The tech giants teamed up to deploy AI-based solutions in industrial manufacturing.

Google Cloud joined hands with Siemens on Monday to optimize factory processes and enable the deployment of AI-based solutions in industrial manufacturing. The companies initiated the partnership as a step towards innovating factory automation. Siemens plans to integrate Google Cloud's data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies with its factory automation solutions. With this amalgamation of a leading data cloud platform and one of the best factory automation systems, manufacturers can streamline data from multiple sources and run cloud-based machine learning models and AI systems, and deploy algorithms at the network edge. 

Manufacturing sectors are still stuck with legacy systems and on-premise technologies that stop them from leveraging the benefits of disruptive techs and automation. Siemens has been a leading provider of automated, digitized, and smarter business solutions to different industries. Siemens has been leading the manufacturing industry by providing best-in-class automation and technological innovations. The company's extensive portfolio of industrial automation combined with Google Cloud's efficient data analytics and other AI functions will enable factories to implement and manage AI at scale. Predicting the wear-and-tear of machines and improving visual inspection of products are two major areas where AI deployment can be beneficial. 

This team-up can enable the employees on the shop floor to free themselves from mundane and repetitive tasks. With cloud-integrated AI solutions, and enhance the quality of manufacturing processes. Although industries have embraced automation in these recent years, many have restricted them to a pilot stage. This situation is going to change with the advent of intelligent and scalable AI solutions provided by Siemens and Google Cloud.