IFS Nexus Black and Anthropic announced a partnership at IFS Industrial X Unleashed to accelerate and scale the impact of AI in the world’s most critical industries. IFS is launching Resolve as the first of many IFS solutions that puts industry-specific AI directly into the hands of frontline workers.
The partnership combines the deep industry expertise and AI talent of IFS Nexus Black, part of IFS with Anthropic’s world-leading AI capabilities and commitment to building safe, reliable AI.
“Partnering with Anthropic is about more than just their best-in-class AI models, it is also their commitment to responsible, safe AI – that’s non-negotiable when serving industries where, some days, life is on the line,” said Kriti Sharma, CEO at IFS Nexus Black. “These hardcore industries are where the real AI revolution is happening. It’s not the AI of tabloid headlines. It’s the lifeline for the workers that keep the lights on, the cupboards stocked, and the world turning.”
Transforming How Critical Industries Operate with AI
Resolve’s capabilities reflect the stark realities facing technicians and field workers across aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, manufacturing, energy, utilities & natural resources and telecoms. Resolve uses Claude to open up approaches that were not possible before, predicting and preventing what humans might miss: analyzing thousands of equipment images, correlating sensor readings, and connecting patterns across visual inspections and operational data to catch problems before they become failures.
These industries are straining under the pressure of aging infrastructure, lost expertise and an increasingly unpredictable world that throws supply chains out of balance. They’re also facing a strong increase in demands from re-industrialization and AI infrastructure build out.
They are underserved by generic and consumer-grade AI geared towards white collar workers and unsuited to asset and service-centric operations. Scalable, high-impact AI solutions designed for industrial applications are needed to meet the unique demands in the market and marketplace.
“Anthropic combines frontier AI capabilities with the safety and reliability that industries require. IFS has unquestionable expertise in the complex realities of the industrial world – they have proven they can activate and apply AI in capital intensive and asset heavy environments. Together, we’re deploying AI where stakes are highest,” said Garvan Doyle, applied AI lead at Anthropic.
What this Means for ERP Insiders
The partnership between IFS Nexus Black and Anthropic signals a decisive shift toward domain-specific AI as a core pillar of industrial ERP strategy. By embedding safety-aligned, industry-trained AI directly into operational workflows, ERP vendors and system integrators gain a blueprint for product roadmaps emphasizing frontline augmentation, risk-aware architectures and vertically specialized innovation rather than generic model integration.
The launch of Resolve illustrates how industrial AI is reshaping asset-intensive environments through predictive, multimodal intelligence tightly aligned with operational data. ERP and transformation leaders should interpret this as an inflection point: system landscapes must evolve toward architectures that support large-scale image, sensor and inspection data fusion, enabling preventive maintenance and higher service reliability under mounting infrastructure pressures.
The article underscores rising market demand for scalable, high-impact AI tailored to industries. This development highlights opportunities to differentiate through industrial-strength AI patterns, deeper partner ecosystems, and modernization programs that prioritize technician-centric solutions, operational resilience and AI-driven productivity in re-industrializing economies.
