Microsoft and Siemens built Siemens Industrial Copilot, a new corporate-oriented AI

Microsoft and Siemens announced Siemenesc Industrial Copilot, a new generative AI-powered assistant that was created to enhance human-machine collaboration and improve productivity. According to the press release, both companies will work together to build additional copilots for the manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare industries.

As a first step, the companies are introducing Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI-powered jointly developed assistant aimed at improving human-machine collaboration in manufacturing. In addition, the launch of the integration between Siemens Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management and Microsoft Teams will further pave the way to enabling the industrial metaverse. It will simplify virtual collaboration of design engineers, frontline workers, and other teams across business functions.

Microsoft

We’re building on our longstanding collaboration with Siemens and bringing together AI advances across the Microsoft Cloud with Siemens’ industrial domain expertise to empower both frontline and knowledge workers with new, AI-powered tools, starting with Siemens Industrial Copilot.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

Much like Windows Copilot, or Microsoft 365 Copilot, Siemens Industrial Copilot was released with the intention of reducing workloads, and improving overall productivity. But this is not all, though. Siemens, together with Microsoft wants to accelerate the adoption of generative AI in corporate environments.

Together with Microsoft, our shared vision is to empower customers with the adoption of generative AI. This has the potential to revolutionize the way companies design, develop, manufacture, and operate. Making human-machine collaboration more widely available allows engineers to accelerate code development, increase innovation and tackle skilled labor shortages.

Siemens

Siemens Industrial Copilot: What is it capable of?

According to Microsoft. Siemens Industrial Copilot is a generative AI capable of rapidly generating, optimizing, and debugging complex automation code, and significantly shortening simulation times.

One of the most important features is that the Siemens Industrial Copilot will reduce tasks that previously took weeks to complete to minutes.

Plus, it seems that the tool will also integrate Microsoft’ Azure OpenAI service to deliver efficiency and boost productivity all across the industrial cycle.

The copilot ingests automation and process simulation information from Siemens’ open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, and enhances it with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Customers maintain full control over their data, and it is not used to train underlying AI models.

Microsoft

What’s next for Microsoft and Siemens?

The two companies don’t want to stop at just Siemens Industrial Copilot. Instead, they have in mind a comprehensive list of Copilots for all industries. including manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare.

To learn more, be sure to explore how Copilot is shaping AI computing in 2024.

For some of these industries, such as manufacturing, the companies are already developing several new copilots.

Siemens Teamcenter is also coming to Microsoft Teams in December, and the new app will provide easy ways for factory and field service workers to access data and contribute to the design and manufacturing process.

This new app uses the latest advances in generative AI to connect functions across the product design and manufacturing lifecycle such as frontline workers to engineering teams. It connects Siemens’ Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) with Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams to make data more accessible for factory and field service workers. This will enable millions of workers who do not have access to PLM tools today to contribute to the design and manufacturing process more easily as part of their daily work.

Microsoft

Siemens will also share more details on Siemens Industrial Copilot at the SPS expo in Nuremberg, Germany, next month.