December 2 Asset Health Analytics Community – The SME is the Key: AI-Augmented Diagnostics
Join the Asset Health Analytics Community on Wednesday, December 2 at 2:00 PM CT for a presentation with Q&A/open discussion on, “The SME is the Key: AI-Augmented Diagnostics” led by Daniel Foster-Roman, P. Eng., Industry Principal – Power & Utilities at Seeq.
Session Description:
Many power and utility teams already use or are evaluating AI to support their diagnostics workflows. Most of that use is still one-off and chat-driven. Other industries are further along. In semiconductor manufacturing, Intel’s facilities teams run multi-agent systems in production across the power, cooling, and plant support systems that keep their fabs running, many of them similar to assets found across the power industry. These agents detect and triage alerts, pull together the data, history, and documents, test hypotheses through advanced diagnostic reasoning, and give an expert a recommendation to approve. Their experience offers practical lessons for power teams on what it takes to make agentic diagnostics work to support asset health, maintenance and monitoring, and how to implement them securely with clear guardrails that keep risk low.
This session uses Intel’s journey as a case study, alongside examples from other industries, to explore how those lessons apply to power. Dan Foster-Roman will discuss why SME knowledge is the foundation, how to give each agent a clear job and an evidence trail, and where engineers stay in control of decisions. He will then walk through what an agent-led investigation looks like in a power M&D setting, and open the conversation on where utilities are today and what it would take to move to agentic diagnostics at scale.
*UAI Utility Members can register and access all nine of our Analytics Communities via our Community Page. Not a part of the Asset Health Community and want to join this session? Please use our direct link here to request access. You will find the Teams meeting credentials to the upcoming meeting at the top of the feed on this page. If you have any questions or run into any issues, please contact us at info@utilityanalytics.com.