The Industrial App Store AI Connector links AI tools like Claude directly to your plant data, so you can ask questions without exporting a single CSV.

On 23 September, Intelligent Plant hosted Inform Prize Aberdeen 2026 at Trinity Hall, bringing together student teams, judges, sponsors and supporters from across the north-east for a day of pitches, questions and ideas. Delighted with the turn out for our event this year - thanks for attending! The Inform Prize has run every year since 2014. It started at Aberdeen's universities and has grown into a wider programme, with a sister event in Glasgow run by VeryConnect and plans

It is September 2026 which means the Inform Prize is back once again. New teams, new venue, and new ideas - we are excited to see what students have been working on this year! The Inform Prize is an opportunity for teams to take what they have been working on and show it to a real audience: industry professionals, potential future employers, and peers from competing universities. Founded by Intelligent Plant in 2014, the event has grown year on year. Last year, with the help

Power BI is one of the most popular business intelligence tools available, but getting real-time industrial process data from historians and SCADA systems into Power BI has traditionally been a challenge. Intelligent Plant's Power BI Industrial Connector, one of the first Microsoft certified connectors of its kind, solves this directly - bringing process data, alarm KPIs, and event data into your dashboards without data leaving your network.

Alarm rationalisation is a key part of alarm management, but documentation alone has its limitations. This post uses evidence from real industrial assets to highlight the gap between documented operator responses and what actually happens in practice. Intelligent Plant's SEER app helps bridge this gap by visualising actual operator interventions, showing how frequently each response occurs and how often it leads to the alarm clearing.

Not all alarms are equal. Some clear within seconds, others persist for days without needing any action, and some repeat so frequently that operators learn to silence them without thinking. Understanding the difference between standing, fleeting, and chattering alarms - and why each one matters - is the first step towards getting an alarm system properly under control. Bruce Nicolson, Principal Control Systems Engineer at Intelligent Plant, explains.