Siemens CEO Says Germany Has Big Industrial Data Set for AI Push

Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch said Germany must leverage the loads of data across its industrial companies to take advantage of artificial intelligence.

“We are sitting on a massive amount of data,” Busch said Monday during a Bloomberg TV interview. “This is one of the most industrialized economies in the world, and again, small and medium sized enterprises, large ones, they’re creating data from their buildings, their manufacturing sites, their engineering.”

Roland Busch in Berlin on July 21.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Siemens is deploying AI to make industrial producers’ manufacturing systems more efficient. The company has a partnership with Nvidia Corp. for its AI applications and recently ...