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XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI in Manufacturing, 2026
XMPro's Agentic Operations Platform runs governed agentic AI on the manufacturing shop floor: product development, production, quality, and maintenance under bounded autonomy. Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Manufacturing, 2026, published 9 July 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro mentioned in the 2026 Gartner® Agentic Arbitrage: Decoupled Workflows Unlock ERP's $40 Billion Agentic Core Report
XMPro Multi-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS) run yield-preservation agents in mining: real-time equipment health, failure prediction, and dynamic maintenance orchestration under bounded autonomy. Mentioned as a Case in Point in Gartner report titled Agentic Arbitrage: Decoupled Workflows Unlock ERP's $40 Billion Agentic Core, published 2 July 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor in Two Categories of the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Agentic Automation, 2026
XMPro's Agentic Operations Platform pairs APEX for Agent Orchestration with MAGS for Agentic AI on one governed platform for industrial operations. Named as a Sample Vendor in two categories of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Agentic Automation, 2026, published 7 July 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Digital Twins for Products category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Discrete Manufacturing Technologies, 2026
XMPro's Agentic Operations Platform runs governed digital twins for industrial products across design, manufacturing, and in-service operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Digital Twins for Products in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Discrete Manufacturing Technologies, 2026, published 6 July 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in CG category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Consumer Goods, 2026
XMPro's Agentic Operations Platform brings governed agentic AI to consumer goods manufacturing: batch, packaging, and supply-chain operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in CG in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Consumer Goods, 2026, published 29 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Strategic Cost Management, 2026
XMPro's Agentic Operations Platform shapes industrial cost at the decision: earlier action, bounded autonomy, per-decision economics. Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management, 2026, published 25 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Orchestration category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for IT Operations, 2026
XMPro APEX is the unified control plane for industrial agentic operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Orchestration in the Gartner Hype Cycle for IT Operations, 2026, published 24 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
An Ontology Is Not a Graph Database
Why industrial context needs a system of fit-for-purpose data stores, standardized and governed, before an agent can act on it safely.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Who Owns Your Context Layer?
France's intelligence agency dropped a platform it could not itself turn off. Any operator building an industrial context layer faces the same exposure, and the consolidation into OEM stacks makes it urgent. The procurement question has changed from which platform has the best features to: whatever happens to this vendor, what do I still own?
Pieter van Schalkwyk
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Multiagent Systems category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for AI in Oil and Gas, 2026
XMPro Multi-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS) is the centrally-planned, physics-grounded operating layer for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. Named as a Sample Vendor for Multiagent Systems in the Gartner Hype Cycle for AI in Oil and Gas, 2026, published 24 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke
How Do Agents Make Decisions Under Uncertainty?
An XMPro technical white paper. The decision happens outside the model, in a decision layer — how an operator agent decides under uncertainty on a Sequential Decision Analytics foundation, and why the decision still reproduces exactly.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Agentic Operations in Action: Depropaniser Optimization Example
An approved-access walkthrough of XMPro agentic operations in an industrial setting.
XXMPro
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cloud Computing, 2026
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2026, published 12 June 2026.
Wouter Beneke