Real Industrial AI doesn't replace your control systems or operators — it earns the right to participate and respects decades of hard-won safety culture.
Good point that "this journey took almost 30 years" for APC, but the analogy risks glossing over new architectural constraints. The Problem is AI models demand continuous data plumbing, drift detection, and governance layered into the DCS and edge agents, not just vendor promises of closed-loop nirvana. Treat failures as structural, not human error, and you stop chasing silver bullets.
I think our tech-savvy engineers will continue to carefully manage expectations within the trust ladder to balance operational risks, leadership pressure to advance innovation agenda and new and young engineers who could be naturally more likely to advance to the last ladder. Knowledge repositories driven by AI could also help this journey to thrive when these tech-savvy engineers retire
Good point that "this journey took almost 30 years" for APC, but the analogy risks glossing over new architectural constraints. The Problem is AI models demand continuous data plumbing, drift detection, and governance layered into the DCS and edge agents, not just vendor promises of closed-loop nirvana. Treat failures as structural, not human error, and you stop chasing silver bullets.
I think our tech-savvy engineers will continue to carefully manage expectations within the trust ladder to balance operational risks, leadership pressure to advance innovation agenda and new and young engineers who could be naturally more likely to advance to the last ladder. Knowledge repositories driven by AI could also help this journey to thrive when these tech-savvy engineers retire