Global Industrial AI Leader Cognite Announces Cognite Flows™

Phoenix, Arizona, May 12, 2026, U.S. time — Cognite, a global leader in industrial AI, today announced Cognite Flows™. Designed to optimize the daily workflows of frontline teams, Cognite Flows brings together everything workers need, including AI-driven insights and real-time data from multiple applications across internal departments, into a customizable single-screen workspace. For the first time in industry, software adapts to users instead of requiring users to adapt to software. Cognite Flows serves as the “action layer” of the Cognite platform, enabling production-ready workflows to be built, scaled, and used up to 100 times faster than conventional approaches through adaptive user experiences and industrial applications. Because Flows is natively integrated with Cognite’s Industrial Knowledge Graph, it delivers exceptional accuracy and scalability while ensuring that insights and new applications are always grounded in real-time operational context. More than 30% of Cognite’s customer base and key partners, including B. Braun and Idemitsu Kosan, are already adopting Flows. As a unified experience layer, Cognite Flows eliminates the need for operators and engineers to interrupt critical work and search for data across fragmented systems. Instead, it creates a seamless and intuitive environment where personalized insights and agentic AI recommendations surface naturally for each worker, in the right place, at the right time, and in the right format. This helps teams stay in a flow state and focus deeply on high-value problem solving and execution without the friction of manual data retrieval and administrative burden. Cognite Flows also redefines the developer experience. It enables a broad developer ecosystem that can use widely adopted agentic AI-native coding tools and AI-native architectures to build and deploy tailored applications up to 100 times faster than traditional methods. By dramatically reducing the complexity associated with data silos and conventional development, production-grade industrial applications can be delivered to the field faster and at lower cost. When frontline workers or domain experts identify a problem, an application tailored to that problem can be implemented in days rather than months. Jonathan Lang, research director at IDC, said that as the world becomes more data-driven, organizational success depends on the ability to use AI to optimize and automate business processes. Industrial organizations in particular struggle to scale AI initiatives because they require specialized capabilities that horizontal enterprise technologies cannot easily support. He noted that Cognite Flows is built on Cognite’s core capabilities and has the potential to significantly advance industrial experiences for both users and developers by building industrial AI “the right way.” Working closely with advanced customers and strategic partners, Cognite has already demonstrated the capabilities and business value of Cognite Flows in complex use cases such as root cause analysis and nonconformance reporting. Idemitsu Kosan, a major Japanese energy company also active in chemicals and high-performance materials, is using Cognite Flows to systematically capture and digitize accumulated knowledge and skills with AI, reducing operational risk and improving efficiency. Naruki Akiyama, group leader of the Advanced System Development Group in Idemitsu Kosan’s Production Technology Center, said that the urgent challenge at production sites has been to accurately capture accumulated expertise and experience and convert them into a digital legacy. Applications built with Flows go far beyond simple visualization tools and represent a fundamental transformation. He expects these tools to evolve into AI agents that proactively manage complex operations by using real-time knowledge graphs. B. Braun, a global medical technology company headquartered in Germany, is using Cognite Flows to gain greater visibility and insight into asset health across all sites. Dr. Michael Kaiser, operational technology leader at B. Braun, said that true operational transparency is the foundation of the company’s digital strategy, and Cognite Flows provided a unified and contextualized view of its data environment. Its flexibility and interoperability allowed the company to quickly refine the user experience, improving how asset data is visualized and used within four weeks through near-real-time updates based on user feedback. A global pharmaceutical leader used Cognite Flows to accelerate operational use cases, reducing time to value by 30 times in one case. A traditional approach would have required a team of more than 20 people and three to five months to build a prototype, while Flows delivered an automated AI workflow in just four days. Lead time to user acceptance testing was also shortened from a typical six-to-nine-month cycle to two months, effectively bypassing the bottleneck of delayed decision-making caused by committee-based design. This provided immediate operational visibility and actionable insights that engineers could use directly. Launch partner Radix is already using Cognite Flows in work with joint customers. Natalia Klafke, executive vice president of energy and sustainability at Radix, said the Radix-Cognite partnership has always focused on driving digital transformation at scale, and Cognite Flows enables this at unprecedented speed. Flows lets Radix focus on what it does best, solving complex industrial challenges, while removing the friction of traditional application development. Girish Rishi, CEO of Cognite, said that from the plant floor to supply chains and fulfillment, companies have traditionally had to stitch together fragmented technologies to enable workflows. Cognite Flows accelerates value creation in manufacturing in a uniquely powerful way by applying AI on top of contextualized data. He added that modern AI tools provide a new paradigm for quickly developing use cases across the enterprise, and Cognite Flows brings that experience to the industrial sector. Cognite makes AI work for industry. Leading companies in energy, manufacturing, power, and renewables choose Cognite to use secure, trusted, real-time data to transform asset-heavy operations into safer, more sustainable, and more profitable businesses. Cognite provides an easy-to-use, secure, and scalable industrial AI platform that enables decision-makers from the field to remote operations centers to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real time, and build a better future. Cognite K.K. is the Japanese subsidiary of Cognite, an industrial data and AI platform headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It was established in November 2019. This article is a Japanese abridged translation of a press release issued by the U.S. headquarters.