Harmoni Wins CES Innovation Award® for HAL, AI Built for the Factory Floor

Recognition puts shop-floor AI on the world's biggest technology stage

AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmoni today announced that HAL, the Harmoni AI Lieutenant, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in Enterprise Tech. AI has transformed the office. HAL brings it to the front lines. Working right at the machine, HAL is context-aware, so operators get answers grounded in what's actually happening in production.

CES is the most influential technology event in the world, and factory-floor software rarely makes its stage. HAL's selection signals that AI's next frontier is the work center, where products actually get made. For the people who run production every day, that means AI built around their work, not adapted from software designed for the office.

HAL runs on Harmoni's live orchestration layer, so it already understands the context behind a question, including the job, part, machine, operator, and production status. Operators can ask through multilingual voice or text, including an illuminated push-to-talk control on the Harmoni device. HAL can also take action, from clocking into jobs and opening maintenance requests to suggesting and making changes to machine code.

"The factory floor has been last in line for every major technology shift of the past thirty years. This award says that's changing," said David Caputo, co-founder of Harmoni. "HAL gives the operator at the machine the same intelligence the front office has, with full context on the job in front of them."

HAL builds on Harmoni's Factory Orchestration system, which connects people, machines, systems, processes, and production data in a shared operating model. Harmoni's Factory Orchestration customers gain more than 200 productive hours per operator per year.

See HAL live at CES 2027, Booth #10520, LVCC North Hall. Attendees will watch a job run at a real work center, with routine steps automated and quality checked in process. Then an operator asks HAL a production question and gets an answer from that same live context, with no searching and no switching systems.

About Harmoni

Harmoni is a Factory Orchestration System that helps manufacturers eliminate wasted time, prevent errors, and gain real-time visibility into operations. Built on the pillars of automation, process control, and observability, Harmoni connects operators, machines, engineering systems, and enterprise software through a unified platform that improves productivity, quality, and operational efficiency. Harmoni is also the developer of HAL, context-aware manufacturing AI delivered from the executive office to the front lines of production. Based in Akron, Ohio, and New York City, Harmoni helps manufacturers modernize shop-floor execution and build more connected, intelligent factories. For more information, visit www.harmoni.io.

SOURCE Harmoni