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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.

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AI will help gather and orchestrate industrial data to build the comprehensive Digital Twin and Industrial Metaverse

A Digital Enterprise Deep Dive with Jim Brown – Part 2 – Summary

November 5, 2025

In a recent episode of the Industry Forward Podcast, Dale and I once again welcomed Jim Brown to explore how companies can better leverage their industrial data through artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Twin, and the broader vision of the industrial metaverse. The conversation, the second part of an ongoing series, offered a look at the challenges and opportunities facing manufacturers as they navigate digital transformation.

By Conor Peick
3 MIN READ

Industrial machinery and AI – episode 3 transcript

October 31, 2025

Chris Pennington:  Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Siemens Digital Transformation Podcast series. I’m your host, Chris Pennington, Global…

By Bianca Ward
8 MIN READ

The need for foundation models in industry

October 24, 2025

Building an AI solution isn’t a simple task, especially when dealing with complex tasks and varied data types, as is…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ

Latest posts

Culture and technology will eat your innovation strategy

May 9, 2018

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison

Manufacturing continues to suffer from a lack of qualified workers despite the efforts of associations, businesses, educators and public organizations to attr…

By Jray
5 MIN READ

New opportunities, new thinking on design simulation tools

May 8, 2018

Within every design engineer, it seems, is a perfectionist—someone driven to identify the absolute, best possible designs. The trait is so prevalent that it’s earned a special phrase: engineers who k…

By BruceJackson
5 MIN READ

Automotive manufacturing and autonomous vehicles

May 4, 2018

Automotive manufacturing has been happening for a long time, but when most people think of automotive manufacturing, they imagine a moving assembly line. The moving assembly line revolutionized how v…

By DaveLauzun
5 MIN READ

How the future of flight changes product lifecycle management

April 30, 2018

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s televised moonwalk transfixed the world. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. A spacecraft had safely transported two astronauts 360,000 kilometers (223,6…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

Industrial-scale additive manufacturing: challenges and potential

April 23, 2018

Additive manufacturing is one of the most promising opportunities associated with Industry 4.0, the much-discussed fourth generation of manufacturing that will be dominated by intelligent automation,…

By Robert Meshel
4 MIN READ

Expand design space exploration with intelligent automation

April 18, 2018

What if your product development team had a genie in a bottle that could pop out and optimise virtual prototypes every time your team tried something new?

No highly trained optimisation sp…

By BruceJackson
4 MIN READ

Manufacturing smart products without smart people?

April 16, 2018

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison 

Everyone wants to be on teams that break new ground, like the teams at Zipline, a company that builds pilotless aircraft that are used to deliver vital …

By Jray
4 MIN READ

The biggest autonomous car software challenges

April 9, 2018

The automotive industry is trying to figure out how software and hardware will work together in autonomous cars, and they’re looking to companies with experience in electronic design automation to ma…

By Ed Bernardon
5 MIN READ

The future of flight has already taken off

April 4, 2018

A confluence of new technologies is transforming the aerospace industry. The trends they’re driving herald the prospect of space tourism, unmanned delivery drones and new aircraft designs, along with…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ