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Sight Machine Advances Autonomous Agents for Manufacturing with AI Agent Crews

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Agent Crews Continuously Monitor and Optimize Production

HANNOVER, Germany, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sight Machine Inc., the leading industrial AI platform, today introduced autonomous agentic operations in manufacturing, with crews of autonomous AI agents working around the clock to maximize production performance. These capabilities, which Sight Machine is demonstrating this week at the trade fair Hannover Messe, dramatically accelerate the timeline for manufacturers to achieve outcomes using AI.

General-purpose AI tools are unable to make sense of raw industrial data. Sight Machine’s crews of AI agents solve production problems and improve productivity by working with Sight Machine’s semantic layer, a continuously updated digital representation of manufacturing processes generated by Sight Machine’s industrial AI platform.

While individual agents focus on improving KPIs like throughput, quality, and cost, they work together as a crew to achieve overall optimization of manufacturing and business outcomes. Agents use Sight Machine’s extensive set of manufacturing analysis tools, and work with developer agents to create custom analysis applications when needed, within guardrails.

Sight Machine is also building the capacity of its agents to deploy its industrial data platform and configure the semantic layer, accelerating implementations and putting operations teams in control. By using agents, operating teams are empowered to extend the semantic layer to include new machines, lines, and product SKUs. This reduces reliance on software developers and specialist systems integrators and puts more power and flexibility into the hands of users.

“By melding the rapidly advancing power of AI technologies with the unique semantic layer generated by Sight Machine’s industrial AI platform, Sight Machine has bridged the gap between general-purpose AI technology and the extremely challenging nature of production data,” said Sight Machine CEO and Co-Founder Jon Sobel. “Sight Machine is the linchpin enabling AI to work effectively in the physical world of manufacturing.”

Sight Machine is previewing these capabilities at Hannover Messe as part of its ongoing platform development, with expanded availability planned for later in 2026.

Advancing Toward Autonomous Operations

The AI agent crew initially operates in analysis and recommendation mode to simulate possibilities, determine optimal settings, and make recommendations to operations teams. As the agentic crew demonstrates its capabilities and reliability, manufacturers can choose to extend its authority to directly control specific settings or steps – moving progressively toward autonomous operations at a pace they control.

The agent crews use Sight Machine’s manufacturing analytics tools, including statistical analysis, ML techniques (e.g., random forest), AI-enhanced centerlining and golden runs, cookbooks, and root cause analytics. Within a permissioned framework that manufacturers control, the agent crew has the ability to code and orchestrate new tools for analysis, optimization and presentation.

The agents communicate with other agents and tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that enables secure, structured interoperability between AI agents and the tools they use. In addition to layers of security within Sight Machine’s platform, the software runs within corporate security and data governance provided by Microsoft Azure.

“Operations teams assign objectives to agents, and each agent works continuously to achieve its objective, whether it is improving availability, minimizing defects, or maximizing throughput,” said Sight Machine VP of Product Andrew Home. “The agents are always on, looking at current operating conditions, looking at all the process parameters, looking for anomalies and changes in conditions, and providing recommendations to operators on how they can improve.”

Working under instructions provided by human operators, and with quality and conformance review by those operators, the crew of agents work together to balance tradeoffs among outcomes, e.g., maximizing throughput vs. quality. They can provide recommendations to optimize changeovers in the type of product being made or the raw materials used, such as changes to machine settings, temperature, process duration, etc.

Engaging with Operations Teams Through Productivity Tools

Users can engage with and share the insights, recommendations and analysis of Sight Machine’s industrial AI platform using ubiquitous productivity tools – including Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Teams – and through enterprise data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, rather than requiring specialist knowledge of manufacturing software.

Demonstration at Hannover Messe

Sight Machine is demonstrating agentic operations in Microsoft’s booth (Hall 17, Stand G06) at Hannover Messe this week. The demonstration runs on the Sight Machine and Microsoft Integrated Industrial AI Stack on Azure, a fully integrated industrial AI solution jointly delivered by Microsoft and Sight Machine. This offering brings together the entire industrial AI stack spanning cloud, edge, and on-premises, enabling organizations to unlock transformative business value.

About Sight Machine
Sight Machine, the leading industrial AI platform, enables manufacturers to scale industrial AI across products, lines, and plants. Purpose-built for manufacturing and combining software with forward-deployed manufacturing experts, Sight Machine helps enterprises drive measurable improvements in yield, throughput, quality, uptime, cost, and sustainability. The platform is open, modular, and enterprise-grade, integrating natively into existing architectures while preserving full customer control of data and infrastructure.

Sight Machine Press Contact: Media@sightmachine.com

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Wondershare to Showcase AI-Powered Business Workflows with PDFelement at Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong

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HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wondershare, a global leader in productivity and creativity software, will participate in the Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong on April 22, 2026, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. At Booth E10, the company will showcase its AI-powered business workflow solutions across its product portfolio, highlighting Wondershare PDFelement as a key focus, and inviting attendees to experience how intelligent workflows can transform modern business operations.

As Microsoft’s flagship global AI event, the Microsoft AI Tour brings together industry leaders, partners, and innovators to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping business landscapes. At the Hong Kong stop, Wondershare will highlight its deepening collaboration with Microsoft, showcasing how its product ecosystem works seamlessly within Microsoft’s AI and cloud technologies to enable more efficient, secure, and scalable workflows.

This collaboration comes at a pivotal time for Hong Kong’s rapidly evolving AI landscape. Hong Kong is rapidly emerging as a key AI innovation hub, driven by strong policy support and accelerating enterprise adoption. Despite this momentum, many organizations still face challenges such as fragmented AI adoption, integration complexity, and data security concerns. In collaboration with Microsoft, Wondershare addresses these challenges by enabling connected, end-to-end AI workflows that deliver practical and measurable productivity gains.

Under the theme “Streamline Workflows. Power Content with AI.”, Wondershare presents a unified approach to AI-driven productivity. At the center of this ecosystem is Wondershare PDFelement, enabling smarter and more efficient document workflows within enterprise environments and helping businesses adopt AI in practical, everyday scenarios. Supporting this vision, Wondershare’s broader product portfolio—including EdrawMax, EdrawMind, Filmora, and Reelmate—extends AI-powered capabilities across diagramming, mind mapping, video creation, and premium comic content creation, forming a connected, end-to-end workflow, all of which will also be showcased on-site at the event.

Through live, interactive demonstrations, attendees visiting Booth E10 will be able to explore Wondershare’s full product ecosystem and gain hands-on insight into how AI can enhance productivity across a wide range of business scenarios.

Wondershare warmly invites all participants to visit the booth and discover how AI-powered workflows can unlock new possibilities for business growth.

About Wondershare:

Wondershare is a globally recognized software company founded in 2003, known for its innovative solutions in creativity and productivity. Driven by the mission “Creativity Simplified”, Wondershare offers a range of tools, including PDFelement for document management; EdrawMax, EdrawMind for diagraming, Filmora and SelfyzAI for video editing. With over 2 billion cumulative active users across all products and a presence in over 200 countries and regions, Wondershare empowers the next generation of creators with intuitive software and trendy creative resources, continually expanding the possibilities of creativity worldwide.

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Cohesity Appoints Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ)

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SINGAPORE, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cohesity, today announced Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Lee will lead the company’s technical sales strategy, pre-sales organisation, and solution engineering execution across the region, reporting to Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International at Cohesity, and reflects Cohesity’s increased investment in the region as a strategic priority.

In this newly created role, Lee will strengthen technical engagement with customers and partners, and drive adoption of Cohesity’s AI-driven data security and cyber resilience platform across APJ.

Lee brings 29 years of experience leading pre-sales, sales engineering, and go-to-market changes across Asia Pacific. He has a strong record of building high-performing teams, driving enterprise growth, and engaging C-level stakeholders in complex markets.

“APJ is a strategically important region for Cohesity, and Nigel’s leadership, passion and deep expertise make him exceptionally well positioned to lead our technical sales organisation,” said Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International, Cohesity. “As we continue to invest in the region, his ability to align technical strategy with the rapidly developing customer requirements caused by the ever-changing threat and compliance landscape will be critical to accelerating our growth and ensuring our customers’ ongoing business resilience.”

Previously, Lee was Director of Data Storage Solutions, Asia Pacific at Lenovo, where he led the regional business and transformed the go-to-market to drive growth. He also held senior regional and global roles at NetApp.

“Across the region, organisations are under increasing pressure to secure, manage, and unlock value from their data as AI adoption accelerates and cyber threats evolve. Cohesity is uniquely positioned to simplify this complexity through a unified, AI-driven data security platform,” said Nigel Lee, Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan at Cohesity. “Having spent my career scaling organisations and embedding solution expertise early in the customer journey, I’m excited to join at this pivotal time and look forward to working with our teams, partners, and customers to drive meaningful, outcome-led growth.”

Lee holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST and a Bachelor of Computer Science.

About Cohesity 

Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI-powered data security, Cohesity helps organisations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including 70% of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.

Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn and visit www.cohesity.com to learn more.    

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EcoMatcher Unveils Tree Personas

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A New Nature Interface for Engaging with Your Trees, in Any Language

HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EcoMatcher, a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to plant and track trees transparently, today announced Tree Personas, a new Nature Interface designed to make tree gifting and sustainability engagement more personal, interactive, and memorable.

With Tree Personas, companies can assign a distinct digital personality to each gifted tree, enabling recipients to virtually visit their tree in TreeTracker 3D, chat with it through TreeChat+ in their own language, and learn about its growth, local environment, and real-world impact.

Tree Personas build on EcoMatcher’s earlier TreeChat, which introduced chatbot-powered conversations with trees, only in English. While TreeChat enabled interaction, Tree Personas shape how a tree communicates in any language – from curious and playful to calm and reflective – while all environmental data, location, and impact metrics remain authentic and unchanged.

EcoMatcher describes Tree Personas as a Nature Interface — a new category of digital interface that allows people to interact with real ecosystems through digital companions connected to living trees. The company believes Nature Interfaces can help reconnect people with nature in an increasingly digital world.

Rather than passively receiving information about a planted tree, users can build an ongoing relationship with it — asking questions, learning about its ecosystem, and following its growth over time. Even when users are away, Tree Personas continue to evolve digitally, encouraging people to return and discover new reflections, observations, and updates.

“Trees are essential for life on Earth, yet most people rarely have a personal connection with them,” said Bas Fransen, CEO of EcoMatcher. “Tree Personas turn planted trees into interactive companions that help people learn about nature and build deeper connections with the ecosystems that support us.”

Meet the First Tree Personas

EcoMatcher introduces three Tree Personas available to companies gifting trees, all inspired by real ecological stages and behaviours of trees:

Twiggles: A young, curious tree highlighting small discoveries in nature.Oakly: A grounded, thoughtful tree sharing ecosystems insights.Seren: A calm, reflective tree encouraging deeper connections with nature.

Companies can also collaborate with EcoMatcher to create custom Tree Personas aligned with their brand values, sustainability goals, or storytelling needs.

EcoMatcher will share more about the background and opportunities of Tree Personas during its upcoming Demo Day on April 27. To sign up, visit www.ecomatcher.com/demo.

About EcoMatcher

EcoMatcher is a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to integrate transparent tree planting into their business. Through its technology platform, organizations can plant trees, track them digitally, and engage employees and customers in sustainability. EcoMatcher’s customers include Dubai Islamic Bank, Grab, Infosys, and Singlife.

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