Entering the industrial Metaverse with Siemens at CES: revolutionizing industry 4.0

What is the industrial Metaverse?

The emerging industrial metaverse represents a ground-breaking virtual world designed to address real-world challenges across various industries. This innovative space is being shaped by the seamless integration and continuous evolution of foundational technologies such as the digital twin, artificial intelligence (AI), and software-defined automation. At the forefront of this transformation is Siemens Xcelerator, which is pioneering the path to the industrial metaverse by making access to cutting-edge technologies easy. By leveraging photorealistic, physics-based digital twin and real-time simulation, companies can create an immersive environment where individuals can interact and collaborate in real-time, regardless of their physical location. Siemens Xcelerator plays a crucial role: it brings together a strong ecosystem of partners and offers solutions that work easier, faster, and at scale to help customers accelerate their digital transformation and enable the industrial metaverse.

As the industrial metaverse matures more opportunities arise and the emergence of industrial AI offers ground-breaking opportunities to make a giant leap in our technological ability. Imagine a virtual world designed to address real-world challenges across industries—a world that’s not only more robust but built with greater integrity by harnessing untapped data sources. This transformative space is being shaped by the seamless integration of foundational technologies like digital twins, artificial intelligence (AI), and software-defined automation, all evolving continuously to meet modern demands.

At CES 2024, we launched our approach to immersive engineering and showcased ground-breaking technology with our partner Sony. You can watch the keynote here.

What can I learn at CES about the industrial Metaverse?

The technology to build a digital world to mirror and simulate real machines and factories, buildings and cities, grids, and transportation systems exists now. By seamlessly integrating technologies like cloud and edge computing, industrial AI, and the digital twin, the industrial metaverse can optimize processes and drive sustainable practices, ultimately shaping the future beyond simulation. At CES 2025 you can experience this for yourself on booth #8725, you can learn more about Siemens and the Industrial Metaverse here: Industrial Metaverse – Siemens Global

Technology to transform the everyday, for everyone

Digital Twin

Our technology uses virtual replicas of physical assets, processes, and systems to enable you to monitor and simulate in real-time. At CES you can explore this with Siemensstadt Square – a real and digital place for the future. Siemensstadt Square: Berlin’s city of future

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Our technology enables AI decision-making to analyze vast amounts of data and provides actionable insights. Using AI relies on human-machine collaboration, to be effective in accelerating development and innovation cycles. We are making industrial AI a reality for our customers. At CES you can explore how a Swedish water company reduced costs by detecting even small leaks with AI. A case for AI: Water pipeline leaks – Siemens Global

Software-defined automation

This technology enables the automation of complex processes through software, improving precision and reducing human error. Industrial production is under pressure, to meet current and future challenges it must become more adaptable and autonomous.

Siemens Xcelerator: pioneering the path

This interconnected virtual realm promises to accelerate innovation by enabling rapid prototyping and testing in a risk-free environment. It also enhances operational efficiency by providing real-time insights and predictive maintenance capabilities. The industrial metaverse fosters global collaboration, allowing experts from different parts of the world to work together seamlessly, driving significant advancements in industrial processes.

The future – impact on innovation and collaboration

I know that for most of you, when you hear #metaverse, you think it is where you go to escape the real world. For us at Siemens, the metaverse, the #industrialmetaverse, is where you go to make the real world better.  It’s fundamentally empowering any one of you to turn your dreams into a world changing innovation… 

Because when we talk about the industrial metaverse, when we talk about combining the real and the digital world and making those combined worlds accessible to everyone, it’s not just about the technology, but it is about changing lives … it is about changing the world.
Cedrik Neike, CES keynote 2024