Siemens and Microsoft Deliver AI-Boosted NX X to Azure

Siemens Digital Industries Software has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to make its cloud-enabled NX X software for product engineering available through Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) platform Azure and integrating it with generative AI and copilot features. 

Siemens will deliver NX X software on Azure, so organizations can use Microsoft’s AI tools and have access to enterprise-grade security combined with Siemens’ product engineering software. This comes after an announcement earlier this year of Siemens’ Teamcenter X software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) being offered on Azure. 

“Our customers are continuing to ask Siemens to bring our industry leading industrial software to Azure,” says Bob Haubrock, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Building on the success we are seeing with delivery of Teamcenter X on Azure, we’re now expanding to also bring our industry leading NX X product engineering software to the Azure platform.” 

Delivering NX X through Azure 

NX X delivers product engineering capabilities as-a-service for advanced 3D product engineering. NX X delivers centralized cloud license management, configuration, and provision of capability while simplifying IT requirements. NX X integrates with Azure Cloud Services, giving flexibility to either install NX X directly on desktops or access it through virtual desktop solutions, including Azure Virtual Desktop, when needed.

Enhancing NX X with AI 

Siemens' NX software for product engineering will leverage the power of Phi-3, part of Microsoft’s family of small language models, to enable users to ask natural language questions, access technical insights and streamline complex design tasks. With advanced capabilities like Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Domain Specific Language, the adapted AI model enables users to ask natural language questions, access detailed technical insights and streamline complex design tasks. 

The new NX X AI capability builds on the foundation of AI functionality in NX X by recommending solutions based on best practices, generating code to automate design tasks, and finding problem areas, all driven with natural, human-like interaction. 

“Microsoft is pleased to expand our long-standing collaboration with Siemens, underscoring AI’s role in driving innovation, operational efficiency, and digital transformation in the industrial sector,” says Satish Thomas, corporate vice president, Business & Industry Solutions, Microsoft. “Through the availability of Siemens’ NX X software on Azure and the integration of its adapted AI model, powered by Microsoft Phi-3, into their copilot, Siemens and Microsoft are equipping engineers with cloud-based AI solutions to simplify complex challenges and drive productivity.” 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.