Siemens and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership in industrial AI and manufacturing digitalisation. The two companies aim to combine their technologies to bring AI-powered technologies for next-generation factory automation.

The expanded partnership will span every stage from product design to execution. Manufacturers will be able to make decisions using real-time, data-driven insights to enhance operational efficiencies and improve collaboration.

Siemens has integrated NVIDIA technology throughout its Xcelerator platform. Announced earlier this year, Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer provides product lifecycle management-based visualisation. It brings real-time ray-tracing capabilities directly into Teamcenter to enable companies to visualise and interact with photorealistic, physics-based digital twins of their products.

Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai is using this to visualise next-generation hydrogen- and ammonia-powered vessels. It allows management of millions of parts in real time while cutting design iteration time from days to hours with generative AI.

By coupling NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with Siemens’ computational fluid dynamics software, Simcenter Star-CCM+ customers can simulate and test products virtually with significantly enhanced speed.

Using Simcenter Star-CCM+ software accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, BMW Group and Siemens achieved a 30x speed-up for transient aerodynamics simulations of entire vehicle geometries — accelerating the simulation of vehicle aerodynamics while reducing energy consumption and costs.

A new line of Siemens Industrial PCs, certified for NVIDIA GPUs, provide AI-supported industrial computing, withstanding heat, dust and vibration, and allowing for 24/7 operation. They enable industrial automation tasks from AI-based robotics to quality inspection and predictive maintenance. They have delivered a 25x acceleration in AI execution.

AI agents will work across the Siemens Industrial Copilot portfolio, executing entire AI-powered processes without human intervention. Siemens’ Industrial Copilot for Operations provides generative AI on the shopfloor. It will be optimised to run on premises with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. The Operations Copilot employs NVIDIA NeMo microservices and the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarisation to provide real-time, AI-powered assistance for manufacturing operations, saving 30% of maintenance time.

Siemens is also collaborating with NVIDIA to develop a new class of operational technology cybersecurity by integrating NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, leveraging accelerated computing in achieve AI-driven cybersecurity.

“Modern manufacturers face mounting pressure to boost efficiency, enhance quality and adapt swiftly to changing market demands,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our partnership with Siemens is bringing NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to the world’s leading enterprises and opening new opportunities for the next wave of industrial AI.”

“AI is fundamentally transforming manufacturing and infrastructure. Over the last three years, we’ve worked closely to merge AI models and high-performance computing, with industrial data and domain know-how,” said Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens AG. “Together, Siemens and NVIDIA are now empowering companies across every industry to unlock the scaled impact of AI in the physical world.”