The refiner ties its AI work to earnings, uptime, maintenance costs and safety, and uses it for predictive maintenance in refining and leak detection in midstream.
The twin uses live plant data plus grid and energy market inputs to plan production and power buying, and Siemens estimates it can save up to 15% of energy.
A personal open-source project by Łukasz Czarnacki that lets an assistant search and read TIA Portal, STEP 7 and WinCC Unified docs live.
For controls engineers: ask about a PLC or HMI setting and have the assistant pull up the matching manual page.
The solid-modeling engine that does booleans, fillets and shelling is now free under Apache 2.0, and until now only legacy licensees could get it. A free Python wrapper, smlibpy, adds an MCP server, so AI agents can build parts and export STEP files. The poster works at AWV Informatik, the company behind smlibpy.
For engineers: an agent can now draft real CAD geometry on an industrial-grade CAD kernel.