AssetOpsBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Task Automation in Industrial Asset Operations and Maintenance

TL;DR

AssetOpsBench is a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating AI agents in industrial asset management, enabling end-to-end automation and analysis of operational workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a unified multimodal ecosystem with domain-specific agents, a real-world dataset, and an automated evaluation framework for industrial AI applications.

Findings

Demonstrates broad community adoption with 250+ users.

Supports over 500 agents in the benchmarking platform.

Provides insights into architectural trade-offs and failure modes.

Abstract

AI for Industrial Asset Lifecycle Management aims to automate complex operational workflows, such as condition monitoring and maintenance scheduling, to minimize system downtime. While traditional AI/ML approaches solve narrow tasks in isolation, Large Language Model (LLM) agents offer a next-generation opportunity for end-to-end automation. In this paper, we introduce AssetOpsBench, a unified framework for orchestrating and evaluating domain-specific agents for Industry 4.0. AssetOpsBench provides a multimodal ecosystem comprising a catalog of four domain-specific agents, a curated dataset of 140+ human-authored natural-language queries grounded in real industrial scenarios, and a simulated, CouchDB-backed IoT environment. We introduce an automated evaluation framework that uses three key metrics to analyze architectural trade-offs between the Tool-As-Agent and Plan-Executor paradigms, along with a systematic procedure for the automated discovery of emerging failure modes. The practical relevance of AssetOpsBench is demonstrated by its broad community adoption, with 250+ users and over 500 agents submitted to our public benchmarking platform, supporting reproducible and scalable research for real-world industrial operations. The code is accesible at https://github.com/IBM/AssetOpsBench .