NVIDIA Manufacturing Germany

Siemens

Predictive Maintenance · Real-time Analytics

Siemens needed to help industrial teams overcome fragmented engineering tools, labor shortages, and slow design and maintenance workflows so they could design, simulate, and operate complex products and factories faster and with less cost and risk.

10%–15% reductions in capital expenditure
20% increase in throughput
25% reduction in reactive maintenance time
30% increase in productivity

Reported impact

Business outcome

Siemens reports a 25% reduction in reactive maintenance time for workers using the Industrial Copilot, early pilots with 30% productivity improvement and potential for 50%, and customer deployments that surface up to 90% of issues before physical changes while improving throughput and lowering capex.

  • Cost Reduction
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Scalability

Solution

Siemens integrated NVIDIA technologies across its industrial software and copilots so engineering, factory, and robotics users can work from one AI-enabled digital foundation. Teamcenter, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and the Siemens Industrial Copilot use NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and CUDA for visualization, simulation, and digital twins, while NIM and NeMo microservices supply inference and agent capabilities. DGX B200 and H200 systems provide the training and serving horsepower behind industrial AI, and Jetson Thor, Isaac Sim, and Isaac Lab support robotics and physical-AI workflows. This stack lets Siemens simulate products, plants, and factories before they are built, ground copilots in operational context, and close the loop between visualization, prediction, and action. As a result, Siemens can reduce reactive maintenance work, speed design reviews, and support customers using digital twins and industrial AI to find issues earlier and operate assets more efficiently.

Data flow

Product and plant data is managed in Siemens engineering systems, simulated with GPU-accelerated tools, exposed through Omniverse-powered digital twins, and then consumed by copilots and robotics agents that return guidance, maintenance insights, and factory-optimization actions.

Solution architecture

6 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Runs simulation workloads that Siemens accelerates with NVIDIA libraries and GPUs.
    • NVIDIA NeMo Supports the model and agent capabilities used in Siemens AI-powered assistants.
  2. Storage
    • Siemens Teamcenter Holds collaborative engineering context and product data for AI-assisted design workflows.
  3. Serving
    • Siemens Industrial Copilot Provides AI-assisted operational guidance and maintenance support to industrial workers.
    • NVIDIA Omniverse Supplies the digital-twin and visualization libraries behind Siemens industrial design and factory workflows.
    • NVIDIA NIM Delivers inference microservices for Siemens AI copilots and agent workflows.

Architecture clues

  • NIM and NeMo microservices connect the digital-twin layer to AI inference and agent workflows.
  • Omniverse and CUDA underpin design review and physically accurate industrial models.
  • Siemens uses one NVIDIA-backed stack across simulation, digital twins, copilots, and robotics.

Evidence from the source

25% reduction in reactive maintenance time for workers using the Industrial Copilot.
Siemens is integrating NVIDIA technologies across offerings, including Siemens Teamcenter, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and the Siemens Industrial Copilot.
The company relies on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA CUDA for simulation and digital twins, NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA NeMo microservices for AI inference
identify up to 90% of potential issues before any physical modifications are made.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    6 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. NVIDIA

    Siemens customer story

    First-party
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/siemens-accelerates-product-development-and-innovation-with-industrial-ai/
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Aug 25, 2026
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    • Solution
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    • Solution components
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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Aug 25, 2026 · NVIDIA · First-party
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