Alice Chambers |
Rockwell Automation has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to provide manufacturing customers with new cloud and artificial intelligence solutions that deliver powerful data insights and streamline operations.
New solutions, developed through the partnership, will be previewed this week at Rockwell’s Automation Fair in Anaheim, California, including Microsoft’s Azure IoT Operations, which integrates with Rockwell’s FactoryTalk Optix to capture insights from manufacturing sites.
Plus, Rockwell will preview its FactoryTalk Design Studio that enables engineers to use natural language prompts for tasks like product guidance, code generation and troubleshooting with generative AI tools powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The firm will also introduce its FactoryTalk Optix Food & Beverage model, which leverages the power of Microsoft’s Phi-3 small language models to provide machine operators with AI-guided instructions, assisting in process and device operations via the familiar FactoryTalk Optix interface.
“We are thrilled to continue our work with Rockwell Automation to help customers accelerate their industrial transformation journey,” said Kam VedBrat, general manager of Azure IoT at Microsoft. “By combining Rockwell’s industry-leading automation solutions with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations, and through our collaboration on an adapted AI model based on Phi-3, we are enabling customers to unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation.”