Partnership focused on delivering productivity and adaptability for manufacturers
Siemens and IFS have 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.
Together, the two companies aim to help manufacturers close a persistent gap: the disconnect between how factory operations are designed and how they run, where unplanned downtime, disconnected maintenance schedules, siloed production data and supply chain disruption continue to erode throughput, agility, and margin.
A shared mission
Manufacturers are under growing pressure to do more with their existing assets – produce more on the plant floor, protect margins, and extend the value of equipment across its full lifecycle and react to change with greater agility and adaptability.
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.
Secure data fabric
“Together with IFS, we are bringing these domains together by connecting design, manufacturing and asset lifecycle data in a secure, contextualized 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,” explained Tony Hemmelgarn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
“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 context that will not hallucinate in active operations,” added Mark Moffat, Chief Executive Officer, IFS.
