Siemens highlighted its long-standing partnership with Nvidia at CES 2026 as the two firms develop the Industrial AI Operating System to help customers design, engineer and operate physical systems.
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Siemens and Nvidia plan to work together to build AI-accelerated industrial solutions across the full lifecycle of products and production, enabling faster innovation, continuous optimization and more resilient, sustainable manufacturing. The companies also aim to build fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing sites, starting in 2026 with the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany.
To support development, Nvidia will provide AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks and blueprints, while Siemens will commit hundreds of industrial AI experts, hardware and software. The companies identified AI-native EDA, AI-native Simulation, AI-driven adaptive manufacturing and supply chain and AI-factories as impact areas in the development of their vision.
Siemens also revealed that it will integrate Nvidia NIM and Nvidia Nemotron open AI models into its electronic design automation (EDA) software offerings to advance generative and agentic workflows for semiconductor and PCB design. The company expects this to maximize accuracy through domain specialization and lower operational costs by enabling the most efficient model to handle and adapt to every specific need.
"Generative AI and accelerated computing have ignited a new industrial revolution, transforming digital twins from passive simulations into the active intelligence of the physical world,” Nvidia CEO and Founder Jensen Huang said. "Our partnership with Siemens fuses the world's leading industrial software with Nvidia's full-stack AI platform to close the gap between ideas and reality — empowering industries to simulate complex systems in software, then seamlessly automate and operate them in the physical world.”
New Technology Connects Digital Twin with Real-Time, Real-World Data
Siemens’ primary product launch at CES 2026 is the Digital Twin Composer, available on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace mid-2026. This new technology brings together Siemens’ digital twin, simulations built using Nvidia Omniverse libraries and real-time, real-world engineering data.
With the Digital Twin Composer, companies can create a virtual 3D model of any product, process or plant, put it in a 3D scene of their choosing and then move back and forth through time, precisely visualizing the effects of everything from weather changes to engineering changes.
With Siemens’ software as the data backbone, the Digital Twin Composer builds Industrial Metaverse environments at scale, empowering organizations to apply industrial AI, simulation and real-time physical data to make decisions virtually, at speed and scale.
PepsiCo and Siemens are converting select U.S. manufacturing and warehouse facilities into high-fidelity 3D digital twins that simulate plant operations and the end-to-end supply chain to establish a performance baseline. Within weeks, teams reportedly optimized and validated new configurations to boost capacity and throughput.
Leveraging Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer, Nvidia Omniverse libraries and computer vision, PepsiCo can now recreate every machine, conveyor, pallet route and operator path with physics-level accuracy, enabling AI agents to simulate, test and refine system changes, identifying up to 90% of potential issues before any physical modifications occur.
This approach has reportedly delivered a 20% increase in throughput on initial deployment and is driving faster design cycles, nearly 100% design validation and 10 to 15% reductions in capital expenditure (Capex) by uncovering hidden capacity and validating investments in a virtual environment.
New Industrial Copilots Streamline Manufacturing Operations
Siemens also spotlighted its partnership with Microsoft with a collaboration centered on using AI to help organizations across industries improve productivity, resilience and innovation. Siemens also announced that it is expanding its set of AI-powered copilots across the industrial value chain to embed intelligence that extends from design and simulation to product lifecycle management, manufacturing and operations.
Siemens will deploy nine new AI-powered copilots for its software offerings, including Teamcenter, Polarion and Opcenter. These copilots, along with the rest of Siemens’ expanding portfolio of industrial AI solutions, are available to companies of every size on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace.
AI-Driven Innovations in Life Sciences, Energy and Manufacturing
In life sciences, the acquisition of Dotmatics has enabled the integration of vast research data in AI solutions of Siemens, fueling drug discovery and development.
With Dotmatics’ Luma platform, scientists can unify billions of data points generated across instruments and labs, creating a coherent foundation for AI-driven exploration. Combined with Siemens Simcenter simulation and digital twins, teams can rapidly test molecules, identify promising candidates and virtually scale production to help life-changing therapies reach patients up to 50% faster and at a lower cost.
In energy, Bob Mumgaard, CEO and co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, described how the company uses Siemens’ technologies as it leads the path to commercial fusion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems uses design software and a strong data backbone to help it accelerate the development of fusion machines.
In manufacturing, Siemens announced a collaboration to bring Industrial AI to Meta Ray-Ban AI Glasses, with hands-free, real-time audio guidance, safety insights and feedback.
Technology to Transform the Everyday for Everyone
With Siemens, PepsiCo is digitalizing manufacturing and warehousing processes, enabling faster innovation, more agile production and smarter decision-making across its supply chain.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is pioneering the future of clean energy with commercial fusion. CFS partnered with Siemens to build a comprehensive data backbone and to accelerate the design and manufacturing of the energy source.
Haddy is reshaping manufacturing through AI-powered 3D printing and localized micro factories that deliver sustainable, high-quality products faster and closer to customers.
Siemens also launched its eXplore tour mobile experience. Housed in an 18-wheel vehicle, the eXplore tour delivers an interactive experience that highlights the company's technologies. After CES, the eXplore tour will continue across the U.S. with stops at Realize LIVE in Detroit and Automate in Chicago.
Siemens is also hosting its autonomous vehicle experience, featuring Siemens’ new PAVE360 Automotive technology, a system-level digital twin, to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles.
