Embrace AI to lead the innovative development of industrial software

With more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers worldwide, AVEVA’s industrial software applications span a wide range of industries, including energy, chemicals, power, maritime, infrastructure, metallurgy and mining, life sciences, food and beverage, and more. More than 20,000 industrial enterprises are located in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. As a global leader in industrial software, how can AVEVA continue to lead the development of industrial software?

In this regard, Mr. Harpreet Gulati said that AVEVA is currently actively embracing AI technology, including the latest generative AI technology, and AI will be a disruptive technology in the future of industrial software.

According to a survey by AVEVA, factory engineers spend up to 40% of their time searching for data, and if we can use generative AI to complete the search, we can save 10% to 15% of the time, which will be a very significant productivity increase.

At the user conference, Mr. Harpreet Gulati demonstrated the Industrial AI Mini Assistant deployed on AVEVA Connect (cloud platform), a question-and-answer system using a large model of generative AI. Users can ask the assistant questions, such as looking up information about a device, and the AI will automatically find that information. It is even possible to gain insight into a problem through the AI assistant, such as finding that there is a temperature problem in a place, which can allow the AI to find out the temperature change curve within a few hours or days, and analyze the reasons for possible problems. AVEVA is strengthening its strategic partnership with Microsoft to enhance both companies’ data integration platforms to better help customers adopt AI across a number of key industries around the world.

“Of course, as we apply generative AI, we have to be very careful with these technologies, and we have to keep customer data secure, and that data doesn’t leak into the OpenAI model.” Mr. Harpreet Gulati added.

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In addition to generative AI, more AI is currently applied to the autonomous operation of AI based on predictive maintenance and reinforcement learning training based on machine learning, and AVEVA has relatively mature solutions in both aspects at present. For example, in a successful case in Japan, the automatic control of a very common rectification tower in the chemical industry has really realized the actual production of the rectification tower with AI completely unmanned.

For AVEVA, leveraging AI technology has a natural advantage. Mr. Harpreet Gulati believes that AVEVA’s complete product portfolio can help enterprises build digital twins throughout the life cycle, so they can use virtual digital twin factories to provide AI models with massive operational data for reinforcement learning training in a closed-loop and safe environment. Such a model can ensure that accurate real-time data is provided without interfering with the production control of the real factory, and because it is under the virtual environment, it can train multiple models at the same time, and even accelerate the time, with 10 or 20 times the speed to greatly improve the efficiency of training, and finally get an AI model that can do practical work well.

“We will have a wave of technological revolution, such as AI now, but the manufacturing industry itself is a highly fault-tolerant industry, its development is generally a gradual, so AVEVA will actively embrace these new technologies, with safe, mature and reliable solutions to accelerate the pace of industrial enterprises to apply new technologies.” Mr. Harpreet Gulati concluded.

With more than half a century of continuous innovation and the integration of Schneider Electric’s software business, AVEVA is now a global industrial software giant. As the saying goes, ten years of grinding a sword, after more than 50 years of grinding, AVEVA’s digital software sword has been extremely sharp, I believe that under the blessing of AI and other advanced technologies, it will cast the soul of digital successful transformation for the global industrial enterprises.