• Cordant™ 26.1 brings together asset strategy, health insights and AI-driven risk intelligence to reduce unplanned downtime and support faster, higher-value decisions
• Expanded platform capabilities deliver greater usability, global flexibility and scalability
• Strong demand across energy and industrial sectors resulted in a 20% increase in software orders in 2025

FLORENCE, Italy - Jan. 28, 2026 - Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, Wednesday announced the latest release of Cordant™(Release 26.1) industrial software, featuring expanded capabilities to help customers improve operational reliability, enhance performance consistency, and support sustainability initiatives. Cordant™ 26.1 enhances energy and industrial operators' enterprise-wide visibility across assets, delivering improved access to decision-grade data, and empowering a broader range of users through an increasingly open, composable and scalable platform architecture. The announcement was made at the 2026 Baker Hughes Annual Meeting in Florence.

"Energy and industrial operators are being asked to deliver more, with greater speed, precision and accountability," said Aravind Yarlagadda, senior vice president of Industrial Solutions, Industrial & Energy Technology at Baker Hughes. "This release advances Cordant's ability to connect asset insights, risk and operations data in a single environment, designed to reduce unplanned downtime, prioritize capital more effectively, and improve day-to-day operational performance across complex assets."

Expanding Asset Performance Management for Greater Reliability and Risk Visibility
This release strengthens reliability and risk visibility by integrating asset strategy, integrity and health insights into a unified workflow. Updates include enhanced Failure Mode Analytics, waveform analysis and KPI drilldowns. These now connect directly to risk modelling, capital planning and integrity workflows, enabling teams to quantify asset risk more clearly and align on actions that reduce downtime. New AI-enabled capabilities, such as failure mode mapping between domains and automated risk alignment, aims to cut manual effort and help organizations drive consistent long-term asset strategies.

Process Optimization designed to Maximize Efficiency and Margin
Cordant™ Process Optimizationintroduces a flexible objective function that enables operators to evaluate multiple operational scenarios, whether maximizing production, reducing energy use or optimizing both. Real-time, context-aware recommendations provide users with clear pathways to impact throughput, efficiency, and margin performance. These enhancements support customers in navigating increasingly dynamic market and operational environments, while embedding sustainability into process decisions. Outcomes depend on site conditions, configurations and user choices.

Enabling Sustainability at Scale
A new integration between Baker Hughes Energy & Emissions Management (EEM) and Cordant™ FastLCA, helps customers centralize emissions and energy data across assets and sites. This unified view can help operators identify hotspots, optimize energy use, and prioritize decarbonization actions based on consistent, auditable methodologies. By embedding trusted lifecycle data into day-to-day operations, Cordant™ supports compliance efforts and advances customers' sustainability goals without adding complexity for users.

Enhancing Usability, Security and Global Flexibility
Foundational platform updates improve usability, adaptability, and enterprise readiness across all Cordant™ applications. Multi-language support, notifications, self-guided walkthroughs, and customizable reporting tools support faster onboarding and broader coverage across diverse roles and regions.

With a 100-year heritage of energy innovation, Baker Hughes is integrating digital solutions such as Cordant™ with the company's proven technologies to help customers achieve greater efficiency, extend asset life, and maximize returns. Learn more about the company's end-to-end digital portfolio here.

About Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward - making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us atbakerhughes.com.

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