

In his group they conduct research to create intelligent systems, which can work autonomously and in collaboration with humans to increase the safety, reliability, and productivity of industrial plants and processes. For this purpose, they leverage process modelling, model predictive control, optimization, and machine learning.


In the podcast, we talk about the architecture of the Industrial Copilot, how Schaeffler wants to use it, why the customer provides data, how it is used and what the next steps are in the area of Industrial AI and GenAI.


In this episode, Peter Seeberg talks to Stefan Suwelack about RAG for industry, the role of data and the Data Centric Approach and about the Industrial AI Canvas. Stefan works for Renumics. He and his team work for companies like Rehau, Festool or Polytec. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Job offering: Heilbronn is looking for a professor https://cdn.hs-heilbronn.de/ce3c0933328f570c/d9e7413e6a15/232-P-IT.pdf Stefan Suwelack https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefansuwelack/


Jens Wonneberger is the CISO of automotive supplier Mann+Hummel. He explains to us what rules the company has set itself when it comes to GenAI and LLMs. Jens Wonneberger is a big AI advocate, but we've never had a CISO on the Industrial AI Podcast. But the Mann+Hummel rules can certainly help other companies too. In the news section, we talk about BCW24 and one of the highlights was the announcement that Landing AI is a new partner of the crtlX ecosystem. But we also talk about Harting's Industrial Ethernet Week and ask ourselves: Are models ultimately a commodity?


Johannes Brandstetter is leading a group “AI for data-driven simulations” at the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. Additionally, he is a Head of Research (AI4Simulation) at NXAI - the new European AI hub in Linz (Austria). Quote: I am firmly convinced that AI is on the cusp of disrupting simulations at industry-scale. Every day thousands and thousands of compute hours are spent on turbulence modeling, simulations of fluid or air flows, heat transfer in materials, traffic flows, and many more. Many of these processes follow similar underlying patterns, but yet need different and extremely specialized software to simulate. Even worse, for different parameter settings the costly simulations need to be run at full length from scratch. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Job offering: Heilbronn is looking for a professor https://cdn.hs-heilbronn.de/ce3c0933328f570c/d9e7413e6a15/232-P-IT.pdf Johannes Brandstetter https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-brandstetter-55741b116/


We are starting a small simulation special. Last week it was all about batteries. This week the focus is on gas turbines by Siemens Energy. Behnam Nouri is the AI expert at Siemens Energy. He talks to Peter Seeberg about the simulation of gas turbines and explains how he and his team were able to reduce the calculation time for simulations using machine learning. Peter is traveling with an unreliable Internet connection. So the news part is a bit shorter. Robert Weber talks about Sora and what the new genAI model means for the engineering process. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Job offering: Heilbronn is looking for a professor https://cdn.hs-heilbronn.de/ce3c0933328f570c/d9e7413e6a15/232-P-IT.pdf Sora Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3IE9dkyKY Stefan Suwelacks Posts https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7164215963301703680?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Benedict Evans https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations Behnam Nouri https://www.linkedin.com/in/behnam-nouri-33381063/


In this interview, Richard Ahlfeld explains his technological approach and how the company has developed in recent years. He explains the algorithms behind his solution and where Industrial AI is heading. We have another job offering: In Heilbronn they are looking for a new professor for "RESOURCENEFFICIENT IT IN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE". Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Job offering: Heilbronn is looking for a professor https://cdn.hs-heilbronn.de/ce3c0933328f570c/d9e7413e6a15/232-P-IT.pdf Richard Ahlfeld https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-ahlfeld/


As things stand today: "We have to scale. We first test on small data sets, then on medium-sized sets and finally on the very large sets," explains Hochreiter. The XLSTM technology performs "very well" on the small and medium-sized data sets. You have to beat all models on the market, says Linz. Over 1,000 GPUs around the world are currently computing the development from Upper Austria. The time horizon is ambitious: The tests on the smaller and medium-sized data sets should be completed by the end of March. "The large data sets will then take centre stage in June," explains Albert Ortig, Managing Director of NXAI. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Albert Ortig [Contact](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aajjoo/) Sepp Hochreiter [Contact](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sepp-hochreiter-41514846/)


For sure, Microsoft is interested in providing European companies with AI models. But Xiaopeng has good arguments. In this expanded role, he leads the business growth and go-to-market across AI services (e.g. Azure OpenAI), databases (e.g. Azure Cosmos DB), containers (e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service) and serverless (e.g. Azure Functions). Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Xiaopeng Li (李小鹏) [Contact](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaopeng-li/)


Robert Weber visited Stefan Fischereder from KEBA. Stefan is a software developer and is responsible for the Linz-based company's Industrial AI division. The Austrians rely on an AI module with a Hailo chip and Stefan explains the strategy to us. KEBA has a turnover of around 560 million euros. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/ Stefan Fischereder ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-fischereder-b54a06105/))


At Beckhoff, they call the approach with AI-supported engineering. The result is: TwinCAT Chat. With TwinCAT Chat, the so-called Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, can be conveniently used for the development of a TwinCAT project. This increases productivity in control programming. But: Beckhoff does not only rely on OpenAI. Other OS LLMs are also used. The Industrial AI Podcast reports weekly on the latest developments in AI and machine learning for the engineering, manufacturing, robotics, automotive, process and automation industries. The podcast features industrial users, scientists, vendors and startups in the field of Industrial AI and machine learning. The podcast is hosted by Peter Seeberg, Industrial AI consultant and Robert Weber, tech journalist.Their mission: Demystify Industrial AI and machine learning, inspire industrial users. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **HANNOVER MESSE** **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Contact to Dr. Fabian Bause [here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-bause-15aa2b213/) Contact to Jannis Doppmeier [here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannis-d-0b9851226/)


Many people wondered why Bosch is investing in Aleph Alpha, where are the models trained and why don't they use open source LLMs? We asked him. Some GenAI use cases: •Service: When you call Bosch, a LLM and a human will help you. •Quality inspection: synthetic data for vision systems. •Software development In the news part we discussed the new Figure01 robot, talked about RAG, Hugging Face and the German journalist Nils Minkmar. The Industrial AI Podcast reports weekly on the latest developments in AI and machine learning for the engineering, robotics, automotive, process and automation industries. The podcast features industrial users, scientists, vendors and startups in the field of Industrial AI and machine learning. The podcast is hosted by Peter Seeberg, Industrial AI consultant and Robert Weber, tech journalist. Their mission: Demystify Industrial AI and machine learning, inspire industrial users. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Hannover Messe **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ **Newspart** The articel we discussed by Nils Minkmar / [LINK ](https://steadyhq.com/de/nminkmar/posts/fd32536b-95e5-4e10-9888-eab0f2b4667e) The Video of Figure01 / [LINK](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/figure-ai_figure-status-update-ai-trained-coffee-ugcPost-7149750986197061632-T1hT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) **Contact** Dr. Andreas Nauerz / [LINK](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nauerz)


Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ !!! The Industrial AI Podcast reports weekly on the latest developments in AI and machine learning for the engineering, robotics, automotive, process and automation industries. The podcast features industrial users, scientists, vendors and startups in the field of Industrial AI and machine learning. The podcast is hosted by Peter Seeberg, Industrial AI consultant and Robert Weber, tech journalist. Their mission: Demystify Industrial AI and machine learning, inspire industrial users.


The last episode of the year: Peter spoke to Hans Uszkoreit from Nyonic about Industrial Grade Foundation Models. In the news part, we talk about the joint database of Japanese robotics manufacturers. We talk about Nvidia, AMD, Keba, LLMs and look back at the year 2023. And we congratulate our interview guest Jakub Tomczak on becoming Program Chair at the next NeurIPS. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. **We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! ** We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ **The paper we discussed** https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02727v1 !!! The Industrial AI Podcast reports weekly on the latest developments in AI and machine learning for the engineering, robotics, automotive, process and automation industries. The podcast features industrial users, scientists, vendors and startups in the field of Industrial AI and machine learning. The podcast is hosted by Peter Seeberg, Industrial AI consultant and Robert Weber, tech journalist. Their mission: Demystify Industrial AI and machine learning, inspire industrial users.


Robert talked to Dr. Bernhard Nessler, Research Manager Deep Learning & Certification at SCCH, and to Thomas Doms from TÜV AUSTRIA about the AI Act. Both work for Trustifai - a joint venture by SCCH, JKU Linz and TÜV Austria. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Contact Dr. Bernhard Nessler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhard-nessler-linz-austria/?originalSubdomain=at Contact Thomas Doms: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-doms-30890b2a/?originalSubdomain=at We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Michael!


They discussed the role of OEE, the role of AI and how to measure success of AI projects. The Industrial AI Podcast informs you weekly about trends, people and ides in the space of Industrial AI. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Article Wired https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/ Contact Kevin Clark https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkk/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Michael!


Attention, dear product managers from the industry. This episode is just for you. Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte explains us their AI ProductOps-Approach and why the industrial sector needs them. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Contact Anna Maria https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-maria-brunnhofer/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Michael!


Together with partners from 33 academic labs, Deepmind has pooled data from 22 different robot types to create the Open X-Embodiment dataset and RT-X model. Prof. Dr. Abhinav Valada explains the results and what they mean for robotics in the future. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Contact Prof. Dr. Abhinav Valada https://rl.uni-freiburg.de/people/valada The Deepmind Paper https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Michael!


Peter Seeberg talked to Bryan DeBois Director of Industrial AI at RoviSys. RoviSys is a global system integrator. Bryan speaks about autonomous Industrial AI. Bryan describes his approach and explains what role AI plays in the area of skills shortages and the role of reinforcement learning. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens Contact to Bryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-debois/ The mentioned book: Designing Autonomous AI https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-autonomous-ai/9781098110741/ **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ We thank our team: Barbara and Anne!


Prof. Dr. Jakub Tomczak has been researching GenAI for 10 years. He represents a new generation of researchers and is recognised throughout Europe as an expert on GenAI. He explains the new way of thinking in AI. He works at the TU Eindhoven. Eindhoven is a hidden champion for most industry listeners. But: A few months ago, the university received over 100 million euros from ASML. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner Siemens **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


Our host was Werner Faulhaber from Arburg. After the discussion rounds, we were given a tour of the production. And on the last day, patents and AI were the focus of the discussions. If you would also like to be part of our round, please drop us a line.


So there are lots of books and information and tutorials about how to create a model, how to make all the feature engineering, how to train models, how to evaluate them. But there is quite less information if it comes to the deployment. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) [Martin Plank] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-plank-9246a9203/) **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


On the eve of the interview, Robert met Prof. Dr Johannes Brandstetter. He comes from Microsoft Research in Amsterdam and is now doing research in Linz. He is sure: Hochreiter is on the right track. Hochreiter explains the architecture to us, talks about the future of transfomers and explains why xLSTM could also change the industrial sector. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) [Sepp Hochreiter] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sepp-hochreiter-41514846/) **OUR EVENT IN JANUARY ** https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


Peter Seeberg talked to Kurt DeMaagd, Chief AI Officer at Sight Machine. He explains us their Manufacturing Data Platform. He is a veteran of manufacturing AI/ML projects. He specializes in managing a high variety of data sources, analyzing that data with machine learning methods, building trust in the analysis, and operationalizing results. In the news part we dicsuss the newest models by Deep Mind. Peter has new ideas concercning databases and we are looking forward to our event together with Hannover Messe in January 2024. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) [Kurt DeMaagd] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtdemaagd/) Deep Mind Paper https://www.deepmind.com/blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=RT-X The event in January https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/special-events/ki-in-der-industrie/ Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


How do I explain Deep Learning to my parents? We talked to Prof. Günter Klambauer about his idea to use the Crazy Village of AI. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) [Günter Klambauer] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/g%C3%BCnter-klambauer-1b73293a) Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


We already had an episode about SORDI, but a lot happened since than and the epsiode was in German. Chafic Abou Akar works for BMW and is Tech Lead SORDI.ai. He gives us an update on the SORDI dataset. Robert Weber was in Linz and visited Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter and his team. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) Chafics Open Source profile https://github.com/chaficii and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chafic-abou-akar/ Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


The LLM Copilot is part of the OS horst. The idea is to speed up the configuration of the robot and the components. The User asks the LLM, if the installation is quite ready or gets support with the installation of components. The system runs on ChatGPT but for Ismail it is also conceivable to run the application with LLaMA. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) More about Fruitcore Robotics https://www.fruitcore-robotics.com/en/horstos-ai-copilot Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


Deep learning (DL) models have seen increased attention for time series forecasting, yet the application on cyber-physical systems (CPS) is hindered by the lacking robustness of these methods. Thus, this study evaluates the robustness and generalization performance of DL architectures on multivariate time series data from CPS. Peter Seeberg talked to the authors. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) Olivers Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07737 Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


We still have something for the summer break. Tristan has composed again with the AI. Enjoy the days off. We will hear from you again in September. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. Thanks to Tristan Behrens - more AI music ([here](https://hexagonmachine.bandcamp.com/)) We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!


We talk to Simon Dürr from Porsche and Prof. Dr. Marco Huber from Fraunhofer IPA. Simon was responsible for the project at Porsche and wrote his PhD thesis on it. Marco Huber was his supervisor and together they explain the approach. The project attracted a lot of attention within the company. With this episode, Peter and Robert say goodbye to the summer break. We will be back in September. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner [Siemens ](https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/topic-areas/artificial-intelligence-in-industry.html) Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics ([more](https://www.womeninairobotics.de/)) PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich [https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning](https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning) We thank our team: Barbara, Anne and Simon!