Industrial AI, Robotics and the Future of Factory Automation

So we've talked, I think, a lot about how you're using AI on the factory floor and then what type of AI we're dealing with here with physical AI.

In kind of a more general sense now, how do you see AI integrating with your tools on, you know, for, you know, automation and on the factory floor? How are they helping, you know, users to do better, like in the broadest sense, you know?

So I think we can differentiate between what we call AI native tools.

So this is where really the AI provides the key value of the whole software product, for example.

And Inspecto is one example of this.

And also I see that I mentioned before.

So this is where really Without AI, the product would not be useful in industrial settings.

Besides that, as I also mentioned already a few examples, we massively embed AI as assistance into many of our tools that engineers use along the value chain.

And you can think about TierPortal, as I mentioned, for automation engineering, but also a team center for product lifecycle management or NX manufacturing or SimCenter for design, simulation, programming of CAM programs or machining tool code.

ops center for manufacturing operations.

So in every area, we have already AI assistance embedded.

And this will be more and more important because this massively increases the productivity.

of the personas of our customers using this.

And this can then be designers, can be engineers, obviously, in the automation space from all the different areas.

They will benefit from having their personal AI assistant at hand.

And, for example, a design engineer doesn't have to think now I need to use AI and now I open my chatbot next to me but instead they simply get smart tools integrated that accelerate the task at hand and this assistant is always ready to support them or even automate certain parts of their workflows.

Yeah, it sounds like that would be a really helpful, really useful application of AI there.