Honeywell and Google Cloud Partner on AI | Manufacturing News
Charlotte, N.C., Sunnyvale, Calif.—Honeywell and Google Cloud announced a unique collaboration connecting artificial intelligence (AI) agents with assets, people, and processes to accelerate safer, autonomous operations for the industrial sector.
Partnership Details
This partnership will bring together the multimodality and natural language capabilities of Gemini on Vertex AI—Google Cloud's AI platform—and the massive dataset on Honeywell Forge, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform for industrials. The collaboration aims to provide easy-to-understand, enterprise-wide insights across various use cases. Honeywell's industrial customers will benefit from cost reduction, increased operational productivity, and employee upskilling opportunities.
The initial solutions developed with Google Cloud AI are expected to be available to Honeywell's customers by 2025.
Key Quotes
"The path to autonomy requires assets working harder, people working smarter, and processes working more efficiently," says Vimal Kapur, Chairman, and CEO of Honeywell. "By combining Google Cloud's AI technology with our deep domain expertise, customers will receive unparalleled, actionable insights to accelerate autonomous operations."
"Our partnership with Honeywell represents a significant step forward in bringing the transformative power of AI to industrial operations," says Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. "With Gemini on Vertex AI and Honeywell's industrial data and expertise, we're creating new opportunities to optimize processes and drive meaningful business outcomes."
Areas of Collaboration
Honeywell and Google Cloud will co-innovate solutions in the following areas:
- Development of AI-powered agents for task automation and project design cycle reduction.
- Utilization of Google's large language models for quicker maintenance issue resolution.
By leveraging AI technology, both companies aim to drive growth, productivity, and support Honeywell's alignment with automation trends.
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