Prashant Gopalan
Prashant Gopalan is Director of System Modernization at Carpenter Technology Corporation. His work focuses on modernizing operational systems in a specialty-materials environment serving demanding and highly regulated industries.
In the Reuters panel discussion, he compared autonomous-planning adoption with the gradual development of self-driving vehicles. His contribution emphasized retaining people in the decision loop while confidence, institutional knowledge and technical controls develop over time.
Gopalan’s context highlights the additional requirements placed on AI in compliance-sensitive manufacturing. Institutional knowledge must be converted into governed rules and validated data without losing the ability to explain, certify and audit decisions.
AI agents may support planning or exception handling, but production use requires approved knowledge sources, model and prompt versioning, role-based access, test evidence, human approval and a clear fallback when certification or quality requirements cannot be satisfied.
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