2023 saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) go ‘mainstream’. General consumers got to grips with easily accessible AI technologies like ChatGPT – a language based chatbot used to create humanlike conversational dialogue. 

In the world of automation, accelerated advancements in AI have long been underway, with companies like Beckhoff Automation Australia offering AI-supported engineering software in the form of TwinCAT Chat. 

“With TwinCAT Chat, large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, are conveniently used in the TwinCAT XAE engineering environment to develop projects,” explains Nick Psahoulias, Managing Director of Beckhoff Automation Australia. “This unlocks system potential.”