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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 Named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cybersecurity Leadership
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle for Cybersecurity Leadership, published 15 May 2026.
Wouter Beneke
Why Industrial AI Agents Don't Need to "Reason" Like ChatGPT
Industrial AI agents need more than a reasoning model — they need a governed decision architecture. Pieter van Schalkwyk explores XMPro's OODA-inspired Cognitive Decision Loop (ORPA: Observe, Reflect, Plan, Act) that lets MAGS work like virtual operators within bounded authority, leaving an auditable Decision Trace.
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Your AI Agent Needs a Harness — Here's What That Means for Industrial Operations
The AI industry has learned a hard lesson over the last eighteen months: the model isn't the hard part — the runtime environment around it is. That infrastructure now has a name: the agent harness. Here's what it means for industrial operations, where wrong answers have physical consequences.
NGNic Gould
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Use-Case-Aligned Agent Offerings in the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race — Agentic AI Adoption Will Fail Due to Solution Misapplication
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Use-Case-Aligned Agent Offerings in the 2026 Gartner Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race — Agentic AI Adoption Will Fail Due to Solution Misapplication, published 6 March 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Management Platforms in the 2026 Gartner® Beyond Agent Sprawl: The Rise of AI Agent Management Platforms
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor for Agent Management Platforms in the 2026 Gartner Beyond Agent Sprawl: The Rise of AI Agent Management Platforms research, published 6 March 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor in Three Categories of the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Agentic AI
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor in three technology categories in the Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Agentic AI, published 27 January 2026: Composite AI, Multi-Agent Generative Systems, and Expert AI Agents.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Provider for Expert AI Agents in the Gartner® Emerging Tech: Expert AI Agents Reinvent Software and AI Automation
XMPro, the agentic operations platform for asset-intensive and mission-critical industries, today announced it has been named as a Sample Provider for Expert AI Agents in the Gartner Emerging Tech: Expert AI Agents Reinvent Software and AI Automation research, published 4 March 2026.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor for Expert AI Agents in the Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Conversational Artificial Intelligence
XMPro has been named as a Sample Vendor for Expert AI Agents in the Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Conversational Artificial Intelligence, published 13 April 2026.
Wouter Beneke
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
XMPro Named as a Sample Vendor in Two Categories of the 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Agentic AI
XMPro has been named as a Sample Vendor in two categories of the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle for Agentic AI: Agent Orchestration and Agentic AI.
Wouter Beneke
XMPro Recognized in LNS Research Industrial AI Market Landscape as Key Agentic Operations Vendor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE XMPro Recognized in LNS Research Industrial AI Market Landscape as Key Agentic Operations Vendor Independent research firm validates emerging Agentic Operations category, names...
Wouter Beneke
Beyond Predictive Maintenance: How Causal Analytics Eliminates Recurring Failures
Beyond Predictive Maintenance: How Causal Analytics Eliminates Recurring Failures Author: Marcos Augusto Burgos Saavedra The Early Detection Approach A critical pump in the flotation process at a...
MAMarcos Augusto Burgos Saavedra