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Siemens and NVIDIA are broadening their strategic alliance to develop an ‘Industrial AI operating system’, which they aim to make the heart of AI-powered manufacturing
Siemens and NVIDIA said they are widening a strategic partnership to build what they described as an “Industrial AI operating system” that combines NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure with Siemens’ industrial hardware and software.
The companies announced the expansion at CES 2026, saying they would target the complete industrial products and production lifecycle, from product design and simulation to deployment and operations.
The programme will reportedly begin with the deployment of an AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing site at Siemens’ Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany, slated to start in 2026. This, the companies said, will serve as a blueprint for further AI factories.
According to the announcement, factories would run an “AI Brain” integrating software-defined automation, industrial operations software and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to analyse digital twins. This would allow operational changes to be tested in a virtual environment first, then delivered across the site in near real time.
“Together, we are building the Industrial AI operating system – redefining how the physical world is designed, built, and run – to scale AI and create real-world impact,” said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG.
“Generative AI and accelerated computing have ignited a new industrial revolution, transforming digital twins from passive simulations into the active intelligence of the physical world,” added Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our partnership with Siemens fuses the world’s leading industrial software with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform to close the gap between ideas and reality — empowering industries to simulate complex systems in software, then seamlessly automate and operate them in the physical world.”
The partnership involves a significant coupling of the companies’ technologies, with Siemens expanding support for NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI physics models, while NVIDIA will provide infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks, and blueprints. The result, the companies hope, will be the delivery of larger, more accurate simulations more quickly. They also hope to advance “generative simulation” with technologies such as NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo and open models to produce autonomous digital twins capable of real-time engineering and optimisation.
Siemens also plans to add AI-assisted features to its existing tools, such as layout guidance and debug support to improve engineering productivity.
A number of customers, including Foxconn, HD Hyundai, KION Group, and PepsiCo, are already evaluating the companies new capabilities, according to the company press release.
Financial details of the deal were not revealed.
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