{"id":12654,"date":"2025-10-10T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:19:46","slug":"building-a-time-series-foundation-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/ai-spectrum\/building-a-time-series-foundation-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a time-series foundation model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=TLFIE2544633430\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<p>Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a core technology for both consumers and businesses but bringing AI into the design process or onto the shop floor presents a unique set of challenges. With a wide variety of tasks and data types, creating AI models to handle industrial tasks is far more difficult than creating simple chat interfaces, which is where foundation models come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Host Spencer Acain is joined by Dr. James Loach, head of research at Senseye Predictive Maintenance to learn more about what foundation models are and how they can help address some of the challenges of bringing AI to industry. One example of this being Senseye\u2019s own time-series foundation model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this episode you will learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is a foundation model? (0:30)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications of a time series foundation model (6:00)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/01\/1704210845592.jpg\" alt=\"James Loach\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">James Loach<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Head of Research for Senseye Predictive Maintenance <\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jamesloach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with James on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/06\/spencer-acain.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Acain\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Spencer Acain<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Technical Writer for Global Marketing at Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/spencer-acain-a4267b125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Spencer on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a core technology for both consumers and businesses but bringing AI into the design process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82958,"featured_media":12655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[353,373,298,299,385,330],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[499],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-spectrum","tag-ai","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digital-twin","tag-digitalization","tag-podcast","tag-xcelerator"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/AdobeStock-217724987_original-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}