Siemens, the global leader in industrial automation, and NVIDIA, a leading AI computing company, have officially announced a deep strategic partnership. By combining Siemens' century-long expertise in industrial automation, digital twin technology, and manufacturing execution systems (MES), with NVIDIA's cutting-edge technologies in AI, accelerated computing, and the Omniverse platform, they will jointly develop future-oriented "Physical AI" industrial solutions. They plan to build the first fully AI-driven smart manufacturing bases worldwide starting from 2026.

 "Industrial Metaverse + Physical AI": Redefining Smart Manufacturing

The core of this collaboration is to build an end-to-end AI-native industrial system, including:

- AI-driven design and simulation: Using NVIDIA Omniverse and Siemens Xcelerator platform to achieve real-time collaborative design and virtual validation of products, production lines, and factories;

- Intelligent production scheduling: Using large models to analyze orders, inventory, and equipment status, dynamically optimizing production plans;

- Autonomous quality control: AI vision combined with edge computing for real-time defect detection, achieving over 99.5% accuracy;

- Predictive maintenance: Based on data from equipment sensors, predicting failures weeks in advance, reducing unplanned downtime;

- Digital twin loop: Real-time synchronization between physical factories and virtual models, supporting "testing in the digital world and executing in the physical world."

Siemens CEO Roland Busch said, "This is not just an automation upgrade, but making factories have the 'perception, thinking, and action' capabilities of an industrial intelligent entity."

 Technical Foundation: CUDA + SIMATIC, Deep Integration of Computing Power and Control

The two companies will deeply integrate key technology stacks:

- NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite integrated with Siemens Industrial Copilot and MindSphere IoT platform;

- NVIDIA Grace Hopper super chip working in tandem with Siemens SIMATIC controllers to achieve millisecond-level control loops;

- Relying on the NVIDIA AI Factory architecture, deploying hierarchical AI inference at the edge, production line, and cloud.

The first pilot factories will deploy thousands of AI agents, each responsible for tasks such as equipment monitoring, logistics scheduling, and energy optimization, forming a new paradigm of "Factory-as-an-Agent."

 Starting in 2026, Focusing on Automotive, Electronics, and Energy

It is reported that the first fully AI-driven factories will be launched in Germany, the United States, and China in 2026, focusing on high-complexity and high-flexibility fields such as automotive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, and renewable energy devices. Siemens internal production lines will be upgraded first, followed by offering solutions to customers.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang emphasized, "The next major battlefield of Physical AI is industry. When AI can not only write code and draw pictures, but also manage a factory producing hundreds of thousands of cars per year, the value of AGI will truly be realized."

 AIbase Observation: The Industrial Intelligence Enters the "Operating System" Competition

The collaboration between Siemens and NVIDIA marks the transition of Industry 4.0 toward Industry 5.0 — self-organizing production systems with AI as their central nervous system.

This collaboration is not only a technological integration but also a battle for industrial operating systems (Industrial OS):

- Siemens provides industrial know-how and control protocols;

- NVIDIA provides AI computing power and intelligent engines;

- Both parties jointly define the standard architecture for the next generation of smart manufacturing.