Simplify the creation of custom engineering apps that utilize generative AI models.
Engineers, simulation experts and manufacturers will all benefit from Siemens Digital Industries Software’s announcement that it’s expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services to build scalable generative AI. Specifically, users of Mendix, a low-code application builder on Siemens Xcelerator, will integrate with Amazon Bedrock which offers secure, private and responsible AI models via API.
“Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers easy access to a choice of industry-leading large language models and other foundation models from AI21 Labs, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta and Stability AI, along with a broad set of capabilities that customers need to build generative AI applications,” said the Siemens release. “Users can also apply Guardrails to filter undesired content, adhere to responsible AI policies, or finetune their models using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock to give contextual information from private data sources and more relevant, accurate and customized responses.”
For simulation engineers, this can enable faster development of AI-informed digital twins that can improve performance and maintenance of assets in the field.
For manufacturing engineers, this could mean faster and easier documentation, better search tools through manuals, databases and records. Manufacturers can also benefit from a digital twin approach by bringing millions of data points from the production floor into the AI model.
Siemens explains that users simply pick the generative AI model that best suits their application and then incorporate it into their models and applications. Traditionally, integrating generative AI models into applications would require coding and credential checks. With the Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration, Siemens claims it can be done in a few clicks via a graphical, drag-and-drop user interface and without programming knowledge.
“By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratizing generative AI technology and empowering everyone to create the applications customers need to become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable,” said Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens. “Making smarter applications without programming expertise accelerates innovation and helps companies to tackle skilled labor shortages.”
