Siemens and NVIDIA want 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 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 as well as hardware and software solutions, it was announced at the CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas.
At the heart of the cooperation is the vision of turning AI into an «industrial operating system» and developing digital twins from passive simulations into active, self-optimizing images of real factories. This should enable companies to develop products faster, adapt production in real time and significantly reduce downtime.
From 2026, the Siemens appliance 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 analyses the digital twin, tests optimizations virtually and transfers confirmed improvements to 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 are designed to help engineers with layout, debugging and circuit optimization, enabling shorter design cycles and higher manufacturing quality.
In parallel, 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 expected 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
