It pulls Modbus, BACnet, OPC UA, S7 and other plant protocols at the edge, then exposes that data to an AI assistant over MCP while publishing northbound on MQTT, Sparkplug B and OPC UA.
For controls: stand up a single binary on a gateway PC, register tags, and let Claude or another MCP client read live OT data without a custom middleware project.
Leads at Pella and Hexion describe pilots that free time for problem-solving, while Hexion's manufacturing IT lead warns that AI vendors often do not understand chemical plant safety and compliance.
Helenio Gilabert describes a system where separate agents track servers, controllers, disk health, network errors and alarm floods to ISA-18.2, and one agent rolls it all into a health score per piece of equipment. A scheduler agent turns failure predictions into work orders, and everything runs air-gapped on site.
The software runs on top of the existing SCADA, and the unnamed client also reports at least 2.5% lower annual power costs and up to 4% more throughput on a line apportioned about 37% of the time. These are vendor figures; the full results are due at the AVEVA Pipeline Summit on Oct 27.