🚀 Industrial AI Control and Security Platform from IFS: AI Harness!

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💡 IFS Redefines Industrial AI Control​

At the Unleashed conference in Orlando, Florida, IFS introduced AI Harness, an industrial AI platform designed to help businesses integrate AI into their existing policies, controls, and operations.

🛡️ Security and Governance at the Forefront​

AI Harness extends IFS's existing security, safety, governance, and trust controls. The platform provides context, permissions, governance, and controls, enabling "digital workers" to perform tasks within defined business rules.

📊 Data-Driven Decisions with IFS Intelligence​

AI Harness forms the operational foundation of IFS Intelligence. This allows data from industrial assets, systems, and processes to be collected and transformed into actionable tasks, flowing through a single conversational interface.

🔍 Control Gaps in AI Usage​

According to new research from IFS, while 43% of frontline teams have incorporated digital workers into their operations in the last 12 months, only 11% have verified the safety, quality, or critical processes of AI outputs. Furthermore, only 11% have established control mechanisms for AI usage with sensitive data.

🔒 Closing Control Gaps with IFS Harness​

IFS designed Harness to address these control gaps. AI operates through the customer's existing controls, inheriting permissions and access controls from connected systems. Since IFS Cloud is used as the core source, no raw data is sent to external AI providers.

⚙️ Key Components of Harness:​

• Planning & Orchestration: Breaks down objectives into steps and coordinates agents and tools.
  
• Skills & Connectors: Defines and validates the systems agents can use.
  
• Memory & Context: Carries progress forward and aggregates information relevant to each task.
  
• Guardians & Permissions: Enforces identities, approvals, and boundaries on risky actions.
  
• Validation & Escalation: Checks work for accuracy and policy compliance, escalating when necessary.
  
• Observability & Auditability: Records every decision and action for review.
  

🌐 Flexibility and Independence​

Harness is designed to work with different AI models and services, ensuring customers are not locked into a single provider. It also ensures that customer requirements, such as where data can be processed, are part of the AI deployment.

✨ Other Key Features:​

• Sovereignty: All data remains in the system of record; no raw data is sent to external AI providers.
  
• Gradual Autonomy: Workers start with co-pilot support, progress to suggestions, then autonomous action with escalation in case of uncertainty.
  
• Industrial Context: Domain expertise and curated tools prevent agents from being paralyzed by 70,000 available APIs.
  
• Multi-Layered Governance: Cloud-level, Harness-level, and model-level security; not a single control, but unified assurance.