L&T Technology Services and industrial-software company Cognite have entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop artificial-intelligence and data solutions for asset-intensive industries. The collaboration combines LTTS’s engineering, manufacturing-operations and asset-lifecycle capabilities with Cognite’s industrial data and AI platform, initially targeting oil and gas, chemicals, liquefied natural gas, consumer goods, mining and industrial manufacturing.
LTTS has established a dedicated Cognite Centre of Excellence and certified an initial group of more than 50 engineers. The teams will build industry-specific applications spanning digital twins, predictive maintenance, operational intelligence and AI-enabled engineering workflows. The partnership will operate through LTTS’s Sustainability segment and extend the Indian engineering-services company’s Engineering Intelligence portfolio with Cognite’s industrial data contextualisation and AI capabilities. The companies’ programme is already tied to a production engagement rather than being limited to training or joint marketing.
The first disclosed project involves one of the world’s ten largest oil and gas companies. LTTS and Cognite are converting a manually executed mechanical-integrity assessment process into a contextualised digital workflow. The system is designed to give engineers structured access to relevant operational data, accelerate the identification of equipment risks and support actions intended to prevent unplanned downtime and safety incidents. The customer has not been named.
Cognite’s platform is built to consolidate and contextualise industrial information from engineering systems, sensors, maintenance records and operational applications. Its portfolio includes Cognite Data Fusion, the Atlas AI industrial-agent workbench and Cognite Flows for deploying operational workflows. LTTS plans to combine these capabilities with its EIOne framework and its domain experience in product engineering, manufacturing and asset management. The partners are focusing on moving industrial AI deployments from isolated pilots into repeatable workflows connected with existing plant and engineering systems.
LTTS chief executive and managing director Amit Chadha said the partnership would address the need for interconnected, context-aware workflows as industrial customers seek to scale AI beyond experimentation. Cognite chief executive Girish Rishi said LTTS’s domain and engineering capabilities would complement Cognite’s industrial platform as AI becomes more deeply embedded in manufacturing operations.
Headquartered in India, LTTS had more than 23,840 employees as of June 30, 2026. Its delivery network comprised 21 design centres, 30 global sales offices and 103 innovation laboratories. The company serves 69 Fortune 500 businesses and 57 leading engineering research and development customers across industrial products, medical devices, transportation, telecommunications, high technology and process industries.
The dedicated centre, certified engineering cohort and initial customer deployment give the partnership a defined delivery structure. Its stated commercial scope covers the design, implementation and continuing operation of AI-enabled industrial applications, including systems that must work with complex legacy data and safety-sensitive physical assets.
