Siemens Showcases Industrial AI Innovations at Hannover Messe to Drive Manufacturing Efficiency and Future Ready Industry

Siemens Showcases Industrial AI Innovations at Hannover Messe to Drive Manufacturing Efficiency and Future Ready Industry

(IN BRIEF) Siemens will use Hannover Messe 2026 as a platform to demonstrate how industrial AI and digital technologies are reshaping manufacturing and enhancing industrial resilience and competitiveness. By integrating AI across the entire value chain, Siemens aims to help companies improve efficiency, accelerate innovation, and adapt to challenges such as labor shortages and market volatility. The company will showcase practical applications in sectors like consumer goods, highlighting how firms like PepsiCo can benefit from connected, data-driven operations. Future-focused demonstrations will include autonomous manufacturing processes powered by AI, robotics, and additive manufacturing. Siemens will also address the growing energy demands of data centers, presenting DC power grid solutions and advanced semiconductor-based systems to improve efficiency and sustainability. Overall, the showcase underscores Siemens’ vision of a more intelligent, flexible, and energy-efficient industrial future.

(PRESS RELEASE) MUNICH, 17-Apr-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens AG is set to showcase at Hannover Messe 2026 how digital technologies, particularly industrial artificial intelligence, are transforming manufacturing and strengthening Europe’s industrial competitiveness. In a landscape shaped by workforce shortages, limited resources, market volatility, and growing complexity, Siemens will demonstrate how advanced tools such as AI and digital twins can accelerate innovation, improve productivity, and enhance resource efficiency.

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, emphasized that industrial AI will play a defining role in determining future industry leaders. He highlighted the company’s efforts to develop an industrial AI operating system designed to integrate artificial intelligence across the entire value chain, from product design and engineering to production and operational processes. This approach aims to deliver measurable advantages in speed, efficiency, and resilience for customers.

At its exhibition space, Siemens will present a range of industrial AI applications, with a strong focus on robotics and intelligent automation. The company will also illustrate how emerging technologies can reinforce supply chains and logistics systems, enabling greater adaptability in uncertain environments.

A key demonstration will center on the consumer goods sector, where Siemens will showcase how companies such as PepsiCo and its brand Pringles can accelerate product launches and improve reliability by digitizing their operations. Through the integration of AI, product specifications can be directly connected to recipes, while logistics, warehousing, and supply chains become fully transparent and interconnected, enabling more efficient data-driven decision-making.

Another highlight will be the concept of a pop-up factory, a modular and flexible production unit that can be deployed directly at customer locations. Using simulation technologies and AI, this setup can quickly adapt to local market demands, offering a new level of responsiveness in manufacturing.

Looking toward the future, Siemens will provide insights into increasingly autonomous production environments. At its Innovation Hub, visitors will see an example involving customized shoe sole production through additive manufacturing. Customers input their preferences via an AI-driven interface, while backend AI systems coordinate design tools and manage production processes autonomously. Humanoid robots handle material transport, and AI-controlled systems oversee packaging, illustrating a highly automated and intelligent manufacturing ecosystem.

Energy demands driven by the rapid expansion of data centers will also be a major focus. With data centers already consuming significant portions of global electricity—currently supported by one in every hundred power plants, potentially rising to one in ten by 2030—Siemens will present solutions designed to improve energy efficiency. The company is promoting direct current (DC) power grids as a foundation for next-generation data centers, enabling higher power density and better integration of renewable energy sources such as solar and battery storage. As part of this effort, Siemens will introduce a semiconductor-based protection and switching system engineered specifically for DC applications, offering fast and precise control.

Siemens will exhibit at booth A48 in Hall 27 during Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, 2026, where it will also host a press conference on April 20. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to visit the booth during the opening day.

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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