AI Agents in MES: Beyond the Chatbot
· Smart Manufacturing

AI Agents in MES: Beyond the Chatbot

At GE Vernova Accelerate 2026, Smita Bhat and Brian Johnson presented the Proficy AI roadmap spanning seven initiative themes across MES, Historian, and SCADA. The roadmap organizes AI capabilities into three tiers: chatbots that wait for input and respond once, copilots that suggest actions while the user stays in control, and autonomous agents that detect […]

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How Agentic AI Changes Factory Data Requirements
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

How Agentic AI Changes Factory Data Requirements

Most factory data architectures today serve between 10 and 50 consuming systems. Agentic AI will push that number into the thousands, a 100x increase in edge-based data consumers. The ISA-95 layer-by-layer model was not designed for this volume, and manufacturers need to rethink their data infrastructure before scaling AI agents. IDC reports that 56.6% of […]

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