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Accenture forms Nvidia Business Group to chase agentic AI
Consulting giant Accenture is forming an Nvidia Business Group in its own organization to help it drive and grow AI adoption in enterprises, a move that comes as part of a newly expanded partnership between the two firms, and more deeply entwines Accenture with the company that has become the poster boy of the AI boom.
Accenture said it will help enable agentic AI by leveraging its AI Refinery framework, which uses the full Nvidia AI stack, including Nvidia AI Foundry, AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms, to advance areas such as process reinvention, AI-powered simulation, and sovereign AI. The company already has AI Refinery Engineering Hubs in Mountain View, California, and Bangalore, and intends to build additional hubs in Accenture Singapore, Tokyo, Malaga, and London. The partners already are working with some customers to support agentic AI, one prime example being Indosat Group in Indonesia, with whom Accenture and Nvidia are working on a sovereign AI project.
Accenture AI Refinery will be available on all public and private cloud platforms and will integrate seamlessly with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and cloud AI ecosystem, the company stated. Accenture also plans to debut a new Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation, which integrates Omniverse and Nvidia’s Isaac robotics software and Metropolis video analytics software to enable industrial companies to build autonomous, robot-operated software-defined factories and facilities. Accenture will use these new capabilities at Eclipse Automation, an Accenture-owned manufacturing automation company, to deliver as much as 50% faster designs and 30% reduction in cycle time on behalf of its clients, the company said.
Compact, Flexible System Assembles Transmission Pumps
To stay on the leading edge, Eclipse engineers constantly research new technologies to help their customers succeed. “We test all kinds of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, remote training, virtual reality for maintenance systems, and any components that add precision and flexibility,” says Jeff Werner, general manager for Eclipse, based in Cambridge, ON. “One technology that has proven particularly important to us is linear transport systems.”
To make this advanced functionality possible, TwinCAT 3 automation software was critical. The universal engineering and run-time platform from Beckhoff allowed Eclipse engineers to program G code that enables the XTS and Beckhoff AM8000 servomotors to perform coordinated motion for high precision dispensing. In addition, Eclipse took advantage of the capability to program with the object-oriented extensions of IEC 61131-3, predefined and custom function blocks, and computer science standards found in Microsoft Visual Studio.