HCLTech iEdgeX Solution - An Intelligent Edge AI Platform for Industrial Edge-to-Cloud Transformation

HCLTech Intelligent Edge AI Platform (iEdgeX) is a unified industrial Edge-to-Cloud transformation platform designed to accelerate AI adoption across machines, lines, plants and enterprise manufacturing networks. It harmonizes OT, IT and engineering systems into a single AI-ready backbone that enables manufacturers to deploy, operate and scale AI consistently across edge devices, production equipment, near-edge compute and multi-site cloud environments.

1. Seamless OT–IT–ET Integration - iEdgeX connects machines, systems and enterprise applications through plug-and-play industrial protocol support, unified data models and a standardized integration layer that eliminates repetitive engineering effort.
2. AI and GenAI-Ready Data Foundation - It creates a governed, contextualized, analytics-ready data environment using a Unified Namespace and an industrial knowledge graph, ensuring AI and insights are deployed consistently across sites.
3. Business Operational Intelligence - iEdgeX enables Business Operational Intelligence by leveraging AI and GenAI-driven industrial solutions to deliver predictive insights, Vision AI, guided decision support, and role-based operational insights. Powered by Smart MLOps and low-latency edge inference, it transforms operational data into actionable insights and recommendations that enhance decision-making across plants and enterprise operations.

Features

• Industrial Connectivity – Plug-and-play support for 250+ OT, IT, and enterprise protocols (ISA-95 aligned).
• Edge Factory Insights – Real-time contextual insights with closed-loop control at the edge.
• Edge AI – Data quality checks, OT AI Assist, and Edge Pilot programming assistant.
• Unified Data Foundation – Single analytics foundation for IT, OT, and engineering data.
• UNS & Knowledge Graph – Real-time data contextualization at the edge.
• Cloud Insights – Microservices-based architecture for unified IT-OT intelligence. Role based visualization
• Data Enablement – Contextualized data exposed via APIs and SQL endpoints.
• Vision Insights – AI-powered quality inspection and production summary insights.

Benefits:

• Top floor to shop floor visibility: greater collaboration among the team
• Up to 15–25% reduction in unplanned downtime
• Up to 20-30% higher accuracy in quality and predictive analytics
• Up to 20% improvement in workforce efficiency
• Up to 20–30% improvement in overall productivity