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Schneider Electric is buying PTC for $22.6 billion
With AVEVA owned and Cognite pending, Schneider is putting design, plant and energy data in one place. That's the data AI agents need.
With AVEVA owned and Cognite pending, Schneider is putting design, plant and energy data in one place. That's the data AI agents need.
Plants and data centers over 200 MW could get onto the grid faster than through the standard queue.
The screen and the agent drive one engine, reads are always allowed, and any live write to the PLC needs a one-time confirmation token. Download to hardware is left unbuilt on purpose rather than guessed.
For controls engineers running Delta PLCs: let an agent scaffold and check ladder logic, with live writes gated behind an explicit yes.
It connects to SAP PM, Maximo, UpKeep, OPC UA and MQTT. As of version 0.4.0, by default it waits for a person's OK before it creates a work order or makes any other change.
For reliability engineers: ask "what's the history on pump P-201?" and get the work orders, parts and the manual's procedure from your own systems.