| Latest NX, Enhanced with Machine Learning and AI
Add UI by anticipating the user's next action
| Expanding Digital Innovation Platform with ML

On the 26th, Siemens PLM Software announced the latest version of NX software, which incorporates machine learning and AI capabilities. With these newly released features, Siemens has further expanded its Digital Innovation Platform.
The latest NX software can increase productivity by predicting the next steps and updating the user interface, allowing users to use the software more efficiently. By utilizing self-adapting user interface features, it can meet the diverse needs of users across various departments, thereby increasing adoption rates. Furthermore, these functional enhancements enable the creation of higher-quality computer-aided technology (CAx) systems and more robust digital twins.

"NX is the first CAD product to offer AI and machine learning-based features," said Hyunmin Kim, a senior engineer at Samsung Electronics. "The new NX Adaptive User Interface will help users with little design experience learn on their own and contribute to overall productivity improvement."

Machine learning is increasingly being utilized in product design processes to achieve a competitive advantage. It can be used to provide business insights to enterprises more quickly and efficiently. Furthermore, it has the strength of processing and analyzing large-scale data to learn from it.

AI and machine learning monitor user behavior and the success or failure of the resulting outcomes. They can be used to dynamically determine the correct NX command method or modify the interface. Furthermore, learned UI usage knowledge can also be utilized to create customized CAx environments.

Chad Jackson, Senior Analyst at Lifecycle Insights, stated, “In CAD applications, performance and usability are always in a trade-off,” adding, “As scalability increases, usage and management become more difficult.”

He emphasized, “The adaptive UI used in NX supports timely and appropriate functions for both existing and new users,” adding, “The Siemens digital transformation platform is continuously expanding its capabilities to enable customers to create the most comprehensive digital twins of products, production environments, and product performance.”

By integrating machine learning and AI capabilities into NX software, users can enjoy the fast, powerful, efficient, and intelligent benefits provided by learning without the need to explicitly program these features. This offers customers various opportunities to improve design processes and products, and to accelerate time-to-market.

The NX Command Prediction module is the first machine learning-supported NX adaptive user interface architecture to be introduced to the market. This will serve as the foundation for more user interface-centric UI solutions to be released in the future and lead their development.

Bob Haubrock, Senior Vice President of Product Engineering Software at Siemens PLM Software, stated, “Extensive research in the field of human-computer interaction has led to the development of excellent static interfaces,” but added, “Perfectly customized dynamic interfaces suitable for all users are still lacking.”

He added, “The latest NX version uses machine learning and AI to monitor user behavior and the resulting consequences,” and stated, “It can dynamically determine how to increase each user’s productivity by issuing the correct NX commands or modifying the interface.”

It was also emphasized that “customers can leverage learned user interface knowledge to personalize the CAx environment and improve overall usage and adoption rates,” adding that “as a result, the efficiency of the product development process increases.”