Siemens Highlights Industrial AI and Digital Twin Technology at CES 2025

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At the recent CES event in the US (aka the Consumer Electronics Show), industrial automation, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare provider Siemens showcased its vision for the future, when data, AI, and software-defined automation are expected to converge to enable flexibility, optimization, and continuous improvement across industries.

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 and enable rapid, real-time decision making for shop floor operators and maintenance engineers. 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 is designed to enhance human-machine collaboration across all experience levels, helping to accelerate development times and innovation cycles. The Siemens Industrial Copilot will be integrated with its Industrial Edge ecosystem, which has been enhanced with AI for deploying, operating, and managing AI models within the production environment.

Collaborating with NVIDIA to Bring Photorealism to PLM  

Together with NVIDIA, Siemens announced new additions to the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform, including the Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, which brings large-scale, physically based visualization directly into the product lifecycle management (PLM) system. This capability also enables teams to collaborate in a secure, digital twin environment using their live 3D data, reducing errors and data discrepancies while streamlining workflows and decision-making.

Enabling Immersive Engineering with Sony 

In collaboration with the Sony Corporation, Siemens is delivering a new solution for immersive engineering that brings together Siemens NX software for product engineering with a head-mounted display from Sony to enable content creation for the industrial metaverse. Now available for pre-order and shipping beginning in February, Siemens' new Immersive Engineering toolset brings the power of mixed reality to the product engineering and manufacturing community, enabling high-fidelity mixed reality and 3D-focused collaboration.

Introducing Designcenter for Product Engineering 

The company also unveiled its new Designcenter software suite, which brings together its portfolio of design and engineering software, including Solid Edge and NX software, in one unified offering so that companies can design and collaborate using the Parasolid modeling kernel.    

Industrial Tech for Startups 

The new Siemens for Startups program is intended to allow innovators of any size access to the intelligence, ecosystems, and technologies they need to turn ideas into 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. 

JetZero Selects Siemens Xcelerator Platform 

The company announced an agreement with JetZero, an aviation startup working to build the future of sustainable air travel, focused on collaborative 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 zero carbon emissions by 2035. JetZero will leverage the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform to design, manufacture, and operate its new aircraft.  

JetZero is planning to build "Factory of the Future"—a new greenfield factory in the US, where the company intends to tightly integrate Siemens’ automation hardware, software, and services to help it achieve its ambitious vision that encompasses electrification, automation, and digitalization of both the aircraft and its production. The JetZero aircraft and its associated manufacturing operations will be simulated virtually using comprehensive digital twins—enabling the company to de-risk the manufacturing process, validate the approach, and scale processes before any ground is broken or jets take to the skies.

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