Siemens and NVIDIA Partner to Deliver AI-Accelerated Manufacturing and Digital Twins

Siemens and NVIDIA Partner to Deliver AI-Accelerated Manufacturing and Digital Twins

(IN BRIEF) Siemens and NVIDIA have expanded their strategic partnership to bring AI into the core of industrial design, manufacturing, and operations. The collaboration will deliver AI-accelerated solutions across the full industrial lifecycle, from digital twins and simulation to adaptive manufacturing and AI factories. Starting in 2026, the partners plan to establish fully AI-driven manufacturing sites, beginning with Siemens’ Electronics Factory in Erlangen. By combining NVIDIA’s AI platforms and infrastructure with Siemens’ industrial software, automation, and digital twin expertise, the companies aim to accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and enable scalable, sustainable industrial AI adoption worldwide.

(PRESS RELEASE) MUNICH, 7-Jan-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership, aimed at embedding artificial intelligence across the entire industrial value chain — from product design and engineering through manufacturing, operations, and global supply chains.

The expanded collaboration focuses on the joint development of an AI-accelerated industrial portfolio, including AI-native electronic design automation, AI-driven simulation, adaptive manufacturing systems, and intelligent supply chain solutions. Together, Siemens and NVIDIA also plan to design the next generation of AI-enabled factories and optimize their own operations through shared innovation.

Under the agreement, NVIDIA will contribute advanced AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks, and blueprints, while Siemens will deploy hundreds of industrial AI experts alongside its portfolio of industrial hardware, software, and digital solutions. The goal is to create what the companies describe as an industrial AI operating foundation that redefines how physical systems are designed, built, and operated at scale.

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, said the partnership brings together NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI platforms with Siemens’ strengths in industrial technology, digital twins, and industrial data. He noted that the collaboration will enable customers to develop products faster, adapt production in real time, and accelerate innovation across industries ranging from semiconductors to large-scale AI factories.

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, highlighted the role of generative AI and accelerated computing in transforming digital twins into active intelligence for the physical world. He said the partnership combines NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform with Siemens’ industrial software to help industries simulate complex systems in software and seamlessly automate and operate them in real-world environments.

Accelerating the Industrial Lifecycle

Siemens and NVIDIA will jointly build AI-accelerated solutions spanning the full lifecycle of products and production, supporting faster innovation, continuous optimization, and more resilient and sustainable manufacturing. The companies aim to establish the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing sites, beginning in 2026 with the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany, which will serve as the initial blueprint.

These factories will be powered by an “AI Brain” that combines software-defined automation, industrial operations software, NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. This approach allows digital twins to be continuously analyzed, optimized virtually, and translated into validated operational changes on the shop floor, improving decision-making speed while reducing commissioning time and operational risk.

Several industrial customers are already evaluating elements of the expanded partnership, including Foxconn, HD Hyundai, KION Group, and PepsiCo. As part of the collaboration, Siemens will complete GPU acceleration across its entire simulation portfolio and expand support for NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI physics models, enabling larger and more accurate simulations to run faster. The companies will also advance toward generative simulation using NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo and open models to enable autonomous digital twins capable of real-time engineering and optimization.

Advancing Electronic Design Automation

The partnership also targets acceleration of electronic design automation workflows for advanced computing and AI infrastructure. Siemens will integrate NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, PhysicsNeMo, and GPU acceleration across its EDA portfolio, focusing on verification, layout, and process optimization to achieve significant speed improvements in key design workflows.

AI-assisted capabilities such as layout guidance, debug support, and circuit optimization will further enhance engineering productivity while meeting strict manufacturability requirements. These developments aim to shorten design cycles, improve yield, and deliver more reliable outcomes across semiconductor and AI factory development.

Designing the Next Generation of AI Factories

In parallel, Siemens and NVIDIA will jointly develop a repeatable blueprint for next-generation AI factories. The blueprint will address the demands of high-density computing, including power, cooling, automation, and efficiency, while optimizing the full lifecycle from planning and design through deployment and operations.

The combined effort brings together NVIDIA’s AI platform roadmap, infrastructure expertise, partner ecosystem, and Omniverse-based simulation with Siemens’ capabilities in electrification, grid integration, automation, and digital twins. Together, the companies aim to accelerate deployment, improve energy efficiency, and strengthen resilience for industrial-scale AI infrastructure worldwide.

Optimizing Operations Through Shared Innovation

Both companies will also apply the jointly developed technologies within their own operations. NVIDIA will evaluate Siemens solutions to optimize its internal systems, while Siemens will collaborate with NVIDIA to accelerate its own workloads and integrate AI more deeply across its customer portfolio. By first deploying these capabilities internally, Siemens and NVIDIA aim to demonstrate tangible value and scalability before expanding them across industries.

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. A leader in industrial AI, Siemens leverages its deep domain know-how to apply AI – including generative AI – to real-world applications, making AI accessible and impactful for customers across diverse industries. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. In fiscal 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €78.9 billion and net income of €10.4 billion. As of September 30, 2025, the company employed around 318,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

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Simon Krause
Siemens AG
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Quentin Nolibois
NVIDIA Corporation
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SOURCE: Siemens AG