Q01 · AI & AgentsAssess◌ NewHorizon: 12-18 mo

Autonomous Coding Agents for Industrial Software

Agents assisting modernisation of legacy PLC, SCADA and MES-adjacent code.

Early pilots focus on test generation and documentation for legacy industrial codebases — direct agent-authored changes to safety-critical control logic remain tightly gated by validation requirements.

Autonomous Coding Agents across other industries

Agents that independently write, test and open pull requests against real codebases.

Engineering

From the Manufacturing & Industrial Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.