Siemens and IFS partner to bridge factory design and operations with industrial AI

Siemens and IFS Partnership Targets Manufacturing Gaps

Siemens AG and IFS AB have announced a strategic partnership designed to transform how manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality across the entire product lifecycle 1

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. The collaboration brings together Siemens' capabilities in industrial AI, engineering, automation and manufacturing execution with IFS's strengths in enterprise asset management and field service systems. The Siemens and IFS partnership aims to address a persistent challenge facing manufacturers: the disconnect between how factory operations are designed and how they actually perform in real-world conditions, where unplanned downtime, disconnected maintenance schedules, siloed production data and supply chain disruption continue to erode throughput, agility and margin 2

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Industrial AI Drives Closed-Loop Digital Twin Integration

Industrial AI sits at the core of this partnership's ambition to optimize production assets and operational performance. The companies plan to integrate Siemens' comprehensive digital twin technology, which provides engineering, simulation and manufacturing context, with IFS's service history and asset performance data that reveal how products and assets behave in actual deployment 1

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. This integration creates what the partners describe as a closed-loop digital twin grounded in both design intent and field performance—a system that is secure, governed and auditable across design, simulation, service records and factory execution data 2

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. "Industrial AI only delivers value when it is grounded in both engineering intent and real-world performance," said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software. "Together with IFS, we are bringing these domains together by connecting design, manufacturing and asset lifecycle data in a secure, contextualized data fabric" .

Unified Industrial AI Solutions for Manufacturing Reality

The strategic partnership reflects both companies' belief that the next era of industrial performance depends on bringing the physical and digital worlds together to help manufacturers translate factory design into operational reality and feed that operational reality back into improved design to accelerate innovation 2

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. Unlike generic AI models, industrial environments demand accuracy, reliability, regulatory compliance and adaptability to drive optimization, as even small error rates prove unacceptable when decisions affect safety, compliance and costly physical assets 2

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. Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS, emphasized the practical focus: "By combining our collective strengths in Industrial AI, we can help manufacturers close the loop across the product lifecycle, and unlock real, measurable performance gains" . Siemens Digital Industries Software operates as part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform, while Siemens AG reported revenue of €78.9 billion and net income of €10.4 billion in fiscal 2025, which ended September 30, 2025, employing approximately 318,000 people . IFS operates with over 7,000 employees across 80 countries, providing industrial AI software for businesses in manufacturing, asset maintenance and service operations . The partnership positions both companies to deliver unified industrial AI solutions that can be trusted to deploy at industrial scale, connecting asset data across the entire manufacturing value chain.