Layer researchLine of business and OT
Vendor landscape
As of 2026-08-19. Vendor capability claims are vendor-published unless third-party sourced. Re-verify quarterly.
- Vendor / product
- Honeywell (Alarm Guidance with Chevron; Experion Operations Assistant)
- Category
- Process control, alarm assistance
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Shipped Oct 2024; refinery pilot Nov 2025
- Notes
- Advisory; the clearest shipped instance of pattern A [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Yokogawa FKDPP
- Category
- Autonomous closed-loop control (RL, not LLM)
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Production at two named plants since 2023 and 2025
- Notes
- The counterexample to universal human control; simulator-validated, phased, SIS retained [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- IBM Maximo (Condition Insights Agent, Maximo Assistant)
- Category
- EAM advisory agents
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- 2025-2026; investment-planning agent slated 2026
- Notes
- Explicitly advisory: humans act on insights [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- SAP asset and service agents
- Category
- EAM
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Production Planning and Operations Agent GA planned Q1 2026
- Notes
- Widely cited asset-agent trio traces to partner blogs, not SAP primaries; treat as unconfirmed [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Salesforce Agentforce for Field Service; ServiceMax/PTC
- Category
- Field service agents
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Scheduling and troubleshooting GA 2025
- Notes
- No named utility customer with published outcomes; offline behavior unspecified [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- NREL eGridGPT (reference architecture)
- Category
- Control-room research
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Published May 2024
- Notes
- The validation-loop pattern; reviewed by two grid operators
- Vendor / product
- FoSMo (National Grid, Keen AI, four GB networks); EPRI Open Power AI Consortium
- Category
- Shared asset-data efforts
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- SIF Alpha Jun 2026; consortium from Mar 2025
- Notes
- Data pooling because most utility data is behind walls
Agent-washing watch: alarm products claiming risk reduction (they cannot be credited as protection layers); field agents whose offline mode is undefined; MES agent case studies with unattributed percentage claims.
Source: research/R05-lob-and-ot/vendors.md in the evidence repository behind this site.