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Top Articles of 2024, #3: AI Co-Pilot Added to Schneider Electric's and Siemens's PLC Programming Suites

The #3 most clicked article of 2024: At PACK EXPO Intl. In 2024 in Chicago, two automation suppliers opened up about incorporating generative AI into their industrial automation platforms. Speeding up PLC programming is just the start.

Schneider Electric bakes generative AI into its programming suite. Programmers interact with the AI chatbot in the right rail; code snippets are suggested in the center screen, and can be added to the code tree in the left rail.
Schneider Electric bakes generative AI into its programming suite. Programmers interact with the AI chatbot in the right rail; code snippets are suggested in the center screen, and can be added to the code tree in the left rail.
David Newcorn

Today anyone can go to ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or any other AI chatbot and ask it to write PLC ladder logic. But at PACK EXPO Intl. in Chicago in November 2024, as well as at the PMMI annual meeting in late September in Hershey, PA, Schneider Electric and Siemens demonstrated generative AI capability built directly into their software suite for programming those vendors’ PLCs.

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