By Leon Lim, CEO & Founder, Groundup.ai
SINGAPORE – [October 15, 2025] – The industrial world is facing a silent, multibillion-dollar enemy: unplanned downtime. Asset-intensive sectors lose an estimated $50 billion globally each year to unexpected equipment failures, creating massive waste, stress, and inefficiency. For too long, maintenance has been a reactive, and at best, a predictive guessing game.
Today, that changes.
At the Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific (ITAP) event in Singapore, Groundup.ai officially launched the World’s First Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance. This isn’t an upgrade to old systems. It’s a fundamental reinvention of maintenance. We’ve built a virtual machine expert that gives assets a ‘mind’ of their own, designed to help asset-heavy industries eliminate unplanned downtime, cut maintenance costs, and achieve new heights of operational resilience and sustainability.
The Power of Cognitive Maintenance
Traditional predictive maintenance systems can only forecast when a piece of equipment might fail. While useful, this still leaves the critical “what” and “how” to human engineers under pressure.
Cognitive Maintenance goes a significant step further: it tells operators what’s wrong, why it’s happening, and precisely how to fix it.
By embedding Agentic AI into this process, we’ve created a solution where machines act as self-learning agents. Our AI platform is no longer just processing data; it’s reasoning. It is capable of:
- Diagnosing root causes instantly.
- Learning how maintenance crews treat each anomaly.
- Recommending solutions and actionable, step-by-step guides.
- Continuously improving based on every outcome.
In short, we’ve created a system that acts as a proactive guide, delivering insights that drive a clear and immediate return on investment. This allows businesses to scale their operations and reliability strategies with zero false alarms and faster interventions, significantly reducing the guesswork, stress, and wasted effort that plague our industries.
Real-World Resilience, AI That Works
This technology isn’t a theoretical concept. Tt’s already delivering measurable impact for leading organizations across the globe. Our Cognitive Maintenance solution is trusted across maritime, manufacturing, aviation, and rail to solve mission-critical problems:
- The Republic of Singapore Navy: Strengthening defense readiness through smarter vessel reliability.
- Coca-Cola Bottling Saudi Arabia: Achieving measurable ROI in production line efficiency.
- Hamad International Airport: Boosting uptime across critical infrastructure.
- Doha Metro: Ensuring uninterrupted, reliable rail operations.
This is a reinvention of maintenance. We’re not just predicting problems; we’ve built a system with agentic AI that acts as a virtual machine expert, providing proactive guidance.
By utilizing and rearranging data from various streams, our platform delivers insights that drive a clear return on investment. This allows businesses to scale their operations and reliability strategies with zero false alarms and faster interventions. Our AI learns, reasons, and guides engineers with actionable steps, significantly reducing the guesswork, stress, and wasted effort that costs industries billions every year.
By integrating diverse data streams, autonomous AI agents, and deep domain expertise, Groundup.ai transforms maintenance into a sustainability-driven circular economy. The solution helps asset operators to predict failures, guide precise fixes, extend asset lifespan, and significantly reduce waste and energy use, ultimately saving both money and vital resources.
Leading the Industry 5.0 Transformation
The launch of our Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance positions Groundup.ai at the forefront of the Industry 5.0 transformation. We are moving past simple automation and into a future where technology works in symbiotic partnership with human teams.
Our solution addresses the $50 billion unplanned downtime challenge head-on by creating an intelligent, adaptive maintenance ecosystem. This is where machines do more than just generate data, they generate decisions.
I encourage you to see this technology in action. Our Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance is available immediately for organizations in Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.
If you’re at ITAP, join us at Booth 3H11 (ITAP’s Singapore Pavillion) from October 15 – 17 for live demos. Don’t miss our presentation on October 16 at the Industrial Innovation Stage for a practical look at how agentic AIs are helping operations teams pivot from reactive to relentlessly reliable.
