Partnership focused on delivering productivity and adaptability for manufacturers
Siemens and IFS recently announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality – increasing the value of their products and optimizing their production assets across the entire product lifecycle with industrial AI.
The collaboration brings together Siemens’ leadership in industrial AI, engineering, automation and manufacturing execution and IFS’s strengths in industrial AI, enterprise asset management and field service domains, according to a press statement.
Together, the two companies aim to help manufacturers close a persistent gap: the disconnect between how factory operations are designed and how they run in reality, where unplanned downtime, disconnected maintenance schedules, siloed production data and supply chain disruption continue to erode throughput, agility, and margin.
Industrial AI
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.
Siemens’ comprehensive Digital Twin brings the engineering, simulation and manufacturing context while IFS brings the service history, asset behavior and operational lifecycle data that show how those products and assets perform in the real world.
Unlike generic AI models, industrial environments demand accuracy, reliability, regulatory compliance and adaptability to drive optimization and agility, as even small error rates are unacceptable when decisions affect safety, compliance and costly physical assets. The partners’ shared approach to industrial AI is built for this reality.
Empowering customers
“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,” explained Tony Hemmelgarn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
“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,” concluded Mark Moffat, Chief Executive, IFS.
