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Siemens Accelerates Industrial Metaverse Adoption

Partnerships with AWS and Sony integrate generative AI and immersive engineering to redefine manufacturing realities.

Siemens CEO Roland Busch delivers a keynote at CES 2024.
Siemens CEO Roland Busch delivers a keynote at CES 2024.
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This week, Siemens CEO Roland Busch delivered a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that outlined breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and immersive engineering. These technologies, delivered via Siemens Xcelerator, a digital platform that connects a portfolio of Siemens hardware and software with an ecosystem of partners, set the stage for the ability to easily combine physical and digital worlds in an industrial metaverse.

In his keynote, Busch discussed the importance of the digital twin as an essential building block to accelerate innovation in products, factories, power grids, and even complete cities.

“In the industrial metaverse, the interaction will be so immersive, so interactive, so lifelike that we will hardly be able to detect whether we are manipulating a physical object or a digital twin of one,” Busch said in his keynote. “We can do it without traditional bounds of time, so when something goes wrong we can go back to the moment the problem first appeared and fix it, or ask an AI copilot to do it for us.”

To that end, late last year, Siemens and Microsoft introduced the Siemens Industrial Copilot, a generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance human-machine collaboration as a way to boost productivity in manufacturing. Industrial Copilot allows users to rapidly generate, optimize, and debug complex automation code. It also uses natural language to assist maintenance operators with detailed repair instructions, or engineers  with quick access to simulation tools.

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