Microsoft & Siemens are collectively harnessing the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to guide industrial companies to drive efficiency and innovation across the design, engineering, manufacturing, and operational lifecycle of products.
The companies will be integrating Siemens’ Teamcenter® software for product lifecycle management (PLM) with Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams and the language models in Azure OpenAI Service as well as other Azure AI capabilities to improve cross-functional collaboration.
“The integration of AI into technology platforms will profoundly change how we work and how every business operates,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, of Cloud + AI, at Microsoft. “With Siemens, we are bringing the power of AI to more industrial organizations, enabling them to simplify workflows, overcome silos, and collaborate in more inclusive ways to accelerate customer-centric innovation.”
The new Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams will help design engineers, frontline workers, and teams across business functions to close feedback loops faster and solve challenges together. Furthermore, workers can now record their observations in their preferred languages which is then translated into the official company language with Microsoft Azure AI.
“Powerful, advanced artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the most important technologies for digital transformation,” said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries. “Siemens and Microsoft are coming together to deploy tools like ChatGPT so we can empower workers at enterprises of all sizes to collaborate and innovate in new ways.”