Siemens to integrate Google Cloud’s data cloud and AI/ML capabilities with its factory automation solutions to optimize processes on the shop floor

Siemens and Google Cloud to cooperate to transform manufacturing by enabling scaled deployment of artificial intelligence.

• The new cooperation aims to enable the scaled deployment of AI-based solutions for industrial manufacturing.
• Google Cloud and Siemens simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence to the shopfloor, empowering employees and improving overall quality.

(PRESS RELEASE) NUREMBERG, Germany/ SUNNYVALE, CA, U.S.A., 19-Apr-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens announces new cooperation with Google Cloud to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for the future.

Data drives today’s industrial processes, but many manufacturers continue to use legacy software and multiple systems to analyze plant information, which is resource-intensive and requires frequent manual updates to ensure accuracy. In addition, while AI projects have been deployed by many companies in “islands” across the plant floor, manufacturers have struggled to implement AI at scale across their global operations.

For more than 170 years, Siemens has built its business on pioneering technologies that have led the manufacturing industry forward. By combining Google Cloud’s data cloud and AI/ML capabilities with Siemens’ Digital Industries Factory Automation portfolio, manufacturers will be able to harmonize their factory data, run cloud-based AI/ML models on top of that data, and deploy algorithms at the network edge. This enables applications such as visual inspection of products or predicting the wear-and-tear of machines on the assembly line.

Deploying AI to the shop floor and integrating it into automation and the network is a complex task, requiring highly specialized expertise and innovative products such as Siemens Industrial Edge. The goal of the cooperation between Google Cloud and Siemens is to make the deployment of AI in connection with the Industrial Edge – and its management at scale – easier, empowering employees as they work on the plant floor, automating mundane tasks, and improving overall quality.

“The potential for artificial intelligence to radically transform the plant floor is far from being exhausted. Many manufacturers are still stuck in AI ‘pilot projects’ today – we want to change that,” said Axel Lorenz, VP of Control at Factory Automation of Siemens Digital Industries. “Combining AI/ML technology from Google Cloud with Siemens’ solutions for Industrial Edge and industrial operation will be a game changer for the manufacturing industry.”

“Siemens is a leader in advancing industrial automation and software, and Google Cloud is a leader in data analytics and AI/ML. This cooperation will combine the best of both worlds and bring AI/ML to the manufacturing industry at scale. By simplifying the deployment of AI in industrial use cases, we’re helping employees augment their critical work on the shop floor,” said Dominik Wee, Managing Director Manufacturing and Industrial at Google Cloud.

For further information and additional resources about Siemens please see:
Siemens’ website about artificial intelligence: https://sie.ag/3seQWIz

Learn more about Siemens: https://sie.ag/3uNl1AP

Blog article from Rainer Brehm, CEO Factory Automation, Siemens, about the vision of autonomous production: https://sie.ag/3wVuTKv

For further information and additional resources about Google Cloud please visit: Visit the Google Cloud Manufacturing Solutions page

Media contacts:

Andreas Friedrich
Siemens AG
+49 1522 2103967
friedrich@siemens.com

Lilian Randzio-Niedermeier
Google Cloud
+49 (0)1520 2683262
lilianrandzio@google.com

SOURCE: Siemens