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Build and ideate applications faster with IRIS Forge

Leverage your operational expertise to create production-ready applications in a single integrated workspace. Powered by IRIS Foundry’s deep operational understanding and data awareness, Forge helps you ideate, build, and deploy industrial AI applications based on your data, systems, and workflows within minutes.

SymphonyAI Expands Industrial AI Platform with IRIS Forge — AI-Powered Application Creation for Industrial
We announce IRIS Forge, a new capability within the IRIS Foundry Industrial AI platform that empowers manufacturing and process teams to create, deploy, and scale AI-powered applications in hours instead of months.

Streamline the full lifecycle of industrial app development

  • 80-90%

    lower development costs

    Convert natural language into working applications instantly—no coding required

  • 5-10X

    faster deployment

    Reduce 3-6 month development cycles to just days using prompt-driven application generation

  • 50-90%

    reduction in maintenance overhead

    Leverage IRIS Foundry’s enterprise architecture—eliminate custom code maintenance and technical debt

Plan, ideate, visualize, build, deploy in a single workspace all on your industrial data

Step 1

Define and Ideate

IRIS Forge’s built-in industrial intelligence understands your complete operational context – from data structures to user needs. Start with your challenge and explore AI-guided solutions tailored to your environment. Powered by IRIS Foundry’s deep manufacturing insight, every idea is rooted in real-world context.

Turn plant knowledge into practical solutions.

Step 2

Iterate and Develop

Quickly turn ideas into working applications through rapid, intelligent iteration using real operational data. Forge recommends optimizations drawn from your unique context, ensuring each version is smarter and more aligned with enterprise standards.

Develop smarter, adapt faster.

Step 3

Deploy with Ease

Seamlessly implement your application using Forge’s industrial deployment framework, powered by IRIS Foundry’s robust connectors and native integration with your existing systems and data sources. Built-in connectors and protocols enable instant compatibility with your operational technology landscape, while intelligent configuration tools ensure proper security and access controls – turning complex deployment into a matter of hours or days.

From concept to production in record time.

Step 4

Scale with Confidence

Expand enterprise-wide with consistency and precision. Forge adapts solutions to site-specific needs while maintaining governance, security, and performance – enhanced by cross-site learning and partner support.

Enterprise-wide innovation, site-specific precision.

Why Forge?

Transform how your industrial teams create value through AI that’s deeply rooted in your operations. With Forge’s built-in industrial intelligence and IRIS Foundry integration, every application is tailored to your unique operational context. Create solutions that resonate with users, reflect real-world workflows, and deliver measurable business outcomes – all while leveraging your existing data, systems, and processes.

Deep operational data awareness

IRIS Forge recognizes and accesses your data within IRIS Foundry, leveraging the data sources, namespaces, schemas, data models, and knowledge and performance graphs. It uses built-in agents to build applications tailored to specific use cases.

Speed that scales

Turn operational insights into fully deployed applications in just hours, not months. Forge enables rapid development and iteration for critical industrial use cases, supporting fast experimentation and flexible deployment.

AI copilot digital manufacturing
Deploy your way

With IRIS Foundry, connect to a wide range of underlying data sources to develop contextualized applications, and scale easily from a single site to enterprise-wide rollouts—on your terms.

Security you can trust, governance you control

Built-in security controls, compatibility with existing authentication systems, and complete visibility over applications ensure robust protection and governance across your deployments.

Key Features

IRIS Forge combines powerful application development capabilities with enterprise-grade controls and flexibility. Whether you’re deploying pre-built solutions or creating custom applications, our platform provides everything needed to accelerate your industrial digital transformation while maintaining security and scalability.

Agentic-AI Driven

Build industrial applications rapidly with autonomous, generative AI that understands your goals and continuously adapts.

Operational Context Awareness

Forge knows your IRIS Foundry data, workflows, and systems—ensuring every app aligns to your real operations.

Enterprise Controls

Ensure security and compliance with built-in role-based access, audit logging, and comprehensive data integration capabilities.

Pre-Built Integrations

Connect to IDE and dev tools instantly via Forge’s pre-built integrations and Visual Studio Code extension and tunneling—no manual configuration needed.

One-Click Deployment

Launch applications with a single click—deploy securely across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.

Language Flexibility

Create with any programming language. Use your team’s preferred tools, backed by Forge’s AI-driven platform.

Explore Example Applications

Advanced analytics platform for supply chain optimization featuring interactive visualizations and AI-driven decision support.

Advanced analytics platform for supply chain optimization featuring interactive visualizations and AI-driven decision support.

Get hands-on with your data and experience industrial AI

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IRIS Forge FAQs

The team at SymphonyAI is here to answer your questions about AI for industrial manufacturing and our solutions. Here are some of the most common.

How does IRIS Forge work?

 

IRIS Forge is an industrial AI application development workspace that transforms natural language prompts into production-ready applications. It leverages IRIS Foundry’s operational context to create solutions that are perfectly aligned with your specific industrial use cases and workflows.

Yes, Forge requires the base IRIS Foundry platform to enable data connectivity and contextualization. Forge utilizes Foundry’s capabilities to ensure applications are built with proper operational context and enterprise security.

Forge reduces traditional 3-6 month development cycles to just days. Many applications can be deployed in hours or days, delivering 5-10x faster deployment compared to traditional development methods.

You can build a wide range of industrial applications including process optimization workflows, asset performance monitoring, digital worker solutions, and more. Forge also provides access to 50+ pre-built applications and industry-specific templates.

Forge includes comprehensive built-in security controls, role-based access management, audit logging, and support for existing authentication systems. All applications inherit enterprise controls ensuring consistent security and compliance.

Yes, partners can use Forge to build repeatable, maintainable solutions.

Forge reduces maintenance overhead by 50-90% compared to traditional custom development by leveraging IRIS Foundry’s enterprise architecture, eliminating custom code maintenance and technical debt.

Through IRIS Foundry, Forge applications can connect to existing industrial systems using standard protocols, APIs, and pre-built connectors, ensuring compatibility across your operational technology landscape.