(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Last January at CES 2025, one of the world’s most influential tech events, Siemens showcased its vision for a future where data, AI, and software-defined automation converge to empower customers to take bold leaps in industrial innovation.

“Industrial AI is a game-changer that will create significant positive impact in the real world across all industries,” says Peter Koerte, a member of the managing board, chief technology officer, and chief strategy officer for Siemens AG. “Industrial AI allows us to harness the vast amounts of data generated in industrial environments and turn it into insights that drive real business impact. We are adding new industrial AI capabilities across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to enable our customers to stay competitive, resilient, and sustainable in an increasingly complex world.”

Siemens brings industrial AI to the shop floor with the new Siemens Industrial Co-Pilot for Operations, enabling AI tasks to run as closely as possible to machines. This facilitates rapid, real-time decision making for shop floor operators and maintenance engineers, boosting productivity and operational efficiency while minimizing downtime. The Siemens Industrial Co-Pilot ecosystem is continuously evolving to offer AI capabilities across the industrial value chain and into sectors including discrete and process manufacturing, infrastructure, and mobility.

This suite of co-pilots can enhance human-machine collaboration across all experience levels, helping to accelerate development times and innovation cycles. The Siemens Industrial Co-Pilot will be integrated with the Industrial Edge ecosystem, which has been enhanced with AI for deploying, operating, and managing AI models within the production environment.

JetZero selects Siemens Xcelerator platform

During Siemens’ press conference at CES 2025, the company announced an agreement with JetZero, a pioneering aviation startup working to build the future of sustainable air travel, to collaborate on the development and production of JetZero’s revolutionary blended-wing aircraft. The innovative blended-wing design aims to improve fuel efficiency by 50%, reduce noise, and deliver the promise of zero carbon emissions by 2035. JetZero will leverage the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform to design, manufacture, and operate its new aircraft.

JetZero is planning to build a “Factory of the Future”, a new greenfield factory in the United States, where it intends to tightly integrate Siemens’ automation hardware, software, and services to help it achieve electrification, automation, and digitalization of both the aircraft and its production. The JetZero aircraft and its associated manufacturing operations will be simulated virtually using comprehensive digital twins—enabling the company to eliminate risk in the manufacturing process, validate the approach, and scale processes long before any ground is broken or jets take to the skies.

“Siemens is giving us the confidence to take a leap, not just a step, in revolutionizing air travel,” says JetZero CEO Tom O’Leary. “Their digital twin and industrial metaverse technologies will be instrumental in helping us design, build, and operate the world’s first fully digital aircraft, delivering a better experience for passengers and airlines while also reducing fuel consumption by 50%.”

Siemens democratizes industrial tech for startups

Siemens’ presence at CES also highlighted its commitment to enabling startups and companies of all sizes to use its industrial metaverse technologies. Through the new Siemens for Startups program, innovators of any size have access to the intelligence, ecosystems, and technologies they need to turn their big ideas into world-changing innovations. Siemens is providing access to venture partnering and client services along with dramatically reduced cost access to software and hardware from the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform. In addition, Siemens is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to offer AWS credits, business development resources, and access to the AWS Activate program for technical and go-to-market support.

Collaborating with NVIDIA to bring photorealism to PLM

Together with NVIDIA, Siemens announced new additions to the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform, including the Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, which brings large-scale, physically based visualization directly into the product life cycle management (PLM) system. This capability also enables teams to collaborate in a secure, digital twin environment using their live 3D data, reducing errors and data discrepancies while streamlining workflows and decision making.

“Our continued collaboration with NVIDIA will be transformative for our customers, empowering them to virtualize and visualize product and plants like never before,” says Koerte. “Bringing together the best-in-class capabilities of each company, we’re equipping customers with the tools they need to make informed decisions, optimize their operations, and accelerate their digital transformation.”

Enabling immersive engineering with Sony

In collaboration with Sony Corp., Siemens is delivering a new solution for immersive engineering that brings together Siemens NX software for product engineering with a breakthrough head-mounted display from Sony to enable content creation for the industrial metaverse. Available now for pre-order and shipping in February, Siemens’ new Immersive Engineering tool set brings the power of mixed reality to the product engineering and manufacturing community, enabling high-fidelity mixed reality and 3D-focused collaboration.

“In the era of digital twins, Siemens and Sony have collaborated closely to bring NX Immersive Designer to market. With 4K OLED Microdisplays, intuitive controls, and the comfortable design, closely integrated with Siemens’ advanced software, we firmly believe this new immersive engineering solution will pave the way for the future of engineering,” says Seiya Amatatsu, Incubation Center, XR Technology Development Division, Sony Corp.

Introducing Designcenter for product engineering

Koerte was joined onstage at CES by Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software, to unveil Siemens’ new Designcenter software suite, which brings together its portfolio of design and engineering software, including Solid Edge and NX software, in one unified offering so companies of any size can design and collaborate using the industry-leading Parasolid modeling kernel.

“A lot of companies make their design software available to small businesses or to the very largest enterprises,” says Hemmelgarn. “Designcenter is unique in that it is truly open and accessible for everyone—companies of every size can scale with the same solution set, their data in the same format—without interruption.”

Technology to transform the everyday

At CES, Siemens showed how its technology transforms the everyday, for everyone, through examples of solutions created by Siemens and its customers that affect personal, local, and global communities. In addition to JetZero , these examples include:
• Spinnova, a Finnish technology company that enables circularity in textile manufacturing with sustainable and chemical-free fabric production using Siemens’ Digital Twin technologies and factory automation.
• Wayout International , a Swedish water technology company developing a proprietary drinking water production solution to improve personal health and well-being in daily life using Siemens’ edge computing, digital twin technologies, and Insights Hub, the industrial IoT- as-a-service solution from Siemens.
• Desert Control, a Norwegian startup aiming to revolutionize sustainable agriculture and urban greening in regions trending toward a desert environment, fostering agricultural prosperity and healthy green space using Siemens’ Industrial Operations X.
• Arc, an American company focused on the electrification of the marine industry and making boating more modern, enjoyable, and sustainable using Siemens’ NX, Teamcenter, and Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software.

To learn more about Siemens and these showcased efforts, visit https://sie.ag/74o27X. A recording of the CES 2025 press conference can be found at https://sie.ag/3uHdUw.