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Press Release20 March 2025Digital IndustriesNuremberg
Siemens Xcelerator: Siemens accelerates IT and OT integration with Microsoft for Edge, Cloud, AI and Simulation
Siemens Industrial Edge allows manufacturers to deploy and manage workloads and connectivity applications, seamlessly connecting industrial assets to Microsoft Azure
Siemens Industrial Edge integrates with Azure IoT Operations, part of Microsoft Azure’s adaptive cloud approach
In the past,
industrial companies have managed data and workloads in separated IT and OT
environments. Today, making manufacturing more adaptive calls for OT and IT to
converge. Edge computing plays a pivotal role by bridging the gap between
shopfloor and cloud, allowing data to be captured and processed directly at the
source: on the shopfloor.
With Siemens
Industrial Edge, manufacturers can simply and quickly deploy and manage
applications in a factory environment. Connectivity applications deployed to
Siemens Industrial Edge devices enable continuous data flows from industrial
assets to Azure IoT Operations.
A core
component of the Azure adaptive cloud approach, Azure IoT Operations is
designed to seamlessly integrate on-premises industrial edge solutions, like
Siemens Industrial Edge, with the cloud, ensuring a continuous flow of data for
smarter operations.
In this way,
the powerful OT data plane provided by Siemens Industrial Edge works easily
with Azure IoT Operations, to create an interoperable OT and IT data plane for
manufacturing. The data layer from Siemens Industrial Edge effectively
addresses mission-critical production applications such as virtualized control,
low-latency closed-loop AI, executable digital twins, or production line-level
analytics. It allows manufacturers to deploy responsive, reliable, flexible and
secure applications to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and increase
uptime and quality. By coupling with Azure IoT Operations, industrial producers
can easily leverage this OT data in cloud-based, data-driven use cases to
optimize production across sites and gain insights from advanced analytics.
“Siemens and
Microsoft are reducing complexity for industrial customers by easing the burden
of integrating and managing infrastructure, data and applications,” explained
Rainer Brehm, CEO Factory Automation at Siemens. “It is now easier to deploy
and scale automation solutions across machines, lines and factories, enabling
higher machine performance and reduced maintenance time.”
Siemens
Industrial Edge also provides a unified and scalable control plane for critical
OT workloads, allowing customers to centrally deploy and manage
production-level use cases at scale, while Azure provides a unified control
plane for IT workloads in the cloud and on-premises. By using both infrastructure
solutions together, users can quickly deploy and manage workloads in hybrid
environments at scale, wherever they are needed, and focus on the real results:
harnessing data and technologies like AI and digital twins, to streamline their
production and make it more adaptive.
“Through the
Microsoft adaptive cloud approach, manufacturers can now leverage Siemens
Industrial Edge with Azure IoT Operations and unify their data with Microsoft
Fabric. This marks a significant milestone in Siemens’ and Microsoft’s common
journey towards accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturers by
enabling them to create data-driven applications in hybrid environments faster
than ever before,” said Dayan Rodriguez, Corporate Vice President,
Manufacturing and Mobility, at Microsoft.
Microsoft
Fabric is a unified data platform that simplifies data management and
analytics, readying it for AI.
Combining Siemens Industrial Edge with Microsoft’s cloud and AI services enables a seamless data flow from production lines to the edge and to the cloud
Turning shopfloor data into real outcomes
Together,
Siemens and Microsoft are enabling industrial manufacturers to deploy edge to
cloud use cases. To improve product quality with AI and reduce manual rework
and costs, producers can use the Siemens Industrial AI portfolio with Azure
Machine Learning services to train AI and machine learning models in the cloud
and run them at the edge with low latency. To improve overall equipment
efficiency and value flows on the shopfloor, data provided by Siemens
Industrial Edge to Azure IoT Operations and Azure cloud services can be used to
create digital twins. The collaboration also enables the use of live production
data with generative AI capabilities to enhance workforce skills and
operations. The Siemens Industrial Copilot for Operations helps operators troubleshoot
problems and access machine information through natural language queries.
For this press release
Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 70,000 people worldwide.
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.
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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