Barbara and AG Solution partner to help industrial manufacturers scale digital innovation

Barcelona, Spain – May 4^th, 2026. Barbara, the industrial Edge AI platform provider and AG Solution, the Industry 4.0 advisory and implementation firm, announced a strategic partnership aimed at solving one of the most persistent challenges in manufacturing digitalization: the inability to scale proven solutions beyond a single plant.

The partnership brings together two complementary capabilities that have rarely existed under one roof. Barbara provides the edge infrastructure that allows those solutions to run in production, be orchestrated across multiple sites, and evolve without requiring new integration projects every time a plant is added. AG Solution contributes the operational strategy and implementation expertise to design digital solutions grounded in real production environments. 

The result is a joint value proposition that goes beyond project delivery: a repeatable capability that industrial organizations can deploy, scale, and build on over time.

AG Solution supports manufacturers across the full journey: from defining the digital transformation roadmap and building data foundations, to deploying production-ready AI applications and scaling them across plants and business units. Their expertise spans industrial automation, data platforms, advanced analytics, and AI-driven applications built for the realities of the shop floor — not for the lab. They combine deep Operational Technology knowledge with data engineering and AI capabilities to ensure that innovation translates into measurable, sustainable value.

"Most of our clients have already proven that digital innovation works. The question they bring to us is why it doesn't travel — why the solution that worked in one plant takes months or years to reach the next one," said Ricard Torralba, AI Lead at AG Solution. "This partnership gives us the answer to that question. We bring the strategy and the implementation. Barbara brings the infrastructure that makes it stick. Together, we can close the gap between a successful pilot and a real operational capability."

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Barbara helps industrial companies modernize their operations by bringing the power of data and artificial intelligence directly to where the physical world runs. They empower industrial teams —engineers, operators, and domain experts— with easy-to-use tools that turn operational data into real-time, actionable intelligence.

"This partnership just makes sense. AG Solution brings the strategy — knowing where the value is on the factory floor and how to unlock it. Barbara brings the scale — an Edge AI platform that deploys and orchestrates applications and models across thousands of distributed nodes. Together, we take manufacturers from pilot to production, fast”, said Tony Briant, Senior VP Sales & Partnerships at Barbara.

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The Factory of the Future — From Pilot to Plant

The first public milestone of the partnership has been a closed industry event in Barcelona, bringing together a select group of operations and production managers from the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemicals sectors.

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About Barbara

Barbara’s Edge AI platform has enabled customers to deploy and orchestrate applications and AI models across thousands of distributed edge nodes in more than 23 countries, delivering scalability and reliability at scale. Beyond orchestration, Barbara offers a curated catalog of 150+ industry-ready applications, helping accelerate time-to-value for industrial operations. By running applications and AI closer to machines, infrastructure, and processes, organizations can make faster decisions, improve efficiency, and build more resilient and sustainable operations.

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About AG Solution

With over 19 years of experience and a presence across 17+ offices in Europe and the United States, AG Solution works with global leaders in the pharmaceutical, food & beverage, and chemicals industries. Their approach is advisory-led: before proposing any solution, they understand the operational model, identify the highest-impact use cases, and build the architecture that allows those solutions to scale. They are not a systems integrator. They are the strategic partner that guides end-to-end transformation.

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