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  • Protect Dispatch Window
  • Recover Line Speed
  • Catch Transfer Losses
  • Keep Cranes Moving
  • Prevent HVAC Recovery
  • Clear Weak Assets
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Industrial Operator

Autonomous AI for industrial operations.

Supervised or Autonomous
On top of existing systems
Built-in governance

IO in the real world

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Supporting multi-plant combined-cycle operations with IO
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Supporting multi-plant combined-cycle operations with IO

Centralized operations across combined-cycle power plants, with IO reasoning above existing plant systems.

11combined-cycle sites
17gas turbine units
10-25%hidden capacity identified
+5-15%throughput gain potential
€1.3Min avoided investment
€700k-€1Mannual value potential
10M+I/O parameters
50+More than 50-country collaboration
AllMultilingual shifter support
70%up to 70% fewer expert escalations

Deployed in real industrial environments — not demos. Built on 10+ years of mission-critical automation expertise.

Swiss-tech
Industrial-grade engineering
Vendor-agnostic

Differentiation

We model thinking,
not tasks.

Others chain AI agents in workflows. IO captures how your experts actually reason. That's why it scales where others don't.

Others: Linear Workflow
IO: Industrial Reasoning
STEP 01STEP 02STEP 03
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Governance & Accountability

Your pace. Your policies.

Governance that scales with confidence. Some teams need human-in-the-loop today. Others are ready for delegated execution. IO supports both, with explicit policies, full audit trails, and the flexibility to evolve at your pace.

IO proposal queue — human confirms or rejects each recommendation before execution

Human in the loop

AI thinks. You decide.

Full visibility at all times. IO surfaces recommendations — every action requires a human to approve before anything happens.

Governance policy editor — browse hierarchy and set scoped policies for delegated execution

Delegated Execution

AI acts within your rules.

Delegation is explicit, scoped, and reversible. You define what IO may or may not do — and responsibility always remains human-owned.

  • AI cannot decide or act
  • Every action remains human-validated
  • Full audit trail for regulators
  • Delegation is explicit, scoped, reversible
  • Your rules define what AI may or may not do
  • Responsibility remains human-owned

Architecture

The journey with us is simple.

We model your landscape.

Messy is fine. Our onboarding tools create the context (ontology) AI needs. We work directly with you or with your trusted integrators.

Seamless integration across your ecosystem

SCADA / DCS
Historians
MES
ERP
EAM / CMMS
APM
Quality / LIMS
Planning / APS
Documents
APIs

Examples include

SiemensWinCC OAIgnitionAVEVAABB 800xADeltaVHoneywell ExperionYokogawa CENTUM VPFactoryTalkGE ProficyPI SystemSAPIBM MaximoServiceNow...and more
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One mission. Clear success metric. Governed rollout.

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IO Use Cases

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Mobility

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Mobility · Rail & Metro Stations

Catch weak station assets before the morning peak exposes them

IO follows overnight alarm patterns, escalator and lift telemetry, maintenance history, and station criticality to decide which passenger-flow assets can be cleared, watched, exceptioned, or dispatched before passengers arrive.

Relevant for rail and metro operators where escalators and lifts generate overnight alarms, but only a few assets create real opening-time risk for passengers, accessibility, and service continuity.

30-90 minmorning window to clear assets
200-400overnight alarms to triage
4 statesclear / watch / exception / dispatch
EUR 300k-900killustrative annual exposure

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Use-case summary: Gate escalator and lift readiness before service starts by deciding which passenger-flow assets are clear, watched, exceptioned, or dispatched.

Use case context

The problem is not the alarm. It is releasing a weak asset as healthy before passenger load proves otherwise.

Before service starts, station teams must decide whether passenger-flow assets are ready: escalators, lifts, key access routes, and other equipment that passengers immediately depend on.

The control system may generate hundreds of overnight alarms. Many are transient. Some are repeated, linked to recent maintenance, or coming from assets that usually fail under load after looking acceptable at rest.

The real IO mission is not to review alarms faster. It is to protect the morning readiness gate: which assets are clear, which should be watched, which need verification, and which require maintenance before the first passenger peak.

IO models the reasoning of station supervisors and maintenance experts: what they ignore, what they never ignore, which alarm patterns become serious when linked to asset history, and which stations deserve priority because the passenger impact is higher.

Concrete trigger

An escalator or lift in a high-traffic station repeats drive, safety-chain, door, vibration, temperature, or restart alarms overnight. The asset is not fully failed, but its alarm pattern, recent maintenance history, and station importance suggest it may not survive the morning peak.

Pain points

What the network loses when weak assets are cleared too easily

The cost is not only the repair. A wrong readiness call turns an avoidable pre-opening intervention into a passenger-visible disruption, accessibility issue, emergency dispatch, or station operations problem.

Missed opening-time faults

  • Real asset degradation is hidden inside noisy overnight alarm logs.
  • Weak escalators or lifts are cleared because no single alarm looks decisive.
  • Failures appear only when passenger load starts.

Manual readiness pressure

  • Supervisors have limited time before service starts.
  • Alarm interpretation depends on local experience and shift quality.
  • Repeated patterns are missed when each night is reviewed separately.

Reactive maintenance

  • Crews are dispatched after passengers are already affected.
  • Maintenance teams lose the pre-opening intervention window.
  • Emergency callouts replace planned checks.

Passenger and accessibility impact

  • Escalator failures create crowding and route disruption.
  • Lift issues can break accessible paths through the station.
  • One weak asset in the wrong station can matter more than many low-impact alarms elsewhere.

How IO reasons

IO models the station expert who decides readiness before the network opens

This mission is not alarm filtering. IO evaluates asset state, history, location, timing, and passenger impact to decide the next readiness action.

Builds the expected readiness picture

Compares overnight alarms, device telemetry, reset history, maintenance records, station criticality, opening schedule, and expected passenger load.

Detects weak asset patterns

Looks for repeated, worsening, or recently repaired failure signatures that may not trigger a hard fault yet.

Evaluates readiness hypotheses

Treats transient alarm, asset degradation, sensor issue, failed reset, maintenance recurrence, and load-sensitive failure as competing explanations.

Recommends the next gate

Suggests clear, watch, exception, field verification, test cycle, reset attempt, out-of-service preparation, or maintenance dispatch.

IO governance

The user decides how much authority IO has

IO can start as a supervised readiness advisor, then enforce approved readiness paths for weak escalators and lifts before service starts.

Supervised mode: IO proposes, station operations confirm

  • IO identifies escalators or lifts with overnight patterns that may affect morning readiness.
  • IO shows why the asset is clear, weak, uncertain, or likely to fail under passenger load.
  • Supervisors or maintenance teams confirm local constraints, asset condition, access needs, and service priority.
  • The team clears the asset, places it on watch, requests verification, dispatches maintenance, or prepares degraded operation.

This is the natural starting point when asset readiness affects passenger movement, accessibility, and service opening decisions.

Delegated mode: IO gates readiness under approved policies

  • Set an escalator or lift to watch status for the first service window.
  • Set an asset to readiness exception until required verification is completed.
  • Block clean all-clear status when the asset has unresolved risk evidence.
  • Escalate automatically if the opening deadline is close and no confirmation has been received.
Operational action levers
  • Open a maintenance work order with alarm history, telemetry, likely cause, and priority attached.
  • Route the task to the right maintenance crew based on asset type, station, and urgency.
  • Trigger approved pre-opening checks such as diagnostic test, reset attempt, or test cycle when allowed by policy.
  • Prepare degraded-operation actions, such as marking the asset unavailable, notifying station teams, or activating alternative passenger routing.
  • Keep higher-risk actions bounded by station policy, existing interlocks, and supervisor authority.

Expected benefits

Fewer passenger-visible failures, faster readiness decisions, better maintenance focus

Expected value depends on network size, asset age, alarm volume, maintenance contracts, available telemetry, and how much readiness authority IO is allowed to exercise.

Fewer in-service disruptions

Catch weak assets before passengers expose the failure during the morning peak.

Faster readiness review

Turn overnight alarm noise into a clear list of assets to clear, watch, exception, or dispatch.

Better maintenance targeting

Send crews to the assets most likely to create passenger impact, not simply the loudest alarm list.

Stronger operational traceability

Document why an asset was cleared, watched, exceptioned, or dispatched before service started.

Discuss this case

Could a weak escalator or lift be cleared before the morning peak exposes it?

The first step is to frame the mission: which stations matter, which passenger-flow assets are in scope, which signals are available, and which readiness actions should remain supervised or become delegated under policy.

  • Which escalators, lifts, stations, and passenger routes create the highest opening-time risk?
  • Which alarm, telemetry, reset, maintenance, inspection, and station-criticality data are already available?
  • Where do assets repeatedly pass pre-opening checks but fail during the first service window?
  • Which expert checks determine whether an alarm is transient, degrading, load-sensitive, or maintenance-related?
  • Which readiness actions can IO recommend, prepare, or trigger under approved procedures?
  • Which disruption, accessibility, callout, or readiness-review target would justify the first mission?

Want to map this to your stations, passenger-flow assets and readiness procedures?

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