Industrial AI leaders unite to transform Energy, Utilities, and Infrastructure with integrated AI solutions for grid planning, asset management, and field service optimization 

Industrial X Unleashed

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Industrial X Unleashed, IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, announced a strategic partnership with Siemens to deliver integrated, AI-driven solutions that will revolutionize how energy, utilities, and infrastructure operators plan, manage, and service critical grid assets. The collaboration unites Siemens’ world-class domain expertise in grid planning, electrification, and smart infrastructure with IFS’s market-leading capabilities in enterprise asset management, field service management, and AI-powered scheduling optimization. 

Together, the companies are addressing the most pressing challenges facing critical infrastructure operators: aging assets, supply chain disruption, labor shortages, and the urgent imperative to accelerate the energy transition through digital transformation and autonomous grid operations. 

The IFS and Siemens partnership delivers a unified solution that bridges the critical gap between engineering and financial planning, operational technology and information technology, and strategic asset decisions and real-time field execution. IFS is partner in the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace. 

By integrating IFS’s AI-powered enterprise asset management, field service, and asset investment planning capabilities with Siemens’ Gridscale X solutions, utilities and energy operators gain unprecedented operational intelligence across their entire infrastructure.  

The result: A pathway toward autonomous, self-optimizing grid operations that address today’s most critical infrastructure challenge. As utilities rapidly integrate distributed energy resources like solar and wind at scale, these inverter-based resources are transforming grid dynamics – creating both unprecedented opportunity and complexity. The combined solution enables utilities to manage this transition effectively, improving uptime, reducing costs, and driving measurable sustainability outcomes while maintaining the grid reliability and resilience that society depends on.  

This cloud-ready, modular approach enables digital transformation without disruptive rip-and-replace projects, delivering industry-specific solutions purpose-built for utilities, energy infrastructure, manufacturing, and critical facilities. 

Max Roberts, Chief Operating Officer, IFS, said: “The autonomous grid isn’t a distant vision – IFS and Siemens are making it a reality today. By combining Siemens’ unmatched grid intelligence with IFS’s Industrial AI platform, we’re enabling utilities to make smarter investment decisions, predict and prevent asset failures, and orchestrate field operations with unprecedented precision. Together, we’re engineering the resilient, sustainable infrastructure that will define the next decade.” 

Dr. Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Siemens Grid Software: “The complexity of modern grid operations demands more than incremental improvements; it requires a fundamental transformation in how we plan, operate and maintain grids. We are delighted to partner with IFS, bringing together the best of engineering excellence and operational intelligence to help our customers tackle their biggest challenges. With our joint vision, a lot is possible: faster grid modernization, reduced operational risk, and the agility to embrace the distributed energy future while maintaining the reliability society depends on.”   

Timothy Swanson, Industry Advisor and Retired CIO/CSO, FortisBC, said: “The pace of change in our industry is accelerating, from electrification demands to extreme weather events to integrating distributed and variable energy supply at utility scale. We can’t meet these challenges with yesterday’s tools. What excites utilities about this IFS and Siemens collaboration is the potential to integrate planning systems from the equipment level up for utility assets. That integration is essential if we’re going to deliver the cost-effective reliability our customers and regulators expect while building the grid of tomorrow.”   

For more information about Industrial X Unleashed, visit www.industrialX.ai. 

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Fast-track execution positions Locksley among leaders in restoring America’s antimony supply chain and processing capabilities.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Locksley Resources, Ltd. (ASX: LKY; OTCQX: LKYRF) provided an update on the company’s progress and immediate plans as they aggressively move forward their Desert Antimony Mine (DAM) Prospect, located within the Mojave Project in San Bernardino County.

Kerrie Matthews, Managing Director/CEO of Locksley said, “We are at a pivotal time for Locksley as we continue our rapid advancement toward becoming a developer, with an end-to-end supply chain strategy from Mine-to-Metal – all within the U.S.” She noted that the successful execution of technical steps, including establishing the exploration target, achieving a 68.1% concentrate grade and evaluating the underground workings that have been part of the strategy have significantly advanced the company toward mitigating key uncertainties that are associated with planning for the next steps.

“We are focused on further enhancing our understanding of DAM and working in parallel with the U.S. government on permitting, finance, and ultimately physically delivering antimony product into the U.S. market,” she affirmed. More information is available here: https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/apiman-gateway/ASX/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03022491-6A1296813&v=undefined.

The company has:

• Initiated development planning for extraction of mineralization, definitive financing (leveraging the recent EXIM LOI), permitting and pilot plant processing operations.
• Received expressions of interest from U.S. engineering contractors to commence with extraction of mineralization at the DAM mine, marking the start of development.
• DAM underground access assessment confirms the structural stability and accessibility of the historical workings, supporting safe re-entry and phased mine development planning toward future development.
• DAM site inspection by mining engineers scheduled for later this month as part of initial engineering and design studies to meet planned pilot plant throughput.
• Following underground LiDAR surveying that confirmed approximately 236m of Development across four levels spanning a 130m strike length, the company established an exploration target at DAM containing 19,400 to 67,000 tons of antimony metal. These estimates are conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to date to estimate a Mineral Resource. The Exploration Target has been prepared and reported in accordance with the JORC Code (2012).
• The recently completed 325 kg bulk sampling delivered a high head grade of 7.6% to 7.8% Sb with flotation testwork underway and supported by the initial sighter testwork completed on a 23.1kg sample at 9.6% Sb, which delivered a 68.1% Sb premium concentrate, meeting industrial and defense specifications.

The company has multiple exploration activities in progress and planned with key activities and timeframes including:

• Underground mapping – currently underway and due for completion November 2025.
• Underground sampling – work planned to commence (assuming ability for safe working) in November 2025 with an approximate one-month time to assay results.
• Surface Sampling – initial program has commenced. Assays from previous samples taken are expected late November-early December 2025.
• Drilling – a plan of operations has been approved pending payment of required bond. Upon payment, Company is approved to drill up to 16 holes at DAM Prospect. The company currently expects to commence drilling at the El Campo Prospect in late Q4 2025/early Q1 2026 and anticipated commencing drilling at DAM subsequent to completing El Campo.
• Magnetic Geophysics Interpretation – Geophysical Consultants SGC has commenced with a regional magnetic image interpretation to define the structural geology across the Mojave Project. This will inform geological testing for new and additional structures and potentially further support the DAM exploration target. Work is expected to be completed by Q1 2026.
• Surface Structural & Geological Mapping – a third mapping program is scheduled to commence late November, expanding two previous phases of activity.
• Stream Sediment Sampling – a regional stream sediment sampling program is currently in the final planning phases. The field collection is scheduled to be completed in Q4 2025 (weather permitting). If samples are collected in Q4 2025 analysis results are anticipated in Q1 2026.

Locksley Resources (https://www.locksleyresources.com.au) is focused on critical minerals in the U.S. The company is actively advancing the Mojave Project in California, targeting rare earth elements (REEs) and antimony. Locksley is executing a mine-to-market strategy for antimony, aimed at reestablishing domestic supply chains for critical materials, underpinned by strategic downstream technology partnerships with leading U.S. research institutions and industry partners. This integrated approach combined with resource development with innovative processing and separation technologies, positions Locksley to play a key role in advancing U.S. critical minerals independence.

Contact: Beverly Jedynak, beverly.jedynak@viriathus.com, 312-943-1123; 773-350-5793 (cell)

IFS expands ecosystem of Frontier AI, Robotics, Grid Tech and Business Advisory by forging new partnerships with leading AI tech companies Anthropic, 1X Technologies, Siemens and collaboration with Boston Dynamics

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, is today showcasing the next wave of AI innovation, applied for Industry. At its marquee event, Industrial X Unleashed, taking place in Tribeca, New York, the company shared its vision, demonstrated specific applications of IFS.ai in action within an industrial setting, as well as unveiled partnerships through applied customer examples. 

Opening the event, Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS said: “The opportunity to drive growth in our economy, as well as positively impact our society and planet using AI is now – but importantly, what will make a difference is applying AI in the industrial setting. The news headlines to date have been on the generic productivity benefits AI can provide to office-based workers, but IFS is uniquely positioned to deliver contextual and industry-specific AI to workers in the field. And that is where we will see the most impactful innovation and efficiency gains.” 

Driving growth in Industrial AI 

IFS showcased partnerships with some of the fastest-growth AI companies looking for further expansion by applying their capabilities with IFS.ai to the hardcore industries that IFS serves including: Aerospace & Defense, Energy, Engineering & Construction, Manufacturing, Telco, and Transport. Examples from the following areas included: 

• Frontier AI Models: a partnership with Anthropic saw IFS Nexus Black launch Resolve, powered by Claude, as the first of many new IFS solutions that puts industry-specific AI directly into the hands of frontline workers to transform work and rapidly deliver value. Resolve enables customers to predict and prevent faults faster by interpreting multi-modal data such as video, audio, temperature and pressure, and complex schematics.  
• The scenario was demonstrated through a real-world customer use case, William Grant & Sons – the world’s largest independent distiller. William Grant & Sons has worked with IFS Nexus Black and Anthropic to forward-deploy a field-worker productivity solution within weeks. This is already helping engineers anticipate and resolve maintenance issues before downtime occurs, improving asset reliability, reducing unplanned outages, and freeing teams to focus on higher-value production tasks. 
• Physical AI and Robotics: a collaboration with Boston Dynamics was used to demonstrate how physical AI and robotics can leverage IFS’s industrial AI within a utility setting. Customer Eversource, New England’s largest energy delivery company, spoke to the many scenarios being planned to improve efficiency and service to the 4.4million homes it serves. In addition, IFS’s partnership with robotics manufacturer 1X Technologies was announced, opening the opportunity for 1X Technologies to take their humanoid robots into industrial settings. 
• Grid and Power: A partnership with Siemens Grid Software was announced, using IFS.ai to re-architect tomorrow’s intelligent autonomous grid through asset investment planning and grid infrastructure upgrades. 

R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research commented: “We are finally witnessing leadership in the category of Industrial AI. While frontier AI models and infrastructure platforms grab headlines, the critical missing piece has been the orchestration layer, the industrial operating system that embeds AI directly into mission-critical workflows.” 

He continued: “Customers seek deep domain expertise from their trusted AI partners, especially in manufacturing, utilities, aerospace, and energy. The AI Age isn’t about adding AI features to legacy software. It’s about architecting the control plane for the next generation of intelligent industrial operations where autonomous execution happens at scale, in real-time and achieving decision velocity for tangible business outcomes.” 

Additional speakers at the event included:      

• Mohamed Kande, PwC           
• Prasad Satyavolu, Accenture 
• Garvan Doyle, Anthropic          
• Dr. Merry Frayne, Boston Dynamics        
• Ranjit Bawa, Deloitte       
• Darryl Willis, Microsoft    
• Stephanie Woerner, MIT CISR   
• Dr. Sabine Erlinghagen, Siemens Grid Software 

For more information about Industrial X Unleashed, visit www.industrialX.ai. 

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Adam Gillbe  
IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications 
Email: adam.gillbe@ifs.com  

NORTH AMERICA / LATAM: 
Mairi Morgan 
IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications  

Email: mairi.morgan@ifs.com 

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Industrial X Unleashed

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, and Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics, today announced a ground-breaking collaboration to revolutionize how asset-intensive organizations manage and optimize their field operations. Uniting Boston Dynamics’ autonomous inspection robots with the power of IFS.ai creates a fully agentic AI system that seamlessly connects sensing, predictive decision-making and action in the field. With labor and skills shortages impacting industrial customers, leading to service gaps and prolonged outages, there exists an urgent need for technology that can supplement field workers. 

IFS and Boston Dynamics revealed the joint solution for the first time at Industrial X Unleashed in New York, November 13. The two companies showcased a powerful combination of physical AI and agentic AI that creates an end-to-end autonomous system to connect robots and enterprise data in high potential applications. Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots inspect industrial assets and sites, capturing critical operational data in real-time. Spot uses thermal cameras to detect overheating, can listen to air or gas leaks, read analog gauges for pressure and flow, check indicator lights, identify hazards like spills, or detect voltage anomalies. This information feeds directly into IFS.ai where agentic AI analyzes the data, makes intelligent decisions, and triggers appropriate actions – creating a seamless loop from sensing to execution. 

The collaboration uniquely focuses on serving industries where field operations are critical, including manufacturing, energy, utilities, mining, and other asset-intensive sectors. With field workers comprising part of the 70% of the world’s workforce that do not work behind a desk, IFS and Boston Dynamics are unlocking value in areas that have remained underserved by generic AI applications. 

Together, IFS and Boston Dynamics are targeting measurable improvements across three critical operational metrics: 

1. Safety: Autonomous inspections reduce human exposure to hazardous environments while increasing inspection frequency and thoroughness
2. Efficiency: Intelligent automation enables faster decision-making and response times, optimizing resource allocation
3. Uptime: Predictive insights and automated actions help prevent failures before they occur, maximizing asset availability 

Christian Pedersen, Chief Product Officer, IFS, said: “Asset-intensive organizations face unrelenting pressure to improve operational performance. Together with Boston Dynamics, we’re delivering a truly autonomous system that connects the physical and digital worlds for the first time. IFS.ai and IFS Loops turn robot observations into enterprise action, from preventative maintenance scheduling to predictive failure analysis and automated anomaly detection. Data flows from the field into enterprise systems, decisions are made autonomously, and actions are executed back in the field, all within a single integrated platform.” 

Dr. Merry Frayne, Director of Product, Boston Dynamics, commented: “This collaboration represents the future of industrial operations. Our robots excel at navigating complex environments and gathering critical data. Combined with IFS’s agentic decision-making capabilities, we’re enabling organizations to achieve levels of operational excellence and safety that simply weren’t possible before.” 

Ron Utterbeck, CIO, Eversource, an IFS customer, said: “As the largest New England energy provider managing critical infrastructure across multiple states, this integration has the potential to radically transform our operations. As our grid continues to advance we need to utilize not only traditional data gathering but more advanced data gathering and modeling. To meet the reliability and the energy demands for our customers, we look forward to the opportunity in utilizing advanced industry technology such to enable data collection at a different level that can support routine inspections of substations and facilities with automatically prioritizing and dispatching our crews. This will allow our highly-skilled crews to be focused on the right priorities at the right time and ensure mission-critical work is completed. It’s a genuine shift from reactive to predictive maintenance.” 

For more information about Industrial X Unleashed, visit www.industrialX.ai. 

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IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications 
Email: adam.gillbe@ifs.com 
 
NORTH AMERICA / LATAM: Mairi Morgan 
IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications 
Email: mairi.morgan@ifs.com 

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Strategic collaboration integrates humanoid robotics with IFS.ai to deliver measurable automation outcomes across manufacturing, field service, and asset management 

Industrial X Unleashed

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today announced at Industrial X Unleashed a strategic partnership with 1X Technologies (1X), to jointly industrialize humanoid robotics for asset-intensive industries. The collaboration will combine 1X’s humanoid robots with IFS.ai to develop and deploy production-ready robotics solutions alongside select customers across manufacturing, utilities, aviation and other industrial settings. 

The partnership creates a unified digital-physical operational environment where intelligent robots work directly within enterprise business processes. By integrating humanoids with IFS.ai, IFS and 1X will deliver solutions that close the loop from physical execution to business intelligence, enabling real-time orchestration of robotic operations and seamless data flow between physical work and enterprise systems. 

IFS and 1X will work with select customers to industrialize and validate humanoid robotics solutions across high-impact use cases: manufacturing and smart factory automation, IoT-enabled robotics feeding real-time operational data into IFS.ai, field service automation combining robotic hardware with intelligent maintenance orchestration, and vertical-specific applications for warehousing, aviation MRO to utility maintenance. This collaborative approach with pioneering customers will ensure solutions are production-ready and deliver measurable operational outcomes. 

“This partnership represents an exciting opportunity to bring together the physical and digital AI worlds,” said Christian Pedersen, Chief Product Officer at IFS. “By integrating 1X’s advanced robotics with IFS.ai, we’re creating solutions where intelligent machines and intelligent systems work in harmony. This isn’t about adding robotics as a feature, it’s about embedding intelligence in context, delivering real value to customers operating in asset-intensive environments. We’re focused on making a meaningful difference for businesses that manufacture, service, and maintain critical assets.” 

“This collaboration creates a seamless connection between physical execution and intelligent business processes,” said Jorge Milburn, EVP Sales & Operations at 1X Technologies. “By integrating our humanoids with IFS.ai, we’re building solutions where robots don’t just operate in isolation, they understand operational context, adapt to changing conditions, and deliver data that drives better decisions across the enterprise.” 

Building on Industrial AI Leadership 

The Future Industrial Workforce: Humans, Digital Workers, and Robots 

The partnership represents a critical step in IFS’s vision of workforce multiplication in industrial operations. Industrial sectors face massive labor shortages: 1 million open jobs in the U.S. alone, half in manufacturing, while re-industrialization and energy demand accelerate. 

Where operations today rely on 300 human workers barely covering demand, the future holds 3,000+ total workers: human experts elevated to orchestration and judgment calls, digital workers (AI agents) running diagnostics and workflows 24/7, and robotic workers inspecting assets and handling hazardous work in challenging environments. For the first time in industrial history, output is no longer limited by how many humans organizations can hire. 

IFS orchestrates all three as one integrated system, the only platform designed to schedule, manage, govern, and optimize human, digital, and robotic workers together. The 1X partnership extends this capability into the physical world, enabling robotic workers to be deployed and managed within the same enterprise platform that runs operations. 

The partnership builds on IFS’s Industrial AI strategy, including the Nexus Black innovation accelerator and recent acquisitions of TheLoops and 7Bridges, which have positioned IFS to deliver agentic AI capabilities across customer operations. With advanced robotics integration, IFS continues to build the platform for the complete future of industrial work. 

The integrated solutions will be showcased to IFS customers globally, with commercial availability planned for 2026. 

For more information about Industrial X Unleashed, visit www.industrialX.ai. 

IFS Press Contacts: 

EUROPE / MEA / APJ: Adam Gillbe 
IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications 
Email: adam.gillbe@ifs.com  

NORTH AMERICA / LATAM: Mairi Morgan 
IFS, Director of Corporate & Executive Communications 
Email: mairi.morgan@ifs.com  

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