LG CNS Targets North American Manufacturers with AI-Powered Smart Factory Solutions at IMTS 2026

• Participates in IMTS 2026, North America's largest manufacturing technology exhibition, introducing its smart factory platform, 'Factova' 
• Showcases digital twin-based simulator, modular MES, and AI-powered equipment control solutions

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LG CNS, a leading AI transformation company in Korea, is targeting the North American manufacturing market with a lineup of AI-powered smart factory solutions at IMTS 2026. Taking place in Chicago, the International Manufacturing Technology Show is North America's largest manufacturing technology trade show.

IMTS 2026 is expected to draw roughly 1,800 exhibitors and more than 90,000 visitors from a range of manufacturing verticals, including automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, electronics, and medical devices. This year's theme, Industrial AI, centers on applying AI across the full range of the manufacturing process to maximize efficiency and drive smarter operations, giving attendees a firsthand look at the real-world impact AI is having on the factory floor.

LG CNS will use its participation at the show to introduce several core solutions from Factova, its platform for building smart factories. Built on AI and IoT technologies, Factova optimizes production and enables smarter, more intelligent factories. It draws on more than 30 years of technical expertise and hands-on know-how from manufacturing sites in Korea and abroad, including LG Group affiliates such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Chem, and LG Energy Solution.

One of Factova's core solutions is 'Factova Worldworks', a digital twin-based simulator that lets manufacturers test and validate operations in a virtual environment before implementing them on the factory floor. It recreates an actual factory in a 3D virtual environment to test and refine everything from spatial layouts to data monitoring. When breaking ground on a new factory, for instance, manufacturers can test out the equipment placement and logistics flow in a virtual environment beforehand, thereby avoiding trial and error in the real world. Actual production data can also be run through the simulator to build cost-efficient production plans and check equipment integrity ahead of time.

'Factova MES' is a manufacturing execution solution that manages the entire production process in real time. AI analyzes floor-level data, including equipment utilization, workforce activity, and raw material usage to maximize operating efficiency. What sets it apart is its modular design. MES functions are broken down by industry and process type into individual modules, so manufacturers can pick only what they need and scale accordingly.

LG CNS will also present 'Factova Control', which has recently been enhanced with more advanced AI capabilities. This solution collects and standardizes equipment data across different manufacturers in real time for unified control. The AI analyzes electrical current, temperature, and vibration data from connected equipment, allowing it to flag early warning signs and predict equipment failures in advance. It also integrates seamlessly with higher-level systems like MES and is already running on more than 100,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment worldwide.

Backed by Factova's core solutions and its track record across electronics, battery, and chemical plants in North America, LG CNS plans to make a strong push into the region's emerging smart factory market.

"Factova has demonstrated proven performance differentiation and quality across more than 100 manufacturing sites worldwide," said Jun-ho Lee, CEO of LG CNS America. "We are going to build on that track record of success and, along with our proven AX capabilities, deliver visible results for our customers in North America."

About LG CNS

LG CNS is a leading Korean AX (AI Transformation) company that continues to pioneer various emerging technologies, including AI, robotics, cloud computing, data center, and smart engineering, encompassing smart factories and smart logistics, as well as digital marketing. The company also leads the market through innovative system integration (SI) and system management (SM) capabilities across finance, manufacturing, the public sector, and various other industries. For more information, please visit https://www.lgcns.com.

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LG CNS, a leading AI transformation company in Korea, is targeting the North American manufacturing market with a lineup of AI-powered smart factory solutions at IMTS 2026. Taking place in Chicago, the International Manufacturing Technology Show is North America's largest manufacturing technology trade show.

IMTS 2026 is expected to draw roughly 1,800 exhibitors and more than 90,000 visitors from a range of manufacturing verticals, including automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, electronics, and medical devices. This year's theme, Industrial AI, centers on applying AI across the full range of the manufacturing process to maximize efficiency and drive smarter operations, giving attendees a firsthand look at the real-world impact AI is having on the factory floor.

LG CNS will use its participation at the show to introduce several core solutions from Factova, its platform for building smart factories. Built on AI and IoT technologies, Factova optimizes production and enables smarter, more intelligent factories. It draws on more than 30 years of technical expertise and hands-on know-how from manufacturing sites in Korea and abroad, including LG Group affiliates such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Chem, and LG Energy Solution.

One of Factova's core solutions is 'Factova Worldworks', a digital twin-based simulator that lets manufacturers test and validate operations in a virtual environment before implementing them on the factory floor. It recreates an actual factory in a 3D virtual environment to test and refine everything from spatial layouts to data monitoring. When breaking ground on a new factory, for instance, manufacturers can test out the equipment placement and logistics flow in a virtual environment beforehand, thereby avoiding trial and error in the real world. Actual production data can also be run through the simulator to build cost-efficient production plans and check equipment integrity ahead of time.

'Factova MES' is a manufacturing execution solution that manages the entire production process in real time. AI analyzes floor-level data, including equipment utilization, workforce activity, and raw material usage to maximize operating efficiency. What sets it apart is its modular design. MES functions are broken down by industry and process type into individual modules, so manufacturers can pick only what they need and scale accordingly.

LG CNS will also present 'Factova Control', which has recently been enhanced with more advanced AI capabilities. This solution collects and standardizes equipment data across different manufacturers in real time for unified control. The AI analyzes electrical current, temperature, and vibration data from connected equipment, allowing it to flag early warning signs and predict equipment failures in advance. It also integrates seamlessly with higher-level systems like MES and is already running on more than 100,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment worldwide.

Backed by Factova's core solutions and its track record across electronics, battery, and chemical plants in North America, LG CNS plans to make a strong push into the region's emerging smart factory market.

"Factova has demonstrated proven performance differentiation and quality across more than 100 manufacturing sites worldwide," said Jun-ho Lee, CEO of LG CNS America. "We are going to build on that track record of success and, along with our proven AX capabilities, deliver visible results for our customers in North America."

About LG CNS

LG CNS is a leading Korean AX (AI Transformation) company that continues to pioneer various emerging technologies, including AI, robotics, cloud computing, data center, and smart engineering, encompassing smart factories and smart logistics, as well as digital marketing. The company also leads the market through innovative system integration (SI) and system management (SM) capabilities across finance, manufacturing, the public sector, and various other industries. For more information, please visit https://www.lgcns.com.

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LG CNS Targets North American Manufacturers with AI-Powered Smart Factory Solutions at IMTS 2026

DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Treon Inc. today announced Treon IQ, a next-generation industrial AI capability that brings situational understanding to the company's market-leading Treon Connect Prescriptive Maintenance cloud platform. Instead of spending valuable time investigating dashboards, correlating data, and determining next steps, maintenance organizations can rely on Treon IQ to continuously analyze operational conditions, diagnose issues, identify optimization opportunities, and recommend actions. By transforming asset intelligence into continuous operational understanding and guided execution, Treon IQ helps teams resolve issues faster, improve consistency, and operate with expert-level insight across sites, fleets, and facilities. 

Bringing Industrial Understanding to the Next Level

Industrial maintenance workflows remain heavily dependent on human-led analysis and decision-making. While asset monitoring and fault detection have become largely automated, understanding what is happening and what should be done next still relies on human expertise. The result is often slow, costly, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.

Building AI systems capable of performing these tasks autonomously is equally challenging. Developing in-house diagnostic and recommendation models requires vast amounts of data, training, and computing resources. Horizontal AI layers depend on third-party sensor data, limiting their reasoning capabilities, while general-purpose large language models (LLMs) often lack the industrial context required for reliable operational decisions. 

Introducing Treon IQ

Treon IQ extends the Treon Connect platform with an AI engine that automatically transforms asset data into continuous situational understanding.

The solution analyzes data from real-time and historical asset intelligence and other sources such as CMMS and ERP systems. It detects and diagnoses issues, uncovers optimization opportunities, explains root causes, and generates actionable recommendations for fast and consistent resolution.

Treon IQ combines the company's proprietary anomaly detection technology, next-generation deep-learning diagnostic models, and carefully selected LLMs into a unified framework. High-precision wireless sensors within the vertically integrated Treon Connect platform provide deep visibility into asset behavior, creating a stronger foundation for accurate diagnostics and recommendations than horizontal AI approaches that lack in-depth asset intelligence.

Instead of relying on alerts, vibration data, and condition-monitoring dashboards, Treon IQ introduces an AI-powered companion that provides maintenance managers with a continuously updated operational briefing summarizing site status, active issues, optimization opportunities, and prioritized actions, eliminating the need to spend valuable time investigating data and dashboards. 

From Asset Intelligence to Operational Understanding

As a result, Treon IQ delivers accurate, reliable, and scalable operational understanding while maintaining optimized computing resources and predictable costs. By automating analysis, diagnosis, and recommendations, companies can improve consistency, accelerate resolution, and provide maintenance teams with expert-level guidance every day.

"Industrial AI should do more than detect anomalies. It should help maintenance teams understand what's happening and confidently decide what to do next," said Joni Korppi, CEO of Treon. "With Treon IQ, maintenance managers no longer need to start their day chasing alerts and investigating dashboards. Instead, they can begin each day with a complete understanding of their operational situation, key priorities, and the plan for the day, delivered automatically through an AI-powered companion in Treon Connect." 

Availability of Treon IQ

An early-access version of Treon IQ is now available for Treon Make and Treon Flow customers, including tailored AI-powered companion functionalities for maintenance managers. Additional features will be introduced as new capabilities become available. 

Treon IQ Demonstrated at IMTS 2026

Treon is introducing and demonstrating Treon IQ for the first time at IMTS 2026, taking place September 14-19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago, showcasing how an AI-powered companion transforms a maintenance manager's work from investigating dashboards to understanding operational situations and confidently deciding what to do next. 

About Treon

Treon is a global leader in AI-driven Smart Industry solutions, helping businesses improve productivity, operational visibility, and long-term sustainability. Its fully integrated predictive maintenance solutions combine advanced AI analytics, a mobile-first user experience, automated workflows, and wireless vibration monitoring delivered as a managed service with scalable subscription pricing. Treon operates in Finland, France, and United States, serving more than 200 customers worldwide across manufacturing, material handling, and logistics hubs. Learn more at Treon.

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Treon IQ: The New Industrial AI That Automates Operational Understanding and Recommends Actions