclosed, 2026-03-31Suggest an editiBase-t sells the Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform, a cloud MES for aerospace and defense with quality and MRO. It calls itself "the global leader in cloud software for the aerospace and defense industry." Solumina AI adds four modules: ScanAI turns paper work instructions into digital data, Digital SME answers Solumina questions, Intelligence reports on throughput and risk, and PulseAI shows workforce readiness.
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Solumina AI has four modules: Solumina ScanAI, Solumina Digital SME (an AI assistant that gives context-aware Solumina guidance), Solumina Intelligence (on-demand insights into throughput, schedule adherence, quality and risk) and Solumina PulseAI (an AI-assisted dashboard of production status and workforce readiness).

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions

  • 31 Mar 2026 TA Associates makes growth investment in iBase-t
    TA Associates announced a strategic growth investment in iBase-t to support product innovation and global expansion as aerospace and defense manufacturers adopt AI-enabled digital manufacturing. Financial terms were not disclosed.
  • 15 Jan 2026 Solumina AI launches with four modules
    iBase-t made Solumina AI generally available with ScanAI, Digital SME, Intelligence and PulseAI, built for regulated aerospace and defense manufacturing.
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iTAC.MOM.SuiteMES and operations managementOwned by DürrSuggest an editiTAC Software's MES and MOM platform "for production control, quality, traceability, planning, and maintenance" in discrete manufacturing such as automotive, electronics and medical technology. The AI today is iTAC.CATi, an AI knowledge platform and chatbot that links MES data, documents and expert knowledge and runs on local AI models, and AI-supported process analysis in the iTAC.MA.Suite.
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iTAC.CATi, the Context Agent for Technical Insight, combines product manuals, customer instructions and live MES data. It uses local AI models, knowledge graphs and edge computing, so it works without a cloud link, and gives role-specific, multilingual answers.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Work instructions

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Körber PAS-X MESMES and operations managementLife sciences readyOwned by KörberSuggest an editKörber's PAS-X suite is "Digitalize and orchestrate your pharmaceutical, biotech, and cell & gene therapy production to ensure regulatory compliance and operational efficiency across your value chain." Pharma and biotech plants run electronic batch records, order execution and review on it. The AI today is PAS-X K.AI, a chat assistant for PAS-X operations, and the K.AI Assistant with PharmaGuardrails.
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PAS-X K.AI is a web-based AI chatbot that answers questions on operating PAS-X MES products. Körber says its PharmaGuardrails keep K.AI answers "grounded in factual documentation" for "Trusted AI: GxP compliant" use. The PAS-X MES 3.4 release adds AI support.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Quality event analysis

Körber's page calls K.AI "Trusted AI: GxP compliant" and sells PAS-X for regulated pharma and biotech production.

  • 21 Sep 2026 Körber launches K.AI Assistant for GxP operations
    Körber introduced K.AI Assistant, a generative AI assistant for regulated life sciences that uses PharmaGuardrails to limit inaccurate and out-of-scope answers and integrates natively with PAS-X MES.
  • 20 May 2025 Körber unveils PAS-X K.AI and PAS-X MES 3.4 announced
    At its Software Pharma Open conference Körber unveiled PAS-X K.AI, "a web-based AI chatbot that simplifies the operation and management of PAS-X MES software products", and PAS-X MES 3.4 with AI support.
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L2LMES and operations managementThe vendor says it powers more than 500,000 users across 93 countries.Suggest an edit"Real-time visibility and action across your plant, powered by Execution AI." L2L is a connected manufacturing operations platform that syncs maintenance, production dispatch, digital work and skills. Execution AI dispatches qualified technicians, surfaces root-cause fixes and recommends line pace to cut micro-downtime.
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Execution AI is the engine in L2L Shop Floor Execution. It processes live shop floor events to auto-dispatch technicians, suggest root-cause fixes and optimize line pace, and ships with pre-configured Solvers such as Failure Pattern, PM and Spares Consumption that review downtime and maintenance data.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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Mapex MESMES and operations managementOwned by Proalpha GroupSuggest an editMapex, from Barcelona, sells a modular MES for production control, quality, traceability and maintenance. "Maik is Artificial Intelligence at the service of Industry: an AI that understands production processes, learns from shop floor data, and adapts to the real needs of each company." Maik acts as a factory copilot, a quality and safety checker that uses image recognition, and a maintenance assistant.
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Maik is Mapex's AI assistant: a smart factory copilot and business analyst, a quality and safety checker that watches label consistency and protective equipment with image recognition, and a maintenance assistant bot.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Visual inspection

  • 19 Dec 2025 Proalpha acquires Mapex
    The Proalpha Group acquired Mapex Manufacturing Software Solutions, adding an AI-powered MES with the Maik assistant to its Digital Shopfloor business. Mapex stays available as a standalone MES.
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MasterControl Manufacturing ExcellenceMES and operations managementLife sciences readySays Mx has helped hundreds of manufacturers.Suggest an editMasterControl Manufacturing Excellence (Mx) is "a next-generation digital manufacturing platform" for regulated makers: electronic batch records and device history records, MES, electronic logbooks and asset management. The Master Template Generator is an AI chat tool that turns a paper batch record into a digital one and drafts or revises templates from plain-language instructions.
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Master Template Generator, built on MasterControl's own AI platform for regulated life sciences, converts paper batch records to digital ones. MasterControl says its agentic AI platform keeps data inside its validated system.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions

Its AI Trust Center page says the AI platform adheres to 21 CFR Part 11, and the site sells validation tools for regulated production records.

  • 15 May 2025 Master Template Generator beta for batch records beta
    MasterControl released the beta of Master Template Generator for the Mx Production Records module. Users convert a paper batch record to a digital one, generate templates and revise batch records through chat.
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MPDV HYDRA XMES and operations managementSays more than 1,485,000 people use its software at over 2,430 installations.Suggest an editMPDV's manufacturing execution system for discrete and process plants, sold to production, quality and planning teams. The AI Suite adds standard AI apps to HYDRA X and its scheduling system FEDRA: AI Planning, AI Workforce Planning, AI-based Setup Time Prediction and Predictive Quality, and the Smart Guide is a generative AI assistant that answers questions about MPDV software.
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The MPDV AI Suite has manufacturing apps for AI Planning, AI Workforce Planning, setup time prediction and Predictive Quality that run on HYDRA X data without a data scientist. The Smart Guide is MPDV's first generative AI assistant, giving instant answers from verified product documentation.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Quality event analysis, AI scheduling

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Parsec TrakSYSMES and operations managementTrakSYS is "deployed in thousands of factories across more than 140 countries"; Parsec reports double-digit annual recurring revenue growth.Suggest an editParsec Automation sells TrakSYS, an MES and operations management platform for plant managers, production and quality teams. TrakSYS 14 added TrakSYS IQ, which Parsec calls "AI built into the MES platform": IQ Assistant answers questions about live plant data in plain language and draws charts, and IQ Build proposes TrakSYS configuration changes that a person approves.
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TrakSYS IQ has two parts. IQ Assistant is a generative AI assistant that answers natural-language questions on TrakSYS data. IQ Build is an MCP server that lets the customer's own AI client propose configuration changes, which a person reviews and approves before anything runs.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

  • 20 Oct 2026 TrakSYS 14.1 adds IQ Build for AI-assisted configuration
    IQ Build is an MCP server that lets a customer's AI client propose TrakSYS configuration. It shipped as the headline of TrakSYS 14.1 and is labeled an early capability.
  • 19 Feb 2026 TrakSYS 14 adds IQ Assistant
    Parsec released TrakSYS 14 with IQ Assistant, a generative AI assistant inside the MES that answers questions about TrakSYS data and builds charts and tables.
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Proficy Smart Factory MESMES and operations managementOwned by TPGSuggest an edit"Proficy Smart Factory is the only MES on the market that can deliver value across all types of manufacturing operations (process, discrete, diverse/mixed)." It is the Proficy Plant Applications MES, sold as SaaS or on premises to plant and production teams, now owned by TPG. The AI today: the Proficy Smart Factory 2026 release adds AI-powered MES capabilities, and the 2026 roadmap shows Chat with Proficy MES, an MES Configuration Assistant and an MCP server.
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GE Vernova's webinar for Proficy Smart Factory 2026 names "new AI-powered MES capabilities" and predictive analytics. A trade report of the vendor's Accelerate 2026 talk lists Chat with Proficy MES, a Smart Factory MES Configuration Assistant and an MCP server and client shared across MES, Historian and SCADA.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API

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PROXIA MESMES and operations managementOwned by Shoplogix (Constellation Software)Suggest an editPROXIA Software, a German MES vendor with more than 30 years in the field, sells MES for planning, data capture and analysis in contract manufacturing, automotive, tooling and plastics. MES-Intelligence "integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) directly into your shop floor": users ask questions in plain language and get answers from MES data and technical documents, fully on premise.
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MES-Intelligence is a natural-language assistant that turns questions into database queries and answers from MES data and technical documentation, for downtime analysis, OEE figures, fault finding and order queries.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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Sepasoft MESMES and operations managementSays it serves "thousands of manufacturers worldwide".Suggest an editSepasoft sells MES modules that run on Inductive Automation's Ignition platform: "a global leader in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) built on the Ignition platform." Plants and integrators buy modules for OEE, SPC, tracking and batch work. SepaIQ is the analytics platform with a Machine Learning module that predicts production losses and quality issues and an LLM module that answers questions in chat.
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SepaIQ has a Machine Learning Module that builds and runs models on production data to predict losses and quality issues, and an LLM Module with a chat interface for questions about production, downtime and quality and for shift and batch summaries.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

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SYMESTICMES and operations managementOwn hardwareCloud MES in use in more than 20 countries.Suggest an editSYMESTIC is a cloud MES for machine, order and quality data across plants: "SYMESTIC connects machines, ERP and shop floor in real time on an MES platform that is identical across all plants." Three AI functions run in production today: downtime reason translation, AI-assisted configuration of device connections and shift-log summaries. A read-only MCP server for external AI assistants is planned for 2026.
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symestic AI is the platform's AI layer. Three functions are in production today: downtime reason translation, AI-assisted RegEx configuration for device connection, and shift-log summaries. A read-only MCP server is planned for 2026, and human-confirmed write actions for 2027.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

Sells its own DI Gateway, UA Gateway and IoT Box devices with the software (pricing page).

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ApprenticeMES and operations managementLife sciences ready$207M raised; Total venture funding $207M as stated in its 2026-04-15 release; last round not statedSuggest an edit"The AI-native platform for manufacturing teams. MES, LES, digital work instructions, and agentic AI, connected across your enterprise." Life sciences and process manufacturers run paperless batch execution, lab execution and guided work with Apprentice. A1 is a standalone AI agent that troubleshoots alarms, drafts documents, runs investigations and acts across MES, ERP and SCADA.
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A1, a standalone AI agent on the proprietary Apprentice 4.1 model, with role-matched agents (for example Process Agent) for troubleshooting, investigations, documentation and risk assessments. Agentic AI is also embedded in its no-code MES to author, simulate, schedule and execute.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

Its MES page says full IQ/OQ validation for cGXP and 21 CFR Part 11.

  • 15 Apr 2026 Apprentice launches A1, a standalone AI agent for manufacturing Agent
    A1 sits above the plant's systems of record, ingests data from ERP, MES, SCADA and historians and runs role-matched agents for troubleshooting, investigations, documentation and risk assessments. It is available now, with a free individual tier.
  • 21 Jan 2026 Apprentice acquires Ganymede
    Apprentice bought Ganymede to build an AI-native platform that spans R&D through commercial manufacturing.
  • 21 Aug 2025 Agentic AI added to the Apprentice pharma MES Agent beta
    Apprentice briefed analysts on agents for authoring, quality and process in its MES. Authoring and quality agents were due in the September 2025 release, process in limited release, scheduling and continuous improvement agents by year end.
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BRAINRMES and operations management$13M raised; Seed, EUR 11M (about $13M), 2025-09-18Suggest an editBRAINR, a Portuguese company, sells a cloud MES for food factories: "Next Gen Cloud MES Software." Production planning, traceability, quality and WMS connect people, machines and ERP. BRAINR AI adds virtual employees, a voice assistant, AI-supported planning and live conversation with the factory data.
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BRAINR AI offers Virtual Employees, a Virtual Assistant earpiece that talks with the software, AI-supported planning, reports and summaries, and AI-powered live conversation with factory data.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, AI scheduling

  • 18 Sep 2025 BRAINR raises seed round for food factory MES
    BRAINR raised an EUR 11 million ($13 million) seed round led by C2 Capital Partners to expand its cloud MES for food manufacturing. The company spun out of a poultry group in 2023.
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HarmoniMES and operations managementOwn hardwareSeries A, US$10M, 2026-09-09Suggest an editHarmoni sells what it calls the "World's First Factory Orchestration System" to manufacturers in precision machining, metal fabrication, aerospace and medical devices. Plant managers and operators get labor and job tracking by RFID, digital work instructions and machine program loading, real-time quality alerts, and observability. A Harmoni device mounts at each workcenter. HAL answers questions from live production data.
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HAL, the Harmoni AI Lieutenant, runs on the Factory Orchestration platform and answers plain-language questions about late jobs, downtime, available operators and jobs hit by an engineering change, from live production data.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics

Sells its own Harmoni device that mounts at the workcenter.

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Cerexio OneMES and operations managementNo customer count or funding published on its site.Suggest an editCerexio, from Singapore, sells the Cerexio One platform: "AI Platforms for Industrial Automation and Manufacturing." Modules include an MES, production order management, yield optimiser, digital twin, predictive maintenance and quality. PrecisionOne offers "AI-driven production control and traceability" and BatchOne covers pharmaceutical batch records.
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The site lists built-in Gen AI, AI-based predictions and scenario-based prescription, AI-driven production control in PrecisionOne, and an AI-powered Warehouse Manager.

AI capabilities: Production execution, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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FuuzMES and operations managementOwned by MFGx, LLCSuggest an editFuuz is an industrial operations platform where plants build MES, WMS and QMS apps on one governed data model: "Enterprise Agentic Development Platform for Manufacturing." It covers production execution, track and trace, OEE, quality and maintenance. Agents and an MCP server work on the same governed data, and users bring their own AI agents.
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The Fuuz MCP server lets LLMs such as Claude read governed plant data and build apps from a description. Agents follow the typed data model under role-based access control, and server docs teach agents how Fuuz works.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Data contextualization, MCP or agent API

  • 22 Jul 2025 Fuuz MCP Driver connects LLMs to plant data
    Fuuz introduced the MCP Driver, an edge feature that gives LLMs, starting with Claude, real-time access to manufacturing data and lets users build apps by describing them.
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EvoconMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareOwned by SYSPROSuggest an editCloud OEE and downtime software: "Digitalize production. Elevate efficiency." Plants connect machines, log stops and read OEE by shift and line. The AI Analyst reads a month to a year of OEE and downtime data and returns one ranked, plain-language report per machine for production and improvement teams.
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AI Analyst (Beta) reads production data for any period from a month to a year. It ranks findings by their cost in OEE, links stops that chain together, flags losses that concentrate on a product or shift and recommends actions. Every number is calculated in code and explained by AI.

AI capabilities: Production analytics

Provides its own IIoT device with the subscription and sells sensors, relays and cables on request; a hardware-free option also exists.

  • 12 Jan 2026 SYSPRO acquires Evocon
    SYSPRO completed the acquisition of Evocon, the Estonia-based provider of real-time production monitoring and OEE software. The release says Evocon adds machine utilization, downtime and bottleneck visibility to SYSPRO's shop floor offer.
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Nulogy Smart FactoryMachine monitoring and OEEThe vendor reports hundreds of site implementations in more than 15 countries.Suggest an edit"Production monitoring and OEE. See every minute. Improve every shift." Smart Factory is the monitoring and OEE product in the Nulogy manufacturing operating system, used in food and beverage, CPG, life sciences, co-packing, automotive and other plants. Nora, the AI agent in Nulogy Intelligence, answers plain-English questions about OEE and downtime and can create maintenance orders and tasks.
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Nora is an operational AI agent inside Nulogy Intelligence, the AI, data and analytics layer. It reads production data, checks downtime against open maintenance orders, shows charts and can create or update tasks and maintenance orders.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

  • 21 May 2026 Nulogy Intelligence launches with the Nora AI agent Agent
    Nulogy launched Nulogy Intelligence, the AI layer of its manufacturing operating system. Its first capability, Nora, answers questions about production performance and can create maintenance orders and tasks inside Smart Factory and Maintenance.
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RedzoneMachine monitoring and OEEOwned by QADSuggest an edit"AI Manufacturing Software for Frontline Teams." Line leads and operators see real-time OEE for every line, log downtime and follow work instructions. ChampionAI gives each frontline role the next best action, and maintenance alerts flag wear and failure risk early. Part of QAD | Redzone.
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ChampionAI is a multi-agent layer that draws on large language models, images, video, production data and machine learning. It runs as persona-based Champions for line, operations, quality, maintenance and learning leads, plus Implementation Agents that shorten launch time.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Work instructions, Predictive maintenance

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ShoplogixMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareOwned by FOG Software Group (Constellation Software)Suggest an editSmart Factory platform for real-time OEE, downtime and issue tracking, with Pareto ranking of shopfloor losses and job order tracking. Pulse AI is "the AI Assistant for manufacturing built inside Shoplogix": plant teams ask live production data about OEE, downtime, quality, shifts or jobs and get cited answers.
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Pulse AI answers questions in plain language over the Shoplogix platform and connected sources. It cites the numbers it used, finds recurring losses and says when it cannot answer.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

Sells its own self-powered sensors for machine health and steam trap monitoring.

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TEEPTRAKMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareThe vendor reports more than 700 factories in more than 30 countries.Suggest an edit"Real-time OEE monitoring and production analytics, deployed in 48 hours, no MES overhaul required." TEEPTRAK plug-and-play sensors capture every stop on any machine, operators tag causes in two taps, and plants get one OEE number. Jemba, its industrial machine learning product, finds anomalies and returns setpoint ranges for process lines.
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Jemba is industrial machine learning by TEEPTRAK. It evaluates every signal continuously, generates thresholds and alerts linked to the variables behind them, and quantifies each variable's influence on a target as setpoint ranges. The model is selected and trained automatically.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

Ships plug-and-play sensors to the plant with the software.

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AlmetraMachine monitoring and OEESeries A, US$19M, 2026-06-25Suggest an editAlmetra sells shop floor intelligence to manufacturers: "Using privacy-preserving video and AI, we continuously capture what's really happening across your production lines." Production managers and manufacturing engineers get a daily Morning Briefing, live shift tracking, bottleneck and micro-stop detection, and a Downtime Root Cause Agent that correlates PLC states, fault codes, video and operator input.
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Computer vision tracks production data, machine stoppages and movement. An agent library includes the Morning Briefing Agent, Shift Performance Monitor, Bottleneck Detection Agent, Micro-Stop Detection Agent and Downtime Root Cause Agent, and customers can build their own agents.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Production analytics

  • 25 Jun 2026 Almetra raises US$19M Series A
    blisce/ led the round, with NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline, Critical Ventures and angels. Almetra, formerly Deltia, will use it to bring together the data, context and operational knowledge that help manufacturers improve productivity, quality and performance.
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DatanomixMachine monitoring and OEEGrowth funding, $12M, 2023-05-11Suggest an edit"Make More with Data-Powered Production." Datanomix monitors CNC machines with no operator input, tracks jobs and OEE, connects to ERP and manages G-code for precision shops. FactoryMate acts as a digital floor supervisor, and TMAC ai catches process drift from spindle load, vibration and tool wear.
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FactoryMate is an AI assistant that reads production and labor data to flag trends and bottlenecks. TMAC ai, built with Caron Engineering, runs in the background on high-resolution machine data and speaks up when a process drifts. G-Code Cloud + DNC uses AI to catch program errors.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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FabricoMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareBacked by Vitosha Venture Partners Fund I, amount not disclosedSuggest an edit"OEE and Light MES Software: Price Every Production Loss." Fabrico tracks downtime and OEE on every line and prices each loss. AI add-ons include computer vision cameras that suggest the real reason for each stop, an AI Assistant that answers from production history and machine manuals, and custom modules built on plant data.
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AI add-ons: Inefficiencies zoom-in, AI Assistant, computer vision for stop causes and custom AI modules. The AI agent is on the roadmap.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Visual inspection

Its pricing page lists Fabrico IoT sensors and cameras as ways to connect machines.

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FactbirdMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareStrategic majority investment from Verdane, amount not disclosed, 2026-08-06Suggest an edit"The AI-powered manufacturing intelligence platform for your shop floor operations." Factbird captures machine data through its own devices, tracks OEE and downtime, and adds digital SOPs, checklists and maintenance. Its AI assistant answers questions about downtime, OEE, scrap and golden batches, and a visual counter and AI insights support production teams.
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Built-in Manufacturing AI has an AI assistant trained on the customer's production data, a visual counter and AI-driven insights.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Visual inspection

Sells pre-configured IIoT devices and sensors with the software.

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GuidewheelMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareSeries B, $31M, 2024-08-13Suggest an edit"The practical operating platform for manufacturing." Guidewheel clips sensors onto machines, shows when and where production stops, and tracks OEE and output against plan. AI-powered anomaly detection alerts teams to unusual machine patterns, and its experts help plants pick the next high-value action. Used by more than 500 manufacturers.
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AI-Powered Anomaly Detection surfaces unusual machine patterns and sends alerts. Scout adds AI-driven predictive maintenance on the same data with no added hardware.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

The vendor's information page says clip-on current sensors are the starting point and pricing includes a hardware option.

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MachineMetricsMachine monitoring and OEESeries B, $20M, 2021-06-16Suggest an edit"The AI-powered manufacturing operations system" for discrete manufacturers, built on live machine data. MaximaOS connects machines and ERP, tracks jobs and downtime, schedules work and reports OEE. Max AI is the layer under it: plant managers and operators ask questions in plain language, get setup guidance at the machine and receive automatic shift summaries.
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Max AI is the platform's AI layer. It has an Operator Assistant, Planner and Supervisor Agents, Max Reporter for shift handovers, a Continuous Improvement Agent and an Onboarding Agent. Tool Anomaly Detection flags failing tools from control data, AI Summary writes the daily headline and issues, and Carbide exposes an MCP server.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance, AI scheduling

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AmperMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareOwned by ECI Software SolutionsSuggest an edit"Production Monitoring and Intelligence." Amper captures uptime, downtime and cycle counts from IoT sensors, tracks OEE, links ERP work orders to live machine signals and builds forecasts and schedules. AI adds a Daily Briefing of the factory's performance, Trend Analysis and a way to talk to the data.
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Daily Briefing summarizes output against potential, what drove the gaps and where to focus. Trend Analysis uses AI to watch for changes in margins, demand, delivery and supply. Talk to your data answers questions in plain language.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, AI scheduling

Its pricing page says hardware is included: non-invasive, plug-and-play sensors.

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Caddis SystemsMachine monitoring and OEEOwn hardwareNo customer count or funding disclosed; it says it is trusted by manufacturers across the U.S.Suggest an edit"AI-Ready Machine Downtime, OEE, and Machine Monitoring Software." Caddis captures machine data through sensors, PLCs and gateways and shows downtime, OEE and utilization across plants. Ask Caddis AI answers plain-English questions, and a hosted MCP server connects ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and other AI tools to the machine data.
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Ask Caddis AI answers questions about what is running, idle or down. A hosted MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, Cursor and other MCP tools read equipment, downtime and utilization data.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

Its FAQ says the pilot includes hardware for the chosen connection.

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LineviewMachine monitoring and OEENo customer count or funding figure disclosed.Suggest an edit"Guided Manufacturing Intelligence for Beverage." Lineview Navigator monitors beverage and packaging lines, reviews performance and analyses the causes of production loss and OEE across sites. AMI is the AI layer inside SmartWorker: supervisors ask production questions and get evidence-backed answers, and AMI flags recurring losses and data problems.
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AMI (Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence) is the AI layer inside SmartWorker. It answers questions from live loss data, event history and connected documents, traces causal chains and proactively monitors production data for recurring losses.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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oee.aiMachine monitoring and OEENo customer count or funding figure on its pages.Suggest an edit"With oee.ai, you can see downtimes, bottlenecks and quality losses in real time and see where the next step is really worthwhile." The OEE software shows KPI dashboards, shift reports and an Andon Board. Its AI-driven analysis evaluates machine data for anomalies, trends and optimization potential without manual effort.
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AI-driven analysis evaluates machine data automatically and detects anomalies, trends and optimization potential in real time.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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xynLogMachine monitoring and OEENo customer count or funding figure on its pages.Suggest an edit"xynLog is an EU-hosted CNC monitoring and OEE platform with a built-in AI assistant." It connects at the controller level to Fanuc, Siemens, Heidenhain and Haas machines for real-time OEE, downtime analysis and early warnings. The assistant can run on OpenAI, Claude or on-premise Ollama.
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A built-in AI assistant answers plain-language questions such as why a machine was down, on OpenAI, Claude or fully on-premise Ollama. Predictive analytics detect anomalies and send warnings.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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Octave RelianceQuality management systemsLife sciences readyOwned by Octave Intelligence plc (spun out of Hexagon)Suggest an editFormerly ETQ Reliance. "Flexible, configurable quality management system built to scale." Quality teams in manufacturing run nonconformances, CAPAs, complaints, audits and documents in it. The AI today is Form Field Advisor, which suggests values for form fields from past records, and Complaint & Feedback Advisor, which helps take in complaints and shows related cases, risk and urgency. Customers can also bring their own AI on the Quality Data Lake.
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Form Field Advisor suggests field values from the customer's past records, and users approve, change or decline each one. Complaint & Feedback Advisor speeds complaint intake and shows related complaints, actions, and urgency and risk context. The page also lists AI-driven insights and predictive AI dashboards.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Quality event analysis

Its Reliance page says the platform meets FDA 21 CFR Part 11, with electronic signatures and validation support, and it sells a Life Sciences Compliance application.

  • 10 Mar 2026 Hexagon launches the Octave brand for its software business, including ETQ
    Hexagon introduced Octave as the brand for its software business, which includes the ETQ business. The product is now sold as Octave Reliance, formerly ETQ Reliance.
  • 4 Feb 2026 ETQ Reliance adds two native AI advisors
    Form Field Advisor suggests values for form fields from past records, and users accept, reject or override each one. Complaint & Feedback Advisor speeds complaint intake and shows related complaints, actions and risk context; it was set for early adopters at the end of Q1 2026.
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Opcenter X QualityQuality management systemsOwned by SiemensSuggest an editSiemens' cloud quality management system for manufacturers, sold as a pay-as-you-grow SaaS with SPC, nonconformance management and quality workflows. Siemens pairs it with Teamcenter X Quality. Opcenter Copilot answers questions from product documentation, and AI-driven statistical control picks optimal distributions for SPC.
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Opcenter Copilot is an assistant that reads product documentation and answers in a chat. The product page lists AI-empowered optimal distributions for SPC and AI-empowered analytics.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

  • 14 Aug 2026 Opcenter X Quality 2607 adds Opcenter Copilot
    An assistant that answers questions from product documentation, such as SPC evaluation methods and quality workflow setup. The release also expands SPC and nonconformance management.
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TrackWiseQuality management systemsLife sciences readyOwned by HoneywellSuggest an editHoneywell's TrackWise line (the former Sparta Systems) sells quality management to life sciences manufacturers: TrackWise Digital and TrackWise QMS for complaints, CAPA and audits, plus TrackWise Manufacturing and Recall Management. The vendor calls TrackWise AI "the world's first AI-enabled platform designed to augment quality management decision-making." An AI Processing Agent now runs the complaint lifecycle.
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TrackWise AI applies generative AI, natural language processing and machine learning to QMS processes. The TrackWise Digital AI Processing Agent handles customer complaint processing through resolution and links complaint details to risk. TrackWise Manufacturing and Recall Management are described as AI-assisted.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Quality event analysis

Honeywell's October 2026 release says the AI Processing Agent "provides all the necessary tools for manufacturers to attain 21 CFR Part 11 compliance."

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Veeva QMSQuality management systemsLife sciences readyOwned by Veeva SystemsSuggest an edit"Streamline and Simplify Quality Processes." Quality teams in life sciences run deviations, complaints, audits, quality risk, supplier quality and change control in a cloud QMS. Vault AI for Quality adds a Deviation Agent that writes narrative summaries of an investigation or CAPA plan and answers questions about a deviation. Veeva also shows custom agent demos for complaint intake and investigation.
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Vault AI for Quality: a Deviation Agent that writes a narrative summary of an investigation or CAPA plan and answers questions through Vault AI Chat. Veeva's QMS page shows custom Vault AI agent demos for complaint intake and complaint investigation.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

The page sells a "unified suite of quality applications" to improve "GxP compliance" in a "single, connected, validated environment."

  • 29 May 2026 Vault AI agents are available for Quality
    A report from the Veeva R&D and Quality Summit says Vault AI is available with agents for Safety and Quality, with Clinical and Regulatory agents to follow later in 2026.
  • 14 Oct 2025 Veeva says AI agents will reach Quality in April 2026 announced
    Veeva announced Veeva AI Agents for all its applications, with Safety and Quality agents planned for April 2026. Agents use application data, documents and workflows, and customers can build custom agents.
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AlisQIQuality management systemsSays 200+ factories worldwide use it.Suggest an edit"The data-first QMS for process and batch manufacturers." Plant quality teams run inspections, lab data, documents and supplier quality as Solvers, priced per site with unlimited users. Form AI builds digital forms from a photo or spreadsheet, Pattern AI flags emerging risk signals, and AI reads supplier certificates of analysis. All AI is off until an admin turns it on.
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Form AI generates forms from Excel, photos or text. Pattern AI finds risk patterns across product lines, production and supplier history and shows comparable past cases. AI extracts supplier certificates of analysis without templates, and teams can ask the QMS questions in plain language. A Compliance Intelligence Solver is in beta.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

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Ease.ioQuality management systemsIts Q2 2025 release names eight enterprise customer wins in one quarter; no funding disclosed on its pagesSuggest an edit"EASE is audit management software for manufacturers. Schedule audits, catch issues on the floor, and close findings faster across every plant." Quality, safety and plant teams run layered process audits, gemba walks, 5S and corrective actions on the floor. EASE IQ adds configurable AI Digital Workers that watch the plant with camera vision and open findings, and AI translation of audits.
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EASE IQ: configurable AI-enabled Digital Workers that observe plant data and act through connected tools, plus Camera Vision for automated visual inspection of defects, PPE and 5S checks. EASE AI Language Translation covers 28+ languages.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

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Greenlight GuruQuality management systemsLife sciences readyTrusted by 1,000+ medical device companies, per its own page.Suggest an edit"Quality isn't slowing you down. Your QMS is." An AI-powered eQMS for medical device makers covering document control, design controls, risk, CAPA, supplier and training. AI search, chat, summaries, a verifiability check for requirements, a quiz builder and an MCP connector are live. Each output needs a person to review and accept it.
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AI Search, AI Chat and AI Summaries over documents, quality events and suppliers; AI Verifiability Check; Suggested Links for traceability; Change Order Summaries; AI Quiz Builder; and an AI Connector (MCP server) for outside AI tools. The company holds ISO 42001 certification for AI governance.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, MCP or agent API, Quality event analysis

Its QMS page says "all Greenlight Guru software is compliant with 21 CFR Part 11."

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Ideagen Quality ManagementQuality management systemsLife sciences readyThe page says it is trusted by 18,500+ organizations.Suggest an edit"Quality management system. Less admin. More actual quality." A QMS for regulated and general manufacturers with CAPA, audits, document control, training and supplier quality. Mazlan AI suggests root causes, drafts reports and tracks risk, and a person approves every output.
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Mazlan AI, Ideagen's agentic AI framework, suggests root causes, drafts reports and flags risk before an audit or recall. The page also lists CAPA predictive insights, adaptive audit checklists and a conversational setup. It says outputs are "Human-approved, every time."

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

The page lists "21 CFR Part 11" among standards built in.

  • 17 Dec 2025 Ideagen launches its agentic AI, Mazlan Agent
    Mazlan is Ideagen's agentic AI framework for quality and safety work, with human approval of its outputs. Ideagen says early pilots cut 30 minute tasks to two minutes.
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InfinityQSQuality management systemsOwned by AdvantiveSuggest an edit"ProFicient by InfinityQS: Top-rated SPC software with intelligence at the core." Plant quality teams run statistical process control on shop-floor data with ProFicient (on-premise) and Enact (cloud). AIVA, Advantive's AI assistant, is built to answer questions about live quality and process data for plant managers and quality engineers.
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AIVA, the Advantive Intelligence Virtual Assistant in Advantive ONE, answers plain-language questions such as why first-pass yield fell, with role-specific answers for plant managers and quality engineers. Advantive's own blog says it is designed to work across Enact, ProFicient and WinSPC. At launch Advantive ONE listed support agents and data agents as available.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics

  • 14 Apr 2026 Advantive launches Advantive ONE with the AIVA assistant
    A unified AI layer across Advantive's software. AIVA gives one chat entry to Intelligent Support Agents and Intelligent Data Agents, both available at launch. Workflow automation and predictive intelligence are planned.
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IntelexQuality management systemsThe company cites over 1,400 organizations.Suggest an edit"Quality Management Solutions for Quality Assurance and Quality Control": an EHSQ platform with a separate quality line for nonconformance, corrective action, inspection, audit, supplier and document control. Its AI is Input AI, which coaches users as they write records and fills forms, and Insight AI, which labels data and recommends actions. COMET, a partner root cause solution, has added an AI Assistant.
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Input AI gives feedback on open-text fields, predicts form fields and extracts data from documents. Insight AI labels unstructured data and gives descriptive and predictive analytics. COMET, a partner solution for root cause analysis, added a COMET AI Assistant that builds an event timeline, flags failed barriers, suggests corrective actions and searches past investigations, and every suggestion needs investigator approval.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Quality event analysis

  • 15 Jul 2026 Intelex partner COMET adds an AI Assistant for root cause work
    COMET, Intelex's partner solution for root cause analysis, added a COMET AI Assistant that builds an event timeline from an incident narrative, flags failed barriers, suggests corrective actions and searches past investigations. Investigators approve every suggestion.
  • 25 Nov 2025 Intelex introduces Input AI and Insight AI
    Input AI fills form fields and extracts data from documents. Insight AI labels unstructured data and gives descriptive and predictive analytics.
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KneatQuality management systemsSays 9 of the world's top 10 life sciences companies trust Kneat.Suggest an edit"The trusted digital validation platform," marked "AI Enabled." Validation and quality teams at life sciences plants write and run validation protocols in Kneat Gx. An AI Review Assistant checks documents, an AI Validation Expert answers regulatory questions with citations, and a Validation Summary Report Agent drafts report sections.
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Kneat AI: the AI Review Assistant reviews one document at a time with advisory findings. In Kneat Gx 26R2 the AI Validation Expert chatbot answers questions from FDA, EMA, ICH, ISO and GAMP sources, and the Validation Summary Report Agent drafts summaries from executed test documents.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

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MasterControl Quality ExcellenceQuality management systemsLife sciences readyTrusted by 1,100+ customers, per its own page.Suggest an edit"The #1 QMS In Life Sciences Puts You in Complete Control." Quality teams at regulated manufacturers run document control, change control, training, audits, risk and quality events in one QMS. AI features summarize quality events, check SOPs against regulations, answer regulatory questions and write training exams, with a person reviewing the output.
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Event Summarizer writes short overviews of deviations, CAPAs and nonconformances. SOP Analyzer flags compliance gaps in SOPs and suggests fixes. Regulatory Chat answers questions over regulations in plain language. Other assistants write change summaries, translate documents and generate training exams. The vendor says the design keeps experts in the loop.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

Its Quality Excellence page says "21 CFR Part 11 compliant."

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Matrix OneQuality management systemsLife sciences readySays 500+ life sciences companies use Matrix One products.Suggest an edit"Compliance software for life sciences, powered by AI." Quality and regulatory teams at medical device makers use Matrix Req for design control and risk, Matrix Quality for the QMS and Matrix Validate for validation. Matrix Mind answers questions about a project and drafts fixes as redlines, and a Compliance Checker tests a project against a company's standards.
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Matrix Mind is a conversational assistant that flags gaps such as requirements with no linked test and offers to draft test cases. The agentic AI finds gaps in live records and drafts proposed fixes as redlines that a person reviews, applies or rejects; the page says it never deletes records.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

Matrix Quality page says it is validated following GAMP 5 and signs records under 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11.

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ValGenesisQuality management systemsSays it serves 30 of the top 50 life sciences companies.Suggest an edit"The First AI-Native Digital Validation Platform." Validation and quality teams in life sciences run equipment qualification, cleaning validation and process verification in the Smart GxP platform. VAL, its AI assistant, drafts protocols, reviews execution, analyzes evidence and flags anomalies inside governed workflows, with people reviewing outputs.
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VAL supports drafting protocols and traces, assessing gaps, reviewing execution, analyzing evidence and flagging anomalies, grounded in a company's approved documents. The site also lists iVal AI-powered authoring, iCMC machine-learning trend analytics and iCPV multivariate analytics.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

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Dot Compliance eQMSQuality management systemsLife sciences ready$50M raised; Series B extension, $17.5M, 2024-04-16Suggest an edit"AI-Powered eQMS for Life Sciences Quality Management." A pre-validated eQMS on Salesforce for pharma, biotech and device makers. Dottie, its AI assistant, now works with a Research Agent and a Review Agent that pause for expert approval before critical steps.
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Dottie is "the AI brain of your quality management operations." The Research Agent investigates across internal records and outside sources, the Review Agent checks content for gaps before they hold up a process, and Document to Protocol turns approved documents into protocol content.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

The FAQ says its solutions "come with full validation packages and meet global regulatory standards, including 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11."

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IntellectQuality management systemsPrivate equity backing from Strattam Capital since 2022; amount not disclosedSuggest an edit"One AI-driven manufacturing platform for quality, EHS, and frontline operations." The Intellect IQ Platform is a configurable QMS with EHS, skills and training, and frontline work instructions for food and beverage, life sciences and discrete manufacturers. Intellect AI lets users talk to their QMS data in plain language, summarize documents, draft training quizzes and explore trends and root causes.
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Intellect AI Smart Analysis answers plain-language questions about QMS data, summarizes non-conformances and documents, drafts training quizzes, and suggests root causes and trends. It runs on OpenAI models through a closed-loop integration. A limited release of the IntellectIQ Platform is planned for later in 2026.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Quality event analysis

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QualioQuality management systemsSeries B, $50M, 2021-05-25Suggest an edit"The agentic compliance platform for life sciences." Quality teams in medtech, pharma and biotech run documents, training, CAPA, change control, risk and suppliers in one QMS. A Copilot answers questions and cites records, and AI agents find gaps clause by clause and draft fixes. Nothing enters the quality system without human approval.
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Copilot answers questions with citations to your records. Compliance Intelligence maps records to requirements such as FDA QMSR and ISO 13485, flags gaps as evidence changes, and guides remediation. AI agents draft CAPAs and change controls for approval, and your own AI can connect over MCP.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Quality event analysis

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ComplianceQuestQuality management systemsNo customer count or funding disclosed.Suggest an edit"The #1 AI-powered Quality, Risk, and Compliance platform that connects Product, Quality, Manufacturing, People, Suppliers, and Customers in a single system," built on Salesforce. Quality teams run nonconformances, CAPA, change control, audits, supplier quality and safety in it. CQ.AI agents propose root causes, draft change orders and pre-fill incident records for a person to approve.
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CQ.AI Investigation Assistant reviews past investigations and FMEA data to propose root causes, containment and corrective actions for nonconformances. CQ.AI Safety Agent pre-fills incident records. CQ.AI also drafts change orders and generates training questions. ComplianceQuest adopted Salesforce Agentforce as its core agentic AI framework.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

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QualityzeQuality management systemsSays it is trusted by Fortune 500 companies; no count or funding disclosed.Suggest an edit"AI Powered, All-In-One Quality, Safety, Compliance and Risk Solution Platform." A Salesforce-based QMS. Its AI, Q, recommends next steps on nonconformances, ranks CAPAs and risks, raises alerts and answers questions in plain language. Seven domain agents cover QMS, EHS, supplier, asset, product data, post-market and continuous improvement.
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Q includes Next Best Actions, Smart Prioritization, Proactive Alerts and Conversational Reporting. The page lists seven AI agents (QMS, EHS, Supplier, Asset, Product Data, Post-Market Surveillance, Continuous Improvement) that analyze connected data and surface risks and recommended actions.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Quality event analysis

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Cognex OneVisionAI visual inspectionOwn hardwarePublic company (NASDAQ: CGNX) with more than 30,000 customers in over 30 countries, per its releases.Suggest an editCognex sells machine vision systems with built-in AI. OneVision is its "cloud-based platform that will transform how manufacturers build, train, and scale AI-powered vision applications". Teams train models centrally and run inspections locally on In-Sight vision systems, including the In-Sight 3900 with Edge AI and Advanced AI tools. Quality and automation engineers across automotive, electronics, packaging and consumer goods buy it.
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Edge AI and Advanced AI vision tools run on In-Sight cameras at line speed. OneVision adds a browser-based environment with guided workflows to build and train models and deploy them across devices and sites.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

Sells its own In-Sight vision systems and cameras with the AI software.

  • 5 May 2026 Cognex launches In-Sight 3900 embedded AI vision system Always-on
    The In-Sight 3900 runs Edge AI, Advanced AI and rule-based tools on a dedicated AI processor, with no external PC, at up to 4X the speed of the prior generation. It pairs with OneVision for cloud-to-edge model training.
  • 9 Jun 2025 Cognex announces OneVision cloud platform for AI vision beta
    OneVision is a cloud platform to build, train and scale AI vision applications with guided workflows. It started with select customers on In-Sight 3800 and 8900 systems, with more products planned for early 2026.
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Zebra Aurora VisionAI visual inspectionProduct line of Zebra Technologies, a public company.Suggest an editZebra Aurora is machine vision software. Aurora Deep Learning is an add-on with "a complete set of industrial-quality deep learning tools" for problems that traditional algorithms cannot solve, including OCR, feature detection and anomaly detection. Just 20-30 image samples can train it. It extends Aurora Vision Studio and Aurora Vision Library. Machine vision engineers and OEMs buy it for use cases across industry verticals.
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Aurora Deep Learning adds deep learning OCR, feature detection and anomaly detection tools to Aurora Vision Studio and Aurora Vision Library, trained from 20-30 image samples.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

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InspektoAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareOwned by SiemensSuggest an editSiemens says "Inspekto enables out-of-the-box visual quality inspection and requires no expertise in vision solutions or AI." The system combines an electro-optical system with AI, and all parts come in the box: unbox, mount in place and run, with 20 good samples to start. It connects to PLC or MES/ERP systems. Quality and automation teams use it for injection molding, metal casting, PCB components and end-of-line assembly checks.
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Industrial AI that learns a new product variant from a few good samples and inspects without a vision specialist.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

The Inspekto kit ships with its own camera and parts.

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JidokaAI visual inspectionThe company says it has 48+ customers worldwide and 100+ implementations.Suggest an editJidoka sells "Turnkey Vision AI Solutions for Manufacturing": pre-trained, production-ready vision AI that checks product and process correctness, works with existing cameras and PLCs, and acts by rejecting, routing or guiding operators. Quality teams in automotive, FMCG, pharma and electronics plants buy it. The company says it has 48+ customers and 100+ implementations.
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Pre-trained vision AI for defect detection and process verification on a closed loop that sees, decides, acts and learns.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

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LandingLensAI visual inspectionThe company says it has more than 50 enterprise customers across its products, and ABB Robotics Ventures invested in 2025 (amount not disclosed).Suggest an editLandingLens is a no-code platform for building computer vision models that find objects, patterns and defects. The vendor says it "Makes computer vision super easy": teams upload and label images, train a model with one click, deploy it, and keep learning from production data. It flags mislabeled images and supports shared label books. Quality and manufacturing engineers buy it for defect detection and assembly checks.
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Deep learning vision models trained from labeled images, with mislabel detection and continuous learning from deployment data. Landing AI's main product push in 2026 is document extraction, and LandingLens stays on its site as the vision product.

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UnitXAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareThe company says its systems run on 100+ production lines and have logged 5.7 million operating hours.Suggest an editUnitX sells "AI Machine Vision for Manufacturing" to "Automate in-line inspection for improved quality and yield". Three products: OptiX software-defined imaging, CorteX sample-efficient deep learning that trains on as few as 5 images per defect type, and DeteX, an AI smart camera. It claims 9x fewer escapes. Quality teams in automotive, battery, PCBA, semiconductor and connector plants buy it.
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CorteX trains and manages deep learning defect detection and classification models with pixel-level segmentation and a yield simulator. DeteX runs an AI segmentation model on the camera, with classification, measurement and OCR.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Visual inspection

Sells its own imaging systems and the DeteX smart camera with its AI software.

  • 15 Jun 2026 UnitX launches the DeteX AI smart camera Always-on
    DeteX is an AI smart camera with segmentation, classification, dimensional measurement and OCR that operators can set up in about a minute. It was commercially available from the release date.
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Eigen InnovationsAI visual inspectionEquity round, $2.6M, 2024-10-07Suggest an editEigen sells "AI-Powered Thermal Vision": OneView Cloud and OneView Edge software that pairs thermal and 2D/3D cameras from other makers with AI. AI Thermal Quality Inspection finds voids, weld and adhesion problems and material inconsistencies. AI Thermal Condition Monitoring tracks equipment and process temperatures. Plant teams in plastics, metals and building materials buy it for injection molding, weld and blow molding lines.
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AI models read thermal patterns on every part or shot and learn from process variation. A second module watches equipment temperatures and flags anomalies before they cause downtime or quality problems.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance, Visual inspection

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ElementaryAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareSeries B, $30M, 2021-12-16Suggest an editElementary sells "AI Vision for Automated Inspection" as hardware, software and services: industrial lighting, cameras and controllers that inspect 1,000+ parts per minute, plus the QualityOS cloud platform for traceability. Its VisionStream AI learns what good looks like on the line without image labeling, and VisionLink upgrades existing vision cameras. Plant and quality teams in food, packaging, automotive and paper buy it.
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VisionStream is an edge AI that watches the line, builds detection models in under 60 seconds and runs always on. VisionLink connects existing FTP-enabled vision systems to QualityOS so that AI inspects their images.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

Sells its own machine vision system: industrial lighting, cameras and controllers.

  • 20 May 2026 Elementary launches VisionLink worldwide Always-on
    VisionLink upgrades existing FTP-enabled vision cameras with machine learning by linking them to the QualityOS platform. It was US-only before this launch.
  • 18 Jun 2025 Elementary introduces VisionStream Always-on
    VisionStream is an edge AI that watches the production line, learns what normal looks like and flags defects within seconds, with no labeling, vision expertise or line stoppage.
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InstrumentalAI visual inspectionInvestment, amount not disclosed, 2026-03-09Suggest an editInstrumental is "a manufacturing AI and data platform for complex electronics". Its Vision Engine builds an AI-driven visual record of every unit and flags defects before test, working with existing automated optical inspection and cobot cameras. Its Analysis Engine uses several AI agents to converge on root cause. Operations and quality teams at electronics and server makers buy it for new product introduction and mass production.
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Vision Engine runs AI defect detection on images of every unit. Analysis Engine is an agentic system where multiple AI agents work together on root cause and learn over time.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Visual inspection

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LumafieldAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareSeries C, $75M, 2025-03-13Suggest an editLumafield sells "AI that sees it all, then takes action": industrial CT and X-ray scanners (Neptune, Saturn, Triton, and the Mars inline X-ray system) with the Voyager cloud analysis software. Quality Agent runs inside Voyager on a foundation model trained on industrial CT data to detect defects and find root cause. Quality engineers in electronics, medical, automotive and consumer goods buy it.
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Voyager uses AI analysis of scan data. Quality Agent is an agentic system that automates defect detection and root-cause analysis. Mars uses AI for inline X-ray inspection.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

Sells its own CT and X-ray scanners with the Voyager software.

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OverviewAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareSeries A, $10M, 2022-02-17Suggest an editOverview sells "AI Machine Vision Systems for Manufacturing": smart cameras with software pre-loaded (OV10i, OV20i, OV80i, OVX, OV Spark) that run deep learning inspection on the device with no cloud. OV Spark carries an onboard agent named Sparky that recommends inspection tools and answers questions. GenAI tools make synthetic defects and PLC integration flows. Quality and manufacturing engineers buy it.
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Deep learning inspection models run on every camera. Sparky, the OV Spark agent, recommends inspection tools, explains its reasoning and answers questions about what the line has run. OV Auto-Defect Creator Studio and OV Auto-Integration Builder use generative AI.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Visual inspection

Sells its own AI smart cameras and vision sensors with the software pre-loaded.

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SixsenseAI visual inspectionFunding round, $8.5M, 2025-08-01Suggest an editSixsense sells a purpose-built AI platform "automating defect inspection to lot disposition to root cause analysis of defect" for semiconductor fabs and packaging plants. AI-ADC classifies every suspected defect at the line around the clock. Other modules cover lot disposition, root cause and Predict AI. Yield and process engineers buy it.
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AI-ADC automated defect classification, AI lot disposition and root-cause analysis. The company describes data-driven agents for a self-optimizing fab.

AI capabilities: Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

  • 1 Aug 2025 Sixsense raises $8.5M
    Sixsense closed an $8.5M round led by Peak XV's Surge to expand its semiconductor AI platform into Malaysia, Taiwan and the US.
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AkridataAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareOwned by DIMAAGSuggest an editAkridata sells "AI-Powered Visual Inspection. Smarter, Faster, Accurate." Its suite has Vision Assist for AI-assisted human inspection stations, Vision Command for AI oversight of inspection, and Vision Copilot for curating data and training vision models. Quality and compliance managers in manufacturing, medical devices and automotive buy it. DIMAAG acquired Akridata in 2026.
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AI defect detection with multimodal inputs, plus Vision Copilot for visual data modeling, labeling and model training.

AI capabilities: Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

Vision Assist is its own programmable image-capturing inspection system with camera and axis control.

  • 31 May 2026 DIMAAG acquires Akridata
    DIMAAG, an industrial AI and robotics company, acquired Akridata to add AI vision, edge processing, intelligent data capture hardware and human-assisted inspection workflows to its physical AI offer.
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Averroes.aiAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editAverroes sells an "End-to-End Automated AI Visual Inspection Platform", no code, for defect detection and classification. Teams create, upload, label, train and deploy custom models from 20 to 40 images per defect class, on premise or in the cloud, on existing inspection equipment. Its pages stress semiconductor, electronics, solar, pharma and food plants. Quality and yield engineers buy it.
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No-code deep learning models for defect detection, classification and segmentation, with active learning that improves accuracy over time.

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Kitov.aiAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editKitov sells "Fully automated visual inspection solutions for a broad range of production lines and markets." Its software plans CAD-based robotic inspection (CAD2SCAN) and uses a hybrid of AI and classical 3D computer vision to find cosmetic and mechanical defects. Systems and module licenses suit aerospace, defense, medical, automotive and electronics plants. The X-Prime system targets complex single-material parts.
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Deep learning surface defect detection tuned to the part, combined with 3D CAD-to-robot path planning. The software learns when a flagged flaw is marked as not a defect.

AI capabilities: Visual inspection

Sells complete inspection systems (robot, cameras and lighting) with the software.

  • 8 Sep 2026 Kitov unveils the X-Prime inspection system announced
    X-Prime turns 3D CAD models or scans into robotic inspection routines and uses deep learning surface defect detection for high-value single-material parts with complex geometries.
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Lincode LIVISAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editLincode sells "AI Vision Inspection That Delivers Where Others Miss": the Lincode Intelligent Visual Inspection System (LIVIS). LIVIS Edge+ runs real-time AI inspection at the edge on any industrial camera, and LIVIS Platform trains and deploys AI Inspectors across lines with no code. Quality teams in electronics and other plants buy it.
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Proprietary AI models and curated datasets sit behind configurable AI Inspectors, with edge inference and centralized model management.

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MatroidAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editMatroid sells "No-Code Computer Vision for Industrial Inspection": a studio to build, deploy and manage detectors that find defects, objects and events in images and video. It works with any camera, in the cloud or on premises. It also checks manual inspection and assembly steps. Quality and manufacturing engineers in aerospace, automotive and electronics buy it.
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No-code deep learning detectors for defect detection and video analytics, with real-time alerts and event summaries.

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Musashi AIAI visual inspectionOwn hardwareBuilt inside a global manufacturing organization; says it is deployed globally. No funding or customer count disclosed.Suggest an editMusashi AI sells "AI-Powered Automated Inspection Technology": inspection equipment for gear and shaft parts, Cendiant Inspect software for surface defects, assembly verification and process completeness, and Cendiant Quality Insights for quality data. Its Active i architecture uses two independent algorithms and learns with every use. Manufacturing quality teams buy it, with target applications in gear, bearing, shaft and vehicle component parts.
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Cendiant Inspect runs deep learning surface defect models with low data needs. Cendiant Quality Insights turns inspection data into manufacturing intelligence.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Visual inspection

Sells its own inline, end-of-line and offline inspection equipment with the AI software.

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MVTec HALCONAI visual inspectionEstablished machine vision software company; revenue and customer counts are not published.Suggest an editMVTec HALCON is "a comprehensive machine vision software designed for developing, deploying, and operating reliable vision applications across industries", a 2D and 3D toolbox with deep learning for classification, object detection, anomaly detection and OCR. An AI Assistant takes prompts that can include images, and the MVTec Deep Learning Tool labels data and trains models. Vision engineers and machine builders buy it to build inspection applications.
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Deep learning inspection methods in HALCON 25.11 and 26.05, including Continual Learning classification and faster object detection, plus an AI Assistant with visual prompting.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Visual inspection

  • 30 Oct 2026 MVTec Deep Learning Tool 26.10 released
    The training tool adds COCO and YOLO imports, completes the Out-of-Distribution Detection workflow and gives more detailed Deep OCR evaluation.
  • 14 Apr 2026 MVTec announces HALCON 26.05 announced
    HALCON 26.05 adds next-generation deep learning object detection with up to 5x faster inference, operator-based data augmentation and visual prompting in the AI Assistant. Release date was 2026-05-20.
  • 14 Oct 2025 MVTec announces HALCON 25.11 with faster deep learning announced
    HALCON 25.11 adds Continual Learning for classification, faster Deep OCR on embedded hardware and MobileNetV4 support. Release date was 2025-11-12.
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ReliVisionAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editRelimetrics sells ReliVision, "Industrial AI Inspection Software" to build, run and scale AI inspection. It has built-in AI models, collaborative data curation and full control of retraining. GenAI makes synthetic defect data and writes inspection steps from a text prompt or a reference image. Quality and manufacturing engineers buy it for industrial vision lines, with a free trial.
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Built-in deep learning models, generative synthetic defects and, since ReliVision 6.1, natural language and image-prompted coding of inspection steps inside the workflow.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Visual inspection

  • 20 Oct 2026 Relimetrics releases ReliVision 6.1
    Teams describe an inspection task in natural language, add a reference image and refine the generated inspection step inside the workflow.
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Robovision IndurionAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editRobovision sells "Industrial vision intelligence. Embedded in your machines and governed for the full system lifecycle." Indurion is the software that runs and governs vision AI in production, with no-code model building, drift detection, offline inspection and open export of configurations and datasets. Solution Services cover site audit, design, onboarding and training. Machine builders and plants in packaging, food and semiconductor buy it.
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Vision AI models for classification, measurement and pattern tracking, with patent-pending drift detection that sends a validated recipe back to machines on a deviating line.

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Zetamotion SpectronAI visual inspectionNo funding or customer count on its own pages.Suggest an editZetamotion sells a "turnkey AI Quality Control solution": the Spectron platform with synthetic data, on-premise inspection and human-in-the-loop feedback. ZELIA is a generative AI multi-agent assistant that makes synthetic defect data and trains models from as few as one to five sample images. Quality teams at manufacturers with rare defects and noisy products buy it.
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ZELIA, a generative AI multi-agent system, produces synthetic defect data and trains inspection models. Spectron runs the inspection with human-in-the-loop feedback.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Visual inspection

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IBM Maximo Application SuiteMaintenance managementOwned by IBMSuggest an edit"Maximize asset uptime and value with unified asset lifecycle management". IBM's EAM, asset performance management and reliability suite for operations, maintenance and facility teams. Maximo Assistant, built with watsonx, answers questions about assets and work orders. Release 9.2 adds agentic workflows meant to guide decisions and move work forward. Condition Insight explains asset condition from work orders and sensor data. A Maximo MCP server lets customers bring their own AI agents.
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Maximo Assistant, a generative AI assistant built with watsonx.ai, answers asset and work order questions. Release 9.2 adds agentic workflows designed to help guide decisions and move work forward. Condition Insight, an agentic AI capability in Maximo asset performance management, explains asset condition and recommends corrective actions. Maximo AI Service is the suite's collection of AI capabilities, and an MCP server lets customers bring their own agents.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance

  • 25 Jun 2026 Maximo 9.2 adds agentic workflows and an MCP server
    Release 9.2 adds agentic workflows designed to help guide decisions and move work forward, plus AI for reliability insights, field execution, safety workflows and document extraction, and an MCP server so customers can bring their own agents.
  • 5 Dec 2025 IBM introduces Maximo Condition Insight
    An agentic AI capability in Maximo asset performance management, powered by IBM watsonx. It evaluates work orders, meter readings, time-series data, FMEA and alerts, then explains asset condition and recommends corrective actions in plain language.
  • 24 Jun 2025 Maximo 9.1 reaches general availability with the Maximo Assistant
    IBM announced Maximo Application Suite 9.1 generally available, adding Maximo Real Estate and Facilities and a new generative AI assistant built with watsonx.ai to raise workforce productivity.
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MaintainXMaintenance managementOwned by AutodeskSuggest an edit"Intelligent maintenance and asset management" for plant maintenance teams. A mobile-first CMMS and EAM platform for work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, parts and asset records. MaintainX AI writes work orders and procedures, answers questions about the data in plain language through Report Builder AI, drafts requests from a voice note, and predicts parts needs. More than 15,000 companies use it.
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MaintainX AI turns manuals, procedures and work history into recommendations for technicians, builds reports from plain-language questions (Report Builder AI and Report Builder AI Chat), fills in work requests from a voice note or description (AI Work Request), and flags anomalies. Several features need the MaintainX Assist add-on on the Enterprise plan.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

  • 1 Sep 2026 AI Work Request and Report Builder AI Chat reach the mobile app and reports
    AI Work Request drafts a request title, description, location and priority from a voice note, a typed description or a guided conversation, ready for review. Report Builder AI Chat answers questions about asset and work data. Both need MaintainX Assist on the Enterprise plan.
  • 28 May 2026 Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX for about $3.6 billion
    Autodesk announced a definitive agreement to acquire MaintainX in an all-cash deal valued at about $3.6 billion. MaintainX joins Autodesk Operations Solutions.
  • 19 Mar 2026 Report Builder AI turns questions into maintenance reports
    A new in-platform capability that turns asset and work data into custom reports and visualizations using natural language. Users ask about labor, inventory, asset performance, downtime and compliance.
  • 9 Jul 2025 MaintainX raises $150M Series D
    MaintainX announced $150 million in Series D funding to expand its AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform. Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures were among the investors named.
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Oracle Fusion Cloud MaintenanceMaintenance managementOracle Corporation is a public company (NYSE: ORCL).Suggest an edit"Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance, part of the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) suite of applications, lets you efficiently create, manage, and maintain both internally owned and external customer assets over time." An EAM and CMMS inside Oracle's cloud suite for asset definitions, maintenance processes and maintenance activity records. Oracle's embedded AI agents include a Maintenance Work Order Cost Estimation Advisor Agent, at no additional cost.
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Prebuilt AI agents built with Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications run inside Fusion Cloud applications at no additional cost. For maintenance, the Maintenance Work Order Cost Estimation Advisor Agent estimates work order costs from planned materials, labor and resources and answers through a conversational interface.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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SAP Asset ManagementMaintenance managementSAP SE is a public company (NYSE: SAP).Suggest an editSAP's maintenance and asset management, with the Joule Asset Operations Assistant. "Maintenance teams can identify critical asset conditions earlier and resolve them before they turn into larger operational disruptions". Six maintenance agents plan work, initiate requests from natural language, plan events, debrief jobs and show equipment insight. SAP says people remain responsible for oversight and judgement.
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The Joule Asset Operations Assistant coordinates six agents released in Q3 2026: Operational Maintenance Planning, Maintenance Event Planning, Maintenance Request Initiation, Maintenance Job Debrief, Equipment Insight and Task List Management. SAP also announced an Asset Performance Alert Processing Agent and a Technician Briefing Agent, designed to assess asset conditions and prioritize work.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance, AI scheduling

  • 26 Oct 2026 SAP ships six maintenance agents in the Asset Operations Assistant Agent
    Six agents released in Q3 2026 cover the maintenance cycle from first request to final debrief: operational maintenance planning, event planning, request initiation from natural language, job debrief, equipment insight and task list management. SAP says general availability is under way in phases.
  • 8 Oct 2026 SAP adds agentic capabilities for maintenance requests, planned for Q4 2026 Agent announced
    New agentic capabilities for the Asset Operations Assistant will support initiating, screening and simulating maintenance requests. General availability is planned for Q4 2026.
  • 14 May 2026 SAP announces the Asset and Service Assistant and asset agents at Sapphire Agent announced
    SAP announced Joule assistants for autonomous supply chain management, including an Asset and Service Assistant that turns signals and anomalies into action. The Asset Performance Alert Processing Agent and Technician Briefing Agent are designed to assess asset conditions, prioritize work and raise first time fix rates. SAP says general availability is phased through 2026, starting now.
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Brightly Asset EssentialsMaintenance managementOwned by SiemensSuggest an edit"Save time and make your assets last longer with out-of-the-box AI features". Brightly, now part of Siemens, sells Asset Essentials, a CMMS for maintenance teams across manufacturing (including food and beverage), education, healthcare and government. Technician Copilot gives instructions, parts lists and safety information in chat. AI also summarizes work notes and flags duplicate work orders.
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Asset Essentials has embedded AI: Technician Copilot (an AI assistant that surfaces task-specific information from manuals and maintenance records), work order de-duplication and AI-generated work summaries. Data Share and Data Enrichment add-ons give analytics-ready data and forecast end-of-life timelines.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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eMaintMaintenance managementOwn hardwareOwned by Fluke Corporation (Fortive)Suggest an edit"Award-winning Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software" from Fluke Reliability for plant maintenance teams. The eMaint AI Suite adds an AI Assistant that answers questions from maintenance data and OEM manuals with cited answers, an SOP Builder that drafts procedures and PM tasks from uploaded manuals, and voice-to-work-request on mobile. Every AI action is traceable.
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The eMaint AI Suite has an AI Assistant that searches maintenance data and documents and cites its sources, AI-generated SOPs and PM tasks from manuals, voice-to-work-request that fills asset, location, problem and criticality, and multilingual guidance drawn from OEM manuals. Technicians review and approve what the AI drafts.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

eMaint pages sell condition monitoring with Fluke wireless vibration sensors from the same parent.

  • 16 Mar 2026 Fluke adds AI features to eMaint in beta beta
    Fluke announced several AI features in its eMaint CMMS/EAM, available in beta to existing customers: answers from maintenance data, SOP Builder that drafts procedures and PM tasks from manuals, and work orders created from voice.
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FiixMaintenance managementOwned by Rockwell AutomationSuggest an edit"Maintenance software that'll help your company break production records". A cloud CMMS from Rockwell Automation for work orders, assets, parts and reports, used by more than 4,500 maintenance teams. Fiix MAX is a conversational AI assistant that answers questions about maintenance history, assets and documents and suggests troubleshooting steps from OEM manuals and past work orders. It is a paid add-on for the Professional and Enterprise plans.
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Fiix MAX is a conversational AI assistant built into the CMMS, trained on a customer's own CMMS data and the Fiix Help Center. It answers plain-language questions and drafts troubleshooting suggestions. Work order insights and a parts forecaster analyze work history. Fiix says AI supports and does not replace people.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

  • 14 Jul 2026 Fiix launches Fiix MAX, an AI assistant for the CMMS
    Fiix MAX is a conversational assistant built into Fiix CMMS. It answers questions on maintenance history, asset details, parts and work instructions, and pulls troubleshooting suggestions from attached OEM manuals and past work orders. It is a paid add-on for Professional and Enterprise tiers.
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IFS UltimoMaintenance managementOwned by IFSSuggest an edit"AI-Enabled Enterprise Asset Management. Meet Ultimo." An EAM and CMMS for industrial maintenance, safety and operations teams, sold by Ultimo, an IFS company. Ultimo's AI digital workers for maintenance planning, technicians and health, safety and environment work run in the EAM, Microsoft Teams and Slack. Embedded AI suggests failure symptoms, describes uploaded images, and proposes completed activities when a work order closes.
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Ultimo's digital workers (planning, technician and HSE) handle routine planning, documentation and safety work inside existing processes: they manage non-disruptive actions on their own and send higher-risk decisions to a person. Embedded AI also suggests symptoms in failure reports, describes images and suggests completed activities.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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Octave Attune EAMMaintenance managementOwned by Octave (planned spin-off from Hexagon AB)Suggest an edit"Octave Attune EAM (formerly HxGN EAM) equips you with the tools to operate with confidence". An EAM for fleets, facilities, equipment and infrastructure: assets, work orders, labor scheduling, calibration, purchasing, mobile work and digital twins. A built-in AI assistant, Octave Aria (formerly HxGN Alix), guides users with prescriptive actions, classifies data and streamlines workflows. Octave plans agentic AI features in 2026.
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Octave Aria, a generative AI assistant built into the EAM, guides users with prescriptive actions, classifies data and streamlines workflows. Octave says it plans to add more advanced agentic AI capabilities during 2026.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Digital twin and simulation

  • 2 Mar 2026 Hexagon's asset software business unveils the Octave brand
    Octave, the potential software spin-off from Hexagon AB, unveiled its new brand identity. It is made up of Hexagon's Asset Lifecycle Intelligence and Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial divisions, plus the Bricsys, ETQ and Projectmates businesses.
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UpKeepMaintenance managementOwn hardwareStates that more than 4,000 companies use UpKeep; no funding disclosed.Suggest an edit"AI Native Platform for CMMS, Safety, and Asset Operations" for maintenance teams in plants, facilities and fleets. Work orders, preventive maintenance, parts and asset history sit on one record, with UpKeep Edge sensors for temperature, vibration and runtime. Nova, its AI agent, creates and assigns work orders, orders parts, answers questions by voice and builds custom apps from plain-language requests. More than 4,000 companies use it.
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Nova is an AI agent inside the CMMS. It creates work orders, assigns technicians, orders parts and updates records, can run on a schedule (Pulse), applies a team's naming and work order rules from a Knowledge Base, and builds custom apps from plain-language requests. Nova is included in every plan, with monthly Nova Credits.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

Sells UpKeep Edge sensors that track temperature, vibration and runtime and open work orders.

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Fracttal OneMaintenance managementOwn hardware$35M (EUR 29.8M), led by Riverwood Capital, 2026-01-21Suggest an edit"The era of reactive maintenance is over". A CMMS and EAM platform for work orders, assets, preventive maintenance and IoT condition monitoring, sold to maintenance teams in thousands of organizations in more than 60 countries. Fracttal AI agents create service requests and work orders, plan and track them, create assets from a message or image, and answer questions from account data. Fracttal Sense sensors feed readings into the platform.
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Fracttal AI agents, active from day one, generate service requests with extracted details and photos, create work orders, plan and track them, create assets from a message or image, build charts from data or sketches, and answer questions from the account's data. Sensor readings drive alerts and predictive tasks.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Sells Fracttal Sense industrial sensors and devices that feed readings into the platform.

  • 15 Apr 2026 Fracttal acquires TCMAN, a Spanish CMMS provider
    Fracttal bought TCMAN, a Madrid-founded CMMS maker whose GIM platform serves infrastructure, industrial and service companies in Spain, to gain a foothold in Europe. More than 250 organizations use TCMAN.
  • 21 Jan 2026 Fracttal raises $35M led by Riverwood Capital
    Fracttal raised about EUR 29.8 million ($35 million) to expand in Europe and Latin America and build AI, IoT and agentic features. Existing investors Seaya Ventures, Kayyak, GoHub and Amador joined.
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Prometheus GroupMaintenance managementStrategic investment from Advent International and Leonard Green & Partners, 2023-06-05, amount not disclosedSuggest an edit"Enterprise Asset Management Solutions for Maintenance" that run inside SAP, Oracle and IBM Maximo for plants and heavy industry. Maintenance planning and scheduling, shutdown and turnaround management, mobile EAM and asset performance management. GWOS-AI, trained on more than 20 years of maintenance data, lets planners reassign work in plain language, run AI mass changes and place preventive and corrective work on the schedule.
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Prometheus-AI is built into the platform: GWOS-AI turns a maintenance backlog into an executable schedule, auto-populates recommendations for new work from past projects and surfaces them for a person to review and approve before acting. An AI assistant takes planners' requests in natural language.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, AI scheduling

  • 5 Aug 2026 Prometheus Group acquires VisualAIM's business assets
    Prometheus Group completed the purchase of VisualAIM's software for mechanical integrity, intelligent P&IDs and inspection workflow optimization, adding inspection to its asset performance management software.
  • 14 Jan 2026 Prometheus Group acquires Webalo, an AI connected worker platform
    Prometheus Group bought Webalo, the AI-connected worker platform for the frontline workforce, to build a closed-loop digital execution platform linking the plant floor to planning and the system of record.
  • 16 Dec 2025 Prometheus Group acquires Actenum
    Prometheus Group bought Actenum, a maker of AI-powered scheduling and optimization technology, to extend its AI scheduling to more asset-intensive industries including manufacturing.
  • 25 Sep 2025 Prometheus Group launches GWOS-AI for maintenance planning and scheduling
    GWOS-AI is an AI-powered planning and scheduling layer on top of Prometheus Planning & Scheduling and the ERP. It automates routine tasks such as filtering work orders and rebalancing schedules when asked, and planners direct an AI assistant in natural language.
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CryotosMaintenance managementOwned by PiqotechSuggest an edit"AI-Powered CMMS Software for Efficient Maintenance Management". A cloud CMMS and EAM from Piqotech for plants, power plants, pharmaceutical and textile manufacturing and other sites. It tracks work orders, preventive maintenance, spare parts and downtime. Voice AI Work Orders create a work order from a spoken command, and an AI-Powered Knowledge Base answers maintenance questions from SOPs, manuals and safety guidelines.
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Voice AI Work Orders create a work order in under 30 seconds from natural-language voice commands. The AI-Powered Knowledge Base understands queries and returns answers from a team's SOPs, manuals and safety guidelines.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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eWorkOrdersMaintenance managementNo funding, revenue or customer count disclosed; it cites more than 120 industry recognitions in 2025.Suggest an edit"Cloud-Based CMMS Software for Maintenance Teams That Actually Use It". A CMMS for work orders, preventive maintenance and asset tracking with unlimited users on its flat-rate plans, used across manufacturing, healthcare, education and facilities. The eWorkOrders AI Maintenance Assistant works inside each work order: it gives task-specific guidance, suggests troubleshooting steps and generates asset-specific PM programs that a person can review and edit.
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The AI Maintenance Assistant analyzes maintenance history, suggests troubleshooting steps and optimizes scheduling inside every work order, and instantly generates asset-specific preventive maintenance programs that are reviewable, customizable and exportable.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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LimbleMaintenance managementNo funding or customer count disclosed; it says it is rated by more than 50,000 maintenance professionals.Suggest an edit"Optimize preventive maintenance for peak production". A CMMS and asset management platform for work orders, preventive maintenance, parts and asset history. AI features include Asset Snap, which builds asset records from a photo of a nameplate, an AI PM Builder that turns service manuals into maintenance schedules, AI scheduling suggestions, a duplicate work request check, and an MCP layer that connects Limble data to AI tools.
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Asset Snap reads equipment nameplates from photos to create asset records. AI PM Builder turns service manuals and asset data into maintenance schedules. Resource Planning gives AI workload and scheduling recommendations. An AI check catches duplicate work requests, and anomaly detection flags unusual readings. An MCP server connects Limble data to Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

AI capabilities: Data contextualization, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance

  • 15 Jan 2026 Limble Winter Release adds Asset Snap, Resource Planning and MCP
    Three AI capabilities: Asset Snap turns photos of equipment nameplates into asset records, Resource Planning gives AI workload and scheduling recommendations, and MCP connects Limble data to AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code. Available to U.S. customers at launch with a global rollout planned for summer 2026.
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LLumin CMMS+Maintenance managementOwned by CAI SoftwareSuggest an edit"Enterprise Asset Management and Predictive Maintenance CMMS+ Software". An industrial CMMS for mid-market and enterprise manufacturers that tracks assets, work orders and machine condition. Its machine learning models read sensor data to flag likely breakdowns, and the software schedules inspections, repairs and work orders automatically from machine parameters. LLumin connects maintenance data to ERP, MES and SCADA systems. CAI Software bought LLumin in August 2026.
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Machine learning algorithms find patterns in sensor and maintenance data and predict breakdowns; AI insights and automated work orders follow from machine parameters. LLumin describes CMMS+ as driven by artificial intelligence and machine-level sensors.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

  • 13 Aug 2026 CAI Software acquires LLumin
    CAI Software, a manufacturing software provider, announced the acquisition of LLumin, an industrial CMMS company serving mid-market and enterprise manufacturers. The release says LLumin enables condition-based and AI-assisted predictive maintenance.
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MakulaMaintenance managementNo funding, revenue or customer count disclosed.Suggest an edit"Makula: #1 CMMS & FSM Platform for Machinery Manufacturers & Industrial OEMs". A CMMS for plants and factories, plus field service software for companies that service their own machines. The AI Maintenance Copilot answers technicians' questions from manuals, diagrams and work history, gives step-by-step troubleshooting, and an AI Notetaker turns voice notes into structured service records. Makula Industrial AI adds generative AI search across company data.
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AI Maintenance Copilot retrieves answers from linked manuals, diagrams and past work orders, gives troubleshooting steps and parts references, and an AI Notetaker saves spoken or typed notes to the right asset and work order. Makula Industrial AI offers generative AI search for the whole company and can run on a customer's own cloud or servers.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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OxmaintMaintenance managementNo funding, revenue or customer count disclosed.Suggest an edit"Simplify Maintenance Management Operations with Oxmaint AI". An AI-native CMMS for manufacturing, facilities, fleet and utilities with QR work requests, preventive maintenance, inventory and inspections. The Oxmaint AI assistant answers plain-language questions and creates work orders and assigns technicians from a chat message. The vendor says AI vision cameras and sensor models detect defects and predict failures, and AI creates work orders on its own.
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Oxmaint AI Assistant answers questions in plain English and takes actions such as creating work orders, assigning technicians and checking inventory. The vendor says its AI auto-creates work orders, assigns the nearest certified technician, reserves parts and escalates priorities, and that ML models read IoT sensor data to predict failures and AI vision cameras flag cracks, corrosion and leaks. AI agents are in the Agentic plan.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance, Visual inspection

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Aspen MtellPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwned by EmersonSuggest an edit"Rapidly scale your reliability strategy with Industrial AI that grows seamlessly from foundational asset health to advanced prediction." Aspen Mtell is sold to reliability and maintenance teams in process plants. It predicts failures early, prescribes corrective action with an embedded failure mode and effects analysis, and groups alerts by severity and risk. It connects to EAM systems and to Emerson's AMS vibration monitoring.
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AI failure prediction for early detection, AI-powered insights that group and prioritize alerts by severity, risk and history, and an embedded FMEA that prescribes corrective action.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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AVEVA Predictive AnalyticsPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwned by Schneider ElectricSuggest an edit"End unplanned downtime with AI-powered predictive maintenance software." AVEVA sells it to reliability and maintenance teams in process and discrete plants. It forecasts time to failure, gives fault diagnostics and prescriptive guidance from the AVEVA Asset Library, and lets users without data science skills build and deploy predictive models in a no-code environment.
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AI-powered anomaly detection identifies asset problems weeks or months before failure, with time-to-failure forecasts, fault diagnostics and prescriptive actions. An automated asset model builder and model templates speed deployment.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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C3 AI ReliabilityPredictive maintenance and asset performanceC3.ai, Inc. is a public company (NYSE: AI)Suggest an edit"C3 AI Reliability is AI-enabled predictive maintenance that helps asset operators improve uptime, reduce costs, and increase productivity by unifying sensor data, maintenance records, and parts inventory to predict equipment failures and enable proactive monitoring at scale." Reliability and maintenance teams in process and discrete plants use it for failure prediction, automated root cause diagnostics, AI search and chat, and work orders.
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Time series foundation models and machine learning predict impending equipment risks. Autogenerated failure mode identification speeds root cause analysis, and an embedded search and chat interface answers questions from asset history. It runs on the C3 Agentic AI Platform.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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Cordant Asset HealthPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareBaker Hughes is a public energy technology company; the Cordant suite is part of itSuggest an edit"Cordant Asset Health helps you manage the health of your assets in a proactive and efficient way." Baker Hughes sells it, built on System 1 and the Bently Nevada installed base, to reliability teams in chemicals, fertilizer, mining, oil and gas and power. It autonomously monitors applicable assets, uses AI-based anomaly detection with physics-based failure models, prioritizes alerts and links to maintenance systems. Cordant is described as a modular, AI-enabled industrial software suite.
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AI-based anomaly detection coupled with physics-based failure detection models, autonomous intelligence models for analysis and diagnostics, and alert prioritization. Baker Hughes lists C3.ai among its strategic alliances.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Cordant combines Bently Nevada sensing and protection hardware with the software, and Baker Hughes sells those devices.

  • 28 Jan 2026 Baker Hughes releases Cordant 26.1 industrial software
    Release 26.1 adds AI-enabled failure mode mapping between domains and automated risk alignment, and updates Failure Mode Analytics and waveform analysis, on an open, composable platform. It was announced at the 2026 Baker Hughes Annual Meeting in Florence.
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GE Vernova APMPredictive maintenance and asset performanceGE Vernova Inc. is a public company (NYSE: GEV)Suggest an editGE Vernova's Asset Performance Management suite, with the SmartSignal predictive analytics application, "Prevent unplanned equipment downtime with AI/ML-driven models for detecting, diagnosing, & forecasting emerging failures." It is sold to reliability and operations teams in power, oil and gas, mining, pulp and paper, chemicals and advanced manufacturing. Machine learning models learn what normal looks like for each asset and flag deviations early.
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SmartSignal uses machine learning digital twins to flag equipment deviations from any manufacturer. GE Vernova describes a generative AI layer that will turn alerts into prioritized recommendations, and a document review agent in validation with select customers.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

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Honeywell Asset Performance ManagementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceHoneywell is a public company (NASDAQ: HON)Suggest an edit"Honeywell Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions combine near-real time asset health and performance monitoring analytics with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)." Honeywell sells it to reliability engineers and maintenance teams in process plants. It uncovers potential failures, predicts time to failure, flags performance issues and recommends corrective actions, with models drawn from Honeywell's own process and compressor domain expertise.
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AI and machine learning analytics with first-principles models predict time to failure, flag performance issues and recommend corrective actions. It is vendor agnostic and can run on premises or as SaaS on the Honeywell Forge platform.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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SAP Asset Performance ManagementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwned by SAP SESuggest an editSAP says the product helps "asset owners, plant managers, and reliability engineers" "optimize maintenance strategies, measure and improve asset performance." It analyzes IoT sensor data and maintenance records and adds AI-based predictive maintenance: failure curves and remaining useful life, plus AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert processing. It runs on SAP Business Technology Platform and requires SAP Enterprise Asset Management.
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AI-based predictive maintenance determines the failure curve of equipment from failure probabilities and estimates remaining useful life. SAP also names AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert processing in SAP Asset Performance Management.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

  • 20 Apr 2026 SAP announces an Asset Health Agent for condition-based maintenance Always-on announced
    The Asset Health Agent analyzes time-series health indicators to assess and summarize the current and projected health of technical objects and alerts users in real time. SAP plans general availability for Q3 2026. The same release names AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert processing in SAP Asset Performance Management.
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Schaeffler OPTIMEPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareSchaeffler AG is a public company (its investor pages cover its 2015 IPO and share price)Suggest an edit"The Schaeffler OPTIME ecosystem is a leading solution for condition monitoring and smart lubrication of machinery." Schaeffler sells OPTIME to maintenance teams as its own sensors and measuring units with cloud analytics. FAG OPTIME E-CM adds motor current and voltage monitoring for compressors, pumps, fans, blowers and grinding machines. Schaeffler uses machine learning and artificial intelligence in its cloud to find patterns in the data and recommend maintenance actions.
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence in the Schaeffler Cloud find patterns in sensor and motor data and generate maintenance recommendations, with alerts sent to a dashboard or app.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

OPTIME is sold with Schaeffler's own vibration sensors and E-CM measuring units.

  • 27 Jan 2026 Schaeffler adds FAG OPTIME E-CM to monitor electrically driven machines Always-on announced
    FAG OPTIME E-CM monitors current and voltage in three-phase motors from the control cabinet and sends the data to the Schaeffler Cloud, where machine learning finds patterns and creates maintenance recommendations. It complements OPTIME vibration sensors.
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Senseye Predictive MaintenancePredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwned by SiemensSuggest an edit"Cloud-based predictive maintenance software that helps manufacturers reduce downtime, cut maintenance costs and scale asset intelligence across plants." Siemens sells it to maintenance and reliability teams. The AI models machine and maintainer behavior, forecasts machine failure and ranks risks, with remaining useful life, from data in historians, IoT platforms and databases. It needs no new sensors to start, and Siemens lists it among its industrial AI products.
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AI models machine and maintainer behavior, forecasts failures and ranks risks and priorities across assets and sites, including remaining useful life. Siemens describes it as AI that covers the full maintenance journey, from reactive repair to prediction and optimization.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

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KCF TechnologiesPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareThe company says more than 1,000 manufacturing locations use its asset monitoring; private and employee-owned, funding not publishedSuggest an edit"AI Predictive Maintenance for Machine Health." KCF sells a platform of its own SMARTsensing sensors, SMARTdiagnostics software and SENTRYsolutions expert services to plant maintenance and reliability teams. DeskAI detects faults across 50+ fault types and writes a plain-language description and next step. An AI agent senses the fault, diagnoses the cause, drives the work order and verifies the fix. Work orders flow to MaintainX, Maximo and SAP.
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DeskAI automatically detects emerging faults and writes the issue and recommended next step. The AgenticAI agent senses a fault, diagnoses the cause, drives the work order, verifies the fix and reports it, learning from over a billion machine health data points per month.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Sells its own SMARTsensing Suite sensors with SMARTdiagnostics.

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SamoticsPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareThe company says SAM4 monitors 7,000+ assets on 5 continents and that ABB embeds its ESA technology in ACS880 drives; funding not publishedSuggest an edit"SAM4 monitors motor-driven equipment from the electrical cabinet. You receive a diagnosis, supporting evidence and a recommended action." Samotics sells condition monitoring to maintenance and reliability teams for pumps, compressors and other motor-driven assets that are hard to reach with sensors. SAM4 uses electrical signature analysis, with AI classifying deviations into specific fault types. It is used in water, chemicals, oil and gas, metals and manufacturing.
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SAM4 analyses current and voltage signals from motor control cabinets, with AI classifying deviations into specific fault types and recommending a next step. Samotics describes itself as an industrial AI specialist.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

SAM4 runs on Samotics cabinet hardware or on ABB drives with embedded ESA.

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SensemorePredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareThe company says it serves 70+ corporate customers in 15+ countries; funding not publishedSuggest an edit"Healthy Machines, Sustainable Business." Sensemore sells data acquisition devices, a platform and Machine Health AI for predictive maintenance and condition monitoring. The AI fuses machine properties with sensor data to predict future behavior, runs root cause classification when it detects an anomaly, estimates remaining useful life and writes reports. It is sold to plant maintenance teams in cement, steel, pharmaceutical and food and consumer goods plants.
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Machine Health AI uses AI algorithms on sensor data to predict failures, triggers root cause classification when it finds an anomaly, estimates remaining useful lifetime and generates health reports. Its Reliability Agent works a case inside the platform and returns a diagnosis, the evidence behind it and a proposed action.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

Sells its own Data Acquisition Devices with the platform.

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WaitesPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareThe company says it has deployed 500,000+ sensors across 6 continents; funding not publishedSuggest an edit"AI-Powered Condition Monitoring & Prescriptive Maintenance." Waites sells wireless vibration and temperature sensors, a dashboard and analyst services to plant maintenance teams. Its models are trained on over 13 trillion sensor readings and flag evolving failure patterns months in advance. A CAT-certified vibration analyst reviews each alert before it reaches the team, so findings arrive with prescriptive guidance.
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Machine learning models trained on over 13 trillion sensor readings recognize evolving failure patterns, with each alert reviewed by a certified analyst before it goes to the customer.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Sells its own wireless and tethered vibration sensors and network hardware with the software.

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Akselos Structural Performance ManagementPredictive maintenance and asset performanceFollow-on investment, undisclosed, 2025-09-24Suggest an editAkselos sells Structural Performance Management (SPM) to operators of refineries, LNG terminals and other industrial plants. The site says "Run your assets safer, harder, and longer". A Live Structural Twin of each asset is updated with operating data, and Physics AI "simulates the asset itself" and "delivers explainable predictions" that operations and integrity teams use for throughput and remaining-life decisions.
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SPM "is built on physics AI", which the vendor describes as the method that combines operating data with the governing science of structural behaviour. SPM for Cokers feeds each cycle's temperatures, pressures and quench timing into one structural twin and reports remaining life for fatigue, bulging and crack growth.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance, Digital twin and simulation

  • 20 Oct 2026 Akselos launches SPM for Cokers Always-on
    SPM for Cokers feeds each cycle's operating data into one structural twin of the coke drum and reports remaining life for fatigue, bulging and crack growth separately. Released on the announcement date.
  • 24 Sep 2025 GRO makes a follow-on investment in Akselos
    Software private equity firm GRO completes a follow-on investment to scale real-time structural performance management. The amount is not disclosed.
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AssetWatchPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareSeries C, $75M, 2025-04-30Suggest an edit"More Than Monitoring. A Team That Knows Your Plant and People." AssetWatch sells condition monitoring as one subscription: its sensors for vibration, temperature, electrical and oil analysis, a software platform and a local Condition Monitoring Engineer. AI analyzes thousands of data points per asset, detects 100+ fault types and ranks findings by severity, and a certified reliability expert validates each finding before it reaches the plant team.
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AssetWatch AI detects 100+ failure modes, ranks findings by severity and explains them in plain language with prescriptive recommendations; every AI finding is reviewed by a certified reliability expert.

AI capabilities: Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

The subscription includes AssetWatch's own sensors, installed on the customer's assets.

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AuguryPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardware$361M raised; Series F, $75M, 2025-02-19Suggest an edit"Industrial AI Agents That Work for You." Augury sells Machine Health, which uses wireless sensors and AI diagnostics to predict and prevent machine failures, and an Industrial AI Workforce of role-based agents for reliability, maintenance and operations teams. The Reliability Agent drafts root cause analyses from CMMS, Machine Health and repair data. The Operations Agent connects MES, SCADA, historian, ERP and LIMS data to find causes of yield and process loss.
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Machine Health runs AI diagnostics on sensor data to detect machine faults. The Industrial AI Workforce adds a Reliability Agent that drafts root cause analyses and ranks bad actors, and an Operations Agent that analyzes production data from MES, SCADA and historians. Both run on an Industrial Context Graph and Google's Gemini models.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Machine Health uses Augury's own wireless sensors, such as Pulse, with the software.

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AvathonPredictive maintenance and asset performanceNot publishedSuggest an edit"Autonomously predict, diagnose, prescribe, decide, and act to increase the reliability and performance of capital-intensive equipment." Avathon, formerly SparkCognition, sells an Autonomy Platform with an Asset Management module for plant and fleet equipment: normal-behavior models score failure probability per equipment class, and agents trace an anomaly and send prescribed work, with parts, crew and window attached. It also sells Autonomy for Manufacturing.
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Normal behavior models score failure probability per equipment class and agents trace anomalies through a knowledge graph, weighing remaining life against cost, risk and schedule. For manufacturing, agents re-plan as conditions change and machine vision inspects at line speed.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance, AI scheduling, Visual inspection

  • 16 Oct 2025 Avathon launches Autonomy for Aerospace Operations
    A unified AI and knowledge platform that connects manufacturing, supply chain and maintenance data so aerospace producers and repair operations can coordinate production and in-service maintenance decisions.
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FalkonryPredictive maintenance and asset performancePrivately held; its own About page names a director and observers from Zetta, Polaris and In-Q-Tel; no funding amount publishedSuggest an edit"Operational Resilience Data Platform. From Raw Sensor Data to Zero Unplanned Downtime." Falkonry sells time series AI to operations and reliability teams in heavy industry. Its PatternIQ engine finds anomalies and critical patterns in multivariate sensor data with no labeling or data science, and an agentic reasoning layer turns them into actionable incidents. It works with any assets and instrumentation and fits into standard operating procedures.
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PatternIQ, a patented time series AI engine, detects anomalies and patterns across multivariate telemetry. Falkonry shows agentic AI reasoning that identifies incidents, with a human on the loop.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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IPerceptPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareSeries A, US$16.5M, 2026-09-29Suggest an editIPercept sells CNC machine monitoring: "See inside all CNC machines." Maintenance and production teams mount one patented Smart IIoT Device on the machine, with no controller integration, and get component-level machine health, process loads and utilization on 50+ machine brands. CNC Copilot is an AI assistant that answers from live machine data and the plant's own documents.
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The platform turns the device's motion data into machine health findings with edge analytics and AI. CNC Copilot is an AI assistant in the IPercept Portal that answers questions about a machine's condition or how to fix it, and cites its sources.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

Sells its own patented IPercept Smart IIoT Device that mounts on the machine.

  • 29 Sep 2026 IPercept raises US$16.5M Series A
    The round was co-led by Isogon Ventures and 2150, with Luminar Ventures, RunwayFBU, J12 Ventures and AI.Fund. IPercept will scale in the US, grow service partnerships and add intelligence applications to its data platform.
  • 14 Apr 2026 IPercept and MTT partner on predictive CNC intelligence in the UK
    Machine Tool Technologies, described as the UK's largest independent CNC machine tool servicing provider, adds IPercept's monitoring to its predictive maintenance offer.
  • 19 Feb 2026 IPercept launches CNC Copilot
    CNC Copilot is an AI-powered assistant inside the IPercept Portal. It works with live machine data and trusted knowledge sources to say what changed, why it matters and what to do next, and it keeps the team's reasoning between shifts.
  • 5 May 2025 IPercept raises EUR 5M to scale its predictive AI platform
    Luminar Ventures led the round, with RunwayFBU, Backstage Invest, AI.Fund and existing investors including J12.
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NanoprecisePredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardware$53M raised; Series C, US$38M equity and debt, 2025-03-27Suggest an editNanoprecise calls itself "an AI-driven prescriptive maintenance company that helps industrial operators detect faults early, prevent unplanned downtime, and extend asset life." Reliability engineers, vibration analysts and maintenance teams use its ReliabilityOS platform with purpose-built sensors on rotating equipment. AI agents prepare an evidence-backed analysis of each important alert, and the platform shares it with CMMS, APM systems and customer AI agents over MCP.
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ReliabilityOS combines signal processing, machine knowledge, maintenance history and AI reasoning to rank alerts, diagnose likely causes and prepare a human-reviewable analysis. Condition Intelligence detects abnormal machine behavior, and Workflow Enrichment passes insights to CMMS, APM and customer AI agents, with support for Model Context Protocol connections.

AI capabilities: Named agent, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance

Sells purpose-built sensors and edge computing together with the ReliabilityOS software.

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TractianPredictive maintenance and asset performanceOwn hardwareSeries D, $130M, 2026-10-22Suggest an edit"Physical AI for Asset-Heavy Operations." Tractian sells asset health monitoring: its own multimodal Smart Trac sensors read vibration, ultrasound, temperature and RPM, and an Auto Diagnosis engine names the fault, its severity and a recommended plan. Maintenance and reliability teams at plants use it for continuous monitoring, asset health scores and failure diagnostics, with insights pushed into their CMMS or EAM.
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AI-driven diagnostics turn sensor signals into a named fault, a severity and a next step. Tractian calls its platform agentic and trained on one of the largest industrial failure datasets, and describes an industrial copilot that explains findings in plain language.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

Condition monitoring runs on Tractian's own Smart Trac sensors.

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Factory AIPredictive maintenance and asset performanceNo funding, revenue or customer count disclosed; it publishes customer case results.Suggest an edit"Sensor-Agnostic Predictive Maintenance & AI-Powered CMMS in One Platform". Built for mid-sized manufacturers: machine learning models detect anomalies from the sensors, historians and SCADA systems a plant already has, and its Prevent CMMS runs work orders, assets and maintenance schedules in the same platform. It says it deploys in under 14 days with no data science team.
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Machine learning detects anomalies and failure risk before breakdowns from existing sensor, historian and PLC data, sends alerts and creates a knowledge base for root causes. The Prevent CMMS is bundled at no additional cost and is described as an AI-first CMMS.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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ABB Genix Industrial IoT and AI SuiteIndustrial data platformsABB is a public company; named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial AIoT PlatformsSuggest an editABB sells Genix as "the power to run smarter operations": an enterprise industrial data and AI platform with business-ready apps for process plants in chemicals, metals, cement, power, water and oil and gas. Operators and reliability engineers use its contextualized data layer, Genix APM, Genix Copilot, System Anomaly Detection and digital twin tools, with AutoML and MLOps to build models.
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Genix AI Express and Genix Copilot give a generative AI assistant over plant and asset data, and Genix APM Copilot speeds root-cause work. Genix Asset Performance Management and System Anomaly Detection predict failures, and AutoML flows, templates and MLOps build and deploy models. ABB calls its agentic automation work a human-in-the-loop framework.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Digital twin and simulation

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AVEVA CONNECTIndustrial data platformsOwned by Schneider ElectricSuggest an edit"CONNECT industrial intelligence platform." CONNECT is AVEVA's open, cloud-based platform that brings industrial data, models, applications and AI together. Operations and engineering teams pay for it by subscription with Flex credits. The Industrial AI Assistant answers industrial questions in plain language, and Flows (from the Crosser acquisition) builds data pipelines with more than 800 connectors.
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The Industrial AI Assistant lets CONNECT visualization users ask industrial-specific questions in a chat window. AVEVA has announced an industrial knowledge graph with a twin builder that uses agentic AI to propose data mappings, planned for a Q1 2027 release.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics

  • 20 May 2026 AVEVA announces a CONNECT knowledge graph and agentic twin builder announced
    At AVEVA World 2026, AVEVA announced Flows (Q2 2026) and an industrial knowledge graph in a major CONNECT release due in Q1 2027. A twin builder applies agentic AI to propose mappings to a standard data model.
  • 16 Dec 2025 AVEVA acquires Crosser
    Crosser, a low-code edge and data pipeline company, said it has been acquired by AVEVA. Its technology is now the Flows capability in CONNECT, and the Crosser name is retired. The release gives no price.
  • 3 Jul 2025 Industrial AI Assistant opens to all CONNECT visualization users
    AVEVA said the generative AI Industrial AI Assistant is now available to all CONNECT visualization users. Users ask industrial-specific questions in natural language through a chat interface.
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AVEVA PI SystemIndustrial data platformsOwned by Schneider ElectricSuggest an edit"Operations data management trusted by engineers and IT alike." The PI System collects, cleanses, stores, enriches and visualizes real-time operations data and delivers it to users, applications and analytics tools. Plant engineers and IT teams buy it as the historian layer. Its page says AI-based analytics can predict asset failures and the need for preventative maintenance.
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The product page describes an "AI-ready digital foundation" and AI-based analytics that predict asset failures and the need for preventative maintenance. At AVEVA World 2026 AVEVA announced PI Server work for analytics and AI-intensive workloads and faster transfer of PI data to CONNECT.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

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Siemens Insights HubIndustrial data platformsSiemens is a public company.Suggest an edit"Insights Hub empowers smart operations with AI-driven manufacturing and continuous improvement." Insights Hub applies analytics to equipment and process data for manufacturers who want better availability, quality and performance. Production Copilot helps find issues and root causes, Copilot Studio lets users define their own skills, and machine learning detects energy issues and predicts quality defects.
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Production Copilot uses production data to identify issues, find root causes and plan shop-floor actions. Copilot Studio lets users define their own skills and deploy them across the organization. Machine learning detects energy issues, and Quality Prediction recommends parameter settings.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

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ThingWorxIndustrial data platformsOwned by Velotic (TPG)Suggest an edit"Transform industrial data into intelligent action." ThingWorx, now part of Velotic, is an industrial intelligence platform that connects and contextualizes data from machines and systems, shows real-time operational dashboards and speeds up building industrial applications. Operations, engineering and IT teams use it. ThingWorx 10.2 adds an AI Assistant, native AI agents and an MCP server.
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ThingWorx lists a ThingWorx AI Assistant, AI Runtime and Agent Services, a native AI Agent entity and integrated MCP support. The MCP server is generally available, with an AgentUtilities namespace of ready-made tools.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

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Cognite Data FusionIndustrial data platformsSchneider Electric signed a definitive agreement on 2026-06-30 to buy Cognite for $3.1 billion in cash. Cognite says it has delivered $1 billion in verified AI value for customers.Suggest an edit"Unify, contextualize, and activate your industrial data at enterprise scale." Cognite Data Fusion is the industrial data and AI foundation that plant, reliability and operations teams use to build a knowledge graph of asset, sensor and work data. Cognite Atlas AI is a low-code workbench for industrial agents, and Cognite Flows is the front-line layer for work on that data.
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Cognite Atlas AI is a "low-code industrial AI agent workbench" with preconfigured agent templates for root cause analysis, shift handover summaries and work orders. Cognite Flows adds agents for field workers, and Industrial MCP (public preview) connects Claude and Microsoft Copilot to the governed data.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, MCP or agent API

  • 8 Sep 2026 Industrial MCP enters public preview preview
    Cognite's September release opens Cognite Data Fusion to outside AI tools, including Claude and Microsoft Copilot, through Industrial MCP. It also adds an Atlas AI agent to the data engineering workspace.
  • 30 Jun 2026 Schneider Electric agrees to buy Cognite for $3.1 billion
    Schneider Electric signed a definitive agreement to buy 100 percent of Cognite Holding B.V. in an all-cash deal. After closing, Cognite will be integrated with AVEVA inside Schneider's Industrial Automation business.
  • 21 May 2026 Cognite and ABB plan agent-to-agent orchestration
    Cognite and ABB announced a collaboration to add an agentic layer to existing industrial applications so that agents can hand work to each other. The release says the aim is agent-to-agent orchestration.
  • 12 May 2026 Cognite Flows launches as the action layer
    Cognite introduced Flows, an AI-native experience that lets teams build and deploy tailored applications on Cognite data. Cognite says more than 30 percent of its customer base and key partners already have Flows.
  • 9 Sep 2025 Atlas AI major release adds agent templates Agent
    Cognite released a major version of Atlas AI, a low-code agent workbench. It adds templates for time series analysis, work packages, shift handover summaries and work order classification, and granular access controls for agents.
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IgnitionIndustrial data platformsIts pricing page says it is trusted by over 15,000 organizations worldwide. Its 2026 conference drew close to 2,000 visitors.Suggest an edit"The Industrial Automation Platform." Ignition from Inductive Automation collects plant data and builds SCADA, IIoT, MES, HMI, alarming and reporting applications on one server license with unlimited clients, tags and connections. Controls and plant engineers use it. Ignition Catalyst in Ignition 2027 connects the customer's own AI models to the platform and lets teams build agents.
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Ignition Catalyst Core adds Gateway diagnostic assistants, Designer assistants and AI session monitoring. Catalyst Agent adds user-defined AI agents, an MCP server and MCP connections. Ignition supplies no models; users connect their own, such as Claude or ChatGPT. Both ship in Ignition 2027, now in beta.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, MCP or agent API

  • Sep 2026 Ignition Catalyst brings AI assistants and agents to Ignition 2027 beta
    At the 2026 Ignition Community Conference (September 22 to 24) the company dropped the standalone MCP module and introduced Ignition Catalyst. Catalyst Core is included at no extra cost, and Catalyst Agent supports user-defined agents with bring-your-own-model and MCP in both directions.
  • 17 Sep 2025 Inductive Automation previews an MCP module for Ignition preview
    At the 2025 Ignition Community Conference the company previewed an MCP module that lets Ignition expose tag data, database access and configuration to AI systems, and lets users build custom MCP servers in Designer. It was a proof of concept planned for 2026.
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TrendMinerIndustrial data platformsIts homepage says 48% of the 50 largest chemical manufacturers use it (2024 listing), and its company page cites an estimated $1.2 billion of value generated for customers.Suggest an edit"TrendMiner is a technology platform that translates operational data into smarter and faster data driven decisions." Process engineers and operators in chemicals, energy, food and other process industries use it to search time series data, find events and set up monitors. The Analytics Agent and the in-app TrendMiner Agent run analyses and write root cause reports in plain language.
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The TrendMiner Agent searches time series, asset and event data, explains process behavior, writes root cause reports with evidence and configures monitors. Routines turn an analysis into a repeatable monitor. Customers bring their own LLM, and MCP servers connect other AI tools.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance

  • 27 Oct 2026 TrendMiner 2026.R3 puts the Agent inside the application
    The embedded Agent sees the user's current view, runs tag and event searches, opens views and changes the time range. It works with Azure AI Foundry and Anthropic models at launch, with AWS Bedrock and OpenAI planned.
  • 18 May 2026 TrendMiner Agent and Routines go live at AVEVA World Agent
    The Agent works inside the app on historian and asset data and delivers conclusions, a root cause report and recommended actions. Routines document an analysis as steps that can become a monitor in one click.
  • 11 Mar 2026 TrendMiner introduces the Analytics Agent Agent
    TrendMiner's first agentic AI for process analytics searches time series, asset and event data on its own, explains process behavior, speeds root cause analysis and can write production reports. Customers can bring their own LLM over TrendMiner's MCP servers.
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HighByte Intelligence HubIndustrial data platformsSeries A, $12M, 2024-04-23Suggest an edit"Build Your Industrial AI Foundation on DataOps." HighByte Intelligence Hub is edge-native, no-code DataOps software that models, transforms and delivers plant-floor data to cloud and business systems. OT and IT data teams buy it as an annual subscription. AI agents work with its data through the built-in MCP server, and two in-app agents help build pipelines and models.
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The Intelligence Hub has an embedded Industrial MCP Server and MCP Client, a Pipeline AI Agent (version 4.4) and a Modeling Agent (version 4.5). Both agents use the customer's own large language model and wait for a person to approve each change.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, MCP or agent API

  • 14 Oct 2026 HighByte partners with Databricks
    HighByte announced a partnership with Databricks and native Zerobus support so modeled plant data streams into Databricks for analytics and agent use.
  • 25 Aug 2026 Version 4.5 adds a Modeling Agent
    The Modeling Agent helps browse connections and create or edit inputs, models and instances in plain language. Version 4.5 also adds MCP configuration tools and a Data Lineage Graph.
  • 31 Mar 2026 Version 4.4 adds a Pipeline AI Agent
    The Pipeline AI Agent lets users explain, create and edit data pipelines in plain language through their own LLM. A person reviews each change before it takes effect.
  • 19 Nov 2025 Version 4.3 adds an MCP Client and server tools
    Version 4.3 adds an MCP Client so companies can control access to third-party MCP servers. It also adds ready-made MCP server tools for connections such as MQTT and OPC UA.
  • 1 Jul 2025 Intelligence Hub 4.2 adds an Industrial MCP Server
    Version 4.2 embeds an MCP server that exposes data pipelines as tools to AI agents. It also adds LLM-assisted data contextualization through Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenAI and local models.
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Litmus EdgeIndustrial data platformsAdditional funding led by Insight Partners with Munich Re Ventures via HSB Fund II, amount not disclosed, 2025-11-12Suggest an edit"Find, trust, and govern industrial data for AI." Litmus Edge is an industrial edge data platform that connects machines and OT systems, models the data and runs edge applications. Plant and data teams also use Litmus Unify for a unified namespace, Litmus Data Catalog for metadata governance, and the Litmus MCP Server so AI tools can query plant data.
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The open-source Litmus MCP Server lets chat tools, IDEs and agents work with Litmus Edge devices and data. Litmus Data Catalog uses AI to document and govern industrial metadata, and Edge Intelligence runs analytics and AI models at the edge.

AI capabilities: Data contextualization, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

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SeeqIndustrial data platforms$165M raised; Series D, $50M, 2024-08-06Suggest an edit"The best industrial AI runs on expertise." Seeq is an industrial analytics platform that process engineers, reliability teams and operations use to find, model and act on time series data from historians. Seeq Intelligence adds Agent Q, a natural language analyst, and a builder for custom agents. Seeq for Pharma offers decision support for GMP-regulated work.
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Seeq Intelligence includes Agent Q, a domain-aware natural language analyst that assembles events, past analyses and documents into traceable findings, and Build Your Own Agent for multistep workflows that run on demand, on a schedule or on a trigger.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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Sight MachineIndustrial data platformsEquity investment from NVentures, amount not disclosed, 2025-09-16Suggest an edit"Agent-powered manufacturing that continuously finds more output, eliminates more waste, and improves with every run." Sight Machine maps plant data from sensors, historians, MES and ERP into a Manufacturing Context Layer, then runs AI agents that investigate quality drift, downtime and yield gaps. Plant managers and process engineers get recommendations in Teams, Excel or a kiosk on the floor.
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Blueprint, a small language model, maps thousands of tags to physical assets. Agents and crews of agents work continuously on throughput, quality and cost, and AppBuilder CoPilot builds plant applications from a single prompt.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production execution, Production analytics, Process optimization

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ifm moneoIndustrial data platformsOwn hardwareifm is a family-owned group; no moneo revenue or customer count is publishedSuggest an editifm sells moneo as an IIoT platform for plant maintenance and production teams. The IIoT Insights add-on has an "intelligent, AI-powered" set of functions. Its Industrial AI Assistant gives "AI-based anomaly detection and forecasts regarding the remaining service life" from sensor data, with SmartLimitWatcher, PatternMonitor and LifetimeEstimator, and a no-code setup.
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The Industrial AI Assistant has three tools: SmartLimitWatcher finds anomalies from sensor data, PatternMonitor flags pattern changes that signal slow wear or sudden breakdown, and LifetimeEstimator is an AI model that predicts the remaining life of parts under cyclical wear.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance

The moneo pages sell ifm sensors and moneo IIoT devices with the software.

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TDengine IDMPIndustrial data platformsThe pages show no funding, revenue or customer count for IDMP.Suggest an edit"AI-Native Industrial Data Management Platform." TDengine IDMP sits on the TDengine time series database and detects the application scenario from collected data, builds dashboards, runs real-time analysis and watches for anomalies. Industrial data teams get answers in natural language and forecasting, anomaly detection, clustering and regression in context.
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Zero-Query Intelligence generates insights, dashboards, metrics and reports without queries. Natural-language questions, forecasting and anomaly detection run in context, and an industrial AI agent makes real-time decisions on its own.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance

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TimebaseIndustrial data platformsOwned by Flow SoftwareSuggest an edit"Map how your plant is actually built." Timebase from Flow Software is a free historian for high-resolution plant data, with Timebase Atlas, a knowledge graph for modeling a plant and building a unified namespace. Controls and data engineers use it. Gage, an AI harness inside Timebase, runs agents and subagents on the customer's own LLM and works with the domain expert.
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Gage is described as a custom AI harness inside Timebase with agents and subagents, skills and tools. Users connect their own models. Other agents reach the Atlas model through an MCP server and the .NET Agent SDK.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, MCP or agent API

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DozukiConnected worker and work instructionsStrategic growth investment, amount not disclosed, 2021-09-27Suggest an edit"Empower frontline workers with Dozuki Connected Worker Platform, the best in standard work instruction and training software." Manufacturers use it for work instructions, learning pathways, operational workflows and worker feedback. Forge AI adds embedded AI that helps create guidance, review procedure changes and flag deviations from a standard, plus an AI Assistant for troubleshooting and analysis.
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Forge AI: embedded AI experiences in defined workflows (create guidance, understand procedure changes, review deviations from a standard) and a dynamic AI Assistant for follow-up questions, troubleshooting and analysis, plus Performance AI Analytics.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions

  • 28 Sep 2026 Dozuki launches Forge AI
    Forge AI is an industrial AI layer with embedded AI for defined workflows and a dynamic AI Assistant for deeper questions and investigation. Customer data stays in each customer's Dozuki account and is not used to train shared models.
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Librestream Onsight NOWConnected worker and work instructionsOwned by Harris ComputerSuggest an edit"Remote expert support, Ida agentic AI and searchable video knowledge for frontline teams, inside Microsoft Teams and your service systems." Maintenance, service and inspection teams use it to reach experts by video and to keep captured sessions searchable. Ida answers by chat or voice from manuals, past jobs and videos and triggers next steps such as reports or emails.
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Ida, an industrial digital assistant with agentic AI and cognitive search that respects user permissions; AI video capture indexes sessions so expertise stays when people leave.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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ParsableConnected worker and work instructionsOwned by CAI SoftwareSuggest an edit"Empower your frontline workers with real-time guidance, data visibility, and continuous improvement." Process manufacturers use Parsable to turn paper procedures into guided digital workflows for production, maintenance, quality and safety. The AI generates SOPs from existing documents, maps worker skills to tasks, answers operator questions at the workstation and surfaces patterns in operational data.
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AI-Powered Insights and applied AI that finds patterns and inefficiencies in operational data and guides supervisors on priorities. The vendor's 2026 plan covers AI-generated SOPs, AI skills mapping and a real-time operator assist chatbot.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions

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PokaConnected worker and work instructionsOwned by IFSSuggest an edit"Poka delivers industrial AI for connected work, grounded in operations and built for every floor." Operations, quality, maintenance and safety teams run digital work instructions, checklists, issues, huddle boards and skills tracking. Poka's AI agents solve problems with operators, analyze trends and search procedures, and Poka AI Studio lets teams build their own agents.
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Governed Poka AI agents in production: a Problem-Solving Agent, an Analytics Agent and a Knowledge Agent. Poka AI Studio is a no-code agent builder with templates such as a Work Instruction Comparison Agent and a Formless Issue Agent. A Poka MCP server opens its data to Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions, MCP or agent API, Quality event analysis

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VKSConnected worker and work instructionsServes customers in over 30 countries; no funding disclosed on its pagesSuggest an edit"VKS is the connected worker platform for the modern shop floor: digital work instructions, quality tracking, real-time data, and Edge and IIoT in one system." Assembly and manufacturing engineering teams author instructions, collect torque, serial and pass or fail data and link machines. AI-enhanced authoring bulk converts Word, PDF and Excel instructions and translates them.
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"AI-enhanced digital work instructions": AI-assisted data extraction bulk converts existing Word, PDF and Excel work instructions into structured, revision-controlled digital formats with validation before release.

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WorkerbaseConnected worker and work instructions40+ production sites in 19 countries and 26,000+ users on the platformSuggest an edit"The application platform for manufacturing. Workerbase AI builds shopfloor applications from tested building blocks, next to ERP and MES." Plant and IT teams describe a process in plain language, approve the generated app and roll it out to stations. It covers digital work instructions, SOPs, forms, checklists, issue management and skills, with five shopfloor AI agents.
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Workerbase AI builds shopfloor apps from a plain-language description, with team approval before workers see them. Shopfloor agents: Troubleshooting, Data Collector, Incoming Goods AI, Find and Knowledge. A generative AI Shopfloor Copilot supports workers, engineers and managers.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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Assembler AIConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardware$4M raised; Seed, $4M, 2026-10-22Suggest an edit"One camera reads every step at a manual station against your work instructions. Cycle times, missed steps, and alerts with video. Live in two weeks, no MES integration required." Continuous improvement, engineering and quality teams in discrete manufacturing use Operator Vision, with automated time studies, real-time quality alerts, Teammate AI operator guidance and risk detection.
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Operator Vision, a computer vision platform that captures every action at a manual station, flags speed and quality deviations, builds automated time studies and gives the operator real-time guidance through Teammate AI.

AI capabilities: Production execution, Production analytics, Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

Its homepage says Assembler AI supplies and provisions the NDAA-compliant camera installed at each station.

  • 22 Oct 2026 Assembler AI raises $4M seed round
    Diagram ClimateTech Fund led the seed round to scale Assembler AI's computer vision platform for manual work across North American manufacturers.
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AugmentirConnected worker and work instructionsSeries A, $7.5M, 2021-11-10Suggest an edit"The world's only AI-native connected worker platform, combining workforce intelligence, digital work, and Agentic AI to optimize frontline operations." Operations, quality, maintenance and continuous improvement teams run digital work instructions, skills tracking, audits and issue management. The Augie AI suite writes procedures from an SOP, answers floor questions, finds root causes and runs custom agents.
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Augie Industrial AI Suite: a generative assistant, Augie Procedure Studio (turns an SOP into a procedure), Augie Command Center (natural language interface that builds agents and workflows), Industrial AI Agent Studio, out-of-the-box agents such as 5 Why Coach and Root Cause Investigator, and True Productivity workforce analytics.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Quality event analysis

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AzumutaConnected worker and work instructionsSeries A, EUR 8M, 2025-11-13Suggest an edit"Unite Connected Worker and MES capabilities to build the execution platform that coordinates, governs, and continuously improves operational work on the shop floor." Process and manufacturing engineers build digital work instructions, checklists, quality checks and skill matrices. Azumuta Intelligence turns documents and video into instructions, translates them and transcribes speech.
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Azumuta Intelligence: an AI tool that converts uploaded work instruction documents into structured digital instructions, generates instructions from video, adds smart translations and speech-to-text. A video-reading VLM agent drafts a review-ready work instruction from a recorded operation.

AI capabilities: Production execution, Work instructions

  • 22 Jun 2026 Azumuta AI agent writes work instructions from video
    A VLM-powered agent watches a video of an operation and generates a structured, review-ready work instruction. Azumuta reports a 90% cut in creation time against fully manual work and says it is live in production.
  • 13 Nov 2025 Azumuta raises EUR 8M Series A
    Keen Venture Partners led the round, with Capricorn Partners and returning investors. The money funds international growth and the platform for AI-supported digital work instructions, quality control and skills tracking.
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Canvas EnvisionConnected worker and work instructionsSeries A-1, $9M, 2023-01-13Suggest an edit"Manufacturing knowledge management with AI built in. Turn expertise into interactive 3D work instructions and deliver them where the work happens." Manufacturing engineering and tech pubs teams build 3D work instructions from CAD and engineering data and deliver them to operators. Evie, its AI assistant, authors instructions from prompts and converts PDFs and videos. Envision Builder, in early access, plans the assembly sequence.
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Evie, an AI assistant inside Envision Creator that builds interactive 3D work instructions from natural-language prompts, with AI agents that convert PDFs and videos into structured instructions. Envision Builder, in early access from November 2026, recommends the build order from 3D CAD, the MBOM and rules taught to Evie.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Work instructions

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Datch Diagnostic AgentConnected worker and work instructionsSeries A, $15M, 2024-08-07Suggest an edit"The AI Agent Built for Improving Plant OEE. Put the weight of the enterprise behind every technician, operator, and engineer on the frontline." Maintenance and operations teams get context-rich troubleshooting guidance from one interface, built on their own maintenance data, manuals and schematics, alongside Datch's mobile EAM and Asset Insights.
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Datch Diagnostic Agent: an AI agent that gives instant troubleshooting guidance to frontline technicians, operators and engineers. Datch Cortex and a knowledge graph ground the AI in plant data.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

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Invisible AIConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardware$21M raised; Series A, $15M, 2022-09-28Suggest an edit"A visual intelligence platform that works with operators to ensure manufacturing processes are done correctly every time." Industrial engineers, continuous improvement and production teams use cameras at each station to capture every cycle of manual assembly, find improvements, validate changes and get proactive insights. The Vision Execution System runs AI on edge devices, with no cloud needed.
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The Vision Execution System analyzes human motion and objects on the line in real time, builds a searchable video digital twin and a cycles database of every production cycle, and pushes proactive insights to the team. AI Studio turns shop-floor video into standard work (early access).

AI capabilities: Production execution, Production analytics, Visual inspection

Its April 2026 release describes NVIDIA-powered edge devices with 3D depth cameras mounted at the station.

  • 13 Apr 2026 Invisible AI launches Vision Execution System with NVIDIA Always-on
    The Vision Execution System uses NVIDIA Jetson edge devices with 3D depth cameras to capture and analyze every production cycle in real time. It builds a video digital twin and a unified cycles database ready for agentic workflows.
  • 31 Jul 2025 Invisible AI moves to acquire nFlux
    Invisible AI said it is working to acquire nFlux, a NASA-born maker of AI co-pilots for manual assembly. The deal joins nFlux's real-time worker guidance and assembly tracking with Invisible AI's edge computer vision platform.
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RetrocausalConnected worker and work instructionsRound, $5.3M, 2023-11-30Suggest an edit"AI-powered Copilots" for assembly lines. Industrial engineers and production teams use computer vision to watch manual and semi-automated work. Assembly Copilot guides operators live and traces every cycle on video. Kaizen Copilot runs AI time studies, line balancing and improvement suggestions. Ergo Copilot analyzes ergonomics from body motion.
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Proprietary computer vision models read how work is performed on the line. Assembly Copilot gives live worker guidance and error detection, Kaizen Copilot automates time studies, line balancing and continuous improvement suggestions, and Ergo Copilot scores ergonomic risk.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Work instructions, Visual inspection

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SiteVue AIConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardware$7.5M raised; Seed, $7.5M, 2026-08-06Suggest an edit"AI-powered video analytics to help manufacturers recover lost profit through cycle time benchmarking, safety monitoring, and workforce productivity insights. Deploy in days, not months." Operations and safety teams on production lines get video-based cycle times, bottleneck and defect flags and safety alerts on a dashboard.
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AI video analytics that benchmark cycle times, monitor safety and surface workforce productivity insights from line cameras.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Visual inspection

Its homepage shows its own hard hat, clip-on, safety glasses and station cameras; its release says it designs and manufactures its own cameras.

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SquintConnected worker and work instructions$59M raised; Series B, $40M, 2025-08-12Suggest an edit"Industrial AI that reduces downtime and improves quality. Activate your organization's knowledge, improve procedures, and make every operator an expert." Manufacturing, quality and maintenance teams turn video and documents into interactive procedures. A purpose-built industrial AI model and agents, such as the Lean Manufacturing Agent, run time and motion studies from video.
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A purpose-built industrial AI model, an AI procedure author that edits procedures on direction, AI that builds procedures from video, and the Lean Manufacturing Agent that watches floor video to run time and motion studies and classify waste.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Visual inspection

  • 24 Aug 2026 Squint introduces the Lean Manufacturing Agent Agent
    The agent takes uploaded video of a real cycle and returns a time and motion study that classifies every second as value-added, necessary or waste, documents the job and suggests sized fixes.
  • 15 Jun 2026 Squint announces a purpose-built industrial AI model
    Squint's new AI model for industrials powers a system that brings together tribal knowledge, IT system data and standard work protocols, and makes that context available to its industrial agents.
  • 8 May 2026 Squint adds an AI procedure author that takes direction
    Teams tell the AI how to customize a procedure for new hires, shifts or roles. It builds on Squint's AI that generates interactive procedures from a document or video.
  • 12 Aug 2025 Squint raises $40M Series B
    The Westly Group and TCV co-led the round, with Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures taking part. SiliconANGLE reports the round values Squint at $265M and brings total funding to more than $59M.
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TulipConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardwareLife sciences readySeries D, $120M, 2026-01-13Suggest an edit"A composable, AI-native platform manufacturers use to build and connect solutions to improve production tracking, quality, traceability, and more." Plant and manufacturing engineering teams build no-code apps for operators on stations and tablets. The AI turns SOPs into apps, builds apps from a chat panel, runs configurable agents on production data and replays factory video.
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AI Composer converts SOPs and work instructions into apps. Composable AI Agents, built in an agent builder or taken from the Library, act on production data. The Authoring Agent drafts apps once an engineer approves its plan. Factory Playback uses NVIDIA video models to replay the line, and Native MCP Connectors link Tulip to AI tools.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Work instructions, MCP or agent API, Quality event analysis, Visual inspection

Its pricing page lists Tulip Edge Devices and a Light Kit, 21 CFR Part 11 e-signatures and a GxP validation pack; its home page says Tulip is GxP-ready.

  • 9 Oct 2026 Tulip introduces AI Authoring with an Authoring Agent beta
    AI Authoring adds Projects, an Authoring Agent chat panel that drafts and changes apps after the engineer approves its plan, and agent first-pass reviews of testing and documentation. Composable AI Agents are in open beta and code mode is in preview.
  • 6 Oct 2026 Tulip previews Industrial Connectivity and Native MCP Connectors preview
    Industrial Connectivity brings machine data onto Tulip's operational record. Native MCP Connectors exchange data both ways with enterprise systems and AI tools, and Composable AI Agents work on that record.
  • 17 Mar 2026 Tulip announces Factory Playback with NVIDIA announced
    Factory Playback builds a time-aligned record of production from machine data, operator workflows, quality events and video. It uses the NVIDIA Metropolis video search and summarization blueprint and Cosmos Reason VLM.
  • 13 Jan 2026 Tulip raises $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi Electric
    Mitsubishi Electric invested and signed a strategic alliance with Tulip. The release puts Tulip's valuation at $1.3B.
  • 18 Nov 2025 Tulip acquires AI company Akooda
    Tulip bought Akooda, a Boston and Tel Aviv AI company focused on contextual enterprise data and real-time operational visibility. The Akooda team joins Tulip's AI and product groups.
  • 7 Oct 2025 Tulip unveils Composable AI Agents Agent beta
    Tulip launched configurable AI agents for frontline operations that can enforce quality checks, reschedule production tasks and automate rework. Teams build agents in an agent builder or take pre-built ones from the Library.
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AndonixConnected worker and work instructionsNo customer count disclosed; Automation Alley 4.0 Accelerator is listed as an investor in its news pageSuggest an edit"The AI-connected worker platform transforming manufacturing operations." Plant and production teams use real-time alerts, a digital andon cord, escalation and automated workflows on smart work stations. AndiX, its AI agents for the frontline workforce, merges ERP, MES, QMS, SCADA and IoT data with worker know-how and runs in co-pilot and auto-pilot modes.
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AndiX (Andonix Intelligence): AI agents for supervisors, engineers and operators that digitize tribal knowledge, cut repetitive workflows and flag downtime and scrap, in co-pilot and auto-pilot modes.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics

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ArkiteConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardwareNo customer count or funding disclosed on its pages; it publishes named customer stories.Suggest an edit"Operator guidance for manual assembly: AR work instructions, real-time 3D validation, in-process inspection and production data, connected to MES and ERP." Assembly and manufacturing engineering teams build jobs in a no-code editor and guide operators at the workstation. Arkite AI generates a job from a written description, translates instructions and runs local AI detections for inspection.
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Arkite AI: AI job generation from a written assembly description (an engineer reviews and finalizes it), AI translation of all instructions, and AI detection algorithms in Arkite VISION that run locally at the workstation with no internet connection.

AI capabilities: Production execution, Work instructions, Visual inspection

Its platform-levels page describes the Arkite 3D sensor and the Arkite Vision sensor sold with the VALIDATE and VISION levels.

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LightGuideConnected worker and work instructionsOwn hardwareNo customer count or funding disclosed on its pages.Suggest an editLightGuide sells "the Augmented Intelligence Platform that transforms complex manual work into guided, verified, traceable, and AI-ready execution." Assembly, kitting, test and maintenance teams get projected AR work instructions at the workstation. AI computer vision with 3D sensors and smart cameras confirms each manual task, and AI-powered analytics read execution data from every workstation.
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AI computer vision with integrated 3D sensors and smart cameras that confirms every manual task and applies no-faults-forward logic, plus AI-powered analytics in the LightGuide Data Hub that find performance trends and optimize cycle times.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Work instructions, Visual inspection

Its pages describe smartAR workcells and workstations with integrated 3D sensors, smart cameras and projectors.

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Taqtile ManifestConnected worker and work instructionsNo customer count or funding disclosed on its pages.Suggest an edit"Turn Frontline Expertise into Consistent Execution. Capture expert knowledge with AI-assisted tools. Deliver step-by-step guidance at the moment of work. Verify every job with proof, issue tracking, and structured operational data." Maintenance, inspection and training teams in manufacturing, aerospace and defense build guided work instructions. Manifest's AI turns videos, PDFs and SOPs into a draft procedure with the steps and source images attached.
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Manifest Maker uses AI to extract the steps from a video, PDF or SOP, structure a draft procedure and attach source images and clips to each step, which a person reviews and publishes.

AI capabilities: Work instructions, Maintenance work and troubleshooting

  • 10 Jun 2025 Manifest joins the DigiLens DigiSaaS marketplace
    Manifest, described in the release as an "AI-powered, AR-enabled work instruction platform", became available to organizations on the DigiLens ARGO smart glasses platform through its DigiSaaS marketplace.
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WeeverConnected worker and work instructionsNo customer count or funding disclosed on its pages.Suggest an edit"Replace paper, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools with one platform built for manufacturing." Operations, quality, safety and maintenance teams run digital inspections, 5S audits, autonomous maintenance, sanitation schedules and CCP checks. Weever Radar is an AI layer that watches observations, checks and sign-offs, answers questions about form data and flags what needs attention.
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Weever Radar: an AI assistant in Form Reports that answers questions about submission data with on-the-fly charts, handles follow-up questions and now covers scheduled inspection pass and fail rates, completion and overdue items by asset, shift, type or assignee.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Quality event analysis

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DELMIA OrtemsProduction schedulingOwned by Dassault SystemesSuggest an edit"Deliver the right product at the right time and cost with AI-powered factory orchestration that thrives amid volatility and disruption." Advanced planning and scheduling for plants across long, mid and short horizons, using a virtual twin of machines, materials and workforce. Planners and production managers buy it. Add-on DELMIA Scheduling Intelligence adds machine learning that flags drift from plan.
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A configurable AI-powered optimization engine builds finite-capacity schedules. With DELMIA Scheduling Intelligence it adds machine learning, predictive analytics and AI-assisted decision support that monitor KPIs, detect plan-versus-actual deviations, find root causes and anticipate disruptions.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

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AsprovaProduction schedulingSays 3,300+ sites worldwide with global support across 44 countries on its own English home page; says it is the market leader for production scheduling in Japan.Suggest an editProduction scheduler for plants and job shops. Asprova APS builds finite capacity schedules and plans. Asprova Auto MPS is a master production schedule package that, in its own words, is automated by AI ("AIで時間と人手を要する生産計画業務を自動化"). Its Japanese pages describe a proprietary planning optimization AI called Solver. Planners and production control teams buy it.
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Asprova Auto MPS ships with Solver, which its Japanese page calls a self-developed production plan optimization AI that picks a plan from more than one million candidates. The English pages describe Solver S8 as the scheduling engine and do not use the word AI.

AI capabilities: AI scheduling

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Eyelit APSProduction schedulingOwned by Eyelit TechnologiesSuggest an edit"Eyelit APS keeps your schedule buildable when the plant changes." Advanced planning and scheduling for complex, multi-plant discrete makers in semiconductor, medical device, aerospace and industrial plants. Builds one capacity and constraint model, replans around disruptions and keeps as much of the prior plan as possible. Agent EyeQ adds an agentic AI layer across planning, scheduling and execution.
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Agent EyeQ, an agentic AI engine in Eyelit 10.1, exposes more than 1,700 operations across planning, scheduling and execution as tools. It executes scheduling and planning decisions itself, logs each action, and runs with configurable approvals. It is LLM-agnostic with private and on-premise options.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, AI scheduling

  • 10 Aug 2026 Eyelit launches Agent EyeQ in release 10.1 Agent
    Agent EyeQ exposes more than 1,700 operations across planning, scheduling, MES and quality as tools. It executes scheduling and planning decisions itself, logs every action, and lets customers set how autonomous each agent is.
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MOZARTProduction schedulingCustomers across semiconductor, display, automotive and pharma on its own pages; deployed MOZART systems worldwideSuggest an edit"AI-Powered Production Planning and Scheduling." MOZART from VMS Solutions plans and schedules high-tech and general plants: master planning, demand fulfilment, factory planning and an optimized scheduler with simulation and digital twins. Built on 25 years of semiconductor and display scheduling. Planning and production control teams buy it.
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MOZART 3.0 is described as an AI-native platform that combines scheduling expertise with generative AI and reinforcement learning, with a digital twin based architecture and machine learning for demand and bottleneck analysis.

AI capabilities: AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

  • 31 Mar 2026 VMS Solutions launches MOZART 3.0
    MOZART 3.0 is an AI-native planning platform that joins 25 years of semiconductor-grade scheduling with generative AI and reinforcement learning, a digital twin architecture and cloud or on-premise deployment, now aimed at automotive, electronics, consumer and process plants.
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PlataineProduction schedulingDisclosed base of aerospace, automotive and industrial manufacturers on its own pages; partners include SAP and Microsoft; ISO 27001 certifiedSuggest an edit"Boost factory productivity with Plataine's AI Scheduler Agents." The Production Scheduler builds production plans for aerospace, automotive, composites and industrial plants, tracks plan against actual and re-plans when the floor changes. It sits in the Total Production Optimization (TPO) suite with material, tool and asset agents. Planners, shift managers and material managers use it.
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Named Planning, Scheduling, Material and Asset Agents on the Practimum-Optimum optimization engine and a digital twin. A conversational layer answers questions such as where the bottlenecks are and runs what-if scenarios. Agents also simulate long-term capacity and investment scenarios.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

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akenoProduction schedulingSeed, EUR 4.5M, 2025-05-15Suggest an edit"Autonomous decisions for industrial operations." akeno builds a Live Operations Model of the plant, has AI propose strategies, tests each one against plant history, and turns the chosen one into the live schedule for every line and shift. Built first for chemical and other batch plants. Plant and planning leaders buy it.
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AI agents generate strategies and scenarios, and akeno tests every one on the model of the plants so only what works runs. It adapts plans in real time from machine status, material and capacity data and suggests how to reschedule orders.

AI capabilities: Named agent, AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

  • 15 May 2025 akeno raises EUR 4.5M seed
    Seed round led by Cusp Capital with TS Ventures and another.vc to scale its AI production planning software and enter new industries.
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FlexcitonProduction schedulingSeries A, GBP 15M, 2021-10-22; over GBP 21M raised in totalSuggest an edit"Powering your autonomous factory transition with intelligent planning and scheduling." Flex Planner turns orders into daily wafer start plans, Flex Local schedules lots to tools, and Flex Global connects the local schedulers. Built for semiconductor fabs. Fab managers and industrial engineers buy it.
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AI-driven software that uses mathematical optimization to plan and schedule fabs autonomously, without tuning parameters or rules, and adjusts plans as conditions change.

AI capabilities: AI scheduling

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SCW.AI SchedulerProduction scheduling$10M raised; Series A, $10M, 2022Suggest an edit"AI-Driven Scheduling Solution for Greater Resilience and Profitability." Job shop and labor scheduling for process and pharma plants, with one-click optimization for cost, changeovers and just-in-time delivery, and reports on schedule adherence and OTIF. Part of the SCW.AI digital factory platform. Planners and plant managers buy it.
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AI models generate just-in-time schedules from due dates and shelf-life priority, algorithms minimize changeovers, and one-click Optimize finds near-optimal schedules for cost, changeovers and just-in-time delivery. The Scheduler also shows whether each line has too many or too few workers.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, AI scheduling

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ZentioProduction schedulingPre-seed, EUR 1.4M, 2025-12-11Suggest an edit"Zentio is the agentic manufacturing OS." Planning and scheduling is its lead area: a scheduling agent plans orders across machines, people, materials and tooling, and a stopped machine or rush order triggers a new draft. Shop floor, workforce and knowledge areas share the same model. Planners and plant managers buy it.
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An assistant called Zen answers questions such as whether a rush order fits Friday's plan and simulates sequences. A scheduling agent builds drafts on the Agentic Twin, and replans at an autonomy level the customer chooses, automatic or with approval.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

  • 11 Dec 2025 Zentio raises EUR 1.4M pre-seed
    Pre-seed round led by HTGF with SI Ventures to build AI-native production planning and scheduling for European manufacturers.
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DriveX Smart Production PlanningProduction schedulingEarly-stage round, about US$1.15M (reported as roughly $950,000 in the same article), 2026-10Suggest an edit"生産計画AIスケジューラ「スマート生産計画」" (Smart Production Planning, an AI production planning scheduler). It connects to ERP and Excel as they are and builds plans that balance load and meet due dates, without changing how the floor works. Production planners at Japanese manufacturers buy it.
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An AI production planning tool that creates plans automatically from ERP and Excel data, balancing load and due dates. A trade report says it reads Excel, CSV and PDF order data and builds schedules that satisfy equipment, staffing and workflow constraints.

AI capabilities: AI scheduling

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nMetricProduction schedulingNo funding or customer count disclosedSuggest an edit"nMetric's patented AI Genetic Algorithm technology solves age-old scheduling problems." A scheduling application with a genetic algorithm engine, configurable Gantt, task tracking, scenarios and business intelligence for high-mix, multi-project plants. Schedulers and operations managers buy it.
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A patented genetic algorithm scheduling engine that, in its words, learns from your preferences to build the best schedule, with Smart Scenarios to compare alternatives.

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ProplannerProduction schedulingOwned by AdvantiveSuggest an edit"Proplanner: Connected assembly planning, enhanced by AI." Assembly process planning, line balancing and work instructions with an Advanced Planning and Scheduling module for unit and order sequencing and daily or weekly scheduling on synchronized assembly lines. Manufacturing engineers and production planners buy it. Part of Advantive.
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AIVA, a natural-language assistant, answers questions from live Proplanner data. Advantive ONE, the intelligence layer, flags where an engineering change may hit labor, sequencing or part delivery before it reaches the floor.

AI capabilities: Assistant, AI scheduling

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Skody AIProduction schedulingNo funding or customer count disclosed; offers ITAR-ready Gov Cloud and SOC 2 Type IISuggest an edit"AI-Powered Production Scheduling for High-Mix Manufacturers." Finite scheduling for job shops and CNC, fabrication and metal shops. It turns open orders, routings, machines, people and due dates into a feasible sequence, recomputes it as the floor changes and explains why orders are late. Works beside an existing ERP such as ProShop, Fulcrum or SYSPRO. Schedulers and shop owners buy it.
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AI Scheduler builds and recomputes the whole shop schedule across machines, qualified people and materials, flags delivery risk early, and a Lights-Out Optimizer plans unattended machining. Planners review and override.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, AI scheduling

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TaktoraProduction schedulingOwn hardwareNothing disclosed on its pages beyond a founder bioSuggest an edit"Line Scheduling on Autopilot." Production scheduling for filling and molding lines at small and mid-size packaged goods makers. It builds a schedule that accounts for changeovers, material availability and priorities, and reschedules when machines stop or rush orders arrive. Reads POs, invoices and Excel files into jobs. Schedulers and plant managers buy it.
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An AI agent layer translates production constraints into schedules on the Google OR-Tools CP-SAT solver, an AI planning assistant answers questions, and AI extracts job details from emailed or uploaded purchase orders and invoices.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, AI scheduling

Vision Synchronization module ($500 per line per month) requires cameras installed on the line by its team; the site calls it 'our camera system'.

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Aspen GDOTIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationOwned by EmersonSuggest an editAspen GDOT is sold as "Integrate Planning, Scheduling + Advanced Process Control in Closed Loop with Industrial AI". It delivers 24x7 dynamic real-time optimization for refining and olefins plants across multiple units. Models adapt in closed loop through dynamic data reconciliation, and AVA Advisor gives operators and engineers guidance on demand.
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AVA Advisor in Aspen GDOT is an AI advisor for plant-wide optimization. Automatic model adaptation updates models in closed loop. Model templates and industrial AI simplify model building and unit optimization. Aspen DMC3 is AI-enabled adaptive process control.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Process optimization

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AspenTech AVAIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationOwned by EmersonSuggest an editAspenTech AVA is an agentic, domain-aware AI platform for process industries, sold with four operational optimization and decision-support advisors. Inside Aspen GDOT it is a "24/7 AI-powered Advisor" that explains optimization decisions and constraints and answers operator questions within GDOT guardrails.
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AVA pairs first-principles models with large language models. It advises operators and engineers in natural language on planning (Aspen PIMS), adaptive control (Aspen DMC3) and GDOT optimization, and users can try it at a web site AspenTech runs for it.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Process optimization

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FactoryTalk AnalyticsIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationRockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) is a public companySuggest an editRockwell sells FactoryTalk Analytics as "an analytics platform for achieving your industrial outcomes" for OEE, downtime, quality and yield. Plant engineers and operators use its AI products: LogixAI builds machine learning models that predict process variables, GuardianAI watches asset condition, VisionAI inspects products from cameras, and PavilionX runs model predictive control. FactoryTalk Metrics covers OEE.
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LogixAI is "data-scientist-in-a-box" automated machine learning that builds and maintains models to predict key process variables. GuardianAI gives continuous condition-based monitoring and the probable cause of failure. VisionAI is a no-code vision inspection product. PavilionX is an intelligence layer for model predictive control.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance, Process optimization, Visual inspection

  • 10 Aug 2026 FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI adds VisionStream and VisionLink Agent
    VisionStream learns the normal look of a product from live production data, so teams do not label images by hand to start. VisionLink adds AI inspection to existing cameras and vision systems. Inspection results can feed control and supervision systems for automatic corrective action in a closed loop.
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Honeywell Forge Plant CognitionIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationHoneywell Technologies (NASDAQ: HON) is a public companySuggest an editHoneywell describes Forge Plant Cognition as "an industrial AI platform" for refining, petrochemical and LNG operators. Operators and process engineers use it to find performance constraints, spot equipment and process issues early, and act on them. It combines real-time operating data, process engineering knowledge and physics-based models with AI agents and a plant digital twin.
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NVIDIA Nemotron models power agents that interpret operational data, and NVIDIA Cosmos models with the Metropolis VSS Blueprint power vision AI agents for real-time alerts. Honeywell says the platform adds trusted calculations and physics-based models, and recommends corrective actions.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization, Digital twin and simulation

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MakinaRocksIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationListed on KOSDAQ in May 2026; first-half 2026 revenue of USD 5.0 million, up 168%.Suggest an editMakinaRocks sells "Transforming Industries with Specialized AI" to automotive, defense, heavy industry and manufacturing teams. Runway is an enterprise AI operating system that runs AI in production. Its specialized agents cover expert augmentation, control, predictive operations and machine vision. DrawX is an AI workspace for engineering drawings.
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Runway is an AI operating system for building and running AI. Specialized AI agents named on the site: Expert Augmentation, Control, Predictive Operations and Machine Vision. A robot prognostics system forecasts equipment failures up to five days ahead.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization, Visual inspection

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Siemens Industrial CopilotIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationOwned by Siemens AGSuggest an editSiemens sells Industrial Copilot, a "Generative AI assistant that generates code, diagnoses faults" and answers in natural language across engineering and operations. For the plant, the Operations Copilot gives operators and maintenance engineers machine data and error-resolution help, and Siemens adds industrial AI agents behind its copilots.
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Operations Copilot gives plant-wide insights and lets shop-floor staff query machine data and get error-resolution guidance in natural language. Planning Copilot covers production planning and scheduling. Maintenance Copilot Senseye gives equipment diagnostics. An orchestrator runs specialized industrial AI agents behind the copilots.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, AI scheduling

  • 14 Jan 2026 Siemens plans nine new copilots, including one for Opcenter announced
    At CES 2026 Siemens said it will deploy nine new AI copilots across its software, including Teamcenter, Polarion and Opcenter, available on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace.
  • 12 May 2025 Siemens introduces industrial AI agents behind its copilots Agent announced
    Siemens introduced industrial AI agents that run behind its Industrial Copilots, with an orchestrator for specialized agents and a planned agent marketplace on Siemens Xcelerator. The copilots named are Design, Planning, Engineering, Operations and Services (Senseye).
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BraincubeIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSeries B, EUR 84M, 2023Suggest an editBraincube sells "Industrial AI for Real-Time Process Optimization" to process manufacturers. Engineers and plant leaders use it to find the process variables and operating conditions that matter right now, and operators get Digital Assistants that help them follow new set points. It runs in pulp and paper, building materials, tires, food and beverage, and mining and metals.
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CrossRank AI pinpoints cost-saving opportunities and real-time insights into operational inefficiencies. Real-Time Process Optimization updates operating targets as conditions change. Companion AI, launched April 2026, turns a plain-language question into the matching Braincube analysis and chart.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, Process optimization

  • 30 Apr 2026 Braincube launches Companion AI, a natural-language interface
    Companion AI builds the matching Braincube analysis from a plain-language question, such as moisture against oven temperature over the last 8 hours. It runs on each customer's own Braincube environment and production data and produces real charts, not text guesses.
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Fero LabsIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationNames steelmaker customers and quotes them on its site; offices in New York, Pittsburgh and Duesseldorf; sold through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.Suggest an editFero sells process software to steel, chemicals, oil and gas, cement and consumer goods plants. Its headline is "The Fero Suite: AI to resolve process issues faster". Process engineers use white-box machine learning to find root causes, test setpoints in a simulator and keep a process in spec. A Saw Optimizer calculates cut sequences for each billet in real time.
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Fero Diagnostics finds root causes of process issues. Fero Simulator finds setpoints that fix issues without waste. Fero Production is AI optimization that engineers and operators control to stay in spec. Fero Foundation prepares data and maps the process. The models are white-box and explain each adjustment.

AI capabilities: Data contextualization, Production analytics, Process optimization, Digital twin and simulation

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ImubitIndustrial AI agents and process optimization100+ closed-loop controllers and 300+ applications deployed worldwide; 13 approved US patents; ARC named it a Leader in its 2026 MarketMap for Autonomous Execution Agents.Suggest an editImubit sells "Physical AI that closes the loop on your plant" to refining, chemicals, cement and mining plants. It maps the gap between plan and plant, models cause and effect from plant history, and controls recurring decisions in closed loop. Control runs on top of an existing APC or directly on the DCS, inside limits engineers set, and operators can take over at any time.
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Map traces plan-to-plant gaps to recurring decisions. Model builds nonlinear, dynamic process models on plant history (Deep Learning Predictor). Control runs AI controllers that execute key decisions in closed loop. DLPC Builder lets process engineers build unit models without Python.

AI capabilities: Process optimization, Digital twin and simulation

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Oden TechnologiesIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationShows customer logos and publishes case studies; offices in New York and the UK.Suggest an editOden sells "Leading AI-Driven Software for the Manufacturing Front-Line": Process AI gives operators real-time process-setting recommendations to raise output, improve quality, cut cost and reduce downtime. Forge AI agents act as a command center, and Factory Analytics and a Data Engine handle reporting, cleaning and context.
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Process AI makes AI-enabled predictions and recommendations for front-line operators. Forge AI agents are "a command center for your data-driven, automated, & connected operations". Agentic root cause analysis combines LLM reasoning, conventional machine learning, site knowledge and statistical checks to surface early warning signs.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, Production execution, Production analytics, Process optimization

  • 15 Oct 2026 Oden introduces agentic root cause analysis Agent announced
    Agentic root cause analysis combines LLM reasoning, conventional machine learning, site-specific knowledge and statistical checks to surface early warning signs of production failures, with a playbook of setpoint adjustments and work instructions for each root cause.
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SymphonyAI IRIS FoundryIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationCustomer logos from manufacturing and energy shown on its page; vendor-stated results include 50% less downtime.Suggest an editSymphonyAI sells predictive, generative and agentic AI to manufacturers under the headline "Operational efficiency. Unlocked by AI. Proven at scale." IRIS Foundry joins IT, OT and edge data, adds natural-language copilots and recommendations, and runs apps for predictive asset intelligence, connected workers, vision and plant insights.
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Named agents include the Intelligent Factory Agent, Industrial Data Exploration and Investigation Agent, Manufacturing Digital Twin Agent and Frontline Worker Agent. Copilots answer plain-language questions. An MCP server connects IRIS Foundry to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Work instructions, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance, Visual inspection

  • 7 Oct 2026 SymphonyAI releases IRIS Foundry 2.0 Agent
    The release adds a Cortex knowledge graph, a Cortex Agent in Copilot that traces each answer to its tag, document and work order, workflows a user describes in plain language, a library of apps and agents, and ML Studio models such as Remaining Useful Life.
  • 20 Apr 2026 SymphonyAI launches eight industrial AI apps for energy operators Agent announced
    Apps include rotating equipment failure prediction, a refinery yield and margin optimizer and pipeline leak detection, built on IRIS Foundry with IRIS Forge; the release says failures are predicted up to 30 days ahead and work orders triggered.
  • 16 Sep 2025 SymphonyAI brings IRIS Foundry to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot announced
    IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams connects through the Model Context Protocol, so users ask plain-language questions in Copilot and trigger workflows from Teams.
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TwinThreadIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationAVEVA announced an agreement to acquire it (pending regulatory approval); pre-built solutions named on its site.Suggest an editTwinThread sells an industrial AI platform to manufacturers built on an "Industrial AI triad of Predictive, Prescriptive, and Generative AI". Pre-built solutions cover quality, batch, production, energy, uptime and asset reliability. Operators and engineers get ranked anomalies, an AI Advisor chat assistant and next-best-action recommendations.
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Digital agents connect to plant data. An AI Engine and Model Factory build models. TwinThread Advisor is a generative AI chat assistant. Anomaly Action Center ranks anomalies by persistence and distance from operating limits and applies alert rules.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

  • 8 Oct 2026 TwinThread launches Anomaly Action Center Always-on
    The solution ranks anomalies from asset health and process models by persistence and distance from operating limits and attaches cases and notebooks when alert rules fire.
  • 20 Oct 2025 TwinThread launches Advisor, a generative AI assistant preview
    Advisor answers operations questions in plain language, shows asset and process health, builds analyses and reports, and never alters data, workflows or setpoints without user approval. It starts as a free early-access preview.
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Arch SystemsIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationInvestment from Vistara Growth, $30M, 2026-09-15Suggest an edit"Agentic AI that performs like a factory expert." Arch Systems collects data from machines, MES and ERP, including legacy PLCs, into the Arch Data Twin, then runs always-on agents that investigate defects, downtime and parameter deviations and send guided actions to operators, shift leaders and engineers. Electronics, aerospace, defense and automotive factories use it.
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Arch AI works around the clock. Agents investigate every defect, downtime event and parameter deviation, find root cause and deliver role-specific guided actions. A quality defect investigation agent won a 2026 Mexico Technology Award.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, Production execution, Production analytics, Quality event analysis

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BasetwoIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationLife sciences readySeries A, $11.5M, 2025-01-23Suggest an editBasetwo sells "Your agentic platform for scale up tech transfer quality" to process development and manufacturing teams in pharma, chemicals and personal care. Hybrid models built on mass balance, kinetics and transport predict performance at the target scale, cut trial batches, flag process drift and speed root-cause analysis.
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A Basetwo agent prepares, transforms and analyzes process data. Hybrid Modeling builds digital twins from first principles (mass balance, kinetics, transport) plus machine learning. Apps and dashboards run what-if scenarios and watch for drift. The vendor says it cuts a 60-run design-space study to 12 experiments.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production analytics, Process optimization, Quality event analysis, Digital twin and simulation

Its own pages state support for FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+ and GMP-validated workflows.

  • 4 Nov 2025 NS Solutions becomes Basetwo's distributor in Japan
    NS Solutions is Basetwo's authorized distributor in Japan and will offer the digital twin platform to Japanese manufacturers, with seminars and proof-of-concept projects.
  • 24 Jul 2025 Basetwo leads AI for a Canada-UK bioreactor project
    Basetwo supplies the AI for BALANCE, a 20-month project that builds a closed-loop AI control system on its digital twin technology to adjust bioprocess conditions in real time. A $2M grant funds the project.
  • 20 Jun 2025 Basetwo adds Process Verification
    Users can compare simulated batch behavior with historical production data to find deviations, anomalies and unexpected shifts in key process variables.
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CerrionIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSeries A, $18M, 2025-11-25Suggest an editCerrion sells "Eliminate production losses with Video AI Agents" to glass packaging, beverage, food, consumer goods, tableware and wood plants. Agents watch factory cameras and act in real time: sound an alert, stop a machine section, reject a product or send a Teams message.
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Video AI agents spot process deviations, quality issues and safety risks on live production lines and trigger actions such as machine section stop, permanent reject, screen alert and Teams message.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Visual inspection

  • 25 Nov 2025 Cerrion raises $18M Series A
    Creandum led the round, with Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session VC, to scale its video AI agent platform in factories.
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CVectorIndustrial AI agents and process optimization$6.5M raised; Seed, $5M, 2026-01-26Suggest an editCVector sells "Act on margin opportunities in real time" to chemicals and industrial gases, dispatchable power, and metals and foundries plants. Solutions cover plant margin optimization, energy management, asset health and custom model integration. It gives real-time recommendations for production decisions and learns from operator behavior.
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An AI-native platform recommends production decisions from feedstocks, operating metrics, customer demand, control system and market data. It uses agent skills and models, ranks recommendations by expected economic impact and learns from operator accept, reject or adjust decisions.

AI capabilities: Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

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ManevaIndustrial AI agents and process optimization$38.4M raised; Series A, $27M, 2026-06Suggest an editManeva sells "Video-to-Action AI Powering Industrial Operations" with the line "Other systems alert. Ours act." VITA detects defects, mislabels and machine issues from camera feeds. ALIS is an AI line supervisor for safety and efficiency. Both can act in real time, such as triggering a reject arm.
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VITA flags defects, label errors, packaging quality and machine issues. ALIS flags PPE gaps, restricted-zone entries and unsafe pacing and monitors line efficiency. Models work with existing cameras or off-the-shelf models and support X-ray, infrared and thermal imaging.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Visual inspection

  • Jun 2026 Maneva raises $27M Series A
    U.S. Venture Partners led the round with Bling Capital and Freestyle Capital; $38.4M raised in total.
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Manex AIIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSeed, EUR 8M, 2025-06-04Suggest an editManex AI, from Munich, sells "The First Production System for Autonomous Manufacturing": Blackbelt for quality, Takt for execution and Gemba for the shop floor, all on Kosmos, its agent orchestration platform. Agents work on unified plant context and tacit knowledge, and the suites connect to or replace existing systems.
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Kosmos is an "Autonomous Agent Orchestration Platform" that models plant domains and extracts tacit knowledge so agents, workflows and apps act like domain experts. Its manufacturing optimization agents trace issues to their root cause.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, Production execution, Quality event analysis

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Nexxa.aiIndustrial AI agents and process optimization$14M raised; Seed, $9M, 2026-01-21Suggest an editNexxa sells NitroOS, "the orchestration layer built for industrial companies". It runs on top of the tools industrial engineers and operators already use and builds multi-agent systems that plan and manage engineering and operational tasks. Its focus is heavy industry.
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NitroOS suggests and builds industrial-grade multi-agent systems. The company describes an Agentic Neural Network and a commitment called Protocol Zero for safe industrial autonomy.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant

  • 21 Jan 2026 Nexxa.ai raises $9M seed
    Construct Capital led the seed with a16z speedrun, to build AI agents for heavy industry engineering and operations.
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thingtraxIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationPre-Series A, £4.3M, 2023-07-20Suggest an edit"Agentic Manufacturing Operations Platform." Cameras on the line feed AI agents that count output, inspect quality and verify labels in food and beverage plants. A shared orchestration layer coordinates the agents and ties into a built-in line efficiency platform or existing enterprise systems.
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Out-of-the-box AI agents: Counting Agent, Quality Inspection Agent and Label Verification Agent. They observe the line, reason over live conditions and trigger actions, coordinated by an orchestration layer. Custom agents are listed as coming soon.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Production execution, Visual inspection

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TVARITIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSeries A, EUR 6.5M, 2023-11-01Suggest an editTVARIT sells "The Zero Waste Vision for Manufacturing" to metal and process plants. TVARIT Industrial AI (TiA) fuses domain-knowledge equations with AI models. Prescriptive Quality and Prescriptive Energy modules recommend settings; further solutions cover predictive maintenance and production planning.
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TiA is a hybrid AI approach with transfer learning across machines. Prescriptive Quality and Prescriptive Energy modules cover defects, yield and energy; named solutions include aluminum coil quality, Bayer process quality and milling predictive maintenance.

AI capabilities: Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

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UptimeAIIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationSeries A, US$14M, 2024-07-15Suggest an editUptimeAI "provides AI reasoning agents that help industrial operations teams make goal-oriented, real-time, optimal decisions." Reliability and operations teams in oil and gas, power, chemicals, cement and metals use four agents: Root Cause, Maintenance Optimization, Process Optimization and HAZOP Analysis. They run on cloud or on-premises and use the plant's existing industrial data.
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Four AI Reasoning Agents diagnose root causes, recommend specific actions, optimize maintenance and process settings, and prepare HAZOP studies, and they learn from outcomes. UptimeAI says they go beyond anomaly detection to 24/7 decision support.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization, Quality event analysis

  • 25 Mar 2026 UptimeAI launches four AI Reasoning Agents Agent
    The Root Cause, Maintenance Optimization, Process Optimization and HAZOP Analysis agents diagnose causes, recommend actions and keep learning from outcomes. UptimeAI unveiled them at CERAWeek and says they are available now, deployable in weeks on cloud or on-premises.
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AitomaticIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationNo customer count or funding disclosed on its pages.Suggest an editAitomatic sells "Digital Engineers for Physical Industry". DanaOS is its governed platform to build and run domain-expert agents for building, process, semiconductor, grid, mining, oil and gas and maritime operations. Cognitive and structural ontologies hold expert knowledge and asset maps.
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Dana is a domain-aware neurosymbolic technology family. DanaOS has Dana Factory (builds intelligence), Dana Runtime (governs it in production) and Dana Assurance (qualifies changes). Operational Packs target specific industries.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization

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AMESAIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationBlue-chip industrial customers are cited without a count; no funding disclosed.Suggest an editAMESA sells AutonomyStack: "Orchestrate teams of agents to optimize your enterprise". Industrial teams use no-code Autonomy Studio to turn expertise and operating data into agent teams, set goals and constraints, train with human feedback and deploy on cloud, on-premises or edge. It focuses on industrial process control and supply chain operations.
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AutonomyStack builds, trains, validates and deploys modular autonomous agent teams. Autonomy Studio has no-code agent and team design, goal and constraint setting, 60+ tools, a CLI and API, and an MCP server for coding agents. AMESA Agent Cloud runs training as a managed service.

AI capabilities: Named agent, MCP or agent API, Process optimization

  • 10 Nov 2026 AMESA partners with Viridien for HPC behind AMESA Agent Cloud
    Viridien supplies the managed high-performance computing for AMESA Agent Cloud; AMESA reports 10x to 30x faster agent training in its own testing.
  • 27 Oct 2026 AMESA launches AutonomyStack Agent
    AutonomyStack builds, trains, validates and deploys modular autonomous agent teams for industrial process control and supply chains, with Autonomy Studio, AMESA Compute and AMESA Connect.
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Quartic.aiIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationVendor-stated results only; offices in San Jose, Toronto and Bengaluru; no customer count or funding disclosed.Suggest an editQuartic sells "Decision Intelligence for Manufacturing Operations Management" to life sciences, chemicals, consumer goods and food and beverage plants. iLuminator connects OT and IT data. eXponence applies multivariate analysis, machine learning and optimization in apps for process optimization, reliability, batch analysis and automated PAT.
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eXponence is industrial intelligence that uses MVDA, machine learning and optimization. Applications named on the site: Process Optimizer, Reliability, Batch MVDA, PD Optimizer and Automated PAT. The vendor reports 15% higher process yield and 30% fewer investigations.

AI capabilities: Data contextualization, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Process optimization

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XMProIndustrial AI agents and process optimizationNo customer count or funding disclosed; named in several 2026 Gartner reports as a sample vendor.Suggest an editXMPro sells "The AI Platform for Governed Autonomous Industrial Operations". APEX governs agent teams that act within bounded authority, and MAGS (Multi-Agent Generative Systems) is the agent layer. Real-time causal AI ranks likely drivers of an anomaly, and front-running simulation tests operating changes before any plant change.
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XMPro MAGS runs Cognitive Decision Teams with a recorded Decision Trace for each step. An AI Advisor answers questions about asset conditions and recommendations. Front-running simulation tests candidate changes first. Stream Designer adds forecasting and anomaly detection steps.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Data contextualization, Production analytics, Predictive maintenance, Digital twin and simulation

  • 20 Jul 2026 XMPro says APEX and MAGS are available immediately
    XMPro was named a sample vendor for agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Manufacturing, 2026, and said its APEX platform and MAGS framework are available immediately for governed multi-agent systems.
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DELMIA Virtual Twin for ManufacturingDigital twins and simulationOwned by Dassault SystemesSuggest an editDassault Systemes sells this DELMIA line to manufacturing engineers who "visualize, simulate and optimize your manufacturing with a real-time virtual twin that goes beyond the digital twin". It models production, plant layout, operations and logistics. The twin is "enhanced by generative AI", and DELMIA lists named AI agents such as a Factory Layout Agent and a Scenario Simulation Agent.
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The virtual twin is "enhanced by generative AI". DELMIA AI agents (Virtual Companions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform) include a Factory Layout Agent that drafts layouts from plain-language requirements or sketches, a Scenario Simulation Agent that tests changes in the twin, and an Operations Monitoring Agent.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Digital twin and simulation

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Siemens Tecnomatix Plant SimulationDigital twins and simulationProduct line of Siemens AG, a public company.Suggest an editSiemens sells Plant Simulation to production and industrial engineers who model material flow, layouts and logistics before they change a line. The page says "Simulate and validate production and logistics" and shows experiment tools with "automated system optimization via genetic algorithms" and "integrated neural networks". Plant Simulation Copilot is an AI assistant that writes and fixes the SimTalk code behind a model.
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Plant Simulation Copilot is "an AI-powered assistant" that helps users "develop and correct SimTalk code with AI-assisted, syntax-validated suggestions", grounded in Plant Simulation documentation, and works with several LLM providers. The product also embeds neural networks and genetic-algorithm optimization.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Digital twin and simulation

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Siemens Tecnomatix Process SimulateDigital twins and simulationProduct line of Siemens AG, a public company.Suggest an editSiemens sells Process Simulate to manufacturing engineers who verify assembly, robotics, offline programs and virtual commissioning in 3D. The page says "Verify manufacturing processes in 3D environments". Process Simulate Copilot takes natural-language requests, checks robot reachability, diagnoses failed downloads, suggests cycle-time gains and, in release 2606, runs simulation agents that build robotic paths.
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Process Simulate Copilot is described as an "onboard AI assistant". In Tecnomatix 2606 "simulation agents automate complex tasks", including robotic path creation, 2D sketch to 3D layout conversion and pick sequence optimization. A photo of a worker at a station feeds an AI ergonomic risk check.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Digital twin and simulation

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AnyLogicDigital twins and simulationVendor says AnyLogic is used by "thousands of commercial organizations and academic institutions, including over 40% of Fortune 100 companies".Suggest an editAnyLogic is a general-purpose simulation tool that industrial engineers use to model production lines, plants and supply chains with discrete event, agent and system dynamics methods. The site calls it a "State-of-the-art general-purpose simulation ecosystem for applied AI". The AnyLogic AI Assistant builds draft models from a plain description, and models can train and test reinforcement learning agents.
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The AI Assistant in AnyLogic 8.9.10 can "build simple models from a vague description of the process", describe complex models, suggest improvements and explain errors, using an outside LLM or one hosted on a private network. Models also train agents with reinforcement learning and embed ML models through ONNX.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Digital twin and simulation

  • 12 Oct 2026 AnyLogic 8.9.10 adds an AI Assistant
    The AI Assistant builds simple models from a vague process description, describes complex models, suggests improvements and explains errors. Use is free up to a token limit, and it can connect to outside or privately hosted LLMs.
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KognitwinDigital twins and simulationOwned by KONGSBERGSuggest an editFalkor (formerly Kongsberg Digital) sells Kognitwin, an "advanced digital twin solution" that gives operations teams at asset-heavy sites one work surface for monitoring and managing workflows around the clock. Its current sectors are energy, utilities, renewables and chemicals. An AI-driven Asset Copilot and a team of AI agents analyze data and tune workflows.
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An AI-driven "Asset Copilot" works as a digital partner by text, voice or visuals, and "a team of AI agents" analyze data and optimize workflows. Machine learning is combined with physics-based simulation for monitoring, predictions and scenario modelling.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics, Digital twin and simulation

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SimioDigital twins and simulationOwned by Aegis SoftwareSuggest an edit"Transform Your Operations with Intelligent Digital Twin Simulation." Simio builds discrete event simulation models of plants and runs them as an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) tool for risk-based dynamic scheduling, plus an AI optimization option. Process engineers and planners buy it. Part of Aegis Software since January 2026.
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"Simio includes two MCP servers", one for its documentation and one for the open model, so an AI assistant of the user's choice can generate model logic, explain models and run experiments. "Simio supports training, testing, and embedding Deep Neural Network agents" and ONNX regression models in digital twin models.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API, AI scheduling, Digital twin and simulation

  • 23 Sep 2026 Simio adds built-in MCP support for generative AI tools
    Aegis announced built-in Model Context Protocol support in Simio Release 20.294 or later. Teams can connect Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode or other MCP tools to explain models, troubleshoot errors, run experiments and ask which orders finished late and why.
  • 27 Jan 2026 Aegis Software completes acquisition of Simio
    Aegis Software, an MES provider, finished buying Simio, which sells digital twin simulation and advanced planning and scheduling software. Simio's founder stays a shareholder.
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Prevu3DDigital twins and simulationStrategic investment, $5M, 2026-03-09Suggest an editPrevu3D sells the "Reality Platform built for industrial scale" that turns 3D scans of plants into digital twins for engineering, operations and maintenance teams. Its AI article shows agents reading tags to identify assets and rebuilding a scan as CAD in demos, and the platform connects to outside AI agents through MCP.
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Through MCP (Model Context Protocol), RealityPlatform "makes captured environments available to AI agents as context". The vendor demos agents that read a label or tag number to identify and enrich an asset and that rebuild an industrial scene as CAD in about 24 hours, using general-purpose models. Workbench, "Prevu3D's new AI workspace", shows what the AI identified and lets users re-prompt it.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Data contextualization, MCP or agent API, Digital twin and simulation

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RIIICODigital twins and simulationSeed, $5M, 2025-06-11Suggest an editRIIICO sells a browser platform that turns LiDAR scans of existing factories into 3D digital twins for factory planning and retrofit teams. The site says "Bridge reality and factory design with 3D AI" and "Our AI creates a 3D model of every factory object", ready for simulation. Teams compare retrofit scenarios before they change anything on site.
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"Our AI creates a 3D model of every factory object, pre-classified and ready to use." The AI detects machines, equipment and building infrastructure in LiDAR scans and builds the factory twin used for simulation.

AI capabilities: Data contextualization, Digital twin and simulation

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Manufacturing ERP and MRP9

Epicor KineticManufacturing ERP and MRPOwned by Clayton Dubilier & Rice (agreed to buy Epicor from KKR in 2020, per Panorama Consulting)Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editEpicor's ERP for discrete manufacturers, with production scheduling, MRP and shop floor modules. The plant-facing AI is Epicor Prism: an MRP Log Agent that "analyzes MRP output logs so users can better understand why MRP recommendations were made" and a Reasoning Agent that answers questions such as why a production line is behind schedule. Epicor also showed agents that resequence shop floor jobs. Buyers are production planners, plant managers and IT leads.
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Epicor Prism agents inside Kinetic: the MRP Log Agent explains why MRP made a recommendation, the Reasoning Agent joins ERP data, documents and context to explain delays, and the Knowledge Agent answers how-to questions. Epicor showed shop floor job resequencing on live supply signals at Insights 2026. The agents need Kinetic Cloud.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics

  • 26 May 2026 Epicor shows agents that resequence shop floor jobs preview
    An analyst note on Insights 2026 says Epicor ran live demos of agents that resequence shop floor jobs on live supply signals, and that the shop floor replanning is cloud-only.
  • 20 May 2026 Epicor adds MRP Log Agent and Reasoning Agent to Prism
    At Insights 2026 Epicor added Prism agents including an MRP Log Agent that analyzes MRP output logs so users can understand why MRP recommended an order, and a Reasoning Agent that synthesizes ERP data, documents and context.
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Infor CloudSuite IndustrialManufacturing ERP and MRPOwned by Koch IndustriesAlso on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editInfor's ERP for industrial manufacturers with a built-in MES. Infor sells the MES to "empower shop floor users with real-time data, visibility, and control" and says users can "use AI to easily analyze manufacturing data". In 2026 the Infor Industry AI Agents added a Manufacturing Agent that finds constraints on throughput, quality and delivery and a Quality Inspection Agent that starts containment. Buyers are plant, quality and operations leaders at machinery and metalworking makers.
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Infor Industry AI Agents on the Velocity Suite, including a Manufacturing Agent and a Quality Inspection Agent that "initiates containment". AI in the MES analyzes manufacturing data. The agents work inside governed approval workflows.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Quality event analysis

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain ManagementManufacturing ERP and MRPOwned by MicrosoftAlso on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editMicrosoft's ERP module for manufacturers, with shop floor execution, production scheduling, quality management and Asset Management for maintenance. Microsoft says it can "improve quality and throughput and reduce downtime by proactively managing the shop floor with real-time production views". On the maintenance side it lists sensor data intelligence with AI-powered anomaly detection and AI guidance for maintenance workers. Buyers are plant, maintenance and supply chain teams at mid-size to large manufacturers.
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The product page lists "sensor data intelligence and AI-powered anomaly detection to drive proactive maintenance and improve OEE" and "AI guidance" for maintenance workers on mobile. Copilot and custom agents built in Copilot Studio work across the product. The Supplier Communication and Procurement agents are not plant floor features.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Maintenance work and troubleshooting, Predictive maintenance

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Acumatica Manufacturing EditionManufacturing ERP and MRPCloud ERP vendor with a disclosed customer base; Acumatica says 3,000+ Community members attended Summit 2026.Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editAcumatica's cloud ERP for mid-market manufacturers: "manage planning, production, and shop floor workflows in one system". It has a Shop Floor Kiosk for operators and an Advanced Planning and Scheduling engine that schedules to the minute with finite or infinite capacity per work center. The AI Assistant answers plain-language questions on material readiness, production order risk and schedule status. Buyers are production managers and operations leaders.
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AI Assistant with manufacturing generic inquiries: which production orders are running late, which are at risk, what materials to stage at each work center. AI Studio and AI Automation build prompt-driven workflows, and MCP servers connect outside AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to governed Acumatica data. The APS engine itself is not described as AI.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

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ProShop ERPManufacturing ERP and MRPProShop says 700+ precision manufacturers run on it; no funding published.Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editERP, QMS and MES for precision machine shops. ProShop's headline is "Chip is the AI built for precision manufacturing. Every job teaches the next one." Chip runs inside ProShop and flags "expedited jobs, overloaded machines, late materials, and shrinking margins", guides each operator with setup steps, inspection points and notes from the last run, and supports what-if scheduling. Buyers are owners, schedulers and quality leads at CNC, aerospace, defense and medical shops.
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Chip, a native AI that learns from every completed job: it surfaces cycle times to schedulers and operators, flags capacity risks and schedule conflicts before the planner commits a change, guides operators with notes from previous runs, and lets any team member query shop data in plain language.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, Work instructions, AI scheduling

  • 24 Jun 2026 ProShop unveils Chip, an AI for precision machine shops announced
    ProShop unveiled Chip at its Cutting Edge virtual summit. Chip runs inside ProShop, flags schedule conflicts before a planner commits a change, guides operators with notes from previous runs and lets any team member query shop data in plain language.
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SYSPROManufacturing ERP and MRPEstablished vendor with ~50 years in the market; Syspro reports double-digit ARR growth in 2025 and 26 elite partners (own year-in-review).Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editSyspro sells manufacturing operations management (MOM), "a purpose-built MES solution" with finite capacity scheduling, shop floor data collection and OEE with the Six Big Losses, alongside its ERP. The AI is Syspro Torque, an agent platform that watches orders, the production schedule and supplier data and can reschedule a station or run, plus machine learning for maintenance and scheduling and the Sidekick assistant. Buyers are plant and operations leaders at mid-sized manufacturers.
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Syspro Torque: agents that detect problems, recommend the next step and take approved action, connected to MES, SCADA and warehouse systems through MCP, in a controlled availability program. Machine learning for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection on quality and production scheduling, and Sidekick, an AI knowledge assistant inside the product.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Production analytics, MCP or agent API, Predictive maintenance, AI scheduling

  • 2 Sep 2026 Syspro launches Torque, an industrial AI agent platform Agent beta
    Syspro Torque detects operational problems, recommends the next step and takes approved action inside the systems manufacturers already run, and connects to ERP, production and shop floor systems through MCP. It runs in a controlled availability program ahead of general availability.
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FulcrumManufacturing ERP and MRP$39.9M raised; Series A2, $18M, closed 2023-05 (announced 2023-08-09)Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editCloud ERP, MRP and shop floor software for job shops. Its Autoschedule "continually parses your production data and creates the most optimal schedule in seconds, adjusting to priority changes on the fly", and live job tracking feeds it. The AI is Archie: chat on live shop data that can show which jobs are at risk this week and can change a due date or add a job note, plus Builder, which makes apps from a typed request. Buyers are shop owners and production managers.
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Archie Chat answers questions on live shop data and can change a due date, leave a note or update a record; Archie Build and Builder make custom apps from plain English; Archie Agents are coming soon. Fulcrum publishes an MCP server and public API. Autoschedule is described as an algorithm, not as AI.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Production analytics, MCP or agent API

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KatanaManufacturing ERP and MRPSeries B extension, EUR 14M, 2025-10-02Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an editCloud inventory and manufacturing software for small product brands. Katana says to "keep every build on schedule and on budget", with production management, capacity-based scheduling and a shop floor app that shows operators what is next and logs time on each task. The AI that reaches production is Katana MCP, which lets Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini view and create manufacturing orders and flag missing materials after the user confirms. Buyers are founders and operations leads.
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Katana MCP gives an AI chat read, create and update access to manufacturing orders, with prompts such as what to make this week and in what order; an AI Assistant answers product questions and Katana AI builds reports. The scheduling and shop floor app are not described as AI. AI replenishment is a planning feature.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API

  • 31 Aug 2026 Katana MCP lets AI chats create manufacturing orders
    Katana MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to live data. A user can view and create manufacturing orders, check progress and identify missing materials, and each change needs the user's confirmation.
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MRPeasyManufacturing ERP and MRPNo funding published. MRPeasy says more than 2,400 manufacturers use it and that it passed 1,000 active customers in North America.Also on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an edit"The AI-powered MRP software for small manufacturers." It generates production plans that balance materials and capacity, lets planners reschedule production orders, and gives shop floor workers a simple interface to report orders and material use. The AI is Mr. Peasy, an assistant that, when an admin turns on read-only data access, answers questions from items, stock, bills of materials, routings, manufacturing orders and production statistics. Buyers are small manufacturers.
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Mr. Peasy answers how-to questions from the manual and, with data access on, reads manufacturing orders, production statistics, routings and workstations and builds reports and charts. It is read-only and follows each user's permissions. A mode that can change records is planned. It is powered by Google's Gemini.

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DELMIA QuintiqSupply chain planning suitesOwned by Dassault SystèmesAlso on The AI supply chain planning software mapSuggest an edit"Drive continuous improvement across supply chain planning, manufacturing scheduling, logistics and workforce planning." For plants it sells production planning and scheduling with real-time schedule recalculation and automatic adjustments, for planners and production schedulers.
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AI-powered optimization tools that cut standard planning times, with real-time schedule recalculations and automatic adjustments that minimize disruptions, per its own page.

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04Every update, on the record

299 dated events between 1 May 2025 and 11 November 2026, newest first. Each links to the page we opened that prints its date. No date is inferred.

DateCompanyEventKind
10 Nov 2026Prevu3DPrevu3D partners with MultiSet AI for field teams
The companies are building an integration that will guide workers to equipment, identify nearby assets and tie inspection and maintenance tasks to a known position, using scans a site already has.
Partnership
10 Nov 2026Canvas EnvisionCanvas Envision opens early access to Envision Builder
Envision Builder recommends the assembly build order from 3D CAD, the MBOM and expert rules; engineers review the sequence and nothing reaches the floor until they approve. Early access for 30 founding manufacturers, general rollout in February 2027.
Product launch
10 Nov 2026AMESAAMESA partners with Viridien for HPC behind AMESA Agent Cloud
Viridien supplies the managed high-performance computing for AMESA Agent Cloud; AMESA reports 10x to 30x faster agent training in its own testing.
Partnership
9 Nov 2026Arch SystemsArch brings its platform to defense manufacturers with Knox Systems
Arch's Data Foundation and its AI applications and agents can now run in FedRAMP High environments through Knox Systems, in a single-tenant instance each customer controls.
Partnership
30 Oct 2026MVTec HALCONMVTec Deep Learning Tool 26.10 released
The training tool adds COCO and YOLO imports, completes the Out-of-Distribution Detection workflow and gives more detailed Deep OCR evaluation.
Product launch
28 Oct 2026ImubitARC names Imubit a Leader in its autonomous execution agents MarketMap
ARC Advisory Group named Imubit a Leader in its 2026 MarketMap for Autonomous Execution Agents, Continuous Process Edition, citing write-back of optimized setpoints through APC or DCS layers within operator guardrails.
Research
27 Oct 2026TrendMinerTrendMiner 2026.R3 puts the Agent inside the application
The embedded Agent sees the user's current view, runs tag and event searches, opens views and changes the time range. It works with Azure AI Foundry and Anthropic models at launch, with AWS Bedrock and OpenAI planned.
Product launch
27 Oct 2026AMESAAMESA launches AutonomyStack Agent
AutonomyStack builds, trains, validates and deploys modular autonomous agent teams for industrial process control and supply chains, with Autonomy Studio, AMESA Compute and AMESA Connect.
Product launch
26 Oct 2026SAP Asset ManagementSAP ships six maintenance agents in the Asset Operations Assistant Agent
Six agents released in Q3 2026 cover the maintenance cycle from first request to final debrief: operational maintenance planning, event planning, request initiation from natural language, job debrief, equipment insight and task list management. SAP says general availability is under way in phases.
Product launch
26 Oct 2026Honeywell Forge Plant CognitionHoneywell launches Forge Plant Cognition, an industrial AI platform for process plants
Built on the Forge Cognition platform with NVIDIA AI and Dell infrastructure, it targets refining, petrochemical and LNG plants. It helps operators raise throughput, detect emerging issues and recommend corrective actions, and embeds process know-how in AI workflows. It launches first at one refinery.
Product launch
22 Oct 2026TractianTractian raises $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation
Sapphire Ventures led the round, with M&G's Catalyst as co-lead. Tractian says it will use the money to move from predicting failures to protecting the full health of every critical machine.
Funding
22 Oct 2026L2LShop Floor Execution platform launches with Execution AI Agent
L2L announced the public launch of Shop Floor Execution, with Execution AI embedded in maintenance, production and dispatch workflows. It is available now for enterprise deployments.
Product launch
22 Oct 2026Assembler AIAssembler AI raises $4M seed round
Diagram ClimateTech Fund led the seed round to scale Assembler AI's computer vision platform for manual work across North American manufacturers.
Funding
21 Oct 2026TrackWiseHoneywell makes the TrackWise Digital AI Processing Agent available Agent
An agent that processes customer complaints through resolution and links complaint details to risk. It ran in production for five months at a medical device company before general availability.
Product launch
21 Oct 2026Cerexio OneCerexio One framework launches with eight AI-powered industrial platforms
Cerexio launched the Cerexio One framework at Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific. It groups specialised platforms for engineering quotes, batch records, predictive maintenance, quality, warehouse, production control, food and beverage production and IIoT connectivity.
Product launch
20 Oct 2026ReliVisionRelimetrics releases ReliVision 6.1
Teams describe an inspection task in natural language, add a reference image and refine the generated inspection step inside the workflow.
Product launch
20 Oct 2026Parsec TrakSYSTrakSYS 14.1 adds IQ Build for AI-assisted configuration
IQ Build is an MCP server that lets a customer's AI client propose TrakSYS configuration. It shipped as the headline of TrakSYS 14.1 and is labeled an early capability.
Product launch
20 Oct 2026Critical Manufacturing MESVersion 12.0 adds a catalog of purpose-built AI agents
The Industrial Operations Platform version 12.0 introduces AI agents that answer questions and build dashboards and user interface pages on the platform's Canonical Data Model, and customers can add their own agents.
Product launch
20 Oct 2026Akselos Structural Performance ManagementAkselos launches SPM for Cokers Always-on
SPM for Cokers feeds each cycle's operating data into one structural twin of the coke drum and reports remaining life for fatigue, bulging and crack growth separately. Released on the announcement date.
Product launch
15 Oct 2026Oden TechnologiesOden introduces agentic root cause analysis Agent
Agentic root cause analysis combines LLM reasoning, conventional machine learning, site-specific knowledge and statistical checks to surface early warning signs of production failures, with a playbook of setpoint adjustments and work instructions for each root cause.
Product launch
14 Oct 2026PokaPoka launches no-code AI Studio for building agents Agent
Poka AI Studio is a no-code agent builder for managing human processes on the factory floor. The release announces global launch together with the Poka MCP server.
Product launch
14 Oct 2026HighByte Intelligence HubHighByte partners with Databricks
HighByte announced a partnership with Databricks and native Zerobus support so modeled plant data streams into Databricks for analytics and agent use.
Partnership
14 Oct 2026FulcrumFulcrum Builder opens to every shop
Fulcrum says Builder is now available to every Fulcrum shop. A shop types what it wants, such as every job behind schedule grouped by department, and Builder makes an app on live shop data.
Product launch
13 Oct 2026SeeqSeeq and Applied Computing partner on industrial AI for energy
Seeq announced a partnership with Applied Computing to advance industrial AI for energy operations.
Partnership
13 Oct 2026AssetWatchAssetWatch adds continuous electrical monitoring for AC motors Always-on
AssetWatch Electrical Monitoring continuously measures RMS current across all three phases of AC motors to flag overload, slipping belts, failing couplings and current unbalance, in the same platform as vibration, temperature and oil analysis.
Product launch
12 Oct 2026AnyLogicAnyLogic 8.9.10 adds an AI Assistant
The AI Assistant builds simple models from a vague process description, describes complex models, suggests improvements and explains errors. Use is free up to a token limit, and it can connect to outside or privately hosted LLMs.
Product launch
9 Oct 2026TulipTulip introduces AI Authoring with an Authoring Agent
AI Authoring adds Projects, an Authoring Agent chat panel that drafts and changes apps after the engineer approves its plan, and agent first-pass reviews of testing and documentation. Composable AI Agents are in open beta and code mode is in preview.
Product launch
8 Oct 2026TwinThreadTwinThread launches Anomaly Action Center Always-on
The solution ranks anomalies from asset health and process models by persistence and distance from operating limits and attaches cases and notebooks when alert rules fire.
Product launch
8 Oct 2026SAP Asset ManagementSAP adds agentic capabilities for maintenance requests, planned for Q4 2026 Agent
New agentic capabilities for the Asset Operations Assistant will support initiating, screening and simulating maintenance requests. General availability is planned for Q4 2026.
Product launch
7 Oct 2026SymphonyAI IRIS FoundrySymphonyAI releases IRIS Foundry 2.0 Agent
The release adds a Cortex knowledge graph, a Cortex Agent in Copilot that traces each answer to its tag, document and work order, workflows a user describes in plain language, a library of apps and agents, and ML Studio models such as Remaining Useful Life.
Product launch
6 Oct 2026TulipTulip previews Industrial Connectivity and Native MCP Connectors
Industrial Connectivity brings machine data onto Tulip's operational record. Native MCP Connectors exchange data both ways with enterprise systems and AI tools, and Composable AI Agents work on that record.
Product launch
6 Oct 2026OverviewOverview launches OV Spark with onboard agent Sparky
OV Spark and OV Spark Pro are AI cameras with an onboard agent that recommends inspection tools, explains its reasoning and answers questions about what the line has run, so a quality team can build an inspection without a vision specialist.
Product launch
6 Oct 2026Infor CloudSuite IndustrialInfor adds Manufacturing Agent and Quality Inspection Agent Agent
The Infor 2026.10 release adds a Manufacturing Agent that pinpoints constraints on throughput, quality and delivery and then recommends and initiates corrective action, and a Quality Inspection Agent that catches quality issues and nonconformances early and initiates containment. Infor says agents work inside governed approval workflows.
Product launch
5 Oct 2026Litmus EdgeLitmus Data Catalog reaches general availability
Litmus made Data Catalog generally available. It documents definitions, tag structure, ownership and lineage, with AI behind the metadata visibility and governance.
Product launch
2 Oct 2026DriveX Smart Production PlanningDriveX raises early-stage round for Smart Production Planning
DriveX raised US$1.15M (roughly $950,000 in the same article) in an early-stage round from business companies and individual investors to build out its AI production planning tool and factory deployment support.
Funding
1 Oct 2026Acumatica Manufacturing EditionAcumatica 2026 R2 adds AI Assistant answers on production orders
2026 R2 expands AI Assistant manufacturing inquiries so users can ask which production orders run late, which are at risk and what materials to stage, and adds Shop Floor Kiosk 2.0 and an APS engine that schedules to the minute.
Product launch
29 Sep 2026IPerceptIPercept raises US$16.5M Series A
The round was co-led by Isogon Ventures and 2150, with Luminar Ventures, RunwayFBU, J12 Ventures and AI.Fund. IPercept will scale in the US, grow service partnerships and add intelligence applications to its data platform.
Funding
28 Sep 2026iTAC.MOM.SuiteiTAC links CATi and the MOM Suite with a camera-based AI worker assistant
With OPTIMUM datamanagement solutions and an electronics maker, iTAC joined its MOM Suite and CATi to an AI worker assistance system that checks assembly by camera. Shown at EFX on 6 to 8 October 2026.
Partnership
28 Sep 2026MRPeasyMr. Peasy can answer from manufacturing orders and production data
MRPeasy's AI assistant can be given read-only access to account data, including manufacturing orders and production statistics, to answer questions and build reports, tables and charts. Access is off by default.
Product launch
28 Sep 2026DozukiDozuki launches Forge AI
Forge AI is an industrial AI layer with embedded AI for defined workflows and a dynamic AI Assistant for deeper questions and investigation. Customer data stays in each customer's Dozuki account and is not used to train shared models.
Product launch
24 Sep 2026WeeverWeever Radar answers scheduled inspection questions
Weever Radar can answer questions on scheduled inspections, including pass and fail rates, completion, on-time completion and overdue items, broken down by asset, shift, type or assignee.
Product launch
23 Sep 2026SimioSimio adds built-in MCP support for generative AI tools
Aegis announced built-in Model Context Protocol support in Simio Release 20.294 or later. Teams can connect Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode or other MCP tools to explain models, troubleshoot errors, run experiments and ask which orders finished late and why.
Product launch
22 Sep 2026RedzonePersona-based frontline Champions and Implementation Agents Agent
QAD | Redzone extended ChampionAI for the frontline into a roster of persona-based Champions and added Implementation Agents that cut launch timelines from 12 weeks to as little as one month.
Product launch
22 Sep 2026RedzoneQAD | Redzone plans NVIDIA AI for plant-wide intelligence
QAD | Redzone plans to integrate NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI into its manufacturing intelligence platform, starting with a vision foundation model for quality inspection.
Partnership
22 Sep 2026PlatainePlataine unveils AI Agents for long-term production planning Agent
New agents simulate future production scenarios against real factory constraints to check ability to deliver, test added machines, tooling or shifts, and support capex decisions. They run attended or unattended with controlled autonomy.
Product launch
21 Sep 2026Körber PAS-X MESKörber launches K.AI Assistant for GxP operations
Körber introduced K.AI Assistant, a generative AI assistant for regulated life sciences that uses PharmaGuardrails to limit inaccurate and out-of-scope answers and integrates natively with PAS-X MES.
Product launch
15 Sep 2026AugmentirAugmentir launches Augie Command Center and Procedure Studio Agent
Command Center lets frontline leaders deploy AI agents, build workflows and dashboards and schedule work by describing what they want. Procedure Studio turns an SOP or a one-sentence description into an interactive procedure. Both are generally available.
Product launch
15 Sep 2026Arch SystemsVistara Growth invests $30 million in Arch Systems
Arch announced a $30 million investment from Vistara Growth to speed its agentic AI roadmap and expand to OEMs and regulated markets such as life sciences, defense, automotive and aerospace.
Funding
14 Sep 2026MachineMetricsMaximaOS launches with Max AI and an MCP server
MachineMetrics launched MaximaOS, a manufacturing operations management platform with Max AI as its AI layer. The Carbide build layer is in early release with an MCP server and an agent plugin that starts with Claude Code.
Product launch
10 Sep 2026AuguryAugury releases an open-source industrial profile for Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format
The OKF Industrial Profile structures plant-floor context, operator heuristics and sensor-trust rules into human-verified files that AI agents can use.
Product launch
9 Sep 2026HarmoniHarmoni raises US$10M Series A
Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. Funding goes to product work, go-to-market growth and HAL.
Funding
9 Sep 2026HarmoniHarmoni unveils HAL, AI built for the front lines of manufacturing
HAL applies AI to the live operational context Harmoni captures: the active job, part, machine, process and engineering requirements. It delivers answers at the point of production.
Product launch
8 Sep 2026Kitov.aiKitov unveils the X-Prime inspection system
X-Prime turns 3D CAD models or scans into robotic inspection routines and uses deep learning surface defect detection for high-value single-material parts with complex geometries.
Product launch
8 Sep 2026Cognite Data FusionIndustrial MCP enters public preview
Cognite's September release opens Cognite Data Fusion to outside AI tools, including Claude and Microsoft Copilot, through Industrial MCP. It also adds an Atlas AI agent to the data engineering workspace.
Product launch
7 Sep 2026KneatKneat Gx 26R2 adds an AI Validation Expert and a Summary Report Agent
The AI Validation Expert chatbot answers questions from FDA, EMA, ICH, ISO and GAMP sources with citations. The Validation Summary Report Agent drafts report sections from post-approved test documents.
Product launch
3 Sep 2026LumafieldLumafield introduces Quality Agent Agent
Quality Agent is an agentic AI system in Voyager, built on a foundation model trained on industrial X-ray CT data, that automates defect detection and root-cause analysis.
Product launch
2 Sep 2026SYSPROSyspro launches Torque, an industrial AI agent platform Agent
Syspro Torque detects operational problems, recommends the next step and takes approved action inside the systems manufacturers already run, and connects to ERP, production and shop floor systems through MCP. It runs in a controlled availability program ahead of general availability.
Product launch
1 Sep 2026ThingWorxThingWorx 10.2 adds an AI Assistant, agents and an MCP server
ThingWorx 10.2 adds the ThingWorx AI Assistant, AI Runtime and Agent Services, a native AI Agent entity, integrated MCP support and governance tools. The MCP server and namespace framework are generally available.
Product launch
1 Sep 2026MaintainXAI Work Request and Report Builder AI Chat reach the mobile app and reports
AI Work Request drafts a request title, description, location and priority from a voice note, a typed description or a guided conversation, ready for review. Report Builder AI Chat answers questions about asset and work data. Both need MaintainX Assist on the Enterprise plan.
Product launch
Sep 2026IgnitionIgnition Catalyst brings AI assistants and agents to Ignition 2027
At the 2026 Ignition Community Conference (September 22 to 24) the company dropped the standalone MCP module and introduced Ignition Catalyst. Catalyst Core is included at no extra cost, and Catalyst Agent supports user-defined agents with bring-your-own-model and MCP in both directions.
Product launch
31 Aug 2026KatanaKatana MCP lets AI chats create manufacturing orders
Katana MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to live data. A user can view and create manufacturing orders, check progress and identify missing materials, and each change needs the user's confirmation.
Product launch
31 Aug 2026Infor CloudSuite IndustrialInfor Velocity Suite brings Industry AI Agents, including scheduling, to CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise
At IMTS 2026 Infor introduced the Velocity Suite on CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise with its full library of Industry AI Agents, Agent Orchestration and Agent Factory. The agents cover roles "from quoting and scheduling to service execution".
Product launch
26 Aug 2026WaitesWaites expands ultrasonic, ImpactVUE and time synchronization for AI prescriptive maintenance
Waites announced ultrasonic and time synchronization product enhancements and expanded ImpactVUE high-frequency data acquisition, paired with analyst-reviewed prescriptive guidance for manufacturers.
Product launch
26 Aug 2026AssetWatchAssetWatch and Oden Technologies partner to link asset health and production data
The partnership connects AssetWatch asset health insights with Oden's real-time production and process data so maintenance, reliability and operations teams see how equipment runs and when to act.
Partnership
25 Aug 2026HighByte Intelligence HubVersion 4.5 adds a Modeling Agent
The Modeling Agent helps browse connections and create or edit inputs, models and instances in plain language. Version 4.5 also adds MCP configuration tools and a Data Lineage Graph.
Product launch
25 Aug 2026ComplianceQuestComplianceQuest Summer '26 expands CQ.AI to investigations and change control
The Investigation Assistant proposes root causes and corrective actions from past records and FMEA data. A Safety Agent pre-fills incident records, and AI drafts change orders. Generally available from 31 July 2026.
Product launch
24 Aug 2026SquintSquint introduces the Lean Manufacturing Agent Agent
The agent takes uploaded video of a real cycle and returns a time and motion study that classifies every second as value-added, necessary or waste, documents the job and suggests sized fixes.
Product launch
14 Aug 2026Opcenter X QualityOpcenter X Quality 2607 adds Opcenter Copilot
An assistant that answers questions from product documentation, such as SPC evaluation methods and quality workflow setup. The release also expands SPC and nonconformance management.
Product launch
13 Aug 2026LLumin CMMS+CAI Software acquires LLumin
CAI Software, a manufacturing software provider, announced the acquisition of LLumin, an industrial CMMS company serving mid-market and enterprise manufacturers. The release says LLumin enables condition-based and AI-assisted predictive maintenance.
Acquisition
12 Aug 2026Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformPlex QMS connects to FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI for AI inspection
Rockwell announced an API-enabled integration, available the same day, that brings AI-driven visual inspection to new and existing camera systems inside Plex QMS, with results stored for traceability and serialization.
Product launch
11 Aug 2026Siemens Tecnomatix Plant SimulationPlant Simulation Copilot 2606 works with several LLM providers
Plant Simulation Copilot 2606 helps users write and correct SimTalk code with syntax-validated suggestions grounded in Plant Simulation documentation, and works with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
Product launch
10 Aug 2026FactoryTalk AnalyticsFactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI adds VisionStream and VisionLink Agent
VisionStream learns the normal look of a product from live production data, so teams do not label images by hand to start. VisionLink adds AI inspection to existing cameras and vision systems. Inspection results can feed control and supervision systems for automatic corrective action in a closed loop.
Product launch
10 Aug 2026Eyelit APSEyelit launches Agent EyeQ in release 10.1 Agent
Agent EyeQ exposes more than 1,700 operations across planning, scheduling, MES and quality as tools. It executes scheduling and planning decisions itself, logs every action, and lets customers set how autonomous each agent is.
Product launch
6 Aug 2026SiteVue AISiteVue AI raises $7.5M seed round
Penny Jar Capital and Overture co-led the seed round for SiteVue's AI video analytics for manufacturing lines.
Funding
6 Aug 2026FactbirdVerdane makes a majority investment in Factbird
Verdane took a strategic majority investment in Factbird to speed its global growth and product roadmap. The amount is not disclosed.
Funding
5 Aug 2026Zebra Aurora VisionAurora Vision 5.7 adds instance segmentation, transformer-based deep learning and Python support
The 5.7 release notes list a new deep learning tool for instance segmentation, DL_LocatePoints and DL_DetectFeatures on a "new, more powerful architecture, based on transformers", new DL-OCR models, and the AVL and Deep Learning add-on for Python.
Product launch
5 Aug 2026Prometheus GroupPrometheus Group acquires VisualAIM's business assets
Prometheus Group completed the purchase of VisualAIM's software for mechanical integrity, intelligent P&IDs and inspection workflow optimization, adding inspection to its asset performance management software.
Acquisition
4 Aug 2026UpKeepNova builds custom apps from plain-language requests
The July 2026 release lets users describe a dashboard, form or workflow, such as an overdue work order notifier, and Nova builds it inside the CMMS with no code.
Product launch
4 Aug 2026LumafieldTriton and Neptune CT scanners get on-board AI compute
An on-board NVIDIA DGX Spark edge cluster lets secure sites run Lumafield's AI CT analysis on premise, with no data leaving the facility.
Product launch
3 Aug 2026IntellectIntellect and eMaint partner to link quality and maintenance
The IntellectIQ Platform, due in limited release later in 2026, will trigger eMaint maintenance work from quality, safety and operations processes.
Partnership
Aug 2026Fero LabsFero describes a Saw Optimizer for steel mills
The post describes a saw optimization capability that calculates the most efficient set of cuts for each billet in real time.
Product launch
28 Jul 2026Proficy Smart Factory MESProficy AI roadmap names Chat with Proficy MES and an MES Configuration Assistant
A report of GE Vernova's Accelerate 2026 session lists a Proficy AI roadmap: natural-language Chat with Proficy MES, a Smart Factory MES Configuration Assistant, and an MCP server and client across MES, Historian and SCADA.
Product launch
27 Jul 2026QualityzeQualityze and Shaarkview Consultancy partner on AI-era quality and compliance
Qualityze and Shaarkview Consultancy announced a strategic alliance that pairs the Qualityze AI-powered quality management platform with consulting in GxP, regulatory, audit readiness and validation.
Partnership
23 Jul 2026AuguryRockwell Automation and Augury partner on agentic AI
Rockwell Automation and Augury announced a strategic technology and go-to-market partnership. Augury's Reliability Agent recommends corrective actions, and Rockwell's Fiix MAX turns them into work orders and maintenance workflows.
Partnership
22 Jul 2026LumafieldLumafield makes Mars inline X-ray inspection generally available Always-on
Mars is an in-line arrayed X-ray system for 100% production inspection that uses AI on the scans.
Product launch
20 Jul 2026XMProXMPro says APEX and MAGS are available immediately
XMPro was named a sample vendor for agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Manufacturing, 2026, and said its APEX platform and MAGS framework are available immediately for governed multi-agent systems.
Research
15 Jul 2026IntelexIntelex partner COMET adds an AI Assistant for root cause work
COMET, Intelex's partner solution for root cause analysis, added a COMET AI Assistant that builds an event timeline from an incident narrative, flags failed barriers, suggests corrective actions and searches past investigations. Investigators approve every suggestion.
Product launch
15 Jul 2026Eyelit MESEyelit Version 10.1 runs on Agent EyeQ Agent
Version 10.1 is powered by Agent EyeQ, an agentic AI engine that executes planning and scheduling decisions rather than only supporting them, with every decision logged, traceable and explainable.
Product launch
14 Jul 2026IFS UltimoUltimo reports first commercial results for its HSE digital worker
Across a controlled trial group of manufacturers, the HSE agent did not miss a single recommended safety action. It can be bought and run apart from the Ultimo EAM.
Research
14 Jul 2026FiixFiix launches Fiix MAX, an AI assistant for the CMMS
Fiix MAX is a conversational assistant built into Fiix CMMS. It answers questions on maintenance history, asset details, parts and work instructions, and pulls troubleshooting suggestions from attached OEM manuals and past work orders. It is a paid add-on for Professional and Enterprise tiers.
Product launch
7 Jul 2026MakinaRocksMakinaRocks and AWS collaborate on Runway for defense
MakinaRocks will adapt its Runway AI operating system for defense on AWS and plans to list it on AWS Marketplace, starting joint sales in Japan and Asia-Pacific.
Partnership
Jul 2026FORCAM ENISCOENI.one voice AI agent introduced for SAP Digital Manufacturing
FORCAM ENISCO and partner 4IoT introduced ENI.one, an AI agent at the SAP DM terminal. Operators start and stop orders and report quantities by voice command.
Product launch
30 Jun 2026Cognite Data FusionSchneider Electric agrees to buy Cognite for $3.1 billion
Schneider Electric signed a definitive agreement to buy 100 percent of Cognite Holding B.V. in an all-cash deal. After closing, Cognite will be integrated with AVEVA inside Schneider's Industrial Automation business.
Acquisition
29 Jun 2026Siemens Tecnomatix Process SimulateTecnomatix 2606 adds simulation agents and AI robotic path creation Agent
Release 2606 says "simulation agents automate complex tasks", automates robotic path creation from location generation to trajectories, converts 2D sketches to 3D layouts and optimizes picking sequences. AI Simulation Copilot is available on demand through token-based licensing.
Product launch
26 Jun 2026WeeverWeever AI becomes Weever Radar
Weever renamed its AI assistant Weever Radar; new branding and icon followed on 2026-07-01.
Rebrand
25 Jun 2026NanopreciseNanoprecise launches ReliabilityOS, an agentic AI platform for reliability teams Agent
ReliabilityOS builds on Condition Intelligence. AI agents gather supporting data, diagnose likely causes and prepare an evidence-backed analysis for each important alert. It connects to CMMS, APM systems and customer AI agents through an open architecture that supports Model Context Protocol.
Product launch
25 Jun 2026IBM Maximo Application SuiteMaximo 9.2 adds agentic workflows and an MCP server
Release 9.2 adds agentic workflows designed to help guide decisions and move work forward, plus AI for reliability insights, field execution, safety workflows and document extraction, and an MCP server so customers can bring their own agents.
Product launch
25 Jun 2026AlmetraAlmetra raises US$19M Series A
blisce/ led the round, with NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline, Critical Ventures and angels. Almetra, formerly Deltia, will use it to bring together the data, context and operational knowledge that help manufacturers improve productivity, quality and performance.
Funding
24 Jun 2026ProShop ERPProShop unveils Chip, an AI for precision machine shops
ProShop unveiled Chip at its Cutting Edge virtual summit. Chip runs inside ProShop, flags schedule conflicts before a planner commits a change, guides operators with notes from previous runs and lets any team member query shop data in plain language.
Product launch
24 Jun 2026PokaPoka announces Industrial AI agents, AI Studio early access and an MCP server Agent
Poka's governed AI agents trigger workflows in MES, CMMS and ERP and execute steps under human approval. AI Studio opened to selected customers in an early access program, and a production MCP server ships so enterprise AI assistants can reach Poka data.
Product launch
22 Jun 2026OverviewOverview adds OVX high-resolution and thermal cameras Always-on
OVX High Res, OVX Thermal and OVX Core bring high-resolution, thermal and bring-your-own-camera inspection to the same edge AI platform and software.
Product launch
22 Jun 2026AzumutaAzumuta AI agent writes work instructions from video
A VLM-powered agent watches a video of an operation and generates a structured, review-ready work instruction. Azumuta reports a 90% cut in creation time against fully manual work and says it is live in production.
Product launch
18 Jun 2026Musashi AIMusashi AI shows Gen 2 inspection system and Quality Insights
The production-ready Gen 2 system combines generalized AI models, Active i deep learning software and a modular hardware design. The newest Cendiant Quality Insights turns inspection data into manufacturing intelligence.
Product launch
15 Jun 2026UnitXUnitX launches the DeteX AI smart camera Always-on
DeteX is an AI smart camera with segmentation, classification, dimensional measurement and OCR that operators can set up in about a minute. It was commercially available from the release date.
Product launch
15 Jun 2026SquintSquint announces a purpose-built industrial AI model
Squint's new AI model for industrials powers a system that brings together tribal knowledge, IT system data and standard work protocols, and makes that context available to its industrial agents.
Product launch
11 Jun 2026Sight MachineSight Machine launches its agentic manufacturing platform Always-on
The new platform pairs a Manufacturing Context Layer with agents that work continuously on quality drift, downtime and yield. The Blueprint small language model maps tags to assets.
Product launch
10 Jun 2026WeeverWeever starts an AI pilot in Form Reports
Weever added an AI assistant to the Form Reports submissions view with on-the-fly charts and follow-up questions, enabled per site.
Product launch
3 Jun 2026PlatainePlataine launches conversational AI Agents in its TPO platform Agent
A suite of Planning, Scheduling, Material and Asset Agents watches production, finds root causes of disruptions, builds a re-optimized recovery plan and sends it to the right role for approval. Users can ask what-if questions in natural language.
Product launch
1 Jun 2026KognitwinKongsberg Digital rebrands as Falkor
Kongsberg Digital takes the name Falkor, a KONGSBERG company, to sharpen its focus on industrial intelligence.
Rebrand
Jun 2026ManevaManeva raises $27M Series A
U.S. Venture Partners led the round with Bling Capital and Freestyle Capital; $38.4M raised in total.
Funding
31 May 2026AkridataDIMAAG acquires Akridata
DIMAAG, an industrial AI and robotics company, acquired Akridata to add AI vision, edge processing, intelligent data capture hardware and human-assisted inspection workflows to its physical AI offer.
Acquisition
29 May 2026Veeva QMSVault AI agents are available for Quality
A report from the Veeva R&D and Quality Summit says Vault AI is available with agents for Safety and Quality, with Clinical and Regulatory agents to follow later in 2026.
Product launch
28 May 2026MaintainXAutodesk agrees to buy MaintainX for about $3.6 billion
Autodesk announced a definitive agreement to acquire MaintainX in an all-cash deal valued at about $3.6 billion. MaintainX joins Autodesk Operations Solutions.
Acquisition
28 May 2026IFS UltimoUltimo adds digital workers for planning, maintenance and safety Agent
Ultimo announced three purpose-built digital workers for maintenance planning, technicians and HSE, available through Microsoft Teams, Slack and the Ultimo EAM. Agents manage non-disruptive actions on their own; higher-risk decisions trigger human intervention.
Product launch
28 May 2026Greenlight GuruGreenlight Guru lists twelve AI features live in its quality platform
AI Search, Chat, Summaries, Verifiability Check, Suggested Links, Quiz Builder, Change Order Summaries and an AI Connector (MCP server) are described as in the platform today.
Product launch
26 May 2026Epicor KineticEpicor shows agents that resequence shop floor jobs
An analyst note on Insights 2026 says Epicor ran live demos of agents that resequence shop floor jobs on live supply signals, and that the shop floor replanning is cloud-only.
Product launch
21 May 2026Siemens OpcenterConfigurator Agent MCP server in Opcenter X 2604
Opcenter X 2604 adds a Configurator Agent on a new MCP server. It gives GitHub Copilot in agent mode Opcenter X knowledge and tools to support configurators in their workflow.
Product launch
21 May 2026Nulogy Smart FactoryNulogy Intelligence launches with the Nora AI agent Agent
Nulogy launched Nulogy Intelligence, the AI layer of its manufacturing operating system. Its first capability, Nora, answers questions about production performance and can create maintenance orders and tasks inside Smart Factory and Maintenance.
Product launch
21 May 2026Cognite Data FusionCognite and ABB plan agent-to-agent orchestration
Cognite and ABB announced a collaboration to add an agentic layer to existing industrial applications so that agents can hand work to each other. The release says the aim is agent-to-agent orchestration.
Partnership
20 May 2026Epicor KineticEpicor adds MRP Log Agent and Reasoning Agent to Prism
At Insights 2026 Epicor added Prism agents including an MRP Log Agent that analyzes MRP output logs so users can understand why MRP recommended an order, and a Reasoning Agent that synthesizes ERP data, documents and context.
Product launch
20 May 2026ElementaryElementary launches VisionLink worldwide Always-on
VisionLink upgrades existing FTP-enabled vision cameras with machine learning by linking them to the QualityOS platform. It was US-only before this launch.
Product launch
20 May 2026AVEVA CONNECTAVEVA announces a CONNECT knowledge graph and agentic twin builder
At AVEVA World 2026, AVEVA announced Flows (Q2 2026) and an industrial knowledge graph in a major CONNECT release due in Q1 2027. A twin builder applies agentic AI to propose mappings to a standard data model.
Product launch
19 May 2026AVEVA Predictive AnalyticsAVEVA and IFS announce a partnership on AI-powered asset decision intelligence
The companies unveiled Continuous Asset Decision Intelligence at AVEVA World in Milan. It is designed to turn real-time operational and asset data into maintenance, investment and execution decisions.
Partnership
18 May 2026TrendMinerTrendMiner Agent and Routines go live at AVEVA World Agent
The Agent works inside the app on historian and asset data and delivers conclusions, a root cause report and recommended actions. Routines document an analysis as steps that can become a monitor in one click.
Product launch
18 May 2026AuguryAugury previews its Industrial AI Workforce of role-based agents
Augury shared its progress on role-based AI agents for reliability, maintenance and operations teams, built on Machine Health data, AVEVA CONNECT context and Google Gemini models. The release says one customer is already validating the agents for root cause analysis and yield analysis.
Product launch
14 May 2026SAP Digital ManufacturingSAP announces Production Excellence Agent and Manufacturing Assistant at Sapphire Always-on
At SAP Sapphire, SAP described new Joule Assistants, including a Manufacturing Assistant, and Industry AI agents that monitor production, quality and machine signals. General availability is phased through 2026.
Product launch
14 May 2026SAP Asset ManagementSAP announces the Asset and Service Assistant and asset agents at Sapphire Agent
SAP announced Joule assistants for autonomous supply chain management, including an Asset and Service Assistant that turns signals and anomalies into action. The Asset Performance Alert Processing Agent and Technician Briefing Agent are designed to assess asset conditions, prioritize work and raise first time fix rates. SAP says general availability is phased through 2026, starting now.
Product launch
14 May 2026MachineMetricsShift Handover writes AI summaries for the next operator
The April release added Shift Handover, with AI-generated, machine-grounded summaries waiting at clock-in, and First Article Inspection.
Product launch
13 May 2026Averroes.aiAverroes launches AI Builder in VisionRepo for no-code visual AI models
AI Builder lets users build production-ready classification, object detection, segmentation and anomaly detection models without a data science team. The launch adds MiniModels for edge devices without a GPU and REST API endpoints for MES, APC and SPC systems.
Product launch
12 May 2026Cognite Data FusionCognite Flows launches as the action layer
Cognite introduced Flows, an AI-native experience that lets teams build and deploy tailored applications on Cognite data. Cognite says more than 30 percent of its customer base and key partners already have Flows.
Product launch
12 May 2026Brightly Asset EssentialsBrightly launches Maintenance Copilot, work order summaries and duplicate detection
Brightly Software, a Siemens company, launched AI innovations for Asset Essentials: work order auto-summarization, work order duplicate detection and Brightly Maintenance Copilot for teams in the field.
Product launch
12 May 2026ArkiteBosch Rexroth and Arkite partner on intelligent workstations
Bosch Rexroth and Arkite combine ergonomic workstations with Arkite's work instructions, real-time validation and production intelligence for zero-defect manual assembly.
Partnership
11 May 2026AspenTech AVAEmerson launches the AspenTech AVA AI platform
AVA is an agentic, domain-aware AI platform launched with four operational optimization and decision-support advisors, built on first-principles models plus large language models.
Product launch
8 May 2026SquintSquint adds an AI procedure author that takes direction
Teams tell the AI how to customize a procedure for new hires, shifts or roles. It builds on Squint's AI that generates interactive procedures from a document or video.
Product launch
8 May 2026FulcrumFulcrum lets customers try Archie AI in beta at Connect 2026
At its user conference Fulcrum let customers try Archie, its AI inside the ERP. It surfaced jobs at risk of running late, invoice totals and stale open jobs.
Product launch
6 May 2026Siemens Tecnomatix Process SimulateProcess Simulate Copilot covers robotic programming from analysis to commissioning
Engineers use natural-language requests to list robots and tools, generate collision pairs, run reachability checks, diagnose failed downloads and get cycle-time suggestions. Siemens offers a free 30-day trial of Process Simulate X Robotics Advanced.
Product launch
5 May 2026Cognex OneVisionCognex launches In-Sight 3900 embedded AI vision system Always-on
The In-Sight 3900 runs Edge AI, Advanced AI and rule-based tools on a dedicated AI processor, with no external PC, at up to 4X the speed of the prior generation. It pairs with OneVision for cloud-to-edge model training.
Product launch
4 May 2026Eyelit MESAgent EyeQ introduced alongside Microsoft Copilot MES integration Agent
Eyelit and Microsoft presented AI-assisted MES integration with Copilot at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo and introduced Agent EyeQ, an emerging capability that deploys electronic employees to plan, schedule and execute operations.
Product launch
1 May 2026WorkerbaseWorkerbase presents five AI agents for the shopfloor
Workerbase describes five agents: Troubleshooting, Data Collector, Incoming Goods AI, Find and Knowledge. The post says they go live in days, not months.
Product launch
May 2026MakinaRocksMakinaRocks lists on KOSDAQ
The company's first-half 2026 earnings release says its May KOSDAQ listing raised USD 27.2 million (KRW 38.4 billion) in new capital.
Funding
30 Apr 2026BraincubeBraincube launches Companion AI, a natural-language interface
Companion AI builds the matching Braincube analysis from a plain-language question, such as moisture against oven temperature over the last 8 hours. It runs on each customer's own Braincube environment and production data and produces real charts, not text guesses.
Product launch
28 Apr 2026PlatainePlataine Production Scheduler folds maintenance into the schedule Always-on
The Production Scheduler now monitors equipment and tool usage, starts maintenance actions from actual usage and adjusts the production schedule, driven by the Practimum Optimum engine.
Product launch
21 Apr 2026MasterControl Quality ExcellenceMasterControl unveils AI Event Summarizer
Event Summarizer writes short overviews of deviations, CAPAs and nonconformances inside Quality Excellence. Users review and edit each summary.
Product launch
21 Apr 2026Dot Compliance eQMSDot Compliance launches Dottie AI 5.0 with agentic personas Agent
The release title says Dottie AI 5.0 introduces agentic AI personas for a hybrid workforce. The AI page lists a Research Agent, a Review Agent and Document to Protocol.
Product launch
21 Apr 2026ABB Genix Industrial IoT and AI SuiteABB Genix adds NVIDIA Omniverse 3D digital twins with Microsoft Azure
Announced at Hannover Messe 2026, the integration adds physically accurate, immersive 3D industrial digital twins to Genix, with generative AI and real-time insight for operators to understand system health and spot anomalies.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026xynLogxynLog introduces AI-powered CNC monitoring
xynLog announced AI-powered CNC monitoring for machine shops with predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and real-time OEE.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026SymphonyAI IRIS FoundrySymphonyAI launches eight industrial AI apps for energy operators Agent
Apps include rotating equipment failure prediction, a refinery yield and margin optimizer and pipeline leak detection, built on IRIS Foundry with IRIS Forge; the release says failures are predicted up to 30 days ahead and work orders triggered.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026Sight MachineSight Machine introduces crews of AI agents Always-on
Crews of autonomous agents work around the clock on throughput, quality and cost, using Sight Machine's semantic layer and analysis tools within guardrails. The launch was shown at Hannover Messe.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026SAP Asset Performance ManagementSAP announces an Asset Health Agent for condition-based maintenance Always-on
The Asset Health Agent analyzes time-series health indicators to assess and summarize the current and projected health of technical objects and alerts users in real time. SAP plans general availability for Q3 2026. The same release names AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert processing in SAP Asset Performance Management.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026Litmus EdgeLitmus Data Catalog enters private preview
Litmus announced a private preview of Data Catalog, which discovers metadata across OT and IT systems and maps lineage for analytics and AI.
Product launch
20 Apr 2026KognitwinKongsberg Digital advances Kognitwin with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries
Kongsberg Digital integrates Omniverse libraries into Kognitwin so AI agents can "reason across process logic, operational data and spatial context" in a shared environment.
Partnership
20 Apr 2026Infor MESInfor and Deloitte expand alliance to focus on MES
Infor and Deloitte widened their European partnership to Manufacturing Execution Systems, to close the gap between enterprise systems and shop floor operations.
Partnership
15 Apr 2026KneatKneat lists an AI Review Assistant as released
The AI Review Assistant reviews one document at a time and its findings are advisory. A Summary Assistant, Validation Expert and Author Assistant were on the 2026 and 2027 roadmap.
Product launch
15 Apr 2026Fracttal OneFracttal acquires TCMAN, a Spanish CMMS provider
Fracttal bought TCMAN, a Madrid-founded CMMS maker whose GIM platform serves infrastructure, industrial and service companies in Spain, to gain a foothold in Europe. More than 250 organizations use TCMAN.
Acquisition
15 Apr 2026ApprenticeApprentice launches A1, a standalone AI agent for manufacturing Agent
A1 sits above the plant's systems of record, ingests data from ERP, MES, SCADA and historians and runs role-matched agents for troubleshooting, investigations, documentation and risk assessments. It is available now, with a free individual tier.
Product launch
14 Apr 2026ValGenesisValGenesis launches the next generation of VAL with governed AI
VAL drafts protocols, assesses gaps, reviews execution and flags anomalies inside governed workflows, with a limited pilot program for qualified companies.
Product launch
14 Apr 2026OverviewOverview launches an AI inspection solution for NPI programs
A dedicated solution to deploy AI visual inspection during new product introduction in hours instead of months.
Product launch
14 Apr 2026MVTec HALCONMVTec announces HALCON 26.05
HALCON 26.05 adds next-generation deep learning object detection with up to 5x faster inference, operator-based data augmentation and visual prompting in the AI Assistant. Release date was 2026-05-20.
Product launch
14 Apr 2026InfinityQSAdvantive launches Advantive ONE with the AIVA assistant
A unified AI layer across Advantive's software. AIVA gives one chat entry to Intelligent Support Agents and Intelligent Data Agents, both available at launch. Workflow automation and predictive intelligence are planned.
Product launch
14 Apr 2026IPerceptIPercept and MTT partner on predictive CNC intelligence in the UK
Machine Tool Technologies, described as the UK's largest independent CNC machine tool servicing provider, adds IPercept's monitoring to its predictive maintenance offer.
Partnership
13 Apr 2026Invisible AIInvisible AI launches Vision Execution System with NVIDIA Always-on
The Vision Execution System uses NVIDIA Jetson edge devices with 3D depth cameras to capture and analyze every production cycle in real time. It builds a video digital twin and a unified cycles database ready for agentic workflows.
Product launch
8 Apr 2026Litmus EdgeLitmus and Google Cloud build an on-prem industrial AI stack
Litmus announced an edge-to-cloud architecture with Google Cloud that joins Manufacturing Connect with Google Distributed Cloud connected, so OT data reaches BigQuery and Vertex AI.
Partnership
31 Mar 2026iBase-t SoluminaTA Associates makes growth investment in iBase-t
TA Associates announced a strategic growth investment in iBase-t to support product innovation and global expansion as aerospace and defense manufacturers adopt AI-enabled digital manufacturing. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Funding
31 Mar 2026MOZARTVMS Solutions launches MOZART 3.0
MOZART 3.0 is an AI-native planning platform that joins 25 years of semiconductor-grade scheduling with generative AI and reinforcement learning, a digital twin architecture and cloud or on-premise deployment, now aimed at automotive, electronics, consumer and process plants.
Product launch
31 Mar 2026HighByte Intelligence HubVersion 4.4 adds a Pipeline AI Agent
The Pipeline AI Agent lets users explain, create and edit data pipelines in plain language through their own LLM. A person reviews each change before it takes effect.
Product launch
25 Mar 2026UptimeAIUptimeAI launches four AI Reasoning Agents Agent
The Root Cause, Maintenance Optimization, Process Optimization and HAZOP Analysis agents diagnose causes, recommend actions and keep learning from outcomes. UptimeAI unveiled them at CERAWeek and says they are available now, deployable in weeks on cloud or on-premises.
Product launch
19 Mar 2026MaintainXReport Builder AI turns questions into maintenance reports
A new in-platform capability that turns asset and work data into custom reports and visualizations using natural language. Users ask about labor, inventory, asset performance, downtime and compliance.
Product launch
19 Mar 2026Critical Manufacturing MESAI Copilots shown inside the MES at Hannover Messe
Critical Manufacturing said visitors would see AI Copilots within the MES that answer questions about manufacturing data in natural language and generate charts, dashboards and insights.
Product launch
17 Mar 2026TulipTulip announces Factory Playback with NVIDIA
Factory Playback builds a time-aligned record of production from machine data, operator workflows, quality events and video. It uses the NVIDIA Metropolis video search and summarization blueprint and Cosmos Reason VLM.
Product launch
17 Mar 2026ThingWorxTPG closes its purchase of ThingWorx and launches Velotic
TPG closed its acquisitions of PTC's ThingWorx and Kepware and GE Vernova's Proficy and launched Velotic to hold all three. ThingWorx stays a distinct product line.
Acquisition
16 Mar 2026iTAC.MOM.SuiteiTAC shows AI decision support on production data at Hannover Messe
iTAC showed how AI combines production data and knowledge sources for decision-making inside the factory without a cloud dependency.
Product launch
16 Mar 2026eMaintFluke adds AI features to eMaint in beta
Fluke announced several AI features in its eMaint CMMS/EAM, available in beta to existing customers: answers from maintenance data, SOP Builder that drafts procedures and PM tasks from manuals, and work orders created from voice.
Product launch
16 Mar 2026InstrumentalInstrumental launches Synchronized Learning for high-density connectors Always-on
A new AI-powered quality control system detects subtle defects in high-density, blind-mate connectors in compute system manufacturing.
Product launch
13 Mar 2026Eigen InnovationsEigen shows AI thermal inspection for blow molding Always-on
Several thermal cameras around each parison feed AI that checks every shot for shape, length, heat distribution and die wear without extending cycle time.
Product launch
11 Mar 2026TrendMinerTrendMiner introduces the Analytics Agent Agent
TrendMiner's first agentic AI for process analytics searches time series, asset and event data on its own, explains process behavior, speeds root cause analysis and can write production reports. Customers can bring their own LLM over TrendMiner's MCP servers.
Product launch
10 Mar 2026Octave RelianceHexagon launches the Octave brand for its software business, including ETQ
Hexagon introduced Octave as the brand for its software business, which includes the ETQ business. The product is now sold as Octave Reliance, formerly ETQ Reliance.
Rebrand
9 Mar 2026Prevu3DPrevu3D raises $5M from Fonds de solidarite FTQ
Fonds de solidarite FTQ invests $5 million in Prevu3D to speed development and deployment of its platform for the existing as-built industrial world.
Funding
9 Mar 2026InstrumentalNVentures and Root Ventures invest in Instrumental
NVIDIA's venture arm and Root Ventures invested to speed server and rack manufacturing for data centers. The release gives no amount.
Funding
3 Mar 2026SeeqSeeq introduces Seeq Intelligence with Agent Q Agent
Seeq Intelligence adds Agent Q, a natural language analyst, and Build Your Own Agent for repeatable multistep workflows. It is in the Seeq Enterprise package and available now.
Product launch
2 Mar 2026TractianTractian launches a 2-in-1 vibration and ultrasonic sensor Always-on
The new sensor captures vibration at up to 64 kHz and continuous ultrasound in one device, and the platform correlates vibration, ultrasound, temperature and RPM data. Insights go into CMMS and EAM systems.
Product launch
2 Mar 2026Octave Attune EAMHexagon's asset software business unveils the Octave brand
Octave, the potential software spin-off from Hexagon AB, unveiled its new brand identity. It is made up of Hexagon's Asset Lifecycle Intelligence and Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial divisions, plus the Bricsys, ETQ and Projectmates businesses.
Rebrand
25 Feb 2026AugmentirAugmentir launches 5 Why Coach, Root Cause Investigator and Data Analyst agents
Three out-of-the-box Augie AI agents work together as a problem-solving team: they organize symptoms, correlate operational signals and help teams evaluate contributing factors in root cause analysis.
Product launch
19 Feb 2026Parsec TrakSYSTrakSYS 14 adds IQ Assistant
Parsec released TrakSYS 14 with IQ Assistant, a generative AI assistant inside the MES that answers questions about TrakSYS data and builds charts and tables.
Product launch
19 Feb 2026IPerceptIPercept launches CNC Copilot
CNC Copilot is an AI-powered assistant inside the IPercept Portal. It works with live machine data and trusted knowledge sources to say what changed, why it matters and what to do next, and it keeps the team's reasoning between shifts.
Product launch
12 Feb 2026Siemens OpcenterOpcenter Copilot arrives in Opcenter X 2601
Opcenter X 2601 adds Opcenter Copilot, "an intelligent assistant designed to read and understand available product documentation", to the Configurator and to all applications.
Product launch
10 Feb 2026Oracle Fusion Cloud ManufacturingOracle adds AI agents for manufacturing, maintenance and inventory
Oracle announced prebuilt AI agents in Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing, including an Outside Processing Shipping Agent and a Maintenance Work Order Cost Estimation Advisor Agent for manufacturing and maintenance teams.
Product launch
10 Feb 2026Oracle Fusion Cloud MaintenanceOracle adds AI agents to Fusion SCM, including a maintenance cost estimation agent
Oracle announced new AI agents in Fusion Cloud Applications across planning, procurement, manufacturing, maintenance and logistics. The Maintenance Work Order Cost Estimation Advisor Agent estimates work order costs from planned materials, labor and resource usage.
Product launch
9 Feb 2026KognitwinKongsberg Digital partners with Google Cloud for Kognitwin
Kognitwin, the flagship Industrial Work Surface digital twin solution, moves onto Google Cloud to scale AI/ML, robotics and AR/VR use cases.
Partnership
6 Feb 2026UpKeepNova Autonomous Actions added in the February release
The February 2026 release adds Nova Autonomous Actions for hands-free maintenance insights, alongside required tasks on work orders and new navigation.
Product launch
4 Feb 2026Octave RelianceETQ Reliance adds two native AI advisors
Form Field Advisor suggests values for form fields from past records, and users accept, reject or override each one. Complaint & Feedback Advisor speeds complaint intake and shows related complaints, actions and risk context; it was set for early adopters at the end of Q1 2026.
Product launch
3 Feb 2026DELMIA Virtual Twin for ManufacturingDassault Systemes and NVIDIA bring Omniverse physical AI libraries into DELMIA Virtual Twin
The partnership integrates "NVIDIA Omniverse physical AI libraries into the DELMIA Virtual Twin of global production systems" to test autonomous, software-defined production before deployment, with Virtual Companions on the 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform.
Partnership
28 Jan 2026Cordant Asset HealthBaker Hughes releases Cordant 26.1 industrial software
Release 26.1 adds AI-enabled failure mode mapping between domains and automated risk alignment, and updates Failure Mode Analytics and waveform analysis, on an open, composable platform. It was announced at the 2026 Baker Hughes Annual Meeting in Florence.
Product launch
27 Jan 2026SimioAegis Software completes acquisition of Simio
Aegis Software, an MES provider, finished buying Simio, which sells digital twin simulation and advanced planning and scheduling software. Simio's founder stays a shareholder.
Acquisition
27 Jan 2026Schaeffler OPTIMESchaeffler adds FAG OPTIME E-CM to monitor electrically driven machines Always-on
FAG OPTIME E-CM monitors current and voltage in three-phase motors from the control cabinet and sends the data to the Schaeffler Cloud, where machine learning finds patterns and creates maintenance recommendations. It complements OPTIME vibration sensors.
Product launch
27 Jan 2026MasterControl Quality ExcellenceMasterControl launches AI-powered SOP Analyzer
SOP Analyzer reviews SOPs against regulatory requirements with language models and retrieval, flags compliance gaps and suggests fixes. Generally available.
Product launch
26 Jan 2026CVectorCVector closes $5M seed round
Powerhouse Ventures led an oversubscribed seed to build its AI-native platform for real-time production recommendations.
Funding
22 Jan 2026Canvas EnvisionCanvas Envision adds agentic AI to Evie in Release 5.10 Agent
Evie AI Agents take existing PDFs and instructional videos and convert them into structured work instructions inside Envision Creator, using specialized agents for each content type.
Product launch
22 Jan 2026Aspen MtellEmerson ships a new Aspen Mtell release with AI alert grouping and prescribed fixes
The release adds industry and asset templates, AI-powered insights that group and prioritize alerts, an embedded FMEA that prescribes corrective action, a direct link to Emerson's AMS vibration monitoring and deeper EAM integration.
Product launch
21 Jan 2026Nexxa.aiNexxa.ai raises $9M seed
Construct Capital led the seed with a16z speedrun, to build AI agents for heavy industry engineering and operations.
Funding
21 Jan 2026Fracttal OneFracttal raises $35M led by Riverwood Capital
Fracttal raised about EUR 29.8 million ($35 million) to expand in Europe and Latin America and build AI, IoT and agentic features. Existing investors Seaya Ventures, Kayyak, GoHub and Amador joined.
Funding
21 Jan 2026ApprenticeApprentice acquires Ganymede
Apprentice bought Ganymede to build an AI-native platform that spans R&D through commercial manufacturing.
Acquisition
15 Jan 2026iBase-t SoluminaSolumina AI launches with four modules
iBase-t made Solumina AI generally available with ScanAI, Digital SME, Intelligence and PulseAI, built for regulated aerospace and defense manufacturing.
Product launch
15 Jan 2026LimbleLimble Winter Release adds Asset Snap, Resource Planning and MCP
Three AI capabilities: Asset Snap turns photos of equipment nameplates into asset records, Resource Planning gives AI workload and scheduling recommendations, and MCP connects Limble data to AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code. Available to U.S. customers at launch with a global rollout planned for summer 2026.
Product launch
14 Jan 2026Siemens Industrial CopilotSiemens plans nine new copilots, including one for Opcenter
At CES 2026 Siemens said it will deploy nine new AI copilots across its software, including Teamcenter, Polarion and Opcenter, available on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace.
Product launch
14 Jan 2026Prometheus GroupPrometheus Group acquires Webalo, an AI connected worker platform
Prometheus Group bought Webalo, the AI-connected worker platform for the frontline workforce, to build a closed-loop digital execution platform linking the plant floor to planning and the system of record.
Acquisition
13 Jan 2026TulipTulip raises $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric invested and signed a strategic alliance with Tulip. The release puts Tulip's valuation at $1.3B.
Funding
12 Jan 2026EvoconSYSPRO acquires Evocon
SYSPRO completed the acquisition of Evocon, the Estonia-based provider of real-time production monitoring and OEE software. The release says Evocon adds machine utilization, downtime and bottleneck visibility to SYSPRO's shop floor offer.
Acquisition
19 Dec 2025Mapex MESProalpha acquires Mapex
The Proalpha Group acquired Mapex Manufacturing Software Solutions, adding an AI-powered MES with the Maik assistant to its Digital Shopfloor business. Mapex stays available as a standalone MES.
Acquisition
17 Dec 2025Siemens Tecnomatix Plant SimulationSiemens launches an AI Copilot for Plant Simulation
Siemens introduces the AI Copilot for Plant Simulation, "engineered to function as your intelligent simulation guide", for Plant Simulation X users.
Product launch
17 Dec 2025MachineMetricsAI Summary panel added to the Daily Production Dashboard
A new AI Summary panel writes a headline, issues, data integrity flags and quality exceptions from the dashboard data, with a Recommendations tab.
Product launch
17 Dec 2025Ideagen Quality ManagementIdeagen launches its agentic AI, Mazlan Agent
Mazlan is Ideagen's agentic AI framework for quality and safety work, with human approval of its outputs. Ideagen says early pilots cut 30 minute tasks to two minutes.
Product launch
16 Dec 2025Prometheus GroupPrometheus Group acquires Actenum
Prometheus Group bought Actenum, a maker of AI-powered scheduling and optimization technology, to extend its AI scheduling to more asset-intensive industries including manufacturing.
Acquisition
16 Dec 2025AVEVA CONNECTAVEVA acquires Crosser
Crosser, a low-code edge and data pipeline company, said it has been acquired by AVEVA. Its technology is now the Flows capability in CONNECT, and the Crosser name is retired. The release gives no price.
Acquisition
11 Dec 2025ZentioZentio raises EUR 1.4M pre-seed
Pre-seed round led by HTGF with SI Ventures to build AI-native production planning and scheduling for European manufacturers.
Funding
9 Dec 2025AmperECI Software Solutions acquires Amper Technologies
ECI Software Solutions bought Amper Technologies to add production monitoring and AI-driven operational insight to its manufacturing ERP portfolio.
Acquisition
5 Dec 2025IBM Maximo Application SuiteIBM introduces Maximo Condition Insight
An agentic AI capability in Maximo asset performance management, powered by IBM watsonx. It evaluates work orders, meter readings, time-series data, FMEA and alerts, then explains asset condition and recommends corrective actions in plain language.
Product launch
25 Nov 2025IntelexIntelex introduces Input AI and Insight AI
Input AI fills form fields and extracts data from documents. Insight AI labels unstructured data and gives descriptive and predictive analytics.
Product launch
25 Nov 2025CerrionCerrion raises $18M Series A
Creandum led the round, with Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session VC, to scale its video AI agent platform in factories.
Funding
19 Nov 2025HighByte Intelligence HubVersion 4.3 adds an MCP Client and server tools
Version 4.3 adds an MCP Client so companies can control access to third-party MCP servers. It also adds ready-made MCP server tools for connections such as MQTT and OPC UA.
Product launch
19 Nov 2025FulcrumFulcrum and Datanomix link job plans to live production tracking
Datanomix and Fulcrum announced a partnership and integration that joins job planning and scheduling in Fulcrum with live production tracking in Datanomix, without middleware or manual entry.
Partnership
18 Nov 2025TulipTulip acquires AI company Akooda
Tulip bought Akooda, a Boston and Tel Aviv AI company focused on contextual enterprise data and real-time operational visibility. The Akooda team joins Tulip's AI and product groups.
Acquisition
18 Nov 2025Sight MachineSight Machine and Microsoft launch a joint industrial AI solution
Sight Machine and Microsoft launched an integrated industrial AI offering built on Microsoft's Adaptive Cloud architecture, spanning cloud, edge and on-premises.
Partnership
17 Nov 2025IntellectIntellect acquires Zaptic
Intellect bought Zaptic, a UK connected frontline worker platform with AI-enabled workflows, and will bring it to US customers.
Acquisition
13 Nov 2025RedzoneQAD | Redzone and AWS launch Champion AI for mid-market plants
QAD and AWS announced Champion AI, an agentic AI platform built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon SageMaker, with predictive insights and decision support inside manufacturing workflows.
Product launch
13 Nov 2025AzumutaAzumuta raises EUR 8M Series A
Keen Venture Partners led the round, with Capricorn Partners and returning investors. The money funds international growth and the platform for AI-supported digital work instructions, quality control and skills tracking.
Funding
12 Nov 2025Litmus EdgeInsight Partners leads new Litmus funding
Litmus announced additional funding from Insight Partners and Munich Re Ventures via HSB Fund II. The release gives no amount.
Funding
6 Nov 2025MachineMetricsMax AI launches as the agentic layer of the MES Agent
MachineMetrics launched Max AI, which unifies machine, ERP and documented knowledge data. It ships an Operator Assistant, Planner and Supervisor Agents, Max Reporter for shift handovers and an Onboarding Agent.
Product launch
5 Nov 2025Canvas EnvisionCanvas Envision launches Evie, an AI assistant for work instruction authoring
Evie sits inside Envision Creator and builds interactive, model-based work instructions from natural-language prompts: exploded views, parts lists, custom tables and labels.
Product launch
4 Nov 2025BasetwoNS Solutions becomes Basetwo's distributor in Japan
NS Solutions is Basetwo's authorized distributor in Japan and will offer the digital twin platform to Japanese manufacturers, with seminars and proof-of-concept projects.
Partnership
3 Nov 2025SamoticsABB launches drives with Samotics ESA technology embedded
ABB Motion Services launched a service at ADIPEC 2025 that embeds Samotics electrical signature analysis into legacy and high power drives, so a drive can feed condition monitoring analytics.
Partnership
29 Oct 2025iTAC.MOM.SuiteiTAC shows iTAC.CATi AI knowledge platform at productronica
iTAC presented iTAC.CATi, an AI chatbot that combines manuals, instructions and live MES data, alongside the iTAC.MOM.Suite and iTAC.MA.Suite.
Product launch
27 Oct 2025iTAC.MOM.SuiteiTAC shows the iTAC.CATi AI knowledge platform at productronica
iTAC presented CATi, an AI knowledge platform and chatbot that connects data, documents and expertise and runs local AI models, knowledge graphs and edge computing without a cloud connection.
Product launch
20 Oct 2025TwinThreadTwinThread launches Advisor, a generative AI assistant
Advisor answers operations questions in plain language, shows asset and process health, builds analyses and reports, and never alters data, workflows or setpoints without user approval. It starts as a free early-access preview.
Product launch
16 Oct 2025AvathonAvathon launches Autonomy for Aerospace Operations
A unified AI and knowledge platform that connects manufacturing, supply chain and maintenance data so aerospace producers and repair operations can coordinate production and in-service maintenance decisions.
Product launch
15 Oct 2025QualioQualio makes Compliance Intelligence generally available Always-on
Maps quality data to requirements such as FDA QMSR and ISO 13485, flags gaps as evidence changes and guides remediation, with audit trails.
Product launch
14 Oct 2025Zebra Aurora VisionAurora Vision 5.6 ships with a new object-locating deep learning architecture
The 5.6 release notes list a DL_LocateObjects tool "based on completely new architecture, producing significantly higher accuracy", masking and multiple regions of interest in deep learning anomaly detection, and training without a validation set.
Product launch
14 Oct 2025Veeva QMSVeeva says AI agents will reach Quality in April 2026
Veeva announced Veeva AI Agents for all its applications, with Safety and Quality agents planned for April 2026. Agents use application data, documents and workflows, and customers can build custom agents.
Product launch
14 Oct 2025MVTec HALCONMVTec announces HALCON 25.11 with faster deep learning
HALCON 25.11 adds Continual Learning for classification, faster Deep OCR on embedded hardware and MobileNetV4 support. Release date was 2025-11-12.
Product launch
7 Oct 2025TulipTulip unveils Composable AI Agents Agent
Tulip launched configurable AI agents for frontline operations that can enforce quality checks, reschedule production tasks and automate rework. Teams build agents in an agent builder or take pre-built ones from the Library.
Product launch
7 Oct 2025ComplianceQuestComplianceQuest adopts Salesforce Agentforce as its agent framework
ComplianceQuest and Salesforce renewed their partnership. ComplianceQuest will use Agentforce as the core agentic AI framework for its products.
Partnership
2 Oct 2025ComplianceQuestComplianceQuest Summer '25 adds CQ.AI agents
The Investigation Assistant guides standardized investigations. CQ.AI also pulls details from nonconformance reports, generates training questions and forecasts supplier performance.
Product launch
Oct 2025Fero LabsFero and Steel Hub partner for European steel producers
Fero and Steel Hub partner so steel producers can turn process data into measured gains in energy, quality and yield.
Partnership
25 Sep 2025Prometheus GroupPrometheus Group launches GWOS-AI for maintenance planning and scheduling
GWOS-AI is an AI-powered planning and scheduling layer on top of Prometheus Planning & Scheduling and the ERP. It automates routine tasks such as filtering work orders and rebalancing schedules when asked, and planners direct an AI assistant in natural language.
Product launch
25 Sep 2025FlexcitonFlexciton and Intel partner on fab automation and scheduling
Flexciton's autonomous planning and scheduling suite joins Intel Automated Factory Solutions software, including Intel Operations Recon and Intel Factory Pathfinder, for chipmakers moving toward autonomous operations.
Partnership
24 Sep 2025Akselos Structural Performance ManagementGRO makes a follow-on investment in Akselos
Software private equity firm GRO completes a follow-on investment to scale real-time structural performance management. The amount is not disclosed.
Funding
23 Sep 2025AugmentirAugmentir adds an AR extension to its AI platform
Augmentir released an augmented reality extension to onboard, upskill and support connected workers, built on its AI-native platform.
Product launch
19 Sep 2025MachineMetricsWM Synergy partnership brings AI analytics to Infor ERP users
MachineMetrics and WM Synergy partnered to connect live machine data to Infor Visual, SyteLine and XA ERP, with AI-driven analytics and predictive insights. The teams plan to extend the connector to Acumatica.
Partnership
18 Sep 2025BRAINRBRAINR raises seed round for food factory MES
BRAINR raised an EUR 11 million ($13 million) seed round led by C2 Capital Partners to expand its cloud MES for food manufacturing. The company spun out of a poultry group in 2023.
Funding
17 Sep 2025LandingLensABB brings LandingAI vision AI into its robot software
ABB Robotics will build LandingAI vision AI, such as LandingLens, into its own software suite. ABB Robotics Ventures also invested, with the amount not disclosed.
Partnership
17 Sep 2025IgnitionInductive Automation previews an MCP module for Ignition
At the 2025 Ignition Community Conference the company previewed an MCP module that lets Ignition expose tag data, database access and configuration to AI systems, and lets users build custom MCP servers in Designer. It was a proof of concept planned for 2026.
Product launch
16 Sep 2025SymphonyAI IRIS FoundrySymphonyAI brings IRIS Foundry to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot
IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams connects through the Model Context Protocol, so users ask plain-language questions in Copilot and trigger workflows from Teams.
Product launch
16 Sep 2025Sight MachineNVentures invests in Sight Machine
NVentures, the venture arm of NVIDIA, made an equity investment in Sight Machine alongside the agent launch. The release gives no amount.
Funding
16 Sep 2025Sight MachineSight Machine launches industrial AI agents and AppBuilder CoPilot Agent
The agents let operators without data engineering skills work with plant data. AppBuilder CoPilot uses several agents to build a complete industrial application from one plain-language prompt.
Product launch
11 Sep 2025Proficy Smart Factory MESTPG agrees to buy Proficy from GE Vernova for $600 million
GE Vernova and TPG signed a binding agreement for TPG to acquire the Proficy software business, which includes MES, HMI/SCADA, historian and analytics. GE Vernova said it would focus on grid and electrification software.
Acquisition
10 Sep 2025KCF TechnologiesKCF and FUCHS Lubricants partner on AI and smart lubrication
FUCHS Lubricants Co. and KCF announced a strategic partnership that combines FUCHS lubrication expertise with KCF's real-time monitoring to cut lubrication-related machine failures.
Partnership
9 Sep 2025Cognite Data FusionAtlas AI major release adds agent templates Agent
Cognite released a major version of Atlas AI, a low-code agent workbench. It adds templates for time series analysis, work packages, shift handover summaries and work order classification, and granular access controls for agents.
Product launch
3 Sep 2025UpKeepUpKeep launches Nova, an AI agent for maintenance work Agent
Nova reviews CMMS history, asset records and maintenance patterns, then creates work orders, assigns technicians, orders parts and updates records through natural language. It is embedded in the core platform and priced by credits that charge when Nova takes action.
Product launch
21 Aug 2025ApprenticeAgentic AI added to the Apprentice pharma MES Agent
Apprentice briefed analysts on agents for authoring, quality and process in its MES. Authoring and quality agents were due in the September 2025 release, process in limited release, scheduling and continuous improvement agents by year end.
Product launch
21 Aug 2025Aegis FactoryLogixPeak Rock Capital affiliate completes acquisition of Aegis
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital, a middle-market private investment firm, completed its acquisition of Aegis Industrial Software, the MES maker behind FactoryLogix.
Acquisition
19 Aug 2025MasterControl Quality ExcellenceMasterControl launches AI-powered Regulatory Chat
A natural language chat for questions over global regulations such as the US Code of Federal Regulations, made generally available.
Product launch
12 Aug 2025SquintSquint raises $40M Series B
The Westly Group and TCV co-led the round, with Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures taking part. SiliconANGLE reports the round values Squint at $265M and brings total funding to more than $59M.
Funding
4 Aug 2025TDengine IDMPTDengine releases IDMP, an AI-native industrial data platform Always-on
IDMP detects application scenarios from collected data, then builds dashboards, analyzes in real time and monitors anomalies on its own. It was available for download and as a 15-day trial on TDengine Cloud.
Product launch
1 Aug 2025SixsenseSixsense raises $8.5M
Sixsense closed an $8.5M round led by Peak XV's Surge to expand its semiconductor AI platform into Malaysia, Taiwan and the US.
Funding
31 Jul 2025Invisible AIInvisible AI moves to acquire nFlux
Invisible AI said it is working to acquire nFlux, a NASA-born maker of AI co-pilots for manual assembly. The deal joins nFlux's real-time worker guidance and assembly tracking with Invisible AI's edge computer vision platform.
Acquisition
29 Jul 2025Critical Manufacturing MESCritical Manufacturing acquires Convanit for AI image analysis
Critical Manufacturing bought Convanit, an AI specialist in image-based analytics for high-tech manufacturing. Its c-Alice engine lets manufacturers build and deploy custom visual inspection AI models without data science skills.
Acquisition
25 Jul 2025Siemens Tecnomatix Process SimulateSiemens describes Copilot in Process Simulate and AI ergonomic checks
Siemens says the Copilot is "readily available in Process Simulate" to diagnose robotic simulation issues and recommend fixes such as shorter robot cycle times, and that AI can match a photo of a worker at a station to a virtual model for an ergonomic risk check.
Product launch
24 Jul 2025CVectorCVector raises $1.5M pre-seed
Schematic Ventures led the pre-seed round.
Funding
24 Jul 2025BasetwoBasetwo leads AI for a Canada-UK bioreactor project
Basetwo supplies the AI for BALANCE, a 20-month project that builds a closed-loop AI control system on its digital twin technology to adjust bioprocess conditions in real time. A $2M grant funds the project.
Partnership
22 Jul 2025FuuzFuuz MCP Driver connects LLMs to plant data
Fuuz introduced the MCP Driver, an edge feature that gives LLMs, starting with Claude, real-time access to manufacturing data and lets users build apps by describing them.
Product launch
18 Jul 2025KCF TechnologiesKCF and Polytron partner to bring machine health monitoring to food and beverage plants
KCF and Polytron, a systems integrator, announced a strategic relationship that pairs KCF's IoT and AI machine health monitoring with Polytron's integration work for food and beverage manufacturers.
Partnership
9 Jul 2025MaintainXMaintainX raises $150M Series D
MaintainX announced $150 million in Series D funding to expand its AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform. Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures were among the investors named.
Funding
3 Jul 2025AVEVA CONNECTIndustrial AI Assistant opens to all CONNECT visualization users
AVEVA said the generative AI Industrial AI Assistant is now available to all CONNECT visualization users. Users ask industrial-specific questions in natural language through a chat interface.
Product launch
2 Jul 2025ValGenesisValGenesis unveils Smart GxP with the VAL AI assistant
Smart GxP joins validation and process lifecycle apps. VAL generates protocols, captures data and reviews documents, flagging exceptions against approved SOPs.
Product launch
1 Jul 2025HighByte Intelligence HubIntelligence Hub 4.2 adds an Industrial MCP Server
Version 4.2 embeds an MCP server that exposes data pipelines as tools to AI agents. It also adds LLM-assisted data contextualization through Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenAI and local models.
Product launch
Jul 2025IFS UltimoUltimo launches its first digital worker for HSE incident reporting Agent
Ultimo launched its first AI digital worker, for health, safety and environment incident reporting, in July 2025.
Product launch
24 Jun 2025IBM Maximo Application SuiteMaximo 9.1 reaches general availability with the Maximo Assistant
IBM announced Maximo Application Suite 9.1 generally available, adding Maximo Real Estate and Facilities and a new generative AI assistant built with watsonx.ai to raise workforce productivity.
Product launch
20 Jun 2025BasetwoBasetwo adds Process Verification
Users can compare simulated batch behavior with historical production data to find deviations, anomalies and unexpected shifts in key process variables.
Product launch
18 Jun 2025ElementaryElementary introduces VisionStream Always-on
VisionStream is an edge AI that watches the production line, learns what normal looks like and flags defects within seconds, with no labeling, vision expertise or line stoppage.
Product launch
17 Jun 2025OverviewOverview launches OV Auto-Integration Builder
A generative AI tool writes Node-RED integration flows from a plain-language description of the automation setup, to cut PLC and MES integration time.
Product launch
17 Jun 2025Fero LabsFero Labs lists its AI process optimization in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Fero announced its AI-based process optimization software is available in the Azure Marketplace, so steel producers can deploy it across multiple mills.
Partnership
11 Jun 2025RIIICORIIICO raises $5M seed to digitalize established factories
Pi Labs leads a $5 million seed round for RIIICO's AI platform that builds 3D factory twins from LiDAR scans.
Funding
10 Jun 2025Taqtile ManifestManifest joins the DigiLens DigiSaaS marketplace
Manifest, described in the release as an "AI-powered, AR-enabled work instruction platform", became available to organizations on the DigiLens ARGO smart glasses platform through its DigiSaaS marketplace.
Partnership
10 Jun 2025OverviewOverview launches OV Auto-Defect Creator Studio
A generative AI tool makes photorealistic synthetic defects on real production parts, to train vision models without waiting for defective material.
Product launch
9 Jun 2025Cognex OneVisionCognex announces OneVision cloud platform for AI vision
OneVision is a cloud platform to build, train and scale AI vision applications with guided workflows. It started with select customers on In-Sight 3800 and 8900 systems, with more products planned for early 2026.
Product launch
4 Jun 2025Manex AIManex AI closes EUR 8 million seed round
Manex AI closed an EUR 8 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and BlueYard Capital for its manufacturing optimization agents.
Funding
4 Jun 2025DatanomixAI added to FactoryMate, TMAC ai and G-Code Cloud
Datanomix announced expanded AI across its portfolio: FactoryMate as a digital floor supervisor, TMAC ai for process control and AI error checks in G-Code Cloud + DNC.
Product launch
Jun 2025AlisQIAlisQI adds an opt-in AI assistant for no-code quality setups
An AI assistant helps users build expressions for no-code quality configurations. It is opt-in.
Product launch
29 May 2025Litmus EdgeLitmus MCP Server connects AI tools to Litmus Edge
Litmus described its official MCP server, a bridge between large language models and Litmus Edge. It is open source and works with Claude Desktop, VS Code and Cursor.
Product launch
22 May 2025AspenTech AVAEmerson describes AVA advisor for Aspen PIMS and DMC3
The Aspen Virtual Advisor lets users ask natural-language questions to find process bottlenecks or ways to reach goals, using Aspen PIMS planning and Aspen DMC3 adaptive control.
Product launch
20 May 2025Körber PAS-X MESKörber unveils PAS-X K.AI and PAS-X MES 3.4
At its Software Pharma Open conference Körber unveiled PAS-X K.AI, "a web-based AI chatbot that simplifies the operation and management of PAS-X MES software products", and PAS-X MES 3.4 with AI support.
Product launch
15 May 2025akenoakeno raises EUR 4.5M seed
Seed round led by Cusp Capital with TS Ventures and another.vc to scale its AI production planning software and enter new industries.
Funding
15 May 2025MasterControl Manufacturing ExcellenceMaster Template Generator beta for batch records
MasterControl released the beta of Master Template Generator for the Mx Production Records module. Users convert a paper batch record to a digital one, generate templates and revise batch records through chat.
Product launch
14 May 2025TrackWiseHoneywell launches AI-assisted TrackWise Recall Management
A cloud platform that takes a manufacturer through a recall from first signal to resolution, narrows the affected batches and automates recall workflows.
Product launch
13 May 2025Siemens Insights HubSiemens says its Operations Copilot is available on Insights Hub
At Automate 2025 Siemens said the Operations Copilot, which gives holistic insights into the entire plant, is currently available for Insights Hub. It planned a shop floor version for the end of 2025.
Product launch
12 May 2025Siemens Industrial CopilotSiemens introduces industrial AI agents behind its copilots Agent
Siemens introduced industrial AI agents that run behind its Industrial Copilots, with an orchestrator for specialized agents and a planned agent marketplace on Siemens Xcelerator. The copilots named are Design, Planning, Engineering, Operations and Services (Senseye).
Product launch
6 May 2025Musashi AIMusashi AI updates Cendiant Inspect and the Automated Shaft Inspector
The update adds a surface inspection model for chatter defects on camshafts and similar parts, with results close to dedicated optical shaft measurement machines.
Product launch
6 May 2025LandingLensLandingAI joins Snowflake's automotive solutions
LandingAI made its visual AI platform available natively through Snowflake's automotive solutions, for defect detection and assembly verification in manufacturing.
Partnership
5 May 2025IPerceptIPercept raises EUR 5M to scale its predictive AI platform
Luminar Ventures led the round, with RunwayFBU, Backstage Invest, AI.Fund and existing investors including J12.
Funding
4 May 2025ABB Genix Industrial IoT and AI SuiteABB adds Genix APM Copilot to Genix Asset Performance Management
Genix APM Copilot adds large language models and generative AI, running on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, to Genix APM. Users chat or speak in natural language to retrieve and analyze asset data and speed root-cause investigation.
Product launch

05The deals

Every acquisition and funding round we dated in the window, newest first.

06Method and data

Who is on the map. A company earns a row if a plant manager, or a production, quality, maintenance or manufacturing engineering team, can license its AI to schedule, run, inspect, maintain, measure or improve the plant’s work. That includes MES and manufacturing operations management, machine monitoring and OEE, quality management systems, AI visual inspection, maintenance management, predictive maintenance and asset performance, industrial data platforms and historians, connected worker and work instruction apps, production scheduling, standalone industrial AI agents and process optimization, and digital twins and simulation of lines and plants. The manufacturing ERPs are on the map from their home rows on the supply chain planning map; their rows here describe what they sell the plant floor. Robots, PLCs, sensors and cameras sold as hardware alone, product design and PLM software, supply chain planning, warehouse and logistics software, safety software sold to EHS teams, general BI and general-purpose IoT clouds are left off, and so are systems integrators and consultancies. A vendor that sells its own sensors or cameras with its software keeps its row and carries a flag. A name in a roundup is not a tool: every row rests on the vendor’s own site, or on dated trade press where that site would not open for us, and the data marks those rows as reported. The map covers companies we found, not every company that exists. Corrections and additions are welcome.

One category per company. Each company sits in the category its own headline sells. Many vendors sell execution, quality, maintenance and analytics on one platform, so the six stage columns and the capability list carry the rest. A company owned by another keeps its own row while it still sells its own product, and names its owner. A product line is its own row when the vendor sells it under its own name, as Siemens does with Opcenter and Senseye.

What counts as an event. A product launch, a funding round, an acquisition, a partnership, a rebrand, a shutdown, or published research, dated between the window’s first and last day. Every event links to a page we opened that prints its date, preferably the vendor’s own release, blog or changelog, otherwise the trade press. No date is inferred. A date marks the first time we saw a capability launch in the window, not the first time the company ever offered it. Some launches were announced before they shipped; those carry a status (announced, preview or beta). An acquisition is logged once, on the company that changed owner when it has a row, otherwise on the buyer.

How autonomous a launch is. We label each AI launch from the vendor’s own description of it. Assistive AI drafts, predicts or suggests when a person asks. An agent completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as investigating a downtime event and drafting the work order, or rebuilding a schedule after a machine stops. Always-on AI runs without a prompt, such as watching machine health for failures or inspecting every part on the line. Vendors use the word agent loosely; we used it only when the vendor names a step the software completes without a person. Where the page says a company shipped an agent or always-on AI, a launch the vendor has only announced does not count. A launch in beta does.

Who it is built for. Two flags, set only from the vendor’s own pages: own hardware, for a vendor that sells its own sensors, cameras or devices with the software, and life sciences ready, for a product the vendor says is validated for GxP or FDA 21 CFR Part 11 work.

How it was made. We worked through the market one part at a time from a written spec, and logged each company and each event with the pages it rests on. A second, independent read then checked every event against its source and every company row against the company’s own headline page. It fixed dates and claims that did not hold up, and dropped duplicates, launches with no AI in them, and companies with no AI on their own pages or outside the map’s scope. Where a vendor’s own site would not open, we cite a dated copy of its release in the trade press or on a wire service; tool directories and news aggregators do not count. Funding figures come only from the company’s own release or a named report. Nothing here is a ranking: the stage cells show what a company sells, not how well it sells it, and a launch count measures how much a company announces.

The stages of manufacturing operations

Plan
Plan and schedule production: schedules, capacity, materials and the shift plan.
Run
Run production: work orders, dispatch, tracking, genealogy and operator instructions.
Quality
Assure quality: inspection, defects, nonconformances, CAPAs and audits.
Maintain
Maintain assets: work orders, preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability.
Monitor
Connect and measure: machine and process data, historians, OEE and downtime.
Improve
Improve the process: root cause, set points, yield and energy, simulation and digital twins.

The capabilities

AI scheduling
AI that builds, sequences or repairs production schedules and capacity plans.
Production execution
AI that dispatches work orders, tracks work in progress or flags production losses as they happen.
Work instructions
AI that writes work instructions or procedures, or guides operators step by step.
Visual inspection
AI that inspects parts or products from cameras or images and flags defects.
Quality event analysis
AI that drafts or triages nonconformances, deviations, CAPAs, complaints or audits, or finds their root cause.
Predictive maintenance
AI that detects anomalies or predicts failures from machine and sensor data.
Maintenance work and troubleshooting
AI that writes work orders, plans preventive maintenance or guides a technician through a repair.
Process optimization
AI that recommends or sets process parameters for yield, throughput, quality or energy.
Data contextualization
AI that connects, maps or models plant data, such as tags, assets and events.
Digital twin and simulation
AI that models a line, plant or process to test changes before making them.
Production analytics
AI that answers questions about plant data or writes the shift, downtime or OEE report.
Assistant
A general AI assistant or chat over the product's data.
Named agent
A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own.
MCP or agent API
An MCP server, agent API, or apps inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot.

How autonomous a launch is

Assistive
Drafts, scores, predicts or suggests when a person asks. The person does each step.
Agent
Completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as investigating a downtime event and drafting the work order, or rebuilding a schedule after a machine stops.
Always-on
Runs continuously without a prompt, such as watching machine health for failures or inspecting every part on the line.

Who it is built for

Own hardware
Sells its own sensors, cameras or devices with the software.
Life sciences ready
Built for regulated life sciences manufacturing: validated for GxP or FDA 21 CFR Part 11.