How Siemens uses AI

At the Siemens Electronics Factory Erlangen, production employees use a generative AI assistant, the Industrial Copilot approach, on the shop floor to troubleshoot machinery from industrial information. Siemens reports that interviews with maintenance engineers point to about a quarter less reactive maintenance time. The employee still decides on recommendations that touch machine settings. Siemens both sells the copilot and operates this factory.

Siemens replaced a manual pay equity analysis limited to its top ten countries by revenue with Syndio's platform, extending continuous governance to every employee across more than 70 countries. Managers now see equity indicators directly in the merit cycle, with comments and an audit trail, instead of equity being checked only after the cycle closes. Syndio reports the program now governs about 320,000 pay decisions a year for about 250,000 employees, with a steady year over year reduction in the global adjusted pay gap.

Siemens uses Scoutbee's AI platform to find and profile suppliers for procurement projects, from the short term identification of a second source to the screening of specific procurement markets and the selection of research partners and start ups. Scoutbee reports 94 completed projects for 18 business units, 6,893 suppliers identified and 283 quotations evaluated.