FEATURE : IOT physical and digital worlds to accelerate autonomous operations , a key driver of Honeywell ’ s growth .” plans , according to Honeywell ’ s 2024 Industrial AI Insights report .
Thomas Kurian , CEO , Google Cloud , said : “ Our partnership with Honeywell represents a significant step forward in bringing the transformative power of AI to industrial operations .
This partnership is pitched as providing AI agents that augment the existing operations and workforce to help drive AI adoption and enable companies across the sector to benefit from expanding automation .
“ With Gemini on Vertex AI , combined with Honeywell ’ s industrial data and expertise , we ’ re creating new opportunities to optimize processes , empower workforces and drive meaningful business outcomes for industrial organizations worldwide .”
With the mass retirement of workers from the baby boomer generation , the industrial sector faces both labor and skills shortages and AI can be part of the solution – as a revenue generator , not job eliminator .
Honeywell and Google Cloud will co-innovate solutions around :
Purpose-Built , Industrial AI Agents
Built on Google Cloud ’ s Vertex AI Search and tailored to engineers ’ specific needs , a new AI-powered agent will help automate tasks and reduce project design cycles , enabling users to focus on driving innovation and delivering exceptional customer experiences .
More than two-thirds ( 82 %) of Industrial AI leaders believe their companies are early adopters of AI – but only 17 % have fully launched their initial AI
Additional agents will utilize Google ’ s large language models ( LLMs ) to help technicians to more quickly resolve maintenance issues ( e . g ., “ How did a unit www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO LATAM 47