Partnership combines SORBA.ai’s industrial AI platform with E Tech Group’s automation and systems integration expertise to operationalize predictive maintenance and advanced process control.
Jacksonville, FL – October 5, 2026 — SORBA.ai, a leading no-code industrial AI software provider, today announced a strategic channel partnership with E Tech Group, one of North America’s premier industrial automation and systems integration firms. The partnership is focused on deploying predictive maintenance, advanced process control (APC), and closed-loop AI models that integrate directly into industrial control environments to deliver measurable, real-time operational outcomes.
The collaboration brings together SORBA.ai’s modular industrial AI platform with E Tech Group’s deep expertise in controls engineering, OT/IT integration, and lifecycle services. Together, the companies will help industrial organizations transition from isolated analytics and pilot projects to production-grade AI systems that actively influence operations, improve asset reliability, and optimize process performance.
Moving Industrial AI from Insight to Execution
Industrial operators increasingly recognize that AI value is only realized when models are engineered into day-to-day operations. Through this partnership, E Tech Group will deploy SORBA.ai solutions as part of integrated automation and digital transformation initiatives, ensuring AI models are aligned with control strategies, operational constraints, and safety requirements.
By embedding AI directly into operational workflows, customers can move beyond alerts and dashboards to prescriptive and autonomous decision-making, enabling faster response times, improved consistency, and sustained performance gains.
Deploying AI Across the Industrial Lifecycle
As part of the partnership, E Tech Group will deploy SORBA.ai’s modular industrial AI platform, including:
DataBridge – Securely connecting PLCs, DCS, SCADA, historians, MES, and enterprise systems to establish a governed, real-time data foundation
Detect & Predict (Predictive Maintenance Suite) – AI models for anomaly detection, asset health monitoring, and early fault detection
Simulate & Control (Advanced Process Control Suite) – Digital twins, multivariable optimization, and AI-driven APC strategies
VisionAI Module – Computer vision for quality inspection, defect detection, and visual process monitoring
These capabilities allow engineering and operations teams to rapidly design, deploy, and scale AI models using their own domain knowledge, without reliance on scarce data science resources, all while supporting on-prem and hybrid architectures common in regulated and mission-critical environments.
From Predictive Maintenance to Closed-Loop Optimization
SORBA.ai’s platform is purpose-built to bridge the gap between analytics and action. When deployed by E Tech Group, AI models can be integrated directly into control strategies to support closed-loop execution, enabling use cases such as:
- Predictive maintenance models that prevent unplanned downtime and extend asset life
- AI-driven setpoint optimization that adapts to changing process conditions
- Continuous quality optimization to reduce scrap, rework, and off-spec production
- Energy, throughput, and yield optimization driven by real-time process intelligence
“Industrial customers are done experimenting with AI. They want solutions that are engineered into operations and deliver results,” said Bryan Thyken, Chief Revenue Officer at SORBA.ai. “E Tech Group has the controls and automation expertise to deploy predictive maintenance and advanced control models where they actually matter, at the control layer, turning AI insights into real-time operational improvements that scale across the enterprise.”
Engineered for Real-World Industrial Environments
With more than 30 years of experience and hundreds of engineers supporting complex industrial systems, E Tech Group brings the operational rigor required to deploy AI safely and reliably. The partnership supports scalable AI adoption while preserving cybersecurity, data sovereignty, deterministic control behavior, and system uptime.
E Tech Group’s experience deploying modern SCADA, DCS, and IIoT platforms, allows SORBA.ai models to be operationalized efficiently within existing architectures, without disrupting proven automation strategies or operator workflows.
“AI has to work within the realities of industrial operations,” said Akshatha Shetty
,Director of AI Solutions at E Tech Group. “This partnership with SORBA.ai allows us to deploy predictive maintenance and advanced control solutions that are tightly integrated with automation systems, engineered for reliability, and aligned with how our customers actually run their plants. Together, we’re helping clients move from AI experimentation to sustained operational impact.”
About E Tech Group
E Tech Group is the Control Engineering 2025 SI of the Year and one of the largest system integration, engineering, and building automation firms in the United States and globally. E Tech has 850+ engineers across 30 global locations and deep expertise in Life Sciences, Data Centers, CPG, Food & Bev, and many other industries.
E Tech is proud to be the 1st CSIA Enterprise Certified Organization validating their operational excellence and approach to delivery across their breadth of locations.
E Tech’s scale and 30-years in OT allow them to partner with clients across their global manufacturing locations to capitalize on the latest technology and share best practices across those sites. E Tech brings a nimble and responsive approach while sustaining the capacity to delivery turnkey projects of over $70M+ of automation scope.
About SORBA.ai
SORBA.ai is the leading no-code industrial AI platform powering digital transformation across manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, water and wastewater, utilities, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, pulp & paper, mining, metals, logistics, and other industrial sectors. The platform enables operators, engineers, and subject matter experts to easily build predictive models, detect anomalies, optimize production, and deploy autonomous control systems using their own plant data, without requiring data scientists or complex ML infrastructure.
With built-in AutoML, digital twins, advanced process control, and secure on-premise industrial GPT capabilities, SORBA.ai accelerates how organizations unlock value from their existing systems while maintaining full data ownership and security. From edge to cloud, SORBA.ai transforms industrial operations into proactive, self-optimizing environments that deliver measurable gains in reliability, efficiency, and profitability.
Learn more at www.sorba.ai.
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