Siemens and IFS have partnered to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality – allowing for more optimised products though real world insights from asset management and field servicing.
Together, the two companies aim to help manufacturers close 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.
IFS is an enterprise software and industrial AI software company focused on asset- and service-intensive industries, including enterprise resource planning, enterprise asset management and field service management.
‘Industrial AI’ is central to the partnership’s ambition, with the shared 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’ Digital Twin tech manages the engineering, simulation and manufacturing context while IFS adds service history, asset behaviour and operational lifecycle data. Together, they plan to create a closed loop Digital Twin grounded in both design intent and field performance that is secure, governed and auditable across design, simulation, service records, factory execution and can be trusted to deploy at industrial scale.
“Industrial AI only delivers value when it is grounded in both engineering intent and real-world performance,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Together with IFS, we are bringing these domains together by connecting design, manufacturing and asset lifecycle data in a secure, contextualised 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.”
IFS CEO Mark Moffat, added: “Manufacturers need their factory floor to behave the way it was designed. 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 a rich set of context that will not hallucinate in active operations.
“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.”
