Microsoft has been busy in recent months getting generative AI into the hands of office and business workers around the world, but a new partnership with Siemens will ensure it can deliver AI to industrial customers in the latest technological developments.
Together, the two companies announced Siemens Industrial Copilot, a jointly developed AI assistant intended to make human-machine collaboration more efficient.
Broadly speaking, it will generate, optimize and debug complex automation code in an effort to reduce simulation times and help companies achieve results faster.
The new Microsoft-backed Copilot will target industrial customers
Naturally, the Siemens Industrial Copilot will use Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, giving it access to the same technologies that underpin the incredibly popular ChatGPT.
The companies emphasize that customers will remain in control of their data, which will not be used in AI model training, as may be the case with some consumer data.
Microsoft hopes the Siemens-branded AI tool will find a home in several industries, including manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare.
Automotive supplier Schaeffler AG has already implemented generative AI in the engineering phase to help engineering teams produce better code for its robots. CEO Klaus Rosenfeld said: “With this joint pilot, we are entering a new era of productivity and innovation.”
Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG, added: “This has the potential to revolutionize the way companies design, develop, produce and operate. By making human-machine collaboration more widely available, engineers can accelerate code development, increase innovation, and address skilled labor shortages.”
Siemens promises to share more details about Siemens Industrial Copilot later this month at the SPS expo in Nuremberg, Germany.