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Siemens is on the pulse of groundbreaking innovations. In step with that objective, the Thought Leadership Team at Siemens Digital Industry Software provides podcasts, blogs, articles and white papers based on the knowledge of engineers and experts in their field. We discuss what Siemens is doing in many industries while forecasting the landscape of innovative technologies.

Our team focuses on emerging technologies in the next two to five years that Siemens is investing in and for which we are developing solutions.

Featured posts

The AI putting the “human” in humanoid

June 12, 2026

Due to advances in AI, sensors and computing power humanoids can perceive and adapt with a level of flexibility that closely mirrors human performance.

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ
Automotive digital twin connecting simulation, AI, and engineering data to eliminate workflow bottlenecks and accelerate product development.

Simulation Is No Longer The Bottleneck — But Something Else Might Be

June 11, 2026

For a long time, simulation was clearly a bottleneck. Runs took hours or days, compute capacity was limited, and design…

By EricL
5 MIN READ

Industrial operations are growing fast with software

June 8, 2026

Running a factory from day to day, from outside the industry, can seem like the most mundane part of production…

By Nick Finberg
3 MIN READ

Latest posts

Industrial AI Success Built on Trust and Scale

June 22, 2026

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms industrial operations, companies are wrestling with how to build trust in Industrial AI systems while…

By Conor Peick
4 MIN READ

The Goal of Data is Prediction, Not Records

June 22, 2026

Data on its own has minimal value to a shop floor. What is really important is connected data and relationships…

By Nick Finberg
10 MIN READ

Empowering the shop floor with Industrial AI

June 22, 2026

Humans and computers working hand in hand to complete tasks and solve problems has, for decades, seemed like little more…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ

Software Makes Hardware Matter More

June 19, 2026

Software is a great enabler across industries and disciplines, but for manufacturing and production especially it needs to be grounded…

By Nick Finberg
13 MIN READ
Digital Twin investment and scale returns more value for industrial companies

How Removing Digitalization Barriers Increases Industrial Value – Podcast Transcript

June 19, 2026

Digitalization, and the Digital Twin specifically, have arisen as a means of helping companies accelerate processes, lower costs and reduce…

By Conor Peick
11 MIN READ

Navigating the Future of Operations

June 18, 2026

Manufacturing and production operations are under a big microscope right now with businesses feeling the pressure to become more flexible…

By Nick Finberg
13 MIN READ

Flexible automation powered by AI podcast transcript

June 18, 2026

Humanoid robots bring humanlike flexibility while not being limited by human anatomy. Additionally, humanoids combine human compatibility with scalable, software-driven intelligence to unlock flexible automation that fits existing environments while enabling new levels of efficiency.

By Bianca Ward
6 MIN READ
A conceptual image of a car on a robotic assembly line, with the left half of the image holographic.

How to fully leverage digitalization in automotive today – Transcript

June 17, 2026

In this episode of The Industry Forward Podcast, Royston Jones and Ryan Martin discuss how automotive companies can leverage digitalization…

By Quinn Foster
7 MIN READ

The hidden complexities of consumer products

June 17, 2026

Consumer products are leading a trend in how the process industries approach their products. Continuous production, or even large-scale batches…

By Nick Finberg
13 MIN READ