Oil Co Intern posted a short video captioned 'Me and the boys using AI in the Oil and Gas industry' that drew about 497,000 views and 5,596 likes. It is a joke, and it reads as a mood check on how field crews see the AI pitch.
SAP unveiled Physical AI at TechEd, and at Holcim a maintenance plan in SAP Plant Maintenance now triggers inspections by quadruped robots and industrial drones of conveyor belts and kilns. Once the inspection runs, a maintenance notification is created back in SAP. Inspection is moving inside the maintenance workflow instead of beside it.
An analyst summary of Hubbell's third-quarter results says data center sales grew more than 80% organically, substation components more than 20%, and utility backlog rose more than $500 million this year. The grid hardware order book is where the AI build-out shows up in numbers.
A post from George Merchant describes a Master Forge plant digital twin assembled from PanelCAD electrical drawings and PLC logic rather than built by hand. The idea is useful; the proof so far is a vendor post.