By Alice Chambers |
Bosch and Microsoft are working together on agentic AI solutions for industrial use cases.
Dayan Rodriguez, corporate vice president of manufacturing and mobility at Microsoft, joined Bosch executives Tanja Rueckert and Paul Thomas at the Bosch press conference at CES 2026 to discuss their “Manufacturing Co-Intelligence” offer, exploring ways to enhance production with agentic AI.
Bosch’s industrial analysis forms the basis of “Manufacturing Co-Intelligence” – Bosch has decades of manufacturing data expertise, including one billion products and 700 million digital twins from its own AI-enabled factories – while Microsoft’s infrastructure and software expertise will create an open, scalable and secure ecosystem to empower manufacturers.
“Many factories still operate with legacy systems and they need to evolve intentionally and thoughtfully,” said Rodriguez. “The ability to interpret [data] and arrive at decisions is becoming increasingly difficult. We want to harness agentic AI to help inform factories. This powerful technology can make sense of this data and then autonomously make decisions (that are pre-validated) and execute tasks to optimise production, maintenance and the supply chain.”
The collaboration also aims to make manufacturing more human-centric.
“Central to innovation is a factory that empowers its workers,” said Rodriguez. “Our goal is simplified solutions. With agentic AI monitoring processes, even minor problems can be identified and solutions can be suggested before production is stopped. Together we’re developing the new future where humans and machines work together intelligently and cooperatively.”