AVEVA announces new product innovations at AVEVA World 2026

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, announced new product innovations at its annual industrial intelligence conference AVEVA World 2026 in Milan, designed to help industrial organisations leverage their operational data for better decision making, stronger compliance, and AI-enhanced intelligent operations

For industrial organisations, the pressure to adopt AI is intensifying, and so are the underlying challenges: complex regulatory environments, a growing sustainability imperative, ageing infrastructure and fragmented data.

“For industrial enterprises, the challenge is not ambition but infrastructure. The promise of AI remains largely unrealised for most industrial teams because the operational data, engineering data, workflows, and compliance frameworks required to safely deploy AI at scale have rarely been connected in one place," said Rob McGreevy, chief product officer, AVEVA. "The innovations we are announcing are aimed at closing this gap, across every layer of the industrial technology stack.

“From engineering to operations to compliance, we’re continuing to embed AI and intelligence more deeply into industrial workflows, helping them move faster, manage complexity, and scale with confidence.”

AVEVA is extending its industrial intelligence platform CONNECT to Snowflake and ServiceNow, giving customers access to high-fidelity OT data within the tools they already use for analytics, industrial AI, automations, and machine learning.

A major CONNECT release is planned for Q1 2027, bringing a range of new capabilities, including an industrial knowledge graph that makes it faster to construct, enrich, and operationalise digital twins. The knowledge graph model is populated using a twin builder that applies agentic AI to propose intelligent mappings that align existing data sources to a standard data model.

Flows, set for release in Q2 2026, will enable the assembly and deployment of data processing pipelines for real-time cleansing, filtering, and transformation that simplifies data handling between systems and sources. The combination of flows, twin builder, and the industrial knowledge graph with CONNECT’s existing data management, visualisation, and AI capabilities further enhances the rapid realisation of the industrial digital twin with AI-ready data.

These integrations are supported by a deepening strategic partnership with Microsoft. Key joint capabilities include AI embedded in industrial operations, and a Customer-Hosted SaaS option for large enterprises with specific requirements around data sovereignty, security policy, and private network access.

Bringing AI to industrial operations

AVEVA is embedding AI directly into tools and workflows, from the operator interface to the engineering desktop, enabling teams to make faster, better-informed decisions.

From June 2026, AVEVA Operations Control updates will deliver unified visualisation across the full operational stack, seamlessly connecting HMI, SCADA, and enterprise systems via CONNECT with a consistent design language and a single operational data story.

AVEVA is also introducing expanded capabilities and updates for AVEVA Unified Engineering: Flows via CONNECT, will be integrated by Q2 2026, and Unified Engineering for marine design will be available in Q4 2026.

Across the AVEVA PI System portfolio, AVEVA is announcing a series of updates to make operational data more accessible, more scalable, and ready to support AI workloads, while maintaining required security and governance standards. Key innovations include enhancements to AVEVA PI Server to support analytics and AI-intensive workloads at enterprise scale; more efficient movement of PI Server data into CONNECT; and new web-based management experiences for AVEVA Adapters that simplify the configuration and scaling of industrial data collection. AVEVA PI Vision is also receiving enhancements to trend analysis, navigation, and usability, enabling faster insight extraction from high-volume PI data environments. Additionally, AVEVA is introducing AVEVA PI Audit Reporter, a new web-based audit trail review and reporting solution developed in collaboration with Cognizant.