Siemens and NVIDIA today launched a comprehensive collaboration, which will enable them to conquer the next generation of design and manufacturing, with breakthrough product design, a comprehensive, flexible and efficient design to production workflow and a learning factory for training and deploying AI to the shop floor.
The partnership was announced at NVIDIA GTC Paris during VivaTech and is opening the door for an AI Factory Revolution and rewritten industrial operations.
Following their first 2022 collaboration, focused on realizing the industrial metaverse, the expanded partnership will integrate additional advanced AI and accelerated computing from NVIDIA with Siemens’ broad Xcelerator portfolio.
This high-caliber combination puts industrial companies in a position to make more informed, data-driven decisions, improve operational efficiencies, and better orchestrate collaboration across every part of the product lifecycle – from design to production.
“AI is revolutionizing manufacturing and infrastructure,” said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG. “Now, with Siemens and NVIDIA working together, the drive towards automation will finally surround the whole collaborative robotics system, freeing more American enterprises from the mundane and dangerous work with which robots are tasked.”
“Working together, we’re able to bring NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing to the large communities of developers, researchers and businesses – in a powerful and easy-to-use way,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
Key milestones of this expanded relationship include a new range of Siemens Industrial PCs with validated NVIDIA GPUs.
With strong design for factory conditions in place, this rugged PC has the power to execute AI three times faster and up to 25 times with an integrated GPU, revolutionize industrial work such as AI-based robotics, quality inspection, predictive maintenance and more.
In addition, Siemens’ Industrial Copilot for Operations, a generative AI assistant for shopfloor operators, will be available for on-premises deployment and tuned to run on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
It is expected to decrease the time of reactive maintenance by 30% by using AI assistance directly while where it is needed. Cybersecurity is also a focus, and the organizations will combine NVIDIA BlueField DPUs to develop a new form of operational technology cybersecurity.
This enhanced partnership represents a turning point in the digitalisation of industry, offering easy access to the benefits of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet – from increased productivity and efficiency, to greater market adaptability and information integration.