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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
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Mineart said Caterpillar has about 1.6 million connected assets globally and more than 16 petabytes of structured data. Its power-generation division saw sales spike 72% to $3.10 billion, and CEO Joe Creed said that “no one is slowing down” when it comes to demand for cloud computing and generative AI infrastructure.
“The hard part about autonomy and about physical AI is incorporating that technology into the customer jobsite and into the workflows,” she said. The company is also using AI to power software for scanning sites and generating digital twins in manufacturing to analyze operations, she said.
Mineart said the company leans on experienced operators to help train AI systems, leveraging institutional knowledge built over decades. Mineart said the company plans to spend $100 million over the next five years to train its workforce in AI, autonomy and robotics.
“We use AI agents to modernize legacy code, generate and test new software, and identify defects earlier,” Mineart said. Mineart said the tool is now being used by customers, operators and technicians.
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- Mineart said the tool is now being used by customers, operators and technicians.
- Mineart said Caterpillar has about 1.6 million connected assets globally and more than 16 petabytes of structured data.
- The company is also using AI to power software for scanning sites and generating digital twins in manufacturing to analyze operations, she said.
- “We use AI agents to modernize legacy code, generate and test new software, and identify defects earlier,” Mineart said.
- “The hard part about autonomy and about physical AI is incorporating that technology into the customer jobsite and into the workflows,” she said.
- Mineart said the company leans on experienced operators to help train AI systems, leveraging institutional knowledge built over decades.
- Mineart said the company plans to spend $100 million over the next five years to train its workforce in AI, autonomy and robotics.
- Its power-generation division saw sales spike 72% to $3.10 billion, and CEO Joe Creed said that “no one is slowing down” when it comes to demand for cloud computing and generative AI infrastructure.
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- businesslink