Industrial autonomy will not arrive all at once. It comes in steps, and at every step people stay in charge of the decisions that matter: the objectives, the limits and when a controller runs.
Where plants are today
Most recurring decisions in a plant are still made by people, with AI assisting them. Closed loop already runs on selected decisions: Imubit has over 100 closed-loop controllers deployed worldwide, each one running inside limits set by the engineers of the unit it runs on.
The steps ahead
| When | What changes |
|---|---|
| Present day | AI-assisted human decisions, with closed loop on the key recurring decisions |
| 2030s | Deterministic plant models and generative AI working together |
Each step depends on the one before it. A plant cannot hand a decision to a system it cannot check, so trust in the models comes first.
Three parts, one result
Human domain experts, deterministic plant models and generative AI each do what they do best. Experts set the objectives and the limits. Deterministic models answer what a change will do, the same way every time. Generative AI helps people ask questions of those models and act on the answers in plain language. Closed loop runs on the certified controller, never through a language model.
Together they give better plant performance than any of the three alone.
