G.M. International (GMI) specialist in intrinsic and functional safety hardware for Operational Technology (OT), and AINEXXO, a deep-tech pioneer in AI-powered OT, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver a transformative industrial innovation: the Self-Aware and Self-Protecting Factory. This alliance fuses GMI’s SIL-certified safety hardware with AINEXXO’s cognitive AI stack, laying the foundation for a new class of safety-embedded, self-aware industrial systems that redefine the future of operational resilience. The companies are creating a new industrial paradigm where Operational Safety and Operational Integrity Levels expand upon traditional Functional Safety (SIL) and Cyber Safety.
At the heart of this transformation is the integration of AINEXXO’s DaVinci Edge-AI Engineer into GMI’s new X product line, evolving it into a Safety Processing Unit (SPU). Unlike conventional control components, these next-generation platforms act as autonomous, self-aware agents capable of prediction and prevention of failures before they occur and collaboration between machines (M2M cognition) to optimize performance. “Together, we are bridging the gap between safety and intelligence,” said Zdravko Petkovic, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Group General Manager of G.M. International and Founder of AINEXXO.
