{"id":12790,"date":"2025-11-21T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:20:12","slug":"building-an-ai-foundation-for-a-smarter-digital-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/ai-spectrum\/building-an-ai-foundation-for-a-smarter-digital-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an AI foundation for a smarter digital enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=TLFIE8648045535\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<p>Bringing AI into industry isn\u2019t something that can happen all at once, rather, something that will happen gradually by applying AI to individual areas where it can have the most impact. With that said, as these foundations continue to grow, more complex, overarching AI applications will begin to find their way into industry as well, offering greater flexibility and possibility then traditional systems can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, host Spencer Acain is joined by Dr. James Loach, head of research at Senseye Predictive Maintenance to look at the applications of LLMs and other, similar AI technologies to the vast store of information available across a digital enterprise, and what that means for the future of design and manufacturing.<\/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 comes after the time series foundation model? (0:35)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanding AI to enterprise data (3:26)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The broader role of AI in industry (9:50)<\/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>Bringing AI into industry isn\u2019t something that can happen all at once, rather, something that will happen gradually by applying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82958,"featured_media":12792,"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":[353,373,298,299,385,311],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[499],"class_list":["post-12790","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-simulation"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/11\/MI-Hotspots-Sustainability-PredictiveMaintainance_original.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","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=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions\/12791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}