During the “Edge AI: Driving Smarter Machine Health Monitoring for Energy Infrastructure” panel at IIoT World Energy Day 2026, poll results showed that most energy operators are just beginning to explore AI for asset monitoring. Some have completed a first deployment, but only a small percentage have scaled these solutions across multiple assets or sites. […]
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AI, prescriptive maintenance, and edge analytics are reshaping how process plants run. Yet the gap between a successful pilot and full-scale impact rarely closes on technology alone. The differentiators are culture, operating model, and data foundations.Build versus partner: keep the core, rent the niche Keep in-house: architecture, data governance, cybersecurity, product ownership, and integration with […]
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Jason Schern, Field CTO at Cognite, reveals the uncomfortable truth about industrial AI: companies are building solutions that can’t scale beyond a single site, and it’s killing their ROI.The 140-to-Zero ProblemDuring a recent audit, a large upstream oil company in Asia discovered something shocking: they had developed 140 applications and agents across 11 offshore assets. […]
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