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Kriti Sharma discusses the practical applications and challenges of industrial AI in critical environments.

Most AI is built for people sitting at desks. Kriti Sharma builds it for the people who work in refineries, aircraft hangars, and utility networks responding to wildfires at 4 a.m. and she spends weekends on-site with them to make sure what she builds actually holds up. In this episode, Kriti joins Craig Smith to discuss what industrial AI really looks like when failure genuinely isn't an option, and why the gap between an impressive AI pilot and a production-grade AI system is so much wider in the physical world than most technology companies appreciate. The conversation is grounded in three specific products from Nexus Black, the elite AI unit Kriti leads inside IFS. The first is Resolve, a predictive maintenance platform built in close collaboration with William Grant's - the distillery behind Glenfiddich and Hendricks Gin - that is projected to save £8.4 million per year at a single factory by reading complex engineering schematics, identifying failure patterns before they occur, and giving frontline technicians step-by-step guidance on their phones without requiring them to remove a safety glove to type. The second is an airworthiness compliance tool for commercial airlines…

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