From making parts with A.I. to digitally cloning cars: What factories will look like in the future
Summary
In the future, factories will be much more connected, relying on a mix of technologies, from artificial intelligence, data platforms and edge devices to the cloud, robotics and sensors, Goetz Erhardt, Europe lead for Accentures digital engineering and manufacturing division, told CNBC. Google is among the tech world giants looking to capitalize on large language models, which can generate more humanlike responses thanks to the huge amounts of data they are trained on. Going forward, AI will be able to "converse using natural language with manufacturing equipment to understand the current state and the predicted future performance -- therefore assisting people and allowing them to focus on high value tasks," Google Clouds Floyd told CNBC. Accentures Erhardt told CNBC that he is mainly seeing use cases in creative collaboration and product development, maintenance and remote repairs, designing and optimizing production operations, and workforce training "The metaverse could become a game changer for industrial companies once they couple its collaborative, immersive, visual and intuitive dimensions with digital twins fed by integrated data pools across departments, systems, operations technology and IT," Erhardt said. "Previously, automation has not been an option for manufacturing products due to minimal financial resources and investment," Olivier Ribet, Executive Vice President, EMEAR at Dassault Systèmes , told CNBC.