Siemens and Nvidia build Industrial AI OS ‘to reinvent entire industrial chain’
7 January 2026 
Siemens and the chip-maker Nvidia have expanded their strategic partnership to bring AI (artificial intelligence) into the real world. Together, they aim to develop industrial and physical AI systems that will bring AI-driven innovation to every industry and industrial workflow, as well as accelerating each others’ operations.
They say they are reinventing the entire industrial chain, from design and engineering to manufacturing, production, operations and supply chains.
Nvidia will provide the AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks and blueprints, while Siemens will commit hundreds of its industrial AI experts, as well as its hardware and software capabilities.
The development was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the US, where Siemens’ president and CEO, Roland Busch, explained: “Together, we are building the Industrial AI operating system – redefining how the physical world is designed, built, and run – to scale AI and create real-world impact.
“By combining Nvidia’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI platforms, with Siemens’ leading hardware, software, industrial AI and data, we’re empowering customers to develop products faster with the most comprehensive digital twins, adapt production in real time, and accelerate technologies from chips to AI factories.”
“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,” added Nvidia’s founder and CEO, Jensen Huang. “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.”
Siemens and Nvidia will work together to build AI-accelerated industrial systems covering the entire lifecycle of products and production, enabling faster innovation, continuous optimisation, and more resilient, sustainable manufacturing. They are aiming to build the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing sites globally, starting this year with Siemens Electronics’ factory in Erlangen, Germany.
Using an “AI brain” powered by software-defined automation and industrial operations software, combined with Nvidia’s Omniverse libraries and AI infrastructure, factories will be able to analyse digital twins continuously, test improvements virtually, and turn validated insights into operational changes on the shopfloor.
This will result in faster, more reliable decision-making from design to deployment – boosting productivity, while cutting commissioning times and risk. Several customers are already evaluating some of these capabilities, including Foxconn, Hyundai, Kion Group and PepsiCo.
Siemens will accelerate GPU performance across its simulation portfolio and expand support for Nvidia’s CUDA-X libraries and AI physics models, allowing users to run larger, more accurate simulations faster. Building on this, the companies plan to move towards generative simulation by using Nvidia’s PhysicsNeMo and open models to provide autonomous digital twins that deliver real-time engineering design and autonomous optimisation.
By applying industrial AI operating logic to semiconductors and AI factories, Siemens and Nvidia say they will accelerate the engines of the AI revolution. Siemens will integrate Nvidia’s CUDA-X libraries, PhysicsNeMo and GPU acceleration across its electronic design portfolio, focusing on verification, layout and process optimisation – with the aim of speeding key workflows up to ten-fold.
The partners will also add AI-assisted capabilities such as layout guidance, debug support, and circuit optimisation to boost engineering productivity while ensuring manufacturability. Together, these capabilities will advance AI-native engines for design, verification, manufacturability and digital-twin approaches, to shorten design cycles, improve yield, and deliver more reliable outcomes.
Siemens and Nvidia will also jointly develop a repeatable blueprint for next-generation AI factories – accelerating the industrial AI revolution and providing the high-performance foundation for their AI-accelerated industrial portfolios. This blueprint will balance high-density, next-generation computing demands for power, cooling and automation, while ensuring that the technologies are well positioned for both speed and efficiency – optimising the full lifecycle, from planning and design, to deployment and operations.
Siemens and Nvidia aim to accelerate each others’ operations and portfolios by implementing technologies on their own systems before scaling them across other industries. Nvidia will assess Siemens’ offerings to streamline and optimise its own operations and offerings, and Siemens will assess its own workloads and collaborate with Nvidia to accelerate them and integrate AI into Siemens’ customer portfolio.
