Siemens and IFS Partner to Create a Closed Loop for the Entire Product Lifecycle with Industrial AI

June 29, 2026, Amsterdam (Netherlands) – IFS, a leading provider of industrial AI software, announced today a strategic partnership with Siemens. This collaboration aims to support manufacturers in bridging the gap between "engineering insights" and "real-world operational conditions." By leveraging industrial AI, both companies intend to enhance product value and optimize production assets throughout the entire product lifecycle.

This collaboration brings together Siemens, a leader in industrial AI, engineering, automation, and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and IFS, with its strengths in industrial AI, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Field Service. Together, they will address a long-standing challenge in manufacturing: the disconnect between "factory design" and "actual operational reality." This disconnect leads to unexpected downtime, uncoordinated maintenance schedules, siloed production data, and supply chain disruptions, all of which reduce throughput, agility, and profitability.

A Shared Mission for Manufacturers

Manufacturers are now under greater pressure than ever to make the most of their existing assets. They need to scale production on the factory floor, ensure profitability, maximize value across the entire equipment lifecycle, and respond with greater agility and adaptability to change. However, many companies still struggle with disconnected systems for production, maintenance planning, and supply chain management, leading to fragmented design intent, actual operational status, and service strategies.

Industrial AI at the Core

Industrial AI is at the heart of the vision for this partnership. Siemens and IFS share the belief that the next era of industrial performance will be shaped by the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. This means enabling manufacturers to translate design intent into real-world operations and feed operational performance back into further design improvements, thereby accelerating innovation.

Siemens offers a comprehensive "digital twin" for engineering, simulation, and manufacturing, while IFS provides service history, asset behavior, and operational lifecycle data that show how products and assets perform in the real world. Together, they aim to build a closed-loop digital twin based on both design intent and field performance. This will be secured with security, governance, and auditability across design, simulation, service records, and factory execution processes, and will be robust enough for industrial-scale deployment.

Unlike generic AI models, industrial environments demand high accuracy, reliability, regulatory compliance, and adaptability to achieve optimization and agility. This is because even minor errors are unacceptable when making decisions involving safety, compliance, and significant costs related to physical assets. The shared approach to industrial AI by both companies is built on these realities of the industrial floor.

"Industrial AI only delivers value when it is underpinned by both engineering intent and real-world performance," said Tony Hemmelgarn, President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software. "Through our collaboration with IFS, we are connecting and integrating data across design, manufacturing, and asset lifecycle in a secure and contextually rich data fabric. By combining our strengths in industrial AI, we will help our customers accelerate innovation with confidence, guided by the vision of an 'executable digital twin.'"

"In manufacturing, the factory floor is expected to operate as designed," said Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS. "Our partnership with Siemens brings together two companies with essential pieces of the puzzle to solve this challenge. 'Agentic AI' that can autonomously make decisions and take action is a critical frontier, and industrial leaders need solutions with a closed-loop model and data, and rich context that does not hallucinate in the real world. By combining our strengths in industrial AI, we will help manufacturers bridge the gap between design and reality, delivering measurable and tangible performance improvements."

About IFS

IFS is a leading global provider of industrial AI and enterprise software, supporting hardcore businesses that sustain and protect the planet through manufacturing, asset management, and service operations. IFS's technology enables companies that manufacture products, maintain complex assets, and manage service-centric operations to harness the transformative power of industrial AI to improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.

IFS Cloud is an AI-powered, fully composable platform designed to flexibly adapt to your specific requirements and business evolution. It comprehensively covers needs such as ERP, EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and FSM (Field Service Management). IFS's technology leverages AI, machine learning, real-time data, and analytics to help customers make informed strategic decisions and deliver the "Moment of ServiceTM".

IFS was founded in 1983 by five university friends who pitched a tent outside their first customer's premises. They were committed to being available 24/7 and putting their customers' needs first. Since then, IFS has grown into a global leader with over 7,000 employees in 80 countries. Based on fundamental values of agility, customer centricity, and trust, IFS is globally recognized for delivering value and supporting strategic transformation. We are the most recommended supplier in our field. Learn more at ifs.com/ja.

About Siemens

Siemens Digital Industries Software helps companies of all sizes realize their digital transformation (DX) by leveraging the software, hardware, and services of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Its software and comprehensive digital twin technology enable companies to optimize their design, engineering, and manufacturing processes, transforming today's ideas into tomorrow's sustainable products. It accelerates transformation across all industries, from chips to entire systems, from products to processes. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating Transformation.

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) supports companies of all sizes in the process and discrete manufacturing industries, driving the acceleration of digital transformation (DX) and sustainability transformation across the value chain. Siemens' state-of-the-art automation technology and software portfolio bring innovation to the design, realization, and optimization of products and production. Furthermore, leveraging the open digital business platform "Siemens Xcelerator," these processes can be executed more easily, quickly, and scalably. Siemens Digital Industries works with partners and its ecosystem to help customers transform into sustainable "digital enterprises." The division employs approximately 70,000 people worldwide.

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. Its purpose is to create technology that transforms the everyday lives of everyone. By merging the real and digital worlds, Siemens accelerates its customers' digital and sustainability transformations, leading to more efficient factories, more livable cities, and more sustainable transportation. As a leader in industrial AI, Siemens leverages its deep domain know-how to apply AI technologies, including generative AI, to real-world applications. This enables customers across diverse industries to easily leverage AI and achieve significant results. Siemens also holds a majority stake in Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider driving groundbreaking innovation in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal year 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025, the Siemens Group recorded sales of €78.9 billion and net income of €10.4 billion. As of September 30, 2025, the total number of employees worldwide was approximately 318,000 on a continuing operations basis. For more information, please visit the website (https://www.siemens.com/ja-jp/).

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*This press release is an abridged translation of a press release originally issued in the Netherlands on June 29, 2026.