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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

AI accelerates efficient chip design

February 6, 2026

AI is finding a place in all sorts of new products and industries but as adoption continues to accelerate, key…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ

Industrial machinery and AI – Episode 7 transcript

January 30, 2026

Chris Pennington:  With all the software development being considered with AI, how can an enterprise company maintain some consistency in…

By Bianca Ward
7 MIN READ

Industrial machinery and AI – Episode 6

January 23, 2026

Chris Pennington: When we consider capabilities like Gen AI and Agentic AI, where does Mendix fit in into the workflow…

By Bianca Ward
8 MIN READ

Latest posts

Digital Twin and AI: Synergies Empower the Digital Enterprise

December 8, 2025

Today, companies across all industries have embraced digitalization and the Digital Twin concept to become Digital Enterprises to accelerate product development, project execution and production system engineering in the virtual world. Now, the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) has Digital Twin technology poised to undergo its most rapid gains in years.

By Conor Peick
4 MIN READ

The building blocks of AI in industry

December 5, 2025

The role of artificial intelligence in industry is currently in its most preliminary stages with simple applications leveraging the most…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ
Aerial view of power lines trailing above a forest.

Digitalization and AI in the fight for energy resilience

December 5, 2025

Global energy infrastructure is always in constant transition due to endlessly shifting variables and the rise of new technologies. To…

By Quinn Foster
3 MIN READ
Industrial Metaverse leverages AI to enable data gathering and orchestration from across Digital Enterprise

Industrial Metaverse: How AI, open ecosystems and cloud computing spur development

December 3, 2025

Digital transformation is reshaping how industries design, operate, and maintain physical systems. The next evolution of digital transformation and the Digital Twin, the Industrial Metaverse, will unify the next generation of connected engineering and operations workflows into a single-pane-of-glass experience. In a recent episode of the Industry Forward Podcast, Siemens experts Dale Tutt and Stuart McCutcheon discussed the enabling technologies that will make the Industrial Metaverse viable at scale, including open ecosystems, cloud computing, executable Digital Twins, and rapidly evolving applications of AI.

By Conor Peick
3 MIN READ
The Industrial Metaverse creates a single-pane-of-glass experience for engineers, decision makers and operators

The Industrial Metaverse: Connected Data, AI and Digital Twin Drive Transformation

November 28, 2025

Learn how the Industrial Metaverse differs from consumer versions to deliver a robust and precise engineering and decision making environment. Stuart McCutcheon and Dale Tutt discuss the technology and its development.

By Conor Peick
3 MIN READ

Building an AI foundation for a smarter digital enterprise Podcast – Transcript

November 26, 2025

Bringing AI into industry isn’t something that can happen all at once, rather, something that will happen gradually by applying…

By Spencer Acain
8 MIN READ
The Industrial Metaverse creates a single pane of glass orchestrating all data within a Digital Enterprise

A Digital Enterprise Deep Dive with Jim Brown – Part 3 – Summary

November 19, 2025

Listen to a discussion on Digital Enterprise trends and technologies with Jim Brown, President of Digital Transformation Research for Tech-Clarity on the Industry Forward Podcast. In the final part of our discussion with Jim, the conversation turned to focus on the Industrial Metaverse as a culmination of the Digital Twin, AI, and digitalization. We also discussed how companies can start their digital transformation journeys before ending with some final thoughts from Dale and Jim.

By Conor Peick
3 MIN READ

Understanding data with AI

November 14, 2025

All kinds of patterns can be found in data, some of which are obvious to humans while others can only…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ

The next era of battery manufacturing is the convergence of local and global needs

November 10, 2025

The battery industry walks a very interesting rope between globalization and localization. Our globalized economy and local incentives have centralized…

By Nick Finberg
3 MIN READ