CSCT2025

Mr. Lakshmana Rao Koppada

AI-Enabled Enterprise Asset Management for Smart Industries

Abstract:

Smart industries are increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, smart computing, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies. However, traditional Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems—largely reactive, siloed, and rule-driven—are unable to cope with the scale, complexity, and real time demands of modern industrial ecosystems. This keynote examines how AI-enabled EAM architectures, exemplified by platforms such as IBM Maximo Application Suite, enable a transition toward predictive, prescriptive, and autonomous asset management.

The talk highlights how smart computing techniques including machine learning, anomaly detection, edge–cloud intelligence, big data analytics, and digital twins—can be systematically embedded into asset lifecycle management. Drawing on cross-industry examples from manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, energy, agriculture, and smart cities, the keynote demonstrates how AI-driven EAM improves reliability, resilience, security, and sustainability. The session concludes with a forward-looking perspective on self-healing and autonomous asset systems, bridging cutting-edge research with real-world industrial impact.

Profile:

Lakshmana Rao Koppada is a digital transformation leader and Technical Architect Manager at PwC Advisory LLC (USA) with over 15 years of experience in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), hybrid-cloud platforms, and reliability-focused operations engineering. He specializes in modernizing EAM ecosystems through containerized cloud architectures, IoT telemetry, and AI-driven Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions.

He has led large-scale transformation initiatives across pharmaceuticals, energy, utilities, manufacturing, maritime, and hyperscale data centers, delivering predictive maintenance frameworks, asset health analytics, and Red Hat OpenShift–based deployments. A Fellow of SAS and IETE and a Senior Member of IEEE, Lakshmana actively contributes to the technology community and has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the IBM Maximo Application Suite Administrator certification program.