Siemens unveils developments in industrial AI and digital twin technology

"Industrial AI is a game-changer that will create significant positive impact in the real world across all industries," said Peter Koerte, Member of the Managing Board, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy officer, Siemens.

"Industrial AI allows us to harness the vast amounts of data generated in industrial environments and turn it into insights that drive real business impact. We are adding new industrial AI capabilities across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to enable our customers to stay competitive, resilient and sustainable in an increasingly complex world."

Siemens is bringing Industrial AI directly to the shop floor with the new Siemens Industrial Copilot for Operations, enabling AI tasks to run as close as possible to machines. This facilitates rapid, real-time decision making for shop floor operators and maintenance engineers, boosting productivity, operational efficiency and minimising downtime.

The Siemens Industrial Copilot ecosystem is continuously evolving to offer AI capabilities across the industrial value chain and into sectors including discrete and process manufacturing, infrastructure, and mobility. This suite of copilots can enhance human-machine collaboration across all experience levels, helping to accelerate development times and innovation cycles.

The Siemens Industrial Copilot will be integrated with the Industrial Edge ecosystem, which has been enhanced with AI for deploying, operating and managing AI models within the production environment.

JetZero selects Siemens Xcelerator platform

At CES 2025, Siemens announced an agreement with JetZero, an aviation startup working to build the future of sustainable air travel, to collaborate on the development and production of JetZero's blended wing aircraft. The blended wing design aims to improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, reduce noise and deliver the promise of zero carbon emissions by 2035. JetZero will leverage the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform to design, manufacture and operate their new aircraft.

"Siemens is giving us the confidence to take a leap, not just a step, in revolutionising air travel," said JetZero CEO Tom O'Leary. "Their digital twin and industrial metaverse technologies will be instrumental in helping us design, build and operate the world's first fully digital aircraft, delivering a better experience for passengers and airlines while also reducing fuel consumption by 50 percent."

Siemens democratises industrial tech for startups

Siemens' presence at CES also highlighted the company's commitment to enabling startups and companies of all sizes to use its industrial metaverse technologies. Through the new Siemens for Startups program, innovators of any size have access to the intelligence, ecosystems and technologies they need to turn their big ideas into world-changing innovations.

Siemens is providing access to venture partnering and clienting services along with dramatically reduced cost access to software and hardware from the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform. In addition, Siemens is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to offer AWS credits, business development resources and access to the AWS Activate program for technical and go-to-market support.