IFS Launches 'IFS Zero,' an Agentic Emissions Management Operating System for Asset-Intensive Industries

Tokyo – May 27, 2026 – IFS, the leading provider of industrial AI software, today announced at its flagship event, 'IFS Connect,' the release of 'IFS Zero,' an agentic emissions management operating system designed for the world's most asset-intensive industries. This solution serves as a unified computation platform that enables companies to measure, disclose, and optimize carbon emissions across Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 categories.

IFS Zero was specifically designed for emissions management, developed after extensive consultations with IFS's asset-intensive industrial customers. Built with customer needs in mind, IFS Zero functions in tandem with IFS’s broader 'Sustainability Management' module. This module acts as a single foundation aggregating all data relevant to corporate sustainability reporting, including emissions, social impact, and diversity metrics. While the Sustainability Management module provides a comprehensive framework for company-wide reporting, IFS Zero focuses specifically on carbon emissions, providing industrial firms with the granular, real-time intelligence needed to transition from reporting to action.

Underinvestment in emissions management has led to fragmented data, manual reconciliation, and time-consuming report creation. IFS Zero leverages agentic AI across the entire data lifecycle to map emission sources, validate data, detect anomalies, and generate audit-ready output. This allows sustainability teams to reduce time spent on administrative tasks and dedicate more time to driving decarbonization. These effects are quantified: companies can establish audit-ready baselines in weeks, cut hundreds of hours of administrative time annually, and reduce data collection efforts by 30%.

Rapid advancements in agentic industrial AI offer significant opportunities to reduce emissions across asset-intensive industries. According to research by Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment firm and investor in IFS, full adoption of IFS technology across their three key industrial sectors could contribute to a reduction of over 2% of global CO₂ emissions. IFS Zero supports the realization of this potential by enabling industrial firms to analyze emission data and take measures in real-time.

Kaitlin Keem, Vice President of Manufacturing and Sustainability Applications at IFS, stated: 'With IFS Zero, we are fundamentally transforming how industrial companies manage emissions. For too long, sustainability has been associated with slow implementation, manual spreadsheets, and post-event reporting. IFS Zero replaces these with an agentic operating system that provides baselines in short order and enables visualization of daily operations. This empowers our customers to move beyond simple compliance and leverage sustainability as a true strategic advantage.'

Alessandra Leggieri, Senior Analyst for Net Zero and Energy Transition at Verdantix, commented: 'As asset-intensive industries move from static carbon reporting to operational decarbonization, buyers are focusing on vendors with robust data and operational foundations—specifically those that can handle asset-level complexity, link emission data to energy consumption and efficiency analysis, and integrate sustainability insights into daily operational and investment decision-making.'

IFS Zero will be released concurrently with 'IFS Cloud 26R1,' which becomes generally available on May 28, 2026. IFS Cloud 26R1 provides targeted enhancements in ERP, service management, enterprise asset management (EAM), and aerospace maintenance, improving control and traceability in revenue-critical operations. IFS Zero and IFS Cloud 26R1 embody IFS's ongoing investment in industrial AI across its expanding product portfolio.