Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industrial production and supply chains , helping to optimize and automate routine tasks, enabling companies to make more informed decisions, reduce operating times, and improve product traceability, said Alejandro Preinfalk, president and CEO of Siemens Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
As part of a series of talks with leaders from the business and technology sectors, organized by Siemens Mexico , with the aim of analyzing the advances and implications of AI in production processes, Abelardo Colunga, AI Sales Specialist at Google Cloud , addressed the flexibility of the prices offered by technology companies to implement AI software .
In the first session, titled Driving Smart Manufacturing Through AI and Cloud Services , Colunga asserted that the impact of these technologies will be felt in both production and everyday life.
For his part, Jorge Castilla, president and CEO of Accenture Mexico , who led the session Reinventing engineering and manufacturing through technology , considered that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could be the most benefited by the adoption of AI and the use of technological tools such as digital twins , which consist of a digital replica that allows the analysis, prediction and optimization of the functioning of its counterpart in the real world, to significantly improve its operational quality.
In the talk Smart Buildings: The New Driver of Urban Sustainability , Jacobo El Mann Jafif, Vice President of Operations at Allux , highlighted the positive environmental impact of smart buildings , both residential and industrial, noting that the latter are ideal for the installation of solar panels, which translates into energy savings and reduced emissions .
In the session “The Smart Factory: Model-Based Decisions ,” Miguel Millán, CEO of Mexico and Central America at Deloitte , shared his experience implementing data-driven technologies . These technologies are visual representations of a company’s data elements and the connections between them, enabling cost reduction and increased operational efficiency. The specialist emphasized the need to move Mexico toward a higher level of digitalization .
Siemens announced that these sessions will be released as a podcast next October.
According to the IMD World Competitiveness Center ‘s 2024 Global Digital Competitiveness Index , Mexico ranks 59th out of 67 countries evaluated. Furthermore, according to cybersecurity firm Fortinet , it is also the country with the highest number of cyberattacks in Latin America, which underscores the importance of implementing digital tools.
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