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Industrial Intelligence Archive
Deep dives into autonomous systems, neural architecture for heavy industry, and the future of machine cognition.
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ABB recently asked an essential question: Can AI help with energy optimization? They are absolutely right—this is about so much more than pretty dashboards and surface-layer data. As ABB highlights in their article, moving from simple energy monitoring to true
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From the Gridiron to the Control Room: How Bill Walsh’s Philosophy Drives Better Process Automation You may know Bill Walsh as the legendary NFL coach who turned the San Francisco 49ers into a dynasty. His famous principle? “The score takes care
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How a Former Plant Manager Discovered That Perfect Data—and a Little AI—Might Just Be the Key to Industrial Nirvana Ten years into his career, Brian McWhorter was offered the plant manager’s chair. He turned it down. “I just didn’t like
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Deloitte’s 2025 research highlights a clear truth for process manufacturers: before AI can deliver value, the data foundation must be solid. The industry is moving from “AI excitement” to ROI-driven execution — and it starts with data that’s clean, connected,
- Bravura-AI
Founder and CEO Brian McWhorter: “I am thrilled to share that Bravura-AI has been granted another year of support by Microsoft through the Founders Hub program. This renewal reflects Microsoft’s confidence in our technology and progress, and I share that
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78% of companies use AI — but most can’t prove the ROI. The reason isn’t the tech. It’s the data. Disconnected systems mean AI can’t learn, optimize, or automate effectively.That’s where Bravura-AI is different, as the foundation that makes industrial AI actually work. Check out our
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Dreaming Big Imagine a world where your plant doesn’t just operate, it thinks. Where production lines anticipate disruptions before they happen, where emissions fall, output rises, and compliance takes care of itself. That may sound like science fiction, but it’s
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Generic-AI tools are failing in complex industrial settings, and the reason is fundamental. They operate on the flawed premise that your data is simple and accessible. In reality, industrial data is a tower of Babel: disaggregated across historians, P&IDs, PLCs,
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Unplanned shutdowns. Missed KPIs. The 2 a.m. call where everything is down and your heart rate spikes before you’ve even picked up the phone. If you run operations in pharma, oil & gas, or specialty chemicals, you know this reality