The Dubai-headquartered industrial software giant has unveiled IFS Zero, a purpose-built emissions operating system that promises to overhaul how asset-intensive industries track, report, and reduce their carbon footprint.
For years, sustainability teams at industrial companies have fought the same losing battle scattered data spread across departments, manual reconciliation eating up valuable time, and carbon reports that arrive too late to influence operational decisions. IFS believes it has finally cracked the problem.
IFS Zero deploys agentic AI across the entire emissions data lifecycle, automatically mapping sources, validating inputs, flagging inconsistencies, and generating outputs that are audit-ready from day one. The platform covers Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions under one roof a level of consolidation that has historically eluded even the most well-resourced sustainability functions. Early figures are compelling: a verified emissions baseline in a matter of weeks, a 30% reduction in data collection effort, and hundreds of operational hours saved every year.
“With IFS Zero, we’re fundamentally changing how industrial companies approach emissions management. It allows customers to move beyond compliance and start using sustainability as a true strategic advantage.”
Caitlin Keam, VP Manufacturing & Sustainability Applications, IFS
The solution sits within IFS’s broader Sustainability Management module, which brings together emissions data alongside social impact and diversity metrics for enterprise-wide reporting. IFS Zero goes deeper, giving operational teams the real-time carbon intelligence needed to act not just report.
“As asset-intensive industries move beyond static carbon reporting toward operational decarbonization, buyers are gravitating toward vendors with strong data and operational foundations.”
— Alessandra Leggieri, Senior Analyst, Net Zero & Energy Transition, Verdantix
The stakes could not be higher. Research from Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment firm and IFS investor, suggests that wide-scale adoption of IFS technology across its three core industrial sectors could help eliminate more than 2% of global CO₂ emissions annually.
IFS Zero arrives alongside IFS Cloud 26R1, released May 28, 2026, which delivers targeted upgrades across ERP, Asset Management, Service Management, and Aviation Maintenance further strengthening what is becoming one of the most ambitious Industrial AI portfolios in the market.
