Integrating industrial AI capabilities for development through production

On Monday, 29 June 2026 Siemens and IFS announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality. Siemens and IFS state that this partnership is intended to help deliver productivity and adaptability for manufacturers by connecting design, production and asset performance in one continuous loop―from engineering intent to operational outcome. It will also apply industrial AI to help optimize their production assets across the entire product lifecycle.

By bringing together Siemens’ industrial AI, engineering, automation, and manufacturing execution focused solutions with IFS’s industrial AI, enterprise asset management, and field service capabilities the two companies aim to help manufacturers close a persistent gap: the disconnect between how factory operations are designed and how they run in reality, where unplanned downtime, disconnected maintenance schedules, siloed production data, and supply chain disruption continue to erode throughput, agility, and margins.

“Manufacturers need their factory floor to behave the way it was designed. This partnership with Siemens brings together two companies that each own a critical piece of the puzzle. Agentic AI is the critical frontier, and industrial leaders need solutions with closed loop models and data, and a rich set of contexts that will not hallucinate in active operations,” said Mr. Mark Moffat, chief executive officer, IFS. “By combining our collective strengths in Industrial AI, we can help manufacturers close the loop between design and reality, and unlock real, measurable performance gains.”

CIMdata believes this partnership can deliver value to Siemens’ and IFS’s joint customers by enabling them to better connect design, production, and asset performance in one continuous loop―from engineering intent to operational outcome, and back. Critical to this strategy, both companies are executing compatible industrial AI strategies. This compatibility should help enable Siemens’ and IFS’s customers achieve higher, more competitive levels of industrial performance.