How to Build Industrial AI Agents and Transform Your Operations

A Look at A3’s New Training Course with Kence Anderson: Designing Industrial AI Agents

AI agents, autonomous software systems that can observe their environment, decide how to respond, and take action, can transform your factory operations in many different ways. Many large-scale industrial industries, like logistics, manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods (CPG), could greatly benefit from implementing AI agents to optimize workflows, adapt to changing conditions, and support smarter decision-making. From coordinating complex operations to handling variability on the factory floor or across the supply chain, AI agents offer a path to greater efficiency and resilience. But how do you get started building systems for real industrial environments that deliver measurable results? 

“Designing Industrial AI Agents,” a new on-demand course from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), offers a practical starting point. In four hours or less, you’ll learn the tools to design and manage collaborative teams of intelligent agents capable of reproducing expert-level human performance. While other courses may teach you to build one AI agent, this comprehensive course focuses on designing and managing teams of intelligent agents to work together on your complex industrial challenges most effectively.

In partnership with A3, this course was designed by Kence Anderson, CEO and co-founder of AMESA and author of “Designing Autonomous AI.” Having built over 200 autonomous AI systems with partners like PepsiCo, Shell, Bayer, and Delta, you’ll hear directly from Anderson as he breaks down concepts in an approachable way, giving you access to concepts you might not otherwise encounter.

“What really sets this course apart is the unique perspective and real-world experience that Anderson and AMESA brought into the process,” says Josh Ebert, A3 curriculum development manager. “Their stories, case studies, and firsthand examples created opportunities to develop visual interpretations that help learners understand scenarios they’d rarely get to see directly — whether because they’re proprietary, inaccessible, or simply outside their day-to-day world.”

Who is the Designing Industrial AI Agents course designed for?

Professionals across the automation and industrial spectrum will benefit from this course. If you are an executive, this course will help you understand how implementing teams of AI agents will reshape operations, providing many strategic advantages. For the engineer looking to optimize workflows and AI utilization throughout your complex systems, this course will guide you in matching your challenges to intelligent agent capabilities. Furthermore, this course is ideal for any industrial engineering professionals looking to design, implement, and manage collaborative AI solutions. 

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Workers in large organizations with complex operations, like those seen within supply chain and logistics or utilities like heating, cooling, and energy, would benefit greatly from this course particularly for its focus on multi-agent design and implementation. 

What will you learn?

This course helps you move beyond basic automation to understand how to design AI systems that can think, adapt, and make decisions in real industrial environments. You’ll learn where AI truly adds value, apply proven design approaches, and turn human expertise into smarter automation. You’ll gain the confidence to tackle intricate industrial challenges and build systems that improve over time. 

By the end of this course, you’ll know when and where AI adds real value on the factory floor, so you don’t over- or under-engineer solutions. You’ll know how to create smart multi-part systems using several different tools and technologies together to tackle your automation challenges, plus so much more. Discover all of the course learning outcomes here. 

Watch a short excerpt from the course.

To get a feel for the coursework itself, you can watch a short excerpt on machine teaching, just one of the fundamentals of industrial AI use it covers. 

Register today!

Register today to start designing your multi-agent industrial systems. You can register as an individual or train your entire team with our different pricing options. A3 members can even score exclusive discounts on this course. Once you register, you’ll secure access to the training for six months, allowing you the option to return to the content as you get started.