Siemens and Microsoft scale industrial AI

  • Siemens and Microsoft have taken the Siemens Industrial Copilot to the following degree, to deal with demanding environments at scale
  • Over 100 clients in Europe and the US are utilizing the Siemens Industrial Copilot to enhance effectivity, lower downtime, and handle labor shortages
  • thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering is planning a worldwide rollout of Copilot starting 2025
  • Greater than 120,000 engineers can now leverage the Copilot, upskilling consultants and staff in programming with Gen AI

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BERLIN — Oct. 24, 2024 — Siemens is revolutionizing industrial automation with Microsoft. By way of their collaboration, they’ve taken the Siemens Industrial Copilot to the following degree, enabling it to deal with essentially the most demanding environments at scale. Combining Siemens’ distinctive area know-how throughout industries with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, the Copilot additional improves dealing with of rigorous necessities in manufacturing and automation.

Over 100 corporations, together with Schaeffler and thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering, are at the moment utilizing the Siemens Industrial Copilot to streamline processes, handle labor shortages, and drive innovation. With 120,000 customers already leveraging the Siemens engineering software program, they now have the chance to boost their work with the Gen AI-powered assistant.

Co-creation associate thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering is now the primary to plan to make use of the Copilot globally. Starting in early 2025, their machines will likely be engineered with the assistant, totally unleashing its potential throughout their complete product vary. The rollout will happen globally. Siemens is pioneering the providing of Gen AI for automation engineering within the trade and has made this functionality simply accessible on the Siemens Xcelerator open digital enterprise platform.

“The collaboration between Siemens and Microsoft marks a pivotal second within the industrial sector; one the place AI Transformation turns into a cornerstone for innovation and operational effectivity,” stated Judson Althoff, government vice chairman and chief industrial officer at Microsoft. “By integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service into Siemens’ industrial options, we’re equipping corporations with cloud-based AI instruments to simplify advanced challenges, drive productiveness, and assist them keep aggressive in an more and more dynamic setting.”

“Along with Microsoft we scale industrial AI, empowering our clients all through the trade to turn into extra resilient, aggressive and sustainable. thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering exhibits how clients can use Siemens Industrial Copilot even in extremely demanding environments as a significant effectivity enhance,” stated Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries.

Because the product’s availability in July 2024, clients throughout numerous sectors have began utilizing Siemens Industrial Copilot for Engineering to spice up effectivity. Engineers can now create panel visualizations in 30 seconds and generate code that requires solely 20% adaptation.

This streamlines workflows, lowering guide effort and addressing the expert labor scarcity. The chat perform additionally offers instantaneous, exact solutions, eliminating the necessity for prolonged searches. By leveraging the Copilot, corporations are driving productiveness and innovation.

Reworking battery high quality assurance with Siemens Industrial Copilot

thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering exemplifies the Siemens Industrial Copilot’s transformative potential at scale, significantly in advanced management, comparable to growth of automated programs for the manufacturing of battery and hydrogen meeting traces. One in all their machines helps guarantee high quality of batteries for electrical vehicles, a vital issue within the sustainable power transition and the trade’s reliance on 100% dependable batteries. Sensors, cameras, and measurement programs are built-in to observe battery cell high quality throughout a number of levels, conducting advanced evaluations to detect discharges past set thresholds.

The Siemens Industrial Copilot supercharges the event and operation of this battery machine by automating repetitive duties like knowledge administration, sensor configuration, and the essential reporting of every step vital to fulfill strict battery inspection necessities. Usually, the Copilot helps engineering by dealing with each routine and important documentation duties. This permits the engineers to concentrate on advanced, value-added work, whereas its real-time problem-solving capabilities decrease downtime and guarantee easy manufacturing.

“Siemens Industrial Copilot will prospectively ease our workload and handle the urgent challenges of labor shortages and growing complexity in battery testing. This AI-powered answer will likely be a game-changer for our trade, and we are going to actively roll it out throughout our machines,” stated Dr. Volkmar Dinstuhl, Member of the Govt Board of thyssenkrupp AG and CEO of thyssenkrupp Automotive Know-how.

Siemens will share extra particulars on Siemens Industrial Copilot on the SPS expo in Nuremberg, Germany, in November 2024.

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Siemens AG

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Microsoft 

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thyssenkrupp AG 

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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a number one expertise firm targeted on trade, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The corporate’s goal is to create expertise to remodel the on a regular basis, for everybody. By combining the true and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers clients to speed up their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories extra environment friendly, cities extra livable, and transportation extra sustainable. Siemens additionally owns a majority stake within the publicly listed firm, Siemens Healthineers, a number one world medical expertise supplier shaping the way forward for healthcare.

In fiscal 2023, which ended on September 30, 2023, the Siemens Group generated income of €74.9 billion and internet revenue of €8.5 billion. As of September 30, 2023, the corporate employed round 305,000 folks worldwide on the premise of continuous operations. Additional info is obtainable on the Web at www.siemens.com.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) creates platforms and instruments powered by AI to ship revolutionary options that meet the evolving wants of our clients. The expertise firm is dedicated to creating AI obtainable broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower each individual and each group on the planet to attain extra.

About thyssenkrupp Automotive Know-how   

thyssenkrupp Automotive Know-how is a number one provider and growth associate to the worldwide automotive trade. Its vary of services contains high-tech parts and programs in addition to automation options for car manufacturing. The product vary contains chassis applied sciences comparable to steering and damping programs and the meeting of axle programs in addition to drive prepare parts for standard and various drives. thyssenkrupp Automotive Know-how additionally develops meeting traces for body-in-white development and produces light-weight physique elements in sequence. The enterprise space generated gross sales of seven.9 billion euros in fiscal 12 months 2022/23. We additionally specialize within the manufacturing of springs and stabilizers for numerous car sorts, in addition to parts and programs for tracked automobiles. Automotive Know-how has a worldwide manufacturing community with greater than 90 places in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.