Google Cloud and German industrial giant Siemens announced Monday a new partnership to optimize factory processes and improve factory-floor productivity. As part of the agreement, Siemens will integrate Google Clouds’ data cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies into its factory automation offerings.

“We offer a number of off-the-shelf AI products ranging from Vision AI to Dialog flow, to Recommendations AI that will serve as building blocks for new joint solutions with Siemens,” said Dominik Wee, managing director manufacturing and industrial at Google Cloud. “These solutions will address common factory automation use cases, such as quality control, energy efficiency and more. Ultimately, this collaboration is about providing a unique, end-to-end offering to unlock the value for manufacturing companies through the convergence of IT and OT [operating technology].”

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