When operations get smarter, the entire business moves faster. With IFS Cloud 25R1, we are maintaining our focus on embedding AI into workflows.
It enables teams to plan better, respond faster, and optimize with less effort. This release continues to turn AI from a strategic ambition into practical outcomes across planning, production, maintenance, service, and sustainability.
Whether your goal is to increase throughput, reduce unplanned downtime, or align your decarbonization targets with margin protection, 25R1 helps you do it with confidence, powered by the foundational building blocks of agentic AI emerging in IFS Cloud.
Why now? AI is shifting from potential to production
Today, industrial organizations are trying to scale AI but what’s changed is the business expectation. AI is now measured by its ability to drive value inside day-to-day operations, not just “latte-break” productivity gains.
For IFS customers, that means:
- Getting more from every asset without growing headcount
- Building agility across supply chains and field service teams
- Hitting sustainability targets while improving financial performance
That’s where Industrial AI delivers its biggest impact. And that’s where IFS Cloud 25R1 is focused.
Powered by IFS.ai: Built for industrial performance
At the core of 25R1 is IFS.ai, our Industrial AI platform, purpose-built to support complex, asset-intensive, and service-focused industries. Rather than layering AI on top, IFS.ai is embedded directly into IFS Cloud, delivering intelligence exactly where it’s needed.
It brings together:
- Specialized AI models trained on real-world industrial data
- Embedded copilots, prediction engines, and automation across functions
- Early agentic AI capabilities that allow systems to assist, recommend, and increasingly act with contextual awareness
With IFS.ai now delivering more than 200 AI-driven capabilities across IFS Cloud, our customers are no longer experimenting with AI, they’re achieving measurable outcomes at scale.
This is all part of our mission to power the next industrial revolution with AI; one built on intelligence, automation, and sustainable outcomes.
“IFS.ai is the difference in our teams spending just 10 hours every five years to change a part or spending one hour every single day to inspect it. IFS.ai helps us be more efficient by removing work we do not need to do from the queue, eliminating immense downtime in production.”
Kristian Mortensen, Engineer – Noble Drilling
Three imperatives for the next phase of industrial leadership
IFS Cloud 25R1 reflects three critical priorities we see across the industries we serve. Each one is designed to help organizations lead their market rather than survive it.
Disrupt before you’re disrupted
Markets are shifting. Margins are tightening. Disruption is everywhere. Organizations can no longer rely on incremental gains. They need bold moves powered by data and insight.
25R1 introduces capabilities that help customers reshape the way they transform and grow. Here are just a few:
- IFS.ai Copilot for FMECA transforms fault and maintenance data into insights, helping reliability engineers target the right issues before they become failures.
- Operation Time Prediction uses AI to deliver smarter production planning, enabling manufacturers to improve delivery performance and uncover systemic inefficiencies.
- The new Depot Repair module supports faster, more efficient repair cycles, opening up in-house service models and new revenue streams.
Transformative growth demands new ways of thinking backed by technology. These capabilities are built to enable exactly that.
Accelerate operations autonomously and intelligently
Over the past few years, the ability to adapt at speed has become a key differentiator. Autonomous operations give industrial organizations that edge, minimizing delays, errors, and manual effort across the board.
With IFS Cloud 25R1, we’re delivering AI-powered features that increase operational agility with less human intervention:
- Automated Work Order Generation from Documents: Saves time by helping turn contractor reports into structured maintenance tasks.
- IFS.ai Copilots for sales quotations, shipment orders, customer orders, and supply chain summaries streamline complex processes across departments.
- IFS,ai MSO Enhanced Scheduling Capabilities helps manufacturers respond faster to change with realistic optimized production schedules based on finite capacity constraints.
Autonomy isn’t focused on removing people, it frees them to focus on higher-value work while AI handles the repetitive tasks.
Realize profitable sustainability
Sustainability targets are now tied to stakeholder expectations, regulatory pressures, and long-term resilience. But the real opportunity lies in making sustainability profitable.
With IFS Cloud 25R1, we’re helping customers integrate environmental impact into everyday business decisions:
- Emissions Management enables tracking and disclosure of Scope 1 & 2 emissions, backed by over 160,000 verified emissions factors via our Climatiq partnership.
- A Forecast of Finished Goods Carbon Equivalents helps demand planners balance profitability and environmental impact in finished goods planning by aligning with decarbonization objectives
- ECO Footprint Enhancements streamline substance and emissions data handling to support regulatory reporting, promote circular economy practices, and ensure compliance with REACH and RoHS.
These tools give sustainability leaders the visibility they need to reduce environmental impact, without compromising efficiency or profitability.
A foundation for what’s next: Agentic AI and Nexus Black
While 25R1 delivers immediate value, it also lays the groundwork for what comes next. The future is agentic AI—intelligent systems that can reason, decide, and act within context.
With IFS.ai, that future is already at work in IFS Cloud today: copilots that suggest next steps, AI that generates work automatically, and predictive models that optimize decisions across the business.
To accelerate what’s next, we recently launched IFS Nexus Black™—a strategic innovation program where customers co-create advanced AI solutions with our engineering and industry experts. Nexus Black delivers rapid innovation in predictive maintenance, intelligent automation, and scheduling optimization, with results in weeks, not years.
Together, IFS Cloud, embedding IFS.ai, and the Nexus Black innovations give customers a practical path to the next generation of industrial intelligence.
See what 25R1 can do for you
IFS Cloud 25R1 is available now as part of our twice-yearly release cycle, designed to help you realize fast, measurable returns with minimal disruption. Whether you’re improving service performance, automating scheduling, or advancing your sustainability strategy, this release gives you the tools to lead.
Explore the 25R1 Release Showcase
On-demand explanations and expert demos. See how it all comes together in our Release Showcase.
