Piab Group joins the Cognite Embedded program to scale real-time equipment monitoring and anomaly detection, accelerating digital transformation of industry.
PHOENIX, AZ - April 8th, 2025 - Cognite, the global leader in Data and AI for industry, today announced a strategic partnership with Piab Group, a global innovator in vacuum technology and industrial automation. The collaboration enables Piab Group to scale digital services and deliver timely insights, reduce downtime, and improve operational efficiency in Food & Beverage, Logistics, Pharmaceuticals, and other major industries.
With Cognite Data Fusion® embedded in its product suite, Piab Group can track equipment performance continuously, detect issues like pressure drops or motor inefficiencies early, and alert operators before they impact productivity – boosting reliability, extending asset life, and reducing costs. This partnership accelerates Piab’s deployment of condition-based monitoring across divisions while avoiding the cost and complexity of building a solution from scratch, positioning the company at the forefront of intelligent automation.
Cognite Embedded is a turnkey program for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs )and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to accelerate time to market, drastically reduce the total cost of ownership, and future-proof their digital solutions with an AI-ready architecture. The Cognite Embedded program includes Cognite’s leading industrial data platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, a low-code industrial AI agent workbench, Cognite Atlas AI™, and industrial domain experts to develop and take to market scalable industrial solutions. Piab Group is using Cognite Embedded to create solutions that address the urgent challenge of unplanned downtime and inefficient maintenance by enabling predictive monitoring for Piab Group’s vacuum systems.
"At Piab Group, our customers rely on our technology to keep their operations running efficiently," said Josef Karbassi, Executive Vice President at Piab Group. "By partnering with Cognite, we can leverage their secure, scalable industrial data and AI platform to transform equipment data into real-time insights, anomaly detection, and enhanced service offerings. This collaboration allows us to scale digital solutions across industries, delivering even greater value to our customers while reinforcing our position as a leader in industrial automation."
"This partnership with Piab Group shows industrial co-innovation at its best," said Dr. John Markus Lervik, Founder and Head of Cognite Embedded. "By embedding Cognite Data Fusion within their solutions, Piab delivers immediate value through equipment insights across their global customer base. Our platform helps Piab rapidly scale digital services across their impressive customer base, including Amazon, IKEA, Scania, and Tesla, while their vacuum technology expertise enriches our industrial ecosystem."
The partnership builds on a successful pilot demonstrated at PackExpo, where Piab Group showcased its anomaly detection capabilities using AI-powered tools within Cognite’s Industrial Canvas. The solution brought together documents, 3D models, time series, and asset data in a single, intuitive workspace. The two companies will scale the solution across Piab Group’s divisions, offering low-code, ready-to-deploy condition-based monitoring to manufacturers, machine builders, and industrial operators.
About Piab Group
At Piab Group we improve our customers' productivity, sustainability and safety through evolving industrial automation and have done so since 1951. We believe in an automated world where no resources are wasted, and no humans are injured. With annual sales of ~3 billion SEK and more than 1,400 employees, Piab Group is a global organization, serving customers in more than 100 countries from a vast network of subsidiaries and channel partners. Since 2018, Piab Group has been owned by Patricia Industries, part of Investor AB. For more information: www.piabgroup.com
About Cognite
Cognite makes Generative AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable industrial data & AI platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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