Siemens and NVIDIA aim to make AI the operating system of industry
Siemens and NVIDIA are deepening their strategic partnership to make artificial intelligence the operating system of industry. The goal is to create fully AI-driven factories, faster development cycles, and energy-efficient AI factories for a new era of industrial value creation.
Siemens and NVIDIA are fundamentally expanding their partnership to bring industrial and physical artificial intelligence to all industries and accelerate entire production chains. NVIDIA will provide AI infrastructure, models, frameworks, and simulation libraries, while Siemens will contribute industrial AI expertise and hardware and software solutions. This was announced at the CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas.
The cooperation is centered around the vision of turning AI into an «industrial operating system» and developing digital twins from passive simulations into active, self-optimizing representations of real factories. This will enable companies to develop products faster, adjust production in real time, and significantly reduce downtime.
Starting in 2026, the Siemens plant in Erlangen will serve as the first fully AI-controlled, adaptive production facility and act as a blueprint for other locations worldwide. An «AI brain,» fed by software-defined automation, industrial operating software, and NVIDIA's Omniverse platform, continuously analyzes the digital twin, tests optimizations virtually, and transfers confirmed improvements into ongoing operations.
The partners are also addressing semiconductor design and electronic design automation: Siemens is integrating NVIDIA CUDA-X, PhysicsNeMo, and GPU acceleration into its EDA portfolio to accelerate key workflows such as verification, layout, and process optimization by a factor of two to ten. AI-powered features will help engineers with layout, debugging, and circuit optimization, enabling shorter design cycles and higher manufacturing quality.
At the same time, Siemens and NVIDIA are working on a standardizable blueprint for AI factories that combines high computing power with energy-efficient infrastructure, cooling, and automation. The combination of NVIDIA's AI ecosystem and Siemens' expertise in energy infrastructure, electrification, and automation is intended to accelerate the global expansion of industrial AI data centers – and both companies are using each other's technologies in their own operations to demonstrate practical customer benefits on an industrial scale.
Source: Siemens
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