Siemens and Capgemini have declared to expand the long-term partnership. The deeper cooperation is to empower industries with the next generation of manufacturing through the co-creation of holistic, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native digital capabilities of key industrial capabilities. The partners can ensure that organizations can close the vital disconnect between the hypothetical business case of technology and the real-life industrial conditions by integrating AI in a fundamental core way, and not merely as an adjunct feature of solutions. The synergy will enable the clients to be more flexible, scalable, resilient, and sustainable in their work.

Expanded partnership and global joint initiative

The broadened collaboration focuses on the development of AI-native digital solutions, which are aimed at addressing three key areas of industrial activities: product engineering, manufacturing, and operations. The partners have collectively come up with 16 high-impact capability areas, which are likely to provide quantifiable results to clients. These are essential results of the contemporary industry and comprise the amplification of production efficiency, the rapidity of time-to-market of products, improved quality management, and increased sustainability.

These industry-specific solutions will be implemented through integrating the comparative advantages of the two global leaders. Siemens takes its strong industrial software, automation technology, electrification portfolio, and sustainability experience. Capgemini brings its whole engineering capacity, industry expertise, and years of experience in business change.

The international collaborative effort will be strategically interested in the major industrial segments, such as aerospace, automotive, and life sciences, as well as focus on the emergent markets, such as hydrogen and water/wastewater management. Capgemini is determined to stock up a sizeable number of certified specialists in various technologies, industries, and different nations to make sure that they can support the rising needs of this extended alliance, which will enable the group to leverage its strength regarding Siemens technology. The basis of this growth is a 20-year history of partnership and an already developed go-to-market model that serves more than 100 clients in 20 countries.

Core challenge and redefining production management

Integration of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems has remained a core challenge for the clients over the years. The two firms will leverage AI-native assets that will be used to complement the existing technologies of Siemens. One such case is the use of coordinated AI agents to assist and encourage cross-departmental interactions that have always been highly segregated, namely, engineering and manufacturing.

The partners are collaborating on the decarbonization of four industrial sites in the U.S. and the U.K. Siemens technologies will assist Airbus in hitting aggressive targets to cut energy usage by 20% and decrease Scope 1 and 2 stationary emissions by 85% across their global industrial footprint by 2030. To accelerate the effectiveness measure selection process, there will be the use of twins of energy systems to simulate and identify the most effective decarbonization roadmaps of the sites. Capgemini is aiding this initiative by consulting, project management, and planning.

Siemens and Capgemini have been assisting in changing this international pharmaceutical company through the standardization of production processes and expediting the global implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) in various locations. It is a Generative AI (Gen AI)-powered MES acceleration program that is redefining the management of production. It is substituting the paper-based batch records with a digital version, which has already resulted in decreased review time by 70% and reduced deviations by 80% thus setting new efficiency, quality, and compliance standards in the industry.

This French iron company is digitalizing its industrial processes in the two companies. That partnership has assisted GravitHy to increase operational efficiency, agility, and better address complex energy transition issues, and has a goal of 10% cost reduction in hydrogen production.

Conclusion

The further strengthened strategic alliance between Siemens and Capgemini, featuring the co-creation of AI-based digital solutions, will crystallize the digital age of manufacturing. The companies are effectively addressing the ancient problem of IT and OT system integration with the help of industrial AI, digital twins, and next-generation automation. This partnership brings concrete efficiency, quality, and sustainability outcomes to life, as demonstrated by such high-profile clients in the world as Airbus, Sanofi, and GravitHy. With a specific orientation and focus on key sectors and new markets, the extended partnership leverages both industrial and engineering knowledge to steer clients through complex digital transformation faster and more accurately.