Siemens showcases the future of AI-era manufacturing at NVIDIA GTC
By Kelly Gallagher
At NVIDIA GTC in Washington, D.C., Siemens and NVIDIA demonstrated a new technology stack currently in development for the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. This live demo showed how engineers will soon be able to rapidly design, optimize, and manage the most advanced and accurate digital twins for future factories.
By harnessing the integration between Siemens Xcelerator and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies, the new solution supports the creation of a holistic, highly realistic digital twin that unifies 3D visualization, simulation, and factory data into a single environment. This milestone marks a key step toward realizing the industrial metaverse — Siemens’ vision of seamlessly combining the real and digital worlds to unlock new levels of innovation, collaboration, and sustainable value creation for industry.
That holistic digital twin enables full context design reviews and large-scale co-simulation, virtual commissioning, training, and synthetic data generation for training autonomous robots. It also provides the foundation for a new, single pane-of-glass data access for factory operations, enabling collaborative problem solving and continuous production optimization. The result: faster time to value, fewer surprises, and continuous improvement from planning through operations.
A live demonstration of the factory digital twin in action
At GTC, Siemens brought this vision to life through a live, interactive application — a powerful demonstration of an integrated factory digital twin in motion.
The demo showed how engineers can design, simulate, and optimize complex factory environments using Siemens’ comprehensive portfolio, including:
Tecnomatix Plant Simulation: Perform system-level simulations to validate process robustness while experimenting with various system configurations to optimize performance and equipment utilization.
Tecnomatix Process Simulate: Perform dynamic simulations that directly connect to automation control equipment (PLCs) to validate both equipment performance and control logic functionality.
Simcenter HEEDS: Perform AI-driven design-space exploration optimizations to identify ideal layouts.
Line Designer: Develop a complete system design with a Teamcenter-managed Bill of Equipment (BOE) while evaluating layout alternatives to ensure production requirements are met.
Teamcenter: Achieve seamless data and lifecycle management for the complete factory digital twin.
Figure 1: Line Designer
Figure 1: Line Designer
Figure 2: Process Simulate on Teamcenter
Figure 3: Plant Simulation and Simcenter HEEDS
Figure 4: Digital Twin Builder
Siemens Digital Twin Builder is built on Mendix, the low-code platform that enables rapid customization and seamless integration into existing engineering environments. This foundation allows teams to adapt the solution to specific workflows, systems, and use cases with minimal development overhead.
By combining these tools in one unified environment, Siemens demonstrated how customers can bring together building infrastructure, production systems, and operational intelligence within a single, connected digital thread.
Breaking down silos — building together in real time
Projects are often complex, deeply customized, and resource-intensive, creating barriers that delay time-to-value and limit scalability. To truly unlock its transformative potential, we must simplify, unify, and accelerate this path for our customers.
As Siemens Digital Manufacturing experts explained during the session, one of the biggest challenges in manufacturing today is that architects and production engineers still often work in silos.
Guillaume Cordonatto
Director Digital Enterprise Innovation
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Todd Bengtsson
Director Manufacturing Portfolio and Strategy
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Our manufacturing customers very often still work in silos,” the Siemens team noted during the demo. “Architects are working on one side, production engineers on another, and they rarely work from the same version of the data.” – Guillaume Cordonatto
The new Digital Twin offering built on Siemens Xcelerator & Omniverse changes that. Everyone works on the same data, in real time, confident they’re always collaborating on the latest version.
In the demo, the team showed how engineers can use digital twin technology to solve design problems early — optimizing sizing and layout — and then carry the same digital model forward into virtual commissioning. Once the real facility is built, those same virtual assets can connect to real-world sensors, turning the digital twin into a live operational dashboard for day-to-day factory management.
Accelerating the industrial AI revolution
Both Siemens and NVIDIA emphasized that this collaboration represents a major step toward realizing the industrial metaverse — a world where digital and physical systems are seamlessly connected, enabling continuous optimization and innovation.
By combining our strengths in industrial AI, digital twins, automation, and building technologies, we are enabling the industrial metaverse — and with it, the next generation of factories and AI data centers,” said Peter Koerte, CTO and CSO of Siemens.
Using simulation-driven design and AI-enabled automation, Siemens customers are empowered to:
Bring new factories online faster
Optimize energy efficiency
Seamlessly reconfigure for upgrades and new product introductions
Enhance up time, resilience, and sustainability
Building the future, one digital twin at a time
What truly stood out at GTC wasn’t just the technology — it was the collaboration and vision behind it. Siemens and NVIDIA are showing how AI and industrial software can come together to create smarter, cleaner, and more connected factories.
Imagine designing a full production facility in weeks instead of months, testing dozens of layout options virtually, and training robotic systems long before the first machine arrives on site. That’s not a distant goal — that’s what Siemens demonstrated live at GTC.
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