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Introduction to Cognite Flows™

On May 12, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona, Cognite, a leader in industrial AI, released Cognite Flows™, an innovative solution designed to transform daily workflows for frontline teams. This AI-native platform integrates essential elements—real-time data from multiple internal applications—into a customizable single-screen workspace. Unlike traditional software that compels users to adapt, Cognite Flows allows software to adjust to user needs, marking a significant advancement in industrial software experience.

Cognite Flows acts as the "action layer" of the Cognite platform, enabling users to build, scale, and leverage production-ready workflows at speeds 100 times faster than previous methods. With seamless integration into Cognite's "industrial knowledge graph," it ensures unparalleled precision and scalability, guaranteeing that insights and new applications are always contextually relevant to real-time operations. Over 30% of key partners and clients, including B. Braun and Idemitsu Kosan, are already in the process of implementing Flows.

Redefining User Experience

Cognite Flows revolutionizes user experience by serving as an integrated experience layer. Operators and engineers no longer need to interrupt their essential tasks by switching between fragmented systems to locate data. Instead, personalized insights and agent-based AI recommendations emerge naturally at the right place and time. This seamless and intuitive environment enables teams to maintain a "flow state," focusing deeply on high-value problem-solving and execution without the friction of manual data retrieval and administrative burdens.

Transforming Developer Experience

Cognite Flows empowers a broad developer ecosystem utilizing widely adopted agent-based AI-native coding tools and architectures, facilitating application development and deployment tailored to specific needs up to 100 times faster than conventional methods. By dramatically simplifying data silos and traditional development complexities, Cognite Flows enables the delivery of mission-critical industrial applications to the field more quickly and at lower costs. This approach allows frontline workers and domain experts to implement applications that address identified challenges in mere days instead of months. According to Jonathan Lang, Research Director at IDC, "As the world becomes more data-driven, the success of organizations hinges on their ability to optimize and automate business processes using AI. Particularly in the industrial sector, organizations struggle to scale AI initiatives due to the specialized functionalities needed that horizontal enterprise technologies cannot easily support. Cognite Flows is built on the company's core capabilities, advancing the industrial experience for both users and developers by constructing industrial AI 'the right way.'"

Proven Results in the Field

Cognite has already demonstrated the capabilities and business value of Cognite Flows by collaborating closely with advanced customers and strategic partners on complex use cases, including root cause analysis and non-compliance reporting.

Idemitsu Kosan, a major Japanese energy company engaged in chemicals and high-performance materials, utilizes Cognite Flows to systematically capture and digitize accumulated knowledge and skills, reducing operational risks and enhancing efficiency. Naruki Akiyama, Leader of the Advanced Systems Development Group at Idemitsu’s Production Technology Center, stated, "The critical challenge in production operations is accurately capturing our accumulated expertise and converting it into digital legacies. The applications built using Flows represent a significant transformation far beyond mere visualization tools. We anticipate that leveraging real-time knowledge graphs will evolve these tools into proactive AI agents that effectively manage complex operations."

The global medical technology company B. Braun, headquartered in Germany, employs Cognite Flows to gain enhanced visibility and insights regarding asset health across all locations. Dr. Michael Kaiser, Leader of Operational Technology at B. Braun remarked, "Achieving true operational transparency is the foundation of our digital strategy, and Cognite Flows provided us a consolidated and contextual view of our data environment. Its flexibility and interoperability allowed us to refine the user experience rapidly, improving ways to visualize and utilize asset data within just four weeks based on user feedback."

Furthermore, a global pharmaceutical leader accelerated operation area use cases using Cognite Flows, achieving a thirty-fold reduction in time-to-value for one project. Previously, building a prototype took over 20 personnel and 3 to 5 months, while Flows delivered an automated AI workflow in just four days. The lead time for user acceptance testing also shrank from the usual 6 to 9 months to just two months, effectively circumventing bottlenecks associated with "committee-based design" decision-making. This resulted in immediate operational visibility and actionable insights for engineers.

Radix, one of the launch partners, is already utilizing Cognite Flows in joint customer engagements. Natalia Klafki, Executive Vice President for Energy & Sustainability at Radix, noted that their partnership has always focused on driving large-scale digital transformations, and with Cognite Flows, they are achieving these at unprecedented speeds. "Cognite Flows enables us to concentrate on solving complex industrial challenges while eliminating the friction associated with traditional application development. This transforms how mission-critical industrial applications are built and maintained, delivering greater value to customers faster than ever before."

CEO Girish Rishi stated, "From manufacturing sites to supply chain and fulfillment, we historically connected fragmented technologies to enable workflows. Cognite Flows accelerates value creation for manufacturing by applying AI based on contextualized data in a powerful new way. The latest AI tools provide a new paradigm for rapidly developing use cases across the enterprise, and Cognite Flows brings this experience to the industrial sector."

For those interested in more information, please register for the Cognite Flows webinar (in Japanese).

About Cognite

Cognite operationalizes artificial intelligence in industrial sectors. Leading companies in energy, manufacturing, and renewable power leverage Cognite to transform asset-intensive operations into safer, more sustainable, and profitable endeavors, using reliable real-time data. Cognite offers an easy-to-use, secure, and scalable industrial AI platform that enables decision-makers from the field to remote operation centers to access, understand, and collaborate with complex industrial data in real-time to build a better future. For more details, please visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn.

Cognite Inc. is the Japan subsidiary of Cognite, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, which specializes in the industrial data & AI platform "Cognite," founded in November 2019.