Siemens and Microsoft Collaborate to Elevate Industrial Efficiency with AI

Siemens and Microsoft are taking the industrial sector to a new level of efficiency by integrating generative artificial intelligence (AI) into their technology platforms. This collaboration will help industrial companies drive innovation and efficiency across the design, engineering, manufacturing and operational lifecycle of products. By integrating Siemens’ Teamcenter® software for product lifecycle management (PLM) with Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams and Azure OpenAI Service, the companies want to enhance cross-functional collaboration and demonstrate how generative AI can enhance factory automation and operations through AI-powered software development, problem reporting and visual quality inspection. At Hannover Messe, the companies will showcase how generative AI can benefit industrial automation and operations through AI-powered software development, problem reporting, and visual quality inspection. The AI-powered solution will help engineers and workers across business functions to solve challenges together, closing feedback loops faster. For example, service engineers or production operatives can use mobile devices to document and report product design or quality concerns using natural speech. Through Azure OpenAI Service, the app can parse that informal speech data, automatically creating a summarized report and routing it within Teamcenter to the appropriate design, engineering or manufacturing expert. This AI-powered solution can enable millions of workers who do not have access to PLM tools today to impact the design and manufacturing process more easily as part of their existing workflows. The collaboration between Siemens and Microsoft also aims to help software developers and automation engineers accelerate the code generation for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the industrial computers that control most machines across the world’s factories. The companies are demonstrating a concept for how OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other Azure AI services can augment Siemens’ industrial automation engineering solutions. The showcase will highlight how engineering teams can significantly reduce time and the probability of errors by generating PLC code through natural language inputs. These capabilities can also enable maintenance teams to keep factories running with AI-powered automation software engineering. In conclusion, the collaboration between Siemens and Microsoft is an exciting development that will revolutionize the industrial sector. The integration of generative AI into technology platforms will undoubtedly enhance cross-functional collaboration, simplify workflows, and accelerate customer-centric innovation. This AI-powered solution will be a game-changer for millions of workers who do not have access to PLM tools today, enabling them to impact the design and manufacturing process more easily as part of their existing workflows. The future of industrial automation looks brighter with this collaboration between two technology leaders.