Siemens is releasing a Teams-integrated app powered by generative AI to enhance productivity and innovation for industrial businesses.

The app, Teamcenter for Microsoft Teams, is planned to launch later this year and is a collaboration between Teams’ platform, Siemens software for product lifecycle management (PLM), and Azure OpenAI Service’s language models, as well as other Azure AI capabilities.

The partnership intends to cover the entire product lifecycle, including design, engineering, production and operation. The solution aims to enhance factory automation and operations through AI-powered software development, quality inspection and problem reporting.

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI at Microsoft, said:

“The integration of AI into technology platforms will profoundly change how we work and how every business operates. 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 use cases of the partnership include the Azure AI-powered assistant’s ability to augment the creation, optimization and debugging of code in factory automation software.

The solution also aspires to enable better collaboration opportunities for employees, including allowing staff to close feedback loops faster by recording and reporting design concerns in a natural speech through their devices.

Azure OpenAI Service can then parse that informal speech into an automated report which is sent to the relevant team in design, manufacturing or engineering via Teamcenter. The AI assistant can also translate a report from an employee’s natural language into the business’s official language.

Teams’ user-friendly features are integrated into Teamcenter for intuitive processes, including push notifications to approve workflows, which can boost staff productivity.

“Powerful, advanced artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the most important technologies for digital transformation,” Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries, commented. “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.”

Generative AI Continues to be One of 2023’s Biggest Trends

As signalled by the raft of similar announcements at this year’s Enterprise Connect, AI is currently one of the hottest topics in UC and collaboration innovation.

Teamcenter isn’t Microsoft’s first dalliance with AI, as Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered tool intended to boost the productivity of Office 365 users, was revealed last month, with Microsoft CEO Natya Sadella describing Copilot as “The most powerful productivity tool on the planet.”

At Enterprise Connect last month, Zoom announced the launch of generative AI features that would help users compose emails, meeting summaries and chat messages in partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI.

Enterprise Connect also featured RingCentral launching RingSense, a generative AI platform that will enable businesses to turn conversation data into insights.

Last month Google announced a range of generative writing AI features for Google Workspace is currently in the testing phase, including helping users to draft, summarise, and reply to emails in Gmail, write and proofread in Docs, create backgrounds and notes in Meet, and enable workflows in Chat. 8×8 also revealed it had integrated AI into its XCaaS platform, including OpenAI’s Whisper model, earlier this year.

 

 



from UC Today https://ift.tt/6vugTop