en.Wedoany.com Reported - Siemens, in collaboration with data and artificial intelligence company Databricks and automation partner FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH (FFT), has launched a new edge-to-cloud integration designed to connect production data directly to enterprise AI platforms without the need for complex IoT middleware. This integration helps industrial customers transform production data into actionable insights and scale industrial AI applications across global operations.
With this integration, customers can stream contextualized shop floor and factory data from Siemens Industrial Edge directly to the Databricks platform via the FFT DataBridge. On this platform, the data can be analyzed and used to centrally train AI models for deployment across global production networks. These models can then be deployed back to the edge for execution at the production site. This approach helps industrial companies optimize operations, reduce costs, increase productivity, enable low-latency, data-driven decision-making, and lays the foundation for physical AI and future autonomous operations.
Siemens Industrial Edge and Industrial Information Hub serve as an industrial data integration layer, providing customers with a secure, scalable, and low-maintenance edge platform designed to unlock siloed industrial data and execute intelligent applications close to the production process. This includes advanced local analytics, physical AI, and closed-loop AI workflows that require low latency, high availability, and strict security compliance. Databricks complements this by offering advanced analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI for industrial data in a cloud-agnostic, governed environment with minimal infrastructure overhead. This supports a variety of advanced use cases, including predictive maintenance, quality optimization, energy management, supply chain optimization, and agentic AI applications.
FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH plays a key role in operationalizing the joint Siemens and Databricks architecture. As a long-standing Siemens partner with deep shop floor expertise, FFT provides the DataBridge application, which securely and efficiently connects Siemens Industrial Edge with the Databricks platform. The FFT DataBridge streams contextualized, AI-ready production data from the edge to the cloud, where it can be combined with additional information technology and operational technology data sources.
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