CHEMNITZ, Germany – An engineer was talking to a machine in a small corner of a vast thyssenkrupp factory in this industrial town.
“From the beginning, I was only speaking to it in English, but today I discovered it speaks German quite well,” said Marcus Schoenherr, one of the thyssenkrupp engineers using the Siemens Industrial Copilot to program and test this machine. The Industrial Copilot is a generative AI-powered assistant developed through a collaboration between Siemens and Microsoft. Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service powers the copilot’s capabilities.