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Press Release31 March 2025Digital IndustriesPlano, Texas, USA
New Accenture Siemens Business Group to reinvent
engineering and manufacturing for clients
Dedicated business practice expands long-standing alliance to drive development of software-defined products and factories at scale across industry
Companies plan to scale new group to 7,000 professionals to combine leading industrial technology with AI-powered engineering and manufacturing capabilities
Partners have driven digital transformation for clients including KION Group and Navantia
Siemens and Accenture are significantly
advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and
transform engineering and manufacturing.
Dedicated business practice expands long-standing alliance to drive development of software-defined products and factories at scale across industry
Companies plan to scale new group to 7,000 professionals to combine leading industrial technology with AI-powered engineering and manufacturing capabilities
Partners have driven digital transformation for clients including KION Group and Navantia
Siemens and Accenture are significantly
advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and
transform engineering and manufacturing.
At Hannover Messe 2025, the two companies
announced the formation of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, a dedicated
business practice to comprise 7,000 professionals with proven manufacturing and
IT experience globally. Through the business group, the companies will
co-develop and jointly market solutions to clients that combine automation,
industrial AI and software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio with
Accenture’s data and AI capabilities.
“By strengthening our partnership, we
combine the unique capabilities of two market leaders: Siemens’ technology,
access to data and deep domain knowledge in software, automation and
industrial AI with Accenture’s power to apply data and AI in engineering and
manufacturing”, said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens. “With the new
business group, we will empower customers in all industries to supercharge
their entire value chain by embedding AI at the core of their businesses.”
“Engineering and manufacturing are the next
digital frontier,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “The Accenture
Siemens Business Group scales the power of automation, data and AI to help
clients reinvent their products and how they make them. Together with our
long-standing partner Siemens, we will increase speed and efficiency, reduce
cost and strengthen the digital core, which is essential for continuous
reinvention and the creation of new value.”
Proven
track record
Accenture and Siemens have a long history of
jointly creating value for clients. For KION, a leading
supply chain solution company, Accenture and Siemens are unifying and
optimizing core engineering processes with Siemens’ Teamcenter as the client’s common product lifecycle management (PLM)
platform. The initiative rethinks and enhances KION’s engineering
processes with simulation capabilities, generative AI and Model-Based
Systems Engineering (MBSE).
At Navantia, a Spanish state-owned
shipbuilding, technology and defense company, Accenture and Siemens developed
and implemented a new product development platform using Siemens’ Teamcenter
and Capital Logic Designer. The platform enables digital twins of Navantia's
vessels, increasing the quality of the product design and reducing the
company’s total design and manufacturing cost by 20%.
Scalable
engineering, manufacturing and services solutions for industry
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will
create solutions for software-defined products and factories for clients in
industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products and
goods, electronics, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, semiconductors and
transportation.
The group plans to introduce new engineering services that will focus on reinventing engineering and R&D models. It will help clients create global engineering capability centers and develop software-defined products. It will also optimize clients’ use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and speed the adoption and use of Accenture’s and Siemens’ software-defined vehicle (SDV) framework for automakers.
New manufacturing services will support clients in implementing, harmonizing and migrating manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in real-time. By applying IT principles, the group will advance clients’ AI-powered shopfloor operations and automation. Additionally, it will help clients mitigate and prevent cyber threats to operational technology (OT) devices and critical engineering and manufacturing systems with managed security services including Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) platform. (A demo of Accenture’s and Siemens’ joint cybersecurity approach for IT/OT environments is available at Siemens’ Hannover Messe booth in Hall 9, booth 53.)
New industrial assets services will include after-sales service, maintenance, repairs and overhaul.
Agentic AI-powered
industrial process reinvention
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will enable its solutions for clients with Accenture’s suite of Industry X digital engineering and manufacturing assets. These support clients in building AI agents, customizing pre-built agents and foundation models—for example, for simulation and robotics—and ensure governance across all their AI components. (A demo of embedded generative AI agents in engineering using Siemens NX and engineering software from its recent acquisition Altair is available at Accenture’s Hannover Messe booth in Hall 17, booth E32).
Agentic AI can dramatically increase the efficiency and productivity of product development by, for example, automatically validating the impact on feasibility, cost and performance of engineering changes and new designs. Other areas benefitting from agentic AI are PLM, asset management and servicing of industrial equipment, and remote operations.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
In fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €75.9 billion and net income of €9.0 billion. As of September 30, 2024, the company employed around 312,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.
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leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading
businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core,
optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen
services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and
innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are
one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem
relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud,
data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global
delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across
Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song,
together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360°
value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting
relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our
clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at
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