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Yokogawa Electric Corporation and quauntumEDGE portfolio company UptimeAI Inc. today announced a strategic business and capital partnership to advance industrial asset performance management through AI. The agreement includes a capital investment by Yokogawa in UptimeAI and will integrate UptimeAI's AI-powered operational excellence platform into Yokogawa's OpreX Asset Health Insights service.
The combined solution aims to provide a comprehensive AI assistant for plant operators, leveraging advanced Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI agents and self-learning workflows to deliver predictive insights and root cause analysis. This will help customers reduce maintenance and operational costs, ultimately leading to higher profitability. The integrated offering will be available to industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, cement, and power.
"Global manufacturers are looking for intelligent applications that go beyond basic monitoring to identify root causes and drive continuous improvement," said Yukihiro Funyu, a senior vice president at Yokogawa. "UptimeAI's technology perfectly fits this need."
Jagadish Gattu, CEO of UptimeAI, added, "This partnership allows us to expand the reach of our AI technology and help customers transition to smarter, more resilient operations with increased profitability through higher reliability and efficiency."
For more details on the partnership, please refer to the announcements from Yokogawa and UptimeAI.
UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based AI software company that provides operational excellence capabilities through its AI Expert OEx platform. The company empowers engineers to quickly solve operational issues by automatically diagnosing the root cause and suggesting mitigations.
Yokogawa provides advanced solutions in the areas of measurement, control, and information to customers across a broad range of industries, including energy, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. A global leader in industrial automation and control, Yokogawa was founded in Tokyo in 1915 and has a presence in 60 countries with more than 17,000 employees.