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UptimeAI Launches AI Reasoning Agents to Transform Critical Industrial Operations

New suite of purpose-built agents tackles root cause diagnosis, maintenance optimization, process optimization, and hazard assessment-addressing the industry’s most expertise-intensive challenges amidst a shortage of experienced talent.

HOUSTON, TX / March 25, 2026 / UptimeAI has announced the launch of four AI Reasoning Agents designed to revolutionize how industrial operators make critical decisions across reliability, maintenance, performance, and safety. Unveiled at CERAWeek by S&P Global, these agents represent first-of-kind AI reasoning solutions purpose-built for high-stakes industrial operations.

Unlike legacy predictive analytics tools that focus on anomaly detection, UptimeAI’s Reasoning Agents provide complete decision support-diagnosing root causes, recommending specific actions, and continuously learning from outcomes. The four agents launched address operational domains where expert judgment has historically been essential but is growing increasingly scarce:

  • Root Cause Agent
  • Maintenance Optimization Agent
  • Process Optimization Agent
  • HAZOP Analysis Agent

Addressing the Expertise Crisis with AI Reasoning

“For more than a decade, digital transformation in heavy industry has created a paradox: the more digital tools companies adopted, the more experts they needed,” said Jagadish Gattu, CEO and co-founder of UptimeAI. Most technologies stopped at detection-telling you something is wrong-but still required scarce expertise to validate alerts, diagnose root causes, and determine corrective actions.

“UptimeAI’s mission has been to push beyond detection to 24/7 decision support-leveraging AI to perform the analytical work that has traditionally required decades of individual knowledge and experience,” Gattu continued. “These four reasoning agents represent years of R&D focused on capturing expert reasoning patterns and making them available at scale. Our customers are already seeing measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and safety, in the range of 2-5% of EBITDA.”

Industry Reception: Scaling Expertise at a Critical Time

Partners across power generation, oil & gas, and chemicals have expressed enthusiasm for the agents’ potential to combat accelerating workforce transitions. With institutional knowledge walking out the door every day, UptimeAI’s Reasoning Agents offer a path to scale business impact from digital technology without waiting for the next generation to build expertise. By targeting specific decisions-root cause diagnosis, maintenance prioritization, hazard assessment-they shorten deployment timelines and rapidly impact the metrics that matter.

In upcoming research on the APM software market, analyst firm Verdantix describes UptimeAI’s offering as integrated, agentic AI-driven root cause analysis and maintenance optimization solution. “UptimeAI delivers an innovative, agent-first approach to APM underpinned by strong explainability and reasoning chain,” said Jatinder Devgun, Senior Industry Analyst at Verdantix. “Our 2026 research is placing a greater emphasis on readiness for AI, generative and agentic AI, and explainability. “Companies born in the age of these technologies like UptimeAI are performing quite well in these criteria. We see UptimeAI’s market vision and product strategy aligned with where the industrial market is headed regarding AI use cases and adoption.”

Industry Proven and Available Now

UptimeAI’s Reasoning Agents have been validated in production with leading operators across power, oil & gas, chemicals, and cement, delivering double-digit ROI within the first year. With flexible cloud and on-prem deployment options and integrations with industrial data sources and software, there’s no IT project hurdles to overcome. The agents are available now to deploy within weeks with the data you have, on the infrastructure you choose.

About UptimeAI

UptimeAI provides AI reasoning agents that help industrial operations teams make goal-oriented, real-time, optimal decisions. With embedded expert-level knowledge and reasoning capabilities, UptimeAI’s agents tackle high-impact, expertise-intensive workflows like root cause diagnosis, maintenance optimization, and HAZOP preparation-processes traditionally reliant on decades of domain experience.

Trusted by leading global companies across oil & gas, power generation, chemicals, cement, and metals, UptimeAI scales expert decision-making across sites, teams, and assets. With a >95% pilot-to-production success rate, UptimeAI customers are bridging the expertise shortage, creating operational resilience and long-term competitive advantage.

For more information, visit www.uptimeai.com or contact [email protected].

 

Petroleum Development Oman Partners with UptimeAI to Unlock the Next Frontier of Asset Reliability and Performance

PDO, Sultanate of Oman leader in Exploration and Production, implements UptimeAI’s Operational Excellence Solution to empower operators with expert-level insights across its assets.

Houston: 26 Nov, 2025: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the leading exploration and oil producer in the Sultanate of Oman, has partnered with UptimeAI’s AI Reasoning Agents for Operational Excellence to optimize equipment operations across its fleet. The partnership is being supported by Karad Systems, UptimeAI’s regional representative in the GCC region, helping facilitate collaboration and deployment across PDO’s sites.

This initiative is part of PDO’s new operations and maintenance strategy to leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate the journey toward reliable, efficient plant operations and deliver long-term value to the Sultanate.

PDO selected UptimeAI following a multi-vendor evaluation involving predictive analytics and AI platforms. UptimeAI was chosen for its ability to scale across the enterprise, powered by operations-friendly, explainable, expert-like reasoning that enables optimal real-time decisions. Unlike generic predictive tools, the solution combines built-in failure mode reasoning with deep learning models to detect issues early, trace the root cause, and prescribe corrective actions, all while automatically learning from operator feedback and consolidating tacit knowledge across sites. This gives PDO’s operators confidence in the alerts, as the associated recommendations are fully transparent, effective, and explainable.

To meet PDO’s stringent cybersecurity and data governance standards, UptimeAI’s Operational Excellence (OEx) solution will be locally cloud-hosted in Oman. In this enterprise-wide deployment, the AI Expert solution will monitor all major rotating and static assets, including compressors, turbines, pumps, and valves, with seamless integration into PDO’s ERP system “SAP” and performance dashboards, ensuring real-time visibility and proactive maintenance.

“PDO remains committed to cost discipline and competitiveness while safely, efficiently, and sustainably growing its core oil and gas business. Under its journey of transformation, PDO is positioning itself as a pioneer in Oman energy transition by deploying advanced technologies that maximize equipment’s utilization, enhance reliability, and reduce maintenance costs across all assets. Prediction Technology through this partnership will enable continuous operator learnings and provide reliable, actionable recommendations to plant operators, represents an optimal solution to scale across PDO’s facilities and drive measurable value in operational excellence,” said Eng. Ali Al Lamki, Digital & IT Director of Petroleum Development Oman.

“We are thrilled to partner with PDO. PDO has long been recognized for its pioneering spirit. That commitment to innovation and digitization is exactly why our journey together has been so fruitful. UptimeAI goes beyond generating threshold-based alerts. Our AI Expert reasons like seasoned engineers across roles, ingesting data to deliver prescriptive actions operators can trust. PDO’s focus on scalability and operator acceptance aligns perfectly with our mission to unlock the next level of operational excellence,” said Jagadish Gattu, CEO of UptimeAI.

About PDO

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. With a proud history spanning over eight decades, PDO is committed to responsibly developing the Sultanate of Oman’s hydrocarbon resources while delivering sustainable value to its stakeholders. As a leader in the energy sector, PDO has continually invested in cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions to optimize oil and gas production, ensuring long-term energy security for the nation and contributing to economic growth, alongside a set goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. For more information, please visit www.pdo.co.om/en/.

About UptimeAI

UptimeAI’s solution mimics experts in solving and learning operational issues faster based on its patented self-learning loop, empowering operations teams to address reliability and performance issues with significantly less effort. UptimeAI uniquely combines artificial intelligence with subject matter knowledge to continuously learn, explain root causes, predict problems, and provide prescriptive diagnoses at scale. The company’s customers include several in the Fortune 100, and it has helped large industrial enterprises succeed in their digital transformation journeys by improving reliability and process efficiency while reducing maintenance costs in as little as six months. For more information, please visit www.uptimeai.com or contact us at [email protected].
In the GCC region, UptimeAI is represented by Karad Systems, its authorized agent supporting sales, deployment and customer success across the region.

 

Buzzi Unicem USA Partners With UptimeAI to Launch AI-Powered Process Control & Reliability Program

BETHLEHEM, PA., August 13, 2025 – Buzzi Unicem USA, a prominent U.S. cement manufacturer and subsidiary of Buzzi S.p.A is partnering with UptimeAI, a leading provider of AI-powered operational excellence solutions, to deploy an artificial intelligence-based program aimed at transforming asset reliability and operational performance at its Festus, MO plant.

The collaboration began with a pilot deployment of AI Expert, UptimeAI’s flagship platform, to gain deeper insights into operational parameters and their correlation, asset performance, prediction of equipment failures and reduction of maintenance costs. Powered by advanced AI and machine learning algorithms trained on more than 1,000 failure modes, AI Expert is expected to enable predictive diagnostics and informed decision-making. Its two primary core modules, “AI Expert: Generative AI” and “AI Expert: Reliability and Process,” aim to streamline operational parameters, root cause analysis, support continuous improvement and enhance knowledge management across plant operations.

The platform emulates the reasoning of experienced engineers by combining historical data, real-time operating conditions, and institutional knowledge to detect issues early to recommend targeted corrective actions.

“Unlike generic deviation detectors, our platform acts as a virtual process and reliability engineer,” Jagadish Gattu, founder and chief executive officer of UptimeAI, said. “AI Expert is purpose-built for complex industrial operations like we see at Buzzi Unicem USA to learn from plant-specific data with a comprehensive view approach mimicking the reasoning of seasoned engineers, to bridge the gap between human expertise and scalable AI.”

“Partnering with UptimeAI reflects our commitment to continuously improving reliability and performance,” Antonio Buzzi, president and chief executive officer of Buzzi Unicem USA, said. “This initiative supports our core value of continuous evolution. We pursue excellence, embrace innovation and face change with courage to achieve lasting, sustainable results. We expect UptimeAI’s platform to provide deep operational insight, to equip our teams with smart decisions and, most importantly, to support and share critical plant operational knowledge across our organization.”

This partnership reflects the companies’ shared commitment to driving innovation and advancing sustainable operations. As the cement industry faces increasing pressure to reduce unplanned downtime and lower its carbon footprint, AI-powered solutions are rapidly emerging as a strategic lever for competitiveness and long-term resilience.

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About Buzzi Unicem USA

Buzzi Unicem USA Inc., part of the global Buzzi Unicem Group, is a leading cement manufacturer headquartered in Bethlehem, Pa. The company operates eight full-cycle cement plants and 36 cement terminals across the U.S., delivering high-quality materials and advancing innovation in construction. Learn more at: www.buzziunicemusa.com

 

2025 New Product Innovator: Frost & Sullivan Awards UptimeAI

Recognized for AI-Driven Operational Excellence [ OEx ] in the Heavy Asset Industry

San Francisco, CA  [24/07/2025] – UptimeAI, a pioneer in AI solutions for heavy industry, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 North American New Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan. The recognition highlights UptimeAI’s role in transforming heavy asset operations with its explainable, self-learning AI solution designed to maximize Operational Reliability in Asset-Intensive Industries. [ Read the complete report here ]

Frost & Sullivan selected UptimeAI after a rigorous evaluation of multiple solutions before determining the final award recipient across the North American industrial sector. Explicitly recognizing the company for its unmatched ability to address root causes of inefficiencies, provide prescriptive guidance, and scale AI-driven insights across entire plants.

 

“UptimeAI is unique because it focuses on helping customers solve issues relating to heavy asset and process operations by automating and explaining fault diagnosis and providing recommended actions,” said Sankara Narayanan, Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan. “Uptime AI solution covers 100% of plant assets and different types of equipment compared to some competitor products that only manage 10% or 20% of the plant”.

 

 

The award recognizes UptimeAI’s flagship solution, UptimeAI Expert, for its patented system model approach to model complex inter-equipment relationships and adapt continuously to changing plant conditions. Additionally, UptimeAI’s prescriptive recommendations guide in-site engineers with built-in domain knowledge for more than 120 equipment types and over 500 failure modes, enabling them to resolve plant anomalies without external SME support.

 

 

 

“Our goal is to enable heavy industries, including oil and gas, utilities, and cement, with virtual reliability engineers that enhance operational reliability of assets,” said Jagadish Gattu, Founder and CEO of UptimeAI. “This award recognition reinforces our mission to empower plant teams with a virtual expert that helps them think and act like the best engineers, regardless of experience level.”

UptimeAI’s virtual expert platform is already deployed across oil and gas, chemicals, cement, and utility operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India, and has significantly reduced downtime, maintenance costs, and performance losses, achieving millions of dollars in customer savings.

 

 

 

 

About UptimeAI

UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based AI software company offering operational excellence capabilities via its AI Expert OEx platform. The company empowers engineers to solve operational issues faster by explaining the relationships between reliability, performance, and equipment to automatically diagnose the root cause and suggest mitigations. UptimeAI supports customers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India in industries including oil & gas, chemicals, utilities, and cement. Learn more at www.uptimeai.com.

 

 

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan is the Growth Pipeline Company™. We power our clients to a future shaped by growth. Our Growth Pipeline as a Service™ provides the CEO and the CEO’s growth team with a continuous and rigorous platform of growth opportunities, ensuring long-term success. To achieve positive outcomes, our team leverages over 60 years of experience, coaching organizations of all types and sizes across six continents with our proven best practices. To power your Growth Pipeline future, visit Frost & Sullivan at http://www.frost.com.

 

 

Mitsubishi Estate and UptimeAI Join Forces to Drive AI-Powered Innovation in Asset Reliability, Performance, and Operations Excellence

  • This investment harnesses artificial intelligence to deliver actionable insights for improving asset reliability, performance, and operational excellence across key process industries, including oil and gas, utilities, and cement.

BRICKS FUND TOKYO, CVC of Mitsubishi Estate has announced a strategic investment in AI startup UptimeAI. This investment aims to revolutionize how industrial customers improve reliability, manage equipment health, and optimize performance across critical sectors such as oil and gas, utilities, and cement in the United States, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. 

The collaboration integrates deep learning and large language models to deliver comprehensive insights into asset performance, predict potential failures, and reduce maintenance costs. With over 1,000 failure modes covered by advanced AI/ML algorithms, UptimeAI’s flagship modules—“AI Expert: Generative AI” and “AI Expert: Reliability & Process”—address root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and knowledge management. Together, Mitsubishi Estate and UptimeAI seek to enable operational excellence, reduced unplanned downtime, and enhanced productivity while advancing sustainability. 

“Critical infrastructure, which supports people’s lives, often lags in digitalization due to high security requirements and technical complexity. Leveraging AI in these areas is a key interest for existing industries, including ours. UptimeAI, led by a management team with extensive experience in heavy industries, develops AI solutions that connect to all equipment, monitor entire plants, and replace qualitative analysis and judgment previously reliant on skilled workers. This investment supports Mitsubishi Estate’s vision of driving innovation and achieving operational excellence through advanced technology.” said Hayato Takesue and Katsuyuki Hasegawa, BRICKS FUND TOKYO that is CVC of Mitsubishi Estate. 

“We are delighted to partner with Mitsubishi Estate as it marks a significant milestone for UptimeAI. Our mission is to empower heavy industries—such as oil and gas, utilities, and cement—to operate more efficiently by leveraging advanced AI/ML capabilities. By uniting Mitsubishi Estate’s commitment to innovation with our leading-edge predictive analytics, we can tackle real-world challenges, reduce downtime, and enhance overall sustainability. This collaboration perfectly aligns with Mitsubishi Estate’s dual focus on Industry Transformation and Sustainability. We look forward to driving meaningful changes in industrial operations and helping clients achieve measurable results worldwide” said Jagadish Gattu, Founder and CEO of UptimeAI. 

 About UptimeAI 

UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based AI software company offering operational excellence capabilities via its AI Expert OEx platform. The company empowers engineers to solve operational issues faster by explaining the relationships between reliability, performance, and equipment to automatically diagnose the root cause and suggest mitigations. Many global industrial customers have implemented UptimeAI’s solutions across North America, the Middle East, and India. For more information, visit http://www.uptimeai.com  

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 About BRICKS FUND TOKYO (CVC of Mitsubishi Estate) 

BRICKS FUND TOKYO is Mitsubishi Estate’s CVC fund aimed at “co-creating growth industries” through investment and business support for startups that tackle social issues and drive long-term social impact, such as solving societal challenges and transforming industrial structures. For more information, visit https://bricks-fundtokyo.com/  

ABB and UptimeAI join forces to advance Asset Health and Performance Management

  • The investment combines machine learning (ML) and expert systems to provide actionable insights into the health and performance of rotating equipment, boosting failure prediction, health forecasting, and maintenance optimization.

  • The partnership brings together advanced artificial intelligence (AI)/ ML-based algorithms and industry expertise, addressing over 1000 failure modes to enhance asset management capabilities.

  • The collaboration will focus on the heavy asset industries, starting with Cement, Metals and Water Pipes industry segments for implementation, in India.

ABB Motion has announced a strategic investment through ABB Motion Ventures in the AI start-up UptimeAI, aiming to transform how industrial customers manage the health and performance of motors, drives, and related assets. The transaction consists of ABB taking a minority stake in UptimeAI. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.

The collaboration leverages machine learning and expert systems to provide customers with deep insights into asset performance, failure predictability, and reduction of maintenance costs and risks. With over 1,000 failure modes covered by advanced AI/ML algorithms, the partnership is set to deliver outstanding reliability and efficiency. It does so by leveraging next-generation asset performance management services driven by AI/ML predictive maintenance and proven industry expertise.

The initiative will initially focus on heavy asset industries, starting with addressing the needs of Cement, Metals, and Water Pipes sectors in India. By introducing tailored solutions for these critical industries, the partnership seeks to enable companies to achieve operational excellence, reduce unplanned downtime, and enhance overall productivity.

ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. By connecting its engineering and digitalization expertise, ABB helps industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. At ABB, we call this ‘Engineered to Outrun’. The company has over 140 years of history and around 110,000 employees worldwide. ABB’s shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ABBN) and Nasdaq Stockholm (ABB). www.abb.com

ABB Motion Ventures is the venture capital unit of ABB Motion. ABB through its business-led venture capital investment framework, ABB Ventures, looks for breakthrough technology companies aligned with ABB’s goal to write the future of industrial electrification and automation. Since its formation in 2009, ABB Ventures has deployed around $500 million into startups spanning a range of sectors including robotics, industrial IoT, AI/machine learning, energy transition, cybersecurity, electric mobility, smart buildings, and distributed energy. For more information, visit  https://global.abb/group/en/technology/ventures

UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based AI software company offering operational excellence capabilities via its AI Expert OEx platform. The company empowers engineers to solve operational issues faster by explaining the relationships between reliability, performance, and equipment to automatically diagnose the root cause and suggesting mitigations. Many global industrial customers have implemented UptimeAI’s solutions across North America, the Middle East, and India. For more information, visit https://www.uptimeai.com/

Yokogawa and UptimeAI Forge Business and Capital Partnership to Deliver Operational Excellence through AI-Powered Asset Performance Management

Tokyo, Japan and San Francisco, USA – January 24, 2025                                                                                                                                                           Yokogawa Electric Corporation |  Uptime AI, Inc.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841), a global leader in industrial automation and control, and UptimeAI Inc., provider of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence-based operational excellence platform designed to mimic experts in identifying and solving operational issues, announce a strategic agreement aimed at dramatically enhancing asset performance management in industrial plants. The agreement is underscored by a capital investment in UptimeAI by Yokogawa.

Under the agreement, the companies will integrate UptimeAI’s AI-powered platform into Yokogawa’s OpreX Asset Health Insights service. The combined solution will provide customers in the oil and gas, chemicals, cement, power, and renewable energy industries with a seamless and powerful approach to optimize plant operations, reliability, and maintenance.

                                                                                               OpreX Asset Health Insights and UptimeAI Expert OEx Platform Integrated Solution

Specifically, the bundled offering will merge the capabilities of OpreX Asset Health Insights as an OT/IT data enablement engine with UptimeAI’s flagship modules, “AI Expert: Generative AI” and “AI Expert: Reliability & Process,” bringing advanced LLM-based AI agents, subject matter knowledge, self-learning workflows, maintenance analysis, and industrial asset library models into a comprehensive AI assistant for plant operators. This solution will enable users to achieve a significant positive return on investment in a short period of time by reducing maintenance and operational costs with predictive insights, root cause analysis, and recommendations driven by automated learning processes.

“We are excited to partner with UptimeAI to bring next-generation AI solutions to our customers,” said Yukihiro Funyu, a senior vice president and head of the Digital Strategy Headquarters at Yokogawa. “Global manufacturers want to go beyond basic monitoring and predictive analytics. They seek intelligent applications that identify root causes, extract best practices, and drive continuous improvement. UptimeAI uniquely fits the bill with a proven track record amongst global industry leaders.”

Jagadish Gattu, CEO of UptimeAI, added, “Partnering with Yokogawa allows us to expand the reach of our AI technology and create a greater impact on the industry. Together, we will help customers transition to smarter and more resilient operations with increased profitability from higher reliability, efficiency, and people productivity.”

By combining their strengths, Yokogawa and UptimeAI are committed to delivering innovative solutions for industrial asset management that empower customers to achieve operational excellence.

About UptimeAI

UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based technology provider offering operational excellence capabilities via its AI Expert OEx platform. The company empowers engineers to solve operational issues faster by explaining the relationships between reliability, performance, and equipment to automatically diagnose the root cause and suggest mitigations. https://www.uptimeai.com/  

About Yokogawa

Yokogawa provides advanced solutions in the areas of measurement, control, and information to customers across a broad range of industries, including energy, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, and food. Yokogawa addresses customer issues regarding the optimization of production, assets, and the supply chain with the effective application of digital technologies, enabling the transition to autonomous operations.
Founded in Tokyo in 1915, Yokogawa continues to work toward a sustainable society through its 17,000+ employees in a global network of 126 companies spanning 60 countries.
For more information, visit www.yokogawa.com 

The names of corporations, organizations, products, services and logos herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, UptimeAI, or their respective holders.

 

 

 

UptimeAI, Pioneers in AI-Driven Plant Monitoring, Secures $14M in Series A Funding

Following a stellar 400% growth in FY2023, the new capital infusion will help accelerate expansion in North America and MENA Markets in 2024

UptimeAI has successfully secured $14 million in Series A funding, a round led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from existing investor Emergent Ventures, who previously led UptimeAI’s seed round, and new investor Aditya Birla Ventures. This capital infusion will propel UptimeAI’s growth across North America, the Middle East, and Asia by facilitating the widespread adoption of its cutting-edge Operational Excellence solutions.

“UptimeAI offers an enterprise-grade, AI-enabled Operational Excellence platform, which has achieved a 100% success rate in improving the profitability of process and manufacturing operations across six industries. This funding will enable UptimeAI to assist large industrial enterprises further to succeed in their digital transformation journey by optimizing their reliability, process efficiency, and maintenance cost.” stated Rishit Desai, Partner at WestBridge Capital.

“AI-enabled operational efficiency solutions can significantly impact industries. UptimeAI, with deep domain expertise is demonstrating strong RoI impact across large enterprise clients in US and India with its AI solutions.  We have strong belief in the capabilities of the founding team and the investment is in line with our vision to back outstanding founding teams, building businesses of tomorrow. Our endeavour is to open up ABG’s global ecosystem and network for the growth of our portfolio companies.” – Aryaman Vikram Birla, Founder, Aditya Birla Ventures

The global AI market for heavy industries is projected to grow from $10.6 billion in 2024 to $47.8 billion in 2029 at a CAGR of 35.1%. Global manufacturing leaders increasingly leverage AI to achieve more than basic pattern recognition and predictive analytics. They seek intelligent applications that can automatically identify root causes, extract best practices, and drive continuous improvement. However, assessments by Forbes, McKinsey, and other industry bodies indicate a failure rate of 70-95% for such digital initiatives with Predictive Maintenance ( PdM ) solutions, compelling enterprises to develop their own scalable AI solutions.

UptimeAI addresses this challenge with its innovative Operational Excellence solutions, delivering a 10-15X ROI within nine months with minimal site team involvement of just two days. Its patented system model design approach eliminates the need for data scientists to train AI models continuously. Consequently, nine out of ten UptimeAI customers have scaled the solution across all sites within 12 months, achieving significant energy and maintenance cost savings and driving a positive IRR for industrial plants.

“Our vision is to embed the expertise of a seasoned Subject Matter Expert (SME) into a self-learning AI solution, making this invaluable knowledge accessible to every engineer aiming for operational excellence. With 90% of our revenues already generated from the US and Middle East markets, and with our current profitability, this new funding validates our go-to-market and product strategy. It will further enable us to expand our AI Expert OEx platform offerings in these key regions.”  said Jagadish Gattu, CEO, UptimeAI

Established in 2019 by Jagadish Gattu and Vamsi Yalamanchili, UptimeAI had secured a $3.5 million seed funding in December 2022. Jagadish Gattu brings to the table over two decades of industrial analytics experience from MathWorks and GE. Vamsi Yalamanchili, on the other hand, founded inResto, which was later acquired by Times Internet’s Dineout in 2015, adding substantial entrepreneurial experience to the team.

About UptimeAI:

UptimeAI is a San Francisco-based technology provider offering operational excellence capabilities via its AI Expert OEx platform. The company supports firms in the chemical, oil and gas, and utility sectors, helping them understand the relationships between asset performance and process anomalies to drive operational excellence. Many global industrial customers have implemented UptimeAI’s solutions across North America, the Middle East, and India.

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BPCL & UptimeAI Partner for AI-Driven Operational Excellence

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (“BPCL”), a ‘Maharatna’, a Fortune Global 500 Company, is taking an important step towards operational excellence and sustainability through its partnership with UptimeAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution provider for plant maintenance and operations. BPCL has implemented UptimeAI’s advanced AI-based plant monitoring solution, ‘AI Expert’, to optimize operational efficiency, enhance reliability, and promote sustainable practices within its operations.UptimeAI, the winner of BPCL’s Startup Grand Slam Season 1 under the Project Ankur initiative that fosters a nurturing ecosystem for startups, is deploying ‘AI Expert’ at BPCL’s Kochi refinery. This facility, with a capacity of 15.5 MMTPA, assists in meeting the energy needs of various enterprises. The solution seamlessly integrates with BPCL’s existing operational technology tools, enabling continuous analysis of sensor data across the unit and the enterprise.

‘AI Expert’, powered by UptimeAI’s patented system models and self-learning workflows, empowers BPCL to enhance plant reliability, reduce energy consumption, streamline maintenance activities, and monitor overall process performance. With its innovative failure mode library, the solution identifies and diagnoses potential issues such as equipment malfunctions and excess energy consumption. This capability provides actionable recommendations for timely resolution and future prevention.

“Deploying UptimeAI’s solution has enabled us to bridge the gap between people and processes across departments, unlocking valuable insights from our vast pool of data.,” said Shri Sameet Pai, General Manager (Corporate Strategy), BPCL. “We believe, the ‘AI Expert’ solution has proven instrumental in providing us with recommendations to optimize our plant operations and drive continuous improvement.”

“We are thrilled to have partnered with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on their journey towards operational excellence and sustainability.,” said Jagadish Gattu, CEO of UptimeAI. “Deploying UptimeAI’s ‘AI Expert’ at BPCL’s Kochi refinery signifies a significant step forward in leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to enhance plant reliability and performance.”

About UptimeAIUptimeAI is an Artificial Intelligence company that offers the world’s first virtual AI assistant for plant operations. UptimeAI’s “AI Expert” uniquely combines artificial intelligence with subject matter knowledge from several years of cumulative experience to explain interrelations across upstream/downstream equipment, identify problems, and give prescriptive diagnosis at scale. To maintain high availability, improve efficiency, and eliminate unplanned downtime, AI Expert continuously learns while providing prescriptive measures. The company’s customers include several in the Fortune 100.

About Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL)

Fortune Global 500 Company, Bharat Petroleum is one of the integrated energy companies in India, engaged in refining of crude oil and marketing of petroleum products, with a significant presence in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company attained the coveted Maharatna status, joining the elite club of companies having greater operational & financial autonomy.

Bharat Petroleum’s Refineries at Mumbai, Kochi and Bina Refinery have a combined refining capacity of around 35.3 MMTPA. Its marketing infrastructure includes a network of installations, depots, energy stations, aviation service stations and LPG distributors. Its distribution network comprises over 21,000 Energy Stations, over 6,200 LPG distributorships, 525 Lubes distributorships, and 123 POL storage locations, 53 LPG Bottling Plants, 70 Aviation Service Stations, 4 Lube blending plants and 4 cross-country pipelines.

Bharat Petroleum is integrating its strategy, investments, environmental and social ambitions to move towards a sustainable planet.

With a focus on sustainable solutions, the company is developing a vibrant ecosystem and a road-map to become a Net Zero Energy Company by 2040, in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Bharat Petroleum has been partnering communities by supporting innumerable initiatives connected primarily in the areas of education, water conservation, skill development, health, community development, capacity building and employee volunteering. With ‘Energising Lives’ as its you core purpose, Bharat Petroleum’s vision is to be an admired global energy company leveraging talent, innovation & technology.

 

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