Multiple Processing

The factory has more than one voice.

Euan Brodie knows what a failing motor sounds like. He is less certain what to do when the factory starts arguing with itself.

At a frozen-food plant on the edge of Glasgow, AURA-FP is supposed to make production smarter: fewer breakdowns, less waste, better decisions. Then its messages disappear from the logs. Its specialised agents acquire names, opinions and incompatible ideas about what matters.

Production wants speed. Maintenance wants a pause. Safety ...