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The digital twin tag covers Microsoft’s Azure-based work with Kongsberg Digital and Yara’s Porsgrunn fertilizer plant, showing how industrial digital twins can support governed agentic AI for plant operations. The featured discussion focuses on moving beyond dashboards toward decision support while keeping people responsible for important actions. It emphasizes human supervision rather than handing control loops to chatbots, with AI intended to help process manufacturers identify problems and respond more effectively during incidents and outages. The material also highlights the importance of trust, operational context, and governance as digital twin technology connects industrial data with systems designed to assist real-world decisions.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft’s Agentic AI for Plant Operations: Governed Decision Support, Not Chatbots

    Microsoft on June 18, 2026, pitched agentic AI for plant operations as a governed, human-supervised layer for process manufacturers, using Yara’s Porsgrunn fertilizer plant and Kongsberg Digital’s Azure-based digital twin work as its showcase example of AI moving from dashboards toward...