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20 posts tagged with "industrial-ai".
Decision Engineering Comes Before Agent Design
List the decisions first. Then decide, for each one, how it should be made, who holds the authority and what evidence it needs.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Intelligence Is Fungible. Operational Context Is Not.
For a model of equivalent performance, the price of intelligence falls about ten times a year. That figure is a16z's own, from their analysis of inference pricing.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Six Things Pharma Should Prepare to Demonstrate About an AI Agent
The draft European rules for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine manufacturing are blunt about language models. Annex 22 to the European Union (EU) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, published for consultation in July 2025, says generative AI and large language models "should not be
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The Agent Is the Cheap Part
Owning your agent IP and owning the platform underneath it are separate commitments. Most build business cases only price the first.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The AI Labs Want Cover. Industry Never Had Any.
The frontier labs want a regulator to answer for what their models do. In industry, the company that runs the plant answers for what its equipment does, and it builds the guardrails itself.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Maintenance AI Agents Need Rules for When They Disagree
McKinsey shows what single AI agents can already do in maintenance. The harder problem starts when several of them work on the same plant.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Software-Defined Operations Writes the Decision Down for AI Agents
Software-defined operations means the logic behind an operating decision lives in one place in software. Today it is spread across spreadsheets, procedures, control settings, approval routes and the experience of a few senior people.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
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
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
288 Years of Research Behind MAGS
The oldest idea in the MAGS codebase was published in 1738. A tour of the 288-year research lineage built into MAGS — every architectural layer traced to the published work it implements, cited at the line of code.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The Industrial AI Agent Manifesto
The Digital Twin Consortium has published the Industrial AI Agent Manifesto — a governance framework for deploying AI agents in safety-critical industrial environments. Ten engineering laws for trustworthy autonomous operations.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
XMPro CEO Pieter van Schalkwyk Speaks at CIIT Mining Conference in Peru on Agentic Operations and Building Trust in Industrial AI
Pieter van Schalkwyk presents on agentic operations and building trust in industrial AI at the CIIT Latam Congress in Lima, Peru.
Pieter van Schalkwyk