Siemens and IFS announce Industrial AI partnership

Siemens and IFS have announced a partnership aimed at helping manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality using industrial AI.

The partnership will connect Siemens’ Digital Twin capabilities with IFS’s asset and service lifecycle data, giving manufacturers a clearer view of how equipment, production lines and assets are performing once they move from design into live operations.

Industrial AI is central to the partnership’s ambition. Siemens and IFS share the belief that the next era of industrial performance will be defined by bringing the physical and digital worlds together to help manufacturers translate design intent into operational reality and connect that operational reality back into better design to accelerate innovation.

“Industrial AI only delivers value when it is grounded in both engineering intent and real-world performance,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and chief executive officer, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Together with IFS, we are bringing these domains together by connecting design, manufacturing and asset lifecycle data in a secure, contextualised data fabric. By converging our combined strengths in industrial AI, together we will empower our customers with our vision of an executable digital twin that will enable them to accelerate innovation with confidence.”

Mark Moffat, chief executive officer, IFS said: “Manufacturers need their factory floor to behave the way it was designed. This partnership with Siemens brings together two companies that each own a critical piece of the puzzle. Agentic AI is the critical frontier, and industrial leaders need solutions with closed loop models and data, and a rich set of context that will not hallucinate in active operations. By combining our collective strengths in Industrial AI, we can help manufacturers close the loop between design and reality, and unlock real, measurable performance gains.”

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