Siemens participated in ARC Advisory Group’s 21st India Forum titled Driving Sustainability, Energy Transition, and Performance through Digitalization. Vikas Manoria, Head of Regional Product Management, Factory Automation, Digital Industries, Siemens Limited, provided the industry perspective about Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the preview of Edge computing in manufacturing. AI is growing in importance in industry and is being used in product design, inspection, and process optimization. AI is the overarching system that uses data to learn the underlying pattern and make predictions. Vikas also discussed the differences between AI and PLC programming, and how to decide which part of the plant/process/machine an AI system should be deployed.