Siemens unveils generative AI assistant to increase productivity at Hannover Messe 2024

April 22, 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software presented Siemens Industrial Copilot, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) product for engineering in an industrial environment, at Hannover Messe 2024 (Courtesy Siemens Digital Industries Software)
Siemens Digital Industries Software presented Siemens Industrial Copilot, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) product for engineering in an industrial environment, at Hannover Messe 2024 (Courtesy Siemens Digital Industries Software)

At Hannover Messe 2024, Siemens Digital Industries Software presented its generative artificial intelligence (AI) product for engineering in an industrial environment. The Siemens Industrial Copilot, a generative AI-powered assistant, is now seamlessly connected to the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal.

This will enable engineering teams to find the right help topic and to generate a basic visualisation and code faster for programmable logic controllers (PLC). As a result, they will be able to significantly reduce their workload and offload repetitive tasks to the Siemens Industrial Copilot. In addition, the engineering of complex tasks will become less susceptible to errors. This, in turn, reduces development times and boosts quality and productivity over the long term. The Siemens Industrial Copilot for TIA Portal Engineering will be available for download from the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace starting in summer 2024.

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Introducing new features for the Siemens Industrial Copilot

At Hannover Messe 2023, Siemens and Microsoft jointly unveiled their vision for a generative AI-powered assistant: The Siemens Industrial Copilot includes automation and process simulation information from Siemens’ digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator. It has been enriched with the large language models in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, for example, to augment the creation and optimisation of code in software for factory automation. At the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade show in the fall of 2023 and in collaboration with Schaeffler AG, Siemens presented a generative AI-enhanced production machine for the first time. Siemens is now moving from theory to scale with its generative AI-powered product for engineering at Hannover Messe 2024.

The Siemens Industrial Copilot will enable industrial customers of all sizes to harness the power of industrial-grade generative AI to transform their operations. Industrial automation solution provider Grenzebach Group, a family-owned business and an early adopter of the Siemens Industrial Copilot is testing how generative AI can augment industrial automation engineering and support engineers to reduce time, effort and probability of errors.

Dr Steven Althaus, CEO Grenzebach Group, stated, “Generative AI is a must have. At Grenzebach, we’re committed to harnessing its power to stay ahead of the game. The Siemens Industrial Copilot will allow us to make the most of the rapidly increasing amount of data available in a factory. And it will take human-machine collaboration to the next level. With Siemens, we can address the skilled labour shortages, boost innovation, and significantly increase the productivity of our workforce.”

Introducing new features for the Siemens Industrial Copilot

Features of the new Siemens Industrial Copilot for TIA Portal Engineering include automated code generation in structured control language (SCL): The TIA Portal can take the code suggestion directly from the AI, eliminating the need to copy and paste. It’s also possible for the Siemens Industrial Copilot to explain SCL code blocks or to guide and easily create an initial machine or plant visualisation in WinCC Unified. In addition, engineering teams can search Siemens manuals in natural language. Customers will have the option to access their private instance of Azure OpenAI Service which doesn’t use customer data to retrain models.

“Siemens makes automation easy. The Siemens Industrial Copilot is bringing industrial generative AI to the shopfloor and will be an indispensable part of the engineering process in the future. With the easy and seamless connection to our TIA Portal, we’re the first to offer a generative AI product for engineering to industrial companies worldwide,” stated Rainer Brehm, CEO Factory Automation at Siemens Digital Industries. “Industrial AI is an important lever for combining the real and the digital worlds – with the ultimate goal of addressing major challenges, such as the shortage of skilled workers or making industrial production more efficient and sustainable.”

Siemens envisions a suite of generative AI-powered industrial copilots across the entire value chain that will transform the way companies design, plan, develop, engineer, and work. Together with early pilot customers and partners, Siemens is advancing generative AI-powered copilot solutions across multiple industries, from automotive, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare to manufacturing and mechanical engineering.

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