LAS VEGAS: Siemens and NVIDIA expand their strategic partnership at CES 2026. The companies unveil plans to build an Industrial AI Operating System. The platform embeds artificial intelligence across the entire industrial lifecycle.
The system spans design, engineering, manufacturing, operations, and supply chains. It transforms how physical systems are conceived, built, and operated. NVIDIA provides AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks, and blueprints. Siemens commits hundreds of industrial AI experts alongside its hardware and software portfolio.
The companies plan to build the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing site. The facility launches in 2026 at the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany. The site uses an AI Brain powered by software-defined automation and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. Factories continuously analyze their digital twins and test improvements virtually. They turn validated insights into operational changes on the shop floor.
Siemens launches Digital Twin Composer software, available on Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace mid-2026. PepsiCo uses the technology to simulate facility upgrades in the U.S. The deployment achieves a 20 percent increase in throughput. It identifies up to 90 percent of potential issues before physical modifications.
The partnership includes full GPU acceleration of Siemens’s simulation portfolio. In semiconductor design, the collaboration targets two-to-ten-times speedups in verification and layout workflows.
The companies jointly develop a repeatable blueprint for next-generation AI factories, balancing high-density computing demands with power, cooling, and automation requirements while optimizing the full lifecycle from planning to operations.
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