Accenture and Siemens launch business group to bolster AI-powered manufacturing
April 1, 2025
Building on a longstanding partnership, Siemens and Accenture, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, have announced the formation of the Accenture Siemens Business Group.
Launched at Hannover Messe 2025, the dedicated business practice will be comprised of 7,000 professionals with proven manufacturing and IT experience globally. Through the group, the companies will co-develop and jointly market solutions to clients that combine automation, industrial AIU 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.”
Scalable engineering, manufacturing and services solutions for industry
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will work to create solutions for software-defined products and factories for clients in industries including aerospace and defence, 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 centres and develop software-defined products. It will also optimise 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, harmonising and migrating manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in real-time. By applying IT principles, the group aims to advance clients’ AI-powered shop-floor 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.
New industrial assets services will include after-sales service and MRO.
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, customising pre-built agents in building AI agents, customising pre-built agents and foundation models – for example, for simulation and robotics – and ensure governance across all their AI components.
Agent AI can 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 said to benefit from agentic AI are PLM, asset management and servicing of industrial equipment, and remote operations.
Historical collaboration
Accenture and Siemens have a history of jointly creating value for clients. For KION, a supply chain solution company, Accenture and Siemens are unifying and optimising core engineering processes with Siemens’ Teamcenter as the client’s common product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. The initiative is intended to rethink and enhance KION’s engineering processes with simulation capabilities, generative AI and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
At Navantia, a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding, technology and defence 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 reportedly reducing the company’s total design and manufacturing cost by 20%.
At Hannover Messe
A demonstration of Accenture’s and Siemens’ joint cybersecurity approach for IT/OT environments and embedded generative AI agents in engineering using Siemens NX and engineering software from recent acquisition Altair are available at Siemens’ Hannover Messe booth in Hall 9, booth 53.
