UW-Milwaukee Microsoft AI lab; Microsoft's first to focus on manufacturing
/“Milwaukee is soon getting a cutting-edge lab. Microsoft is bringing it to the city, and it promises to help local businesses. Only two other places in the country have one.
Microsoft has six AI Co-Innovation Labs across the entire world.
The seventh will come to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It will be the only Microsoft AL Co-Innovation Lab focused on manufacturing and the only Microsoft AI lab housed at a college.
‘You look at the region, there’s a high density of manufacturing companies here,’ said Joe Hamann, executive director of the Connected Systems Institute at UWM.
The AI Co-Innovation Lab will be in that UWM institute, which sits in the center of the campus.
It was set up in 2019, with help from Rockwell Automation, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and Microsoft. It has already been helping local manufacturers, which is work that will grow with the new AI lab.
‘Talking to manufacturers, to make sure we understand what are the challenges they are having in their operations and then how can we use technology here at CSI,’ Hamann said. ‘One of these technologies happens to be artificial intelligence. How can we use that technology to solve their business problems? How can we use an AI tool, like ChatGPT, to accelerate maintenance, reduce downtime, get that manufacturer up and running faster, so that it saves them on cost?’”
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