TCS and Honeywell partner to enhance autonomous operations for buildings and industries with AI

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered a strategic partnership with Honeywell aimed to help building operators move beyond traditional automation toward enterprise-wide autonomy. Announcing the partnership, TCS said that by “the collaboration aims to unlock real-time intelligence, improve operational efficiencies, and help deliver measurable business outcomes for customers.”Under the new initiative, TCS will use its IT and consultancy capabilities and will work with Honeywell to create a unified digital foundation for real-time visibility, predictive intelligence and autonomous process control. “This will help building and industrial operators to optimize processes and deploy AI‑powered autonomous operations that can perceive, analyse, act and learn, helping customers be nimble and more informed to make faster decisions,” the company said in a press release adding “By combining TCS’ IT, cloud and consulting capabilities with Honeywell’s deep expertise in OT automation, control systems and AI-driven analytics, customers can seamlessly bring their OT and IT environments together into a single, integrated infrastructure.”Anupam Singhal, President – Manufacturing, TCS, said: “Our partnership with Honeywell is centred on helping enterprises unlock the benefits of autonomous workflows and redefine autonomy at scale. By combining the deep industry expertise of both Honeywell and TCS with our strong digital and AI capabilities, we are enabling organizations to run more connected, efficient, and sustainable operations. This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to long‑term value creation and helping customers make more intelligent decisions as they become truly future‑ready.”Ashish Modi, President, Honeywell India & Asia Pacific, said: “Our customers run incredibly complex operations. Historically, OT and IT have been run as separate domains, but with new capabilities in 5G connectivity, cloud computing and AI, we can now accelerate the OT/IT convergence to improve operations and data analysis through one cohesive system. This is anticipated to make it easier for our building and industrial customers to run their operations with greater safety, efficiency and agility and reveal new actionable insights on the performance of their infrastructure.”