Honeywell and Google Cloud Team Up to Transform Industrial Operations with AI Integration
Honeywell and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing industrial operations through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI).
The collaboration will link AI agents with industrial assets, people, and processes to foster safer and more autonomous operations. This initiative will combine the multimodal and natural language capabilities of Google Cloud’s Gemini on Vertex AI platform with Honeywell Forge, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform for industrial applications.
The partnership is expected to provide enterprise-wide, actionable insights that can help Honeywell’s industrial customers lower maintenance costs, boost operational productivity, and upskill their workforce. The first AI-driven solutions from this collaboration will be available to customers by 2025.
As the industrial sector grapples with labor and skills shortages due to the retirement of baby boomers, AI is seen as a key driver for growth rather than job elimination.
According to Honeywell’s 2024 Industrial AI Insights report, while 82% of industrial AI leaders consider their companies early adopters of AI, only 17% have fully launched their AI initiatives. The new AI-powered agents from this partnership are expected to accelerate AI adoption and automation across the sector.