IFS launches IFS Intelligence to address industrial challenges
IFS, a leading provider of Industrial AI software, has launched IFS Intelligence, which collates data from assets, systems and processes throughout an industrial operation and turns it into meaningful action in minutes
Built around everything the operation already knows – its assets, work orders, schedules and history – IFS Intelligence understands how that operation runs, bringing Industrial AI to the point of work: people in the field, on the plant floor, on a rig or in the office can ask questions in plain language through a single conversational interface. IFS Intelligence reasons across live operational data to explain what is happening and plan what should happen next, with the sources shown. It can then act on that plan, governed by IFS’s Industrial AI Harness, and within the limits set by the business.
Customers are already using IFS Intelligence across a number of business-critical scenarios. One recent use case was experienced by a production manager who learned that a large order due next quarter was at risk. Finding out why, and what to do about it, meant connecting inventory, production capacity, supplier commitments, logistics constraints and the financial impact of delay. With IFS Intelligence, one question can identify the risk, surface likely causes and recommend the next action, which the manager can approve and set in motion. What used to take several reports, systems and specialists, or might not have even been possible, becomes one governed flow from question to action.
IFS Intelligence harnesses Industrial AI in three ways:
- Ask and act with Cowork: question live operational data in plain language, investigate problems and prepare actions that run only once a person provides approval. Any answer can become a Lens, a live view that keeps updating as the operation moves, and work that succeeds once can be saved as a Skill for anyone to repeat.
- Delegate with Loops: hand defined workflows to digital workers that run in the background and escalate when judgment or approval is needed.
- Extend with Runway: use plain-language requirements to speed up the migration, configuration and extension of IFS, with less implementation effort and less risk.
Underneath all three, the IFS Industrial AI Harness applies the context and controls that industrial operations require.
Mark Moffat, CEO, IFS, commented, “We often see industrial organisations operating at around 60% of their potential. The missing 40% is already inside the business. It sits in the expertise of the control room, the knowledge of the night shift, and the data spread across every system. IFS Intelligence brings all of it together and puts it to work. People can ask a question, take action, or hand a task to a digital worker, all within the rules, permissions and approvals that govern their business. That is how industry closes the gap.”
IFS Intelligence was launched at IFS Unleashed, the company's flagship industrial AI event which took place in Orlando, USA, and brought together innovators and visionaries from the world’s leading Industrial businesses to redefine what AI-connected intelligence can achieve. Unleashed showcased how AI-driven insights and agentic automation can combine to unlock new levels of performance.
