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85 articles — In-depth articles on industrial AI, digital twins, and agentic operations.
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
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
Beyond OpenClaw: Why Industrial Agents Need Bounded Actuation
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer I've worked on autonomous operations for years, back when agents weren't sexy or...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Sunday Morning Strategy: How I Use AI for Continuous Tactical Calibration
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer Sunday morning, February 15, 2026. I'm reading The Australian over coffee when an...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The 'AI Wants to Kill You' Story Shows Why Architecture Matters More Than Alignment
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer Mark Vos 's adversarial testing of an AI assistant made headlines across...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The Decision Traces You Have and the Ones You Need
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer Jaya Gupta argues that decision traces are the moat in her recent follow-up...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The IP Protection Question No One Is Asking About Agentic AI
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer Organizations deploying agentic AI systems ask about accuracy, hallucinations,...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
When Your Senior Engineer Asks: 'Can We Build This in Claude Code?'
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer A senior technical team member asked me last week if we could build something...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Your Best Engineers Are Maintaining Software Instead of Optimizing Operations
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer The engineers who should be building operational advantage are spending their...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Context Graphs in Industrial Operations: Different Stakes, Different Architecture
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer In a follow-up to all the responses to " AI's trillion-dollar opportunity:...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
Decision Traces for Agentic Operations: Why Agents Need Operational Memory
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer True agency requires causal understanding. Not just knowing what happened, but...
Pieter van Schalkwyk
The Multiplication Effect: Why Industrial AI Demands More People, Not Fewer
Pieter Van Schalkwyk CEO at XMPRO This article originally appeared on XMPro CEO's Linkedin Blog, The Digital Engineer My recent article on The Disaggregation of Labor argued that technology does not...
Pieter van Schalkwyk