This is our AI Daily Roundup. We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system interactions.

We cover the role of AI Daily Roundup and its application in various industries and daily lives.

Qrypt Joins NVIDIA Inception

Qrypt, the pioneering quantum-secure encryption company, announced its acceptance into NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with technological advancements.

AppsFlyer Unveils Cutting-Edge AI Solution for Elevating Marketing Campaign Creativity and Performance

AppsFlyer, the global leader in marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, launched Creative Optimization, its new product that provides marketers with unparalleled insights into their creative assets and data-driven guidance on maximizing their impact.

Accenture to Expand Network of Generative AI Studios Across Asia Pacific and Latin America

Accenture is setting up generative AI studios in nine countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America to respond to growing client interest in the technology. Studios across Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Greater China, India, Japan, Mexico, Philippines and Singapore will connect clients with data and AI experts from Accenture, and ecosystem partners, ventures, and other strategic investments to enable rapid experimentation, co-creation and scaling of generative AI solutions using Accenture’s responsible AI framework as a foundation.

Zendesk Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Klaus

Zendesk announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Klaus, the industry leading AI-powered quality management platform. AI is driving a rapid increase in customer interactions and radically transforming the world of customer service. Customer service teams are being asked to increase their ROI by managing a rising volume of interactions while providing quality service, and increasing their organization’s efficiency in the process.

Siemens Delivers Innovations In Immersive Engineering And Artificial Intelligence To Enable The Industrial Metaverse

Siemens unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s leading technology gathering. Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators to thrive using its open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator.

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• Siemens to integrate Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform to allow customers to create new and upgrade existing applications with the power of generative AI

• Access to Amazon Bedrock’s advanced generative AI technologies will help customers accelerate digitalization and tackle skilled labor shortages

• Mendix is an industry leader in low-code development with 50M end-users and more than 200,000 applications running on AWS across industrial, finance and other sectors

Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Domain experts in fields such as engineering and manufacturing, as well as logistics, insurance or banking will be able to create new and upgrade existing applications with the most advanced generative AI technology. To make this possible, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, along with security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities – with Mendix, the leading low-code platform that is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.

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“By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratizing generative AI technology and empowering everyone to create the applications customers need to become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable,” said Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens. “Making smarter applications without programming expertise accelerates innovation and helps companies to tackle skilled labor shortages.”

“Together, AWS and Siemens are empowering companies worldwide to create new capabilities, solutions, and value with generative AI,” said Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO. “This partnership builds on our 10-year relationship with Siemens, giving customers across all industries the flexible, customizable, secure environment they need to take advantage of new opportunities with generative AI.”

The combination will enable customers to select the generative AI model that best suits their specific use case and quickly and securely incorporate that model into their applications. This will make their development simpler, faster, and more efficient. Previously, when developers wanted to integrate generative AI models, they had to obtain access credentials, and write specialized function code. With the new Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration, this can now be done with just a few clicks. Teams can create smart, industry-hardened applications without dedicated programming knowledge and users can interact with information easily via a graphical interface and the simplicity of a drag and drop commands.

This innovation allows Mendix customers to apply generative AI to drive productivity within their workforce. For instance, using generative AI, a factory worker can find machine documentation faster, generating relevant visualizations without a need to manually search a database, manuals, and records. A production engineer could also use generative AI to suggest machine adjustments to improve yield, and get suggestions on equipment adjustments, maintenance, or even spare parts to maximize a factory’s productivity.  Customers do not need to build their own AI infrastructure and will be able to harness the power of their company’s data with the highest possible security and privacy, maintaining full control of their data.

Generative AI technology can supercharge applications with features like summarizing and analyzing lengthy technical or legal documents, translating content into different languages, or recognizing images. Financial businesses can integrate automatic fraud detection in their software, while workers in a car factory can improve quality based on AI analysis of millions of data points in the manufacturing line.  With access to a choice of foundational models on Amazon Bedrock, users can easily select the best model for their specific task and integrate it with just a few clicks.

The collaboration expands on the long-established partnership between AWS and Siemens to help streamline the use of IT and cloud technology so it can be easily integrated in applications and machine workflows, making it seamless to engage with.

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Today, more than 50 million end users worldwide work with more than 200,000 applications built with Mendix’s low-code platform, available as part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Low-code platforms are expected to grow substantially over the next years. The technology enables developers to create applications by drag and drop with reusable components and software building blocks, which means they can build more software faster and with smaller teams.

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers easy access to a choice of industry-leading large language models and other foundation models from AI21 Labs, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, and Stability AI, along with a broad set of capabilities that customers need to build generative AI applications—simplifying development while supporting privacy and security.  Users can also apply Guardrails to filter undesired content, adhere to responsible AI policies, or finetune their models using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock to give contextual information from private data sources and more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. The Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration complements AWS’s other generative AI services, like Amazon CodeWhisperer, a machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on developers’ comments in natural language and their code.  Together, the services extend the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users regardless of their programming abilities.

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Together with customers and partners including Sony, Red Bull Racing, Unlimited Tomorrow, and Blendhub, Siemens highlights how technology is transforming the everyday

Siemens unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s leading technology gathering. Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators to thrive using its open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator.

“We envision the industrial metaverse as a virtual world that is nearly indistinguishable from reality, enabling people — along with AI — to collaborate in real time to address real-world challenges,” stated Siemens CEO Roland Busch. “This will empower customers to accelerate innovation, enhance sustainability and adopt new technologies faster and at scale, leading to a profound transformation of entire industries and our everyday lives. Together with our customers and partners, Siemens is proud to announce new products that will bring the industrial metaverse a step closer to all of us.”

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“Siemens is making the industrial metaverse more accessible so that our customers can use it to solve their real-world problems faster, more sustainably and with greater efficiency – and we will make it available to companies of all sizes, so that everybody can turn their big ideas into world-changing innovations,” said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries.

Siemens & Sony partnership to enable immersive engineering

Siemens and Sony Corporation (Sony) are partnering to introduce a new solution that combines the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software with Sony’s new spatial content creation system, featuring the XR head-mounted display with high-quality 4K OLED Microdisplays and controllers for intuitive interaction with 3D objects. Enabling designers and engineers to create and explore design concepts in a borderless immersive workspace, the new solution will kickstart content creation for the industrial metaverse. Expected to be available later in 2024, Siemens’ NX™ Immersive Designer, an integrated solution that combines Siemens’ NX software and Sony technology, brings immersive design and collaborative product engineering capabilities to Siemens’ flagship product engineering solution.

“At Sony, we are passionate about empowering creators with cutting-edge technologies, and in the field of spatial content creation, we have thrived in innovating the way they work by utilizing our proprietary motion and display technologies,” said Yoshinori Matsumoto, Executive Deputy President and Officer in charge of Technology and Incubation, Sony Corporation. “By combining our technologies and Siemens’ expertise in engineering, we are excited to enable more immersive engineering that redefines the daily workflow of designers and engineers. The high-quality, realistic rendering and intuitive interaction will give creators tools to pursue a more immersive creative processes that fuels further innovation in the industrial metaverse.”

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In addition, Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, along with security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities – with Mendix, the leading low-code platform that is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.

Through a keynote address and exhibition presence, Siemens is highlighting how its customers are using the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform to transform how we Live, Work, Play and Make.

• Live – Siemens is unveiling its smart home energy management portfolio – Inhab™ at CES. The suite of Intelligent Habitat solutions allows users to have full transparency and control over which sources are supplying energy at a given time and how that energy is being distributed throughout the home. Such features as real-time alerts, 24/7 monitoring and energy goal settings provide occupants with the transparency they need to make informed decisions. As more appliances go electric and we introduce EV charging and solar arrays to homes, the highly accurate monitoring and management solutions will help to lower energy consumption and utility bills while increasing safety and capacity.
• Work –Siemens is showcasing its partnership with Sony to deliver the next generation industrial metaverse by combining new innovations in immersive engineering software in the Siemens Xcelerator open-business platform with Sony’s ground-breaking mixed reality hardware. Presented in collaboration with Red Bull Racing, Siemens is demonstrating how this new solution empowers engineers to free them from traditional constraints to bring together the virtual and physical worlds by immersing them in the industrial metaverse.
• Play –The Siemens’ Experience at CES highlights how innovators are using the Siemens Xcelerator platform to transform how the world plays. Unlimited Tomorrow is doing life-changing work to design affordable, customizable and scalable prosthetics and working alongside customers to help develop cleaner, safer transportation for everyone, everywhere.
• Make – Blendhub is using Siemens technology to tackle food insecurity and transform food production. Deploying and connecting a multi-localized network of food and personalized nutrition factories, moving them closer to ingredients supply and final consumers, Blendhub is enabling a technology-driven approach to shared value creation in the global food system.

Growing the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem

Alongside the visitor experience at CES 2024, Siemens is presenting opportunities for customers, partners and developers with the Siemens Xcelerator Developer Experience. With the launch of its Siemens Xcelerator Developer Portal, Siemens is taking a giant leap forward, delivering a first-of-its-kind platform consolidating all Siemens’ APIs and developer resources. This portal, part of Siemens Xcelerator, operates on principles of openness and collaboration, providing developers a unified space to explore and access Siemens and partner APIs.

In collaboration with Microsoft, the developer portal introduces a Chatbot, offering an innovative AI companion to enhance the development experience. Seamlessly integrated with industry-leading API platforms like Postman, the Siemens Xcelerator Developer Portal ensures a streamlined and developer-friendly journey from discovery to deployment.

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Siemens AG(Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

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This is our AI Daily Roundup. We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system interactions.

We cover the role of AI Daily Roundup and its application in various industries and daily lives.

Intel Taps MIPS eVocore for Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V

MIPS, a leading developer of highly scalable RISC processor IP, announced it is working with Intel to accelerate innovation in open computing. As part of this effort, MIPS’ eVocore is being incorporated into the new Intel® Pathfinder for RISC-V^*, a platform designed to deliver new capabilities for pre-silicon development.

Siemens and Microsoft Partner to Drive Cross-Industry AI Adoption

Microsoft and Siemens are deepening their partnership by bringing the benefits of generative AI to industries worldwide. As a first step, the companies are introducing Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI-powered jointly developed assistant aimed at improving human-machine collaboration in manufacturing.

Microsoft and Octopai to Co-Sell Leading Innovative Data Management Integration

Octopai, a global pioneering force in metadata management and enterprise-grade data lineage solutions, is pleased to announce its recent achievement of Microsoft’s Co-Sell Incentivized status. This latest advancement solidifies an already robust alliance, now encompassing a collaborative selling approach.

Top AI Pain Points that Challenge UK-based Marketers in 2023

The AI Safety Summit is one of the most awaited events of the year. This is speculated to be very different from the traditional technology trade shows and conferences that we have attended so far. The talks at The AI Safety Summit in the UK will be heavily influenced by the recently issued Executive Order by the President of the US, Joe Biden yesterday.

Riding on the Generative AI Hype, CDP Needs a New Definition in 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (Gen AI) are taking SaaS platforms to new heights. Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) in martech, for example, are currently at the center of every customer experience (CX) management discussion. In short, the AI inflection point in CDPs is here. With CX emerging as the core of any business decision today, there is an obvious need to redefine customer experiences through the lens of new-age technologies, including Gen AI and LLMs. Redefining CX means redefining CDPs.

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Companies introduce Siemens Industrial Copilot, a generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance human-machine collaboration and boost productivity.

Microsoft and Siemens are deepening their partnership by bringing the benefits of generative AI to industries worldwide. As a first step, the companies are introducing Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI-powered jointly developed assistant aimed at improving human-machine collaboration in manufacturing. In addition, the launch of the integration between Siemens Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management and Microsoft Teams will further pave the way to enabling the industrial metaverse. It will simplify virtual collaboration of design engineers, frontline workers, and other teams across business functions.

“With this next generation of AI, we have a unique opportunity to accelerate innovation across the entire industrial sector,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “We’re building on our longstanding collaboration with Siemens and bringing together AI advances across the Microsoft Cloud with Siemens’ industrial domain expertise to empower both frontline and knowledge workers with new, AI-powered tools, starting with Siemens Industrial Copilot.”

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“Together with Microsoft, our shared vision is to empower customers with the adoption of generative AI,” says Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG. “This has the potential to revolutionize the way companies design, develop, manufacture, and operate. Making human-machine collaboration more widely available allows engineers to accelerate code development, increase innovation and tackle skilled labor shortages.”

A new era of human-machine collaboration

Siemens Industrial Copilot will allow users to rapidly generate, optimize and debug complex automation code, and significantly shorten simulation times. This will reduce a task that previously took weeks to minutes. The copilot ingests automation and process simulation information from Siemens’ open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, and enhances it with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Customers maintain full control over their data, and it is not used to train underlying AI models.

Siemens Industrial Copilot promises to boost productivity and efficiency across the industrial lifecycle. Using natural language, maintenance staff can be assisted with detailed repair instructions and engineers with quick access to simulation tools.

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The vision: Copilots for all industries

The companies envision AI copilots assisting professionals in various industries, including manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare. Numerous copilots are already planned in the manufacturing sectors, such as automotive, consumer package goods and machine building.

Schaeffler AG, a leading automotive supplier, is among the first in the automotive industry to embrace generative AI in the engineering phase. This helps its engineers to generate reliable code for programming industrial automation systems such as robots. In addition, the company intends to incorporate the Siemens Industrial Copilot during their own operations, aiming to significantly reduce downtimes, and also for their clients at a later stage.

“With this joint pilot, we’re stepping into a new age of productivity and innovation. This Siemens Industrial Copilot will help our team work more efficiently, reduce repetitive tasks, and unleash creativity. We’re excited to partner with Siemens and Microsoft on this project”. Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler Group.

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Generative AI facilitates virtual collaboration

To bring virtual collaboration across teams to the next level, Teamcenter for Microsoft Teams will be generally available beginning December 2023. This new app uses the latest advances in generative AI to connect functions across the product design and manufacturing lifecycle such as frontline workers to engineering teams. It connects Siemens’ Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) with Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams to make data more accessible for factory and field service workers. This will enable millions of workers who do not have access to PLM tools to contribute to the design and manufacturing process more easily as part of their daily work.

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Leaders provide valuable software that delivers impactful data insights for commercial building customers and tenants

A new report from Guidehouse Insights assesses the competitive landscape for vendors in the intelligent building software market.

Intelligent building solutions are a steadily growing market segment as commercial building owners and managers adopt new technologies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions, increasing building efficiency, and satisfying tenant demands for comfort, productivity, and safety. According to Guidehouse Insights, Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Honeywell are the leading intelligent building software vendors. Each company stands out from the competition because of its ability to provide valuable software that can meet the growing and diverse needs of clients, and deliver impactful data insights for commercial building customers and tenants.

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“Harnessing the data to reach these separate, but related goals requires advanced software solutions. Legacy software and hardware systems can help but are limited as data volumes increase and complexities mount,” says William Hughes, principal research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. “The latest software offerings integrate data from multiple building systems, providing valuable business outcomes previously difficult to achieve with point solutions that only partially optimized parts of the building system.”

The various companies covered in this Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard reflect an emerging market with well-known brands competing against innovative startups. No provider has a complete solution given the complex business challenges buildings present—energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and energy management—though some are moving toward that goal. As the market evolves, Guidehouse Insights expects ongoing improvements in these solutions as companies improve their capabilities in using building data with AI and machine learning techniques, according to the report.

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The report, Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: Intelligent Building Software, examines 16 intelligent building software providers and their platforms for optimizing commercial facilities. Each of these companies has a successful track record, but each has a unique approach. Guidehouse Insights uses a proprietary Leaderboard methodology to profile, rate, and rank vendors with the goal of providing an objective assessment of their relative strengths and weaknesses in the global intelligent building software market. These players are rated on 12 criteria: Vision, Go-to-Market Strategy, Partners, Technology, Cybersecurity, Geographic Reach, Product Capabilities, Complementary Services, Hardware Integration, Breadth of Offerings, Pricing, and Staying Power.

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Shanghai Electric discussed the long-term cooperation opportunity with Siemens to boost technological innovation in the healthcare and energy sectors in a recent visit paid by the top executives from Siemens Healthineers and Siemens Energy. The two energy and healthcare groups are poised to seek greater collaboration in support of building a healthier and greener China, leveraging China and Germany‘s elevated bilateral ties and intensifying collaboration on climate action to push sustainability and innovation for multiple sectors.

On July 5th, a visit by Elisabeth Staudinger, Managing Board Member at Siemens Healthineers, to Shanghai Electric’s headquarters was received by Leng Weiqing, Chairlady of the Board at Shanghai Electric, followed by a trip by Karim Amin, Executive Vice President at Siemens Energy, on the same day. During the meetings, Shanghai Electric held talks with the high-level delegates from Siemens, its long-standing partner in new energy and high-end medical equipment, to discuss the fruitful outcomes of their collaboration that have driven innovation in China‘s healthcare sector and seek possibilities to upgrade their synergy to develop greener solutions for energy storage and new energy sources.

“The collaboration between Shanghai Electric and Siemens has allowed us to fully take advantage of our expertise and capabilities in different industries, markets, and technologies to enhance our product R&D and innovation, with teams at the two companies yielding numerous impressive achievements over the past decades. We look forward to further strengthening our partnership with Siemens to propel the domestic innovation of medical equipment, improve China‘s public health facilities at the grassroots level, and empower China to build a safe, low-carbon, and efficient energy system, benefiting more Chinese citizens by jointly delivering more high-quality healthcare and sustainable energy solutions,” said Leng Weiqing.

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Highlighting the growing demand for healthcare services in China, Elisabeth Staudinger stressed that China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, which lays out the strategy to enhance domestic medical equipment manufacturing and technological innovation, will bring more cooperation opportunities for the two companies. “Siemens Healthineers wishes to work hand in hand with Shanghai Electric to speed up the development of China’s medical sector, improve China’s health and hygiene standards, and contribute towards the realization of the ‘Healthy China 2030’ vision,” she said.

Karim Amin acknowledged the remarkable achievements of collaboration between Shanghai Electric and Siemens and offered insights into Siemens Energy‘s business development. “Siemens Energy aims to deepen strategic cooperation with Shanghai Electric to support China’s effort to achieve energy transformation. It means that we will ramp up investment in R&D, actively explore new applications of new technology, and offer products and services with better quality. As we bring more technical support to help China accelerate toward the “dual carbon” goal, we also anticipate joining hands with Shanghai Electric to achieve more breakthroughs in the new energy sector,” he said.

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The visit came after the top official of China held the first in-person government consultations with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz since the outbreak of COVID-19 in June, during which the top officials of the two countries expressed their willingness to strengthen cooperation on low-carbon development and accelerate their transition to a more climate-friendly economy. As Beijing and Berlin continue to jointly work on issues such as decarbonizing industrial processes, doubling down on policies for the switch to climate-friendly mobility, and constructing the circular economy, new opportunities will be presented to the two companies to build upon their twenty-year partnership to catalyze innovation for renewable technology and healthcare.

Since the acquisition of Westinghouse Electric over two decades ago, Siemen has been a key partner of Shanghai Electric in the energy sector, with the two companies co-developing clean, efficient power solutions with a joint venture, Shanghai Electric Power Generation Equipment. Boasting a 40 percent market share, the company has surpassed RMB 150 billion in revenue with its coal-fired power generation equipment, which has set numerous records for performance, capacity, and low carbon emissions.

2022 marks the beginning of a new partnership between Shanghai Electric and Siemens Healthineers, through which the two companies look to promote domestic innovation in medical equipment across China and improve access to quality medical resources for healthcare institutions nationwide. The two companies have confirmed deep cooperation across various areas in an agreement that encompasses business systems, product development, and after-sales services, facilitating Shanghai Electric’s growth in the booming medical sector of China.

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A partnership between Siemens, Siemens Healthineers, and the University of California, San Francisco has proven medical centers can achieve significant carbon reduction and cost savings by turning off or putting MRIs into the lowest power setting when not in use. The findings, featured in a new Radiology study, can help the healthcare sector meaningfully reduce its carbon footprint, one that accounts for 4.4% of global carbon emissions.

Working in tandem with UCSF, one of the country’s most prestigious universities focused solely on health, Siemens Smart Infrastructure provided technologies from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio that monitored and analyzed MRI power consumption data. The Siemens Healthineers team deployed new, greener radiology scanner technology while also exploring ways to reduce standby energy consumption of MRI scanners.

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“Often when we talk about how to decarbonize, solutions seem out of reach, but this initiative is proof that innovators everywhere can have impact,” said Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA. “The technology to decarbonize is here and ours is hard at work, helping industries like healthcare uncover ways to be more efficient and take concrete action to meet their carbon-reduction targets.”

“This research represents a milestone in our journey towards a carbon-neutral future with our customers, for whom this topic becomes more important with every passing day,” said David Pacitti, president of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. and head of the Americas, Siemens Healthineers. “Starting with MRI scanners, a very demanding technology when it comes to power consumption, we will build on this research to keep finding new ways to reduce our carbon emissions together.”

Hospitals can use twice the power of the average commercial building. Due to their energy intensive operation, imaging equipment and particularly more efficient MRI operation can present a significant opportunity to reduce a hospital’s power usage, costs, and carbon footprint. Using data gathered from Siemens’ power-monitoring and management technologies, it was determined that a substantial amount of power was still being used for cooling in a machine’s “off” mode. Researchers found that turning MRIs off overnight for 12 hours reduced energy usage by 25-33% and enabling an additional “power save” mode, a novel energy feature in Healthineers’ newer MRI scanners, while the machine was off decreased power use by an additional 22-28%.

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“The results of this study demonstrate the potential energy and cost savings any radiology practice can obtain by using these simple power-down methods,” said Sean Woolen, MD, first author on the study and assistant professor in UCSF’s Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. “Our goal was to find ways for radiology departments worldwide to reduce their collective environmental footprint.”

In addition to energy savings, researchers found that switching scanners to “off” mode could result in annual savings of $1,717 to $2,943 per year for a single machine. If the machine is switched from “off” to “power save” mode, it could save an additional $1,226 to $1,594 per year.

“If all outpatient MRIs in the U.S. implemented a power save mode instead of an off mode for 12 hours overnight, it would save enough energy to power 6,889 homes a year in the U.S,” said Woolen.

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• Siemens’ new Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams to use AI, boosting productivity and innovation throughout a product lifecycle
• Azure OpenAI Service powered assistant can augment the creation, optimization and debugging of code in software for factory automation
• Industrial AI to enable visual quality inspection on the shop floor

Siemens and Microsoft are harnessing the collaborative power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help industrial companies drive innovation and efficiency across the design, engineering, manufacturing and operational lifecycle of products. To enhance cross-functional collaboration, the companies are 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. At Hannover Messe, the two technology leaders will demonstrate how generative AI can enhance factory automation and op

“The integration of AI into technology platforms will profoundly change how we work and how every business operates,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud + AI, 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.”

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Connecting shop floor workers with teams across business functions through AI-powered collaborative apps

With the new Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams, anticipated later in 2023, the companies are enabling design engineers, frontline workers and teams across business functions to close feedback loops faster and solve challenges together. For example, service engineers or production operatives can use mobile devices to document and report product design or quality concerns using natural speech. Through Azure OpenAI Service, the app can parse that informal speech data, automatically creating a summarized report and routing it within Teamcenter to the appropriate design, engineering or manufacturing expert. To foster inclusion, workers can record their observations in their preferred languages which is then translated into the official company language with Microsoft Azure AI. Microsoft Teams provides user-friendly features like push notifications to simplify workflow approvals, reduce the time it takes to request design changes and speed up innovation cycles. The Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams can enable millions of workers who do not have access to PLM tools today to impact the design and manufacturing process more easily as part of their existing workflows.

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Keeping factories running with AI-powered automation software engineering

Siemens and Microsoft are also collaborating to help software developers and automation engineers accelerate the code generation for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the industrial computers that control most machines across the world’s factories. At Hannover Messe, the companies are demonstrating a concept for how OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other Azure AI services can augment Siemens’ industrial automation engineering solutions. The showcase will highlight how engineering teams can significantly reduce time and the probability of errors by generating PLC code through natural language inputs. These capabilities can also enable maintenance teams to identify errors and generate step-by-step solutions more quickly.

“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.”

Finding and preventing product defects with industrial AI

Detecting defects in production early is critical to prevent costly and time-consuming production adjustments. Industrial AI like computer vision enables quality management teams to scale quality control, identify product variances easier and make real-time adjustments even faster. In Hanover, teams will demonstrate how, using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Siemens’ Industrial Edge, images captured by cameras and videos can be analyzed by machine learning systems and used to build, deploy, run and monitor AI vision models on the shop floor.

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• Powerful new apps built with Mendix optimize and digitalize claims and repair workflows

• Openclaims joins Mendix’s ISV (independent software vendor) program

• Easy access to Mendix resources helps Openclaims accelerate growth and international expansion

Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in modern enterprise application development, announced that Openclaims has joined the Mendix independent software vendor (ISV) program. Openclaims offers a Mendix-based SaaS-platform for insurance firms, vehicle leasing companies and automotive organizations to digitize and automate workflows for claims and repairs management. Through the Mendix ISV Program, Openclaims is able to leverage Mendix’s industry experience and the worldwide Mendix salesforce to reach more customers and accelerate international growth.

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The Mendix ISV Program is available for partners across all industries to expand their businesses and monetize their domain expertise by selling unique customer-centric solutions. The program provides an ideal set of benefits to enable businesses to successfully develop, bring to market, sell, and deploy software solutions built on the Mendix low-code platform.

Lower repair costs
Openclaims provides specific low-code solutions in three categories. The first is aimed at supporting data-driven distribution of damaged vehicles among repair shops to lower repair costs, enable a frictionless repair process and increase customer satisfaction. Also, Openclaims helps optimize customer-related processes and provides solutions that enable clear communication about planning and progress in vehicle repairs. Lastly, it helps digitizing workflows for internal processes.

The platform has proven to add critical value for businesses that need to cope with the current arduous economic dynamics. Insurance firms can reduce their claim handling costs by 50 percent and decrease network management costs by 25 percent. And the platform contributes to an average increase of 15 points in Net Promoter Score.

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The Openclaims platform is used by leading Dutch car leasing organizations such as Leaseplan and Athlon, and German companies Fleetpool and Rhion. Dutch insurance companies like Nationale Nederlanden and ASR also rely on Openclaims.

Paul Fondie, global industry principal for insurance at Mendix, says, “Openclaims is a great example of a company that is building its success on the Mendix platform. It’s a valuable addition to our ISV ecosystem. As consumer expectations and operational costs are rising, insurance firms, vehicle leasing companies, and automotive organizations are looking for ways to moderate these challenges. Openclaims has developed a powerful enterprise platform that helps these companies on the backend to improve internal efficiencies, and on the frontend to quickly deliver a better customer experience with fewer resources. We’re looking forward to supporting Openclaims in expanding its footprint on an international scale.”

As a Mendix ISV-partner, Openclaims is first aiming to grow its business in Europe, specifically in Germany and the Nordics. Ultimately, it will leverage Mendix’s industry experience and worldwide salesforce to market its platform to insurance firms, vehicle leasing companies, and automotive organizations in the United States and beyond.

“We’re excited to join the Mendix ISV Program,” said Lex Orie, founder and chief commercial officer at Openclaims. “This marks a new phase in our relationship and provides us with tremendous opportunities to scale our sales efforts and enter new markets. We can’t wait to help customers everywhere with our powerful enterprise SaaS platform to manage all their business-critical processes related to claims and repairs. We’re looking forward to continuing our journey with Mendix and gathering in-depth knowledge to expand our platform with components based on best practices in the industry. Customers will benefit from our continuous focus on innovation.”

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