Siemens has revealed a strategic edge-to-cloud integration with data and AI leader Databricks and FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH (FFT), a longtime automation partner, to digitally link production floor data with enterprise AI architectures without the need for complex IoT middleware. Using this common infrastructure system, industrial companies are able to effortlessly transmit the streaming of their plants and asset telemetry, which is contextualized, from Siemens Industrial Edge through the FFT DataBridge directly into the Databricks Platform. After centralization, this data basis serves to train predictive analytics and machine learning models which can be effortlessly redeployed to the edge for live running at the production site, This way effectively doing away with the data silos that have been a major obstacle to digital transformation. This closed-loop method enables industrial manufacturers to reduce their operational load, lower maintenance costs, and uncover local, low-latency decision-making that can bring future autonomous operations throughout worldwide production networks.
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Underscoring the operational philosophy driving this collaboration, Rainer Brehm, COO Automation and CTO at Siemens Digital Industries, stated, “Industrial AI only delivers value when data, context and execution come together. With Databricks and FFT, we enable our customers to scale industrial AI across factories and plants and make AI-powered production real.” Highlighting the tangible business value generated by this direct IT/OT convergence, Shiv Trisal, Global Industrials GTM Leader at Databricks, noted, “By uniting Siemens’ industrial automation and edge expertise with the Databricks Platform, we help industrial companies close the gap between industrial data and scalable business impact across their industrial network. This partnership is a foundational step in making human-agent collaboration a reality for industrial operations.” Volker Stark, COO at FFT Produktionssysteme, concluded that the platform “provides a simple, powerful gateway to the cloud for more than 30,000 potential customers” by offering an immediately deployable pipeline that bypasses expensive, time-intensive data transformations.