Siemens-NVIDIA Joint Launch: A Milestone in Industrial Metaverse
At the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) held in Washington, D.C., U.S., Siemens and NVIDIA jointly demonstrated a new technology stack developed for the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. This demonstration showcased how engineers can rapidly design, optimize, and manage highly advanced and precise digital twins for next-generation factories. Leveraging the deep integration of Siemens Xcelerator and NVIDIA Omniverse, this technology will provide an innovative high-fidelity digital twin solution, fully integrating 3D visualization, simulation, and factory data into a unified immersive environment.
This milestone marks a crucial step in Siemens’ journey to realize its industrial metaverse vision—unlocking higher levels of innovation, collaboration, and sustainable value in the industrial sector through the seamless integration of the physical and digital worlds.
Currently, driven by both significant investments and the rapid implementation of advanced technologies, the global manufacturing industry is undergoing a profound transformation. To support this transition, Siemens and NVIDIA are strengthening their cooperation to accelerate the industrial AI revolution—promoting the development of smarter, more energy-efficient factories worldwide.
Core Advantages: AI-Powered Digital Twin Empowers Full Lifecycle
This advanced digital twin software is still in the development phase and will eventually become part of a new technology stack specifically built by Siemens for the AI era. It will not only help manufacturers build world-class factories but also support their continuous optimization. The technology will be used to accelerate planning, engineering, and operations, enabling large-scale simulation, AI-driven workflows, and trustworthy data-driven decision-making at every stage of design and operation.
During the GTC demonstration, Siemens showed how this new technology stack provides customers with comprehensive support from the design phase to the operation of advanced factories. A key feature of the technology stack is its ability to integrate customers’ building infrastructure and production lines into a unified engineering environment. This includes using AI to simulate hundreds of potential factory layouts to identify the most efficient design. With this new technology stack, engineers can complete design and simulation in hours instead of days or weeks. After this process, customers can render factory models that combine photorealistic visuals with physical accuracy.
This powerful collaboration combines Siemens’ deep expertise in manufacturing and industrial technology with NVIDIA’s graphics processing capabilities to help customers design smarter, more efficient factories, products, and AI data centers.
Peter Koerte
Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer
“Industrial innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Siemens and NVIDIA are joining forces to lead this wave of transformation. By integrating our strengths in industrial AI, digital twins, automation, and building technology, we are driving the implementation of the industrial metaverse, thereby creating next-generation factories and AI data centers. These will deliver the efficiency, performance, scalability, and intelligence essential to meet the world’s growing demands and shape the future of industry.”
Rev Lebaredian
Vice President, NVIDIA Omniverse and Simulation Technology
“In the era of industrial AI, digital twins have become an indispensable core technology. They enable virtual simulation and optimization of entire production lines before hardware installation, as well as full-process virtual training for robots. Our collaboration with Siemens integrates NVIDIA Omniverse into core manufacturing scenarios, providing key platform capabilities to accelerate the entire lifecycle of factories from conceptual design to actual operation.”
Application Value: Solving Industry Pain Points and Expanding Collaboration Boundaries
Currently, manufacturers face unprecedented challenges in addressing complexity, accelerating production, and improving energy efficiency. This new technology will solve these problems by providing a streamlined, user-friendly environment for building and interacting with factory digital twins. For example, a semiconductor manufacturer may need to add a new production line in an existing facility to increase capacity while managing highly complex manufacturing processes. With this new tool, engineers can quickly simulate different layout options in the existing facility, helping the company identify the most efficient configuration and speed up the capacity expansion process. For manufacturers of precision medical equipment, the technology stack also demonstrates remarkable value—when designing Nebulizer Assembly Machine production lines that require ultra-high precision in component fitting and strict dust-free environment control, engineers can simulate the entire assembly process virtually, pre-emptively resolving potential bottlenecks in equipment layout and process coordination, and reducing the trial-and-error cost of physical debugging by over 60%.
Siemens possesses professional technical capabilities spanning the entire value chain of “chip-to-grid” infrastructure—from manufacturing and intelligent operations to building environments. Leveraging this end-to-end capability, Siemens and NVIDIA have integrated their portfolios to launch truly integrated solutions, helping industrial customers achieve breakthroughs in efficiency, scalability, and innovation.
Whether building new facilities or retrofitting existing ones, Siemens technology ensures that power, cooling, computing, and building systems operate as a coordinated whole. Using simulation technology and AI-driven automation solutions, operators can optimize and expand facilities in months instead of years, thereby improving performance and energy efficiency while ensuring capacity meets future needs.
This collaborative approach aligns closely with the recently launched NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, which aims to create gigawatt-scale AI factories supporting multi-generational upgrades. This blueprint sets new standards for AI infrastructure, covering everything from accelerated computing and intelligent storage to energy-efficient cooling solutions. Additionally, Siemens and NVIDIA are collaborating in two key areas: GPU manufacturing and AI data center infrastructure optimization, providing scalable and efficient solutions for the future of industrial intelligence.
From electronic design automation and factory automation controllers to data center white space cooling optimization and resilient building systems, Siemens offers multi-dimensional support to GPU and AI data center partners, including:
– Rapidly commissioning new AI factories
– Flexibly reconfiguring operational systems to meet various GPU upgrade needs
– Optimizing power and cooling systems using advanced simulation technology
– Proactively identifying and addressing threats to equipment uptime, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing supply chain resilience
By providing manufacturers and data center operators with advanced, energy-efficient infrastructure, Siemens and NVIDIA are accelerating the evolution of AI capabilities. This collaboration aims to build a smarter, more powerful digital foundation to drive innovation breakthroughs, create economic opportunities, and ensure AI’s value benefits people and communities worldwide.
