Siemens and Capgemini: Driving an AI-First Industrial Future

Siemens and Capgemini are deepening their strategic partnership to co-develop AI-native digital solutions across engineering, manufacturing and industrial operations.

Rather than treating AI as an add-on, the two companies are embedding it at every layer of development – driving productivity, accelerating time-to-market, improving quality and advancing sustainability progress.

Their joint initiative targets 16 key capabilities designed to deliver tangible results for industrial clients.

The collaboration combines Siemens’ strengths in industrial software, automation, electrification and sustainability with Capgemini’s expertise in engineering, transformation and industry-specific innovation.

Together, the companies plan to apply these technologies and insights across core industries such as aerospace, automotive and life sciences, while also expanding into emerging fields including hydrogen and water or wastewater management.

AI-native solutions reshape industrial systems

The joint initiative addresses long-standing client challenges such as the divide between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).

This gap can now be bridged through industrial AI, digital twin solutions and advanced automation.

Digital twins serve as virtual replicas of physical assets, enabling companies to simulate, monitor and optimise their operations in real time. 

Siemens and Capgemini deploy these virtual models alongside coordinated AI agents to connect traditionally siloed domains like engineering and manufacturing.

Cedrik Neike, CEO of Siemens Digital Industries and Member of the Managing Board at Siemens, describes the roles of each partner: “For our customers Capgemini is like a compass – deeply familiar with our customers’ challenges and ambitions. Siemens provides the engine: technologies like industrial AI, digital twins and automation.

"Together, we guide our customers through their digital transformation with speed, precision and a clear course toward the future."

Capgemini Group CEO Aiman Ezzat says the collaboration aims to help clients "navigate complexity and realise tangible business impact".

He continues: "As a leader in bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds, we enable clients to transform their engineering and manufacturing operations at speed.

"This strengthened partnership underscores a shared commitment to delivering industrial AI and future-ready intelligent manufacturing, creating new value for industries."

Real-world results with Airbus, Sanofi and GravitHy

Three active client programmes illustrate how Siemens and Capgemini are putting these technologies into practice.

At Airbus, the two companies are working to decarbonise four industrial sites across the US and UK. Siemens technologies are helping the aerospace leader achieve its targets of cutting energy use by 20% and reducing Scope 1 and 2 stationary emissions– covering direct emissions from owned sources and indirect emissions from purchased electricity – by 85% worldwide by 2030.

Digital models of the energy infrastructure, known as energy system twins, simulate multiple scenarios to identify the most efficient decarbonisation pathway for each location.

Capgemini provides consulting expertise, project management and strategic oversight.

For pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi, Siemens and Capgemini are accelerating a global digital transformation through the rollout of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) across various facilities.

These MES platforms oversee, record and optimise production workflows in real time.

In Sanofi’s case, the programme integrates generative AI to replace paper-based batch records with digital ones. The resulting system reduces record review times by 70%, lowers process deviations by 80% and enhances both compliance and quality assurance.

In another project, the companies are digitalising operations at GravitHy, a French iron producer pioneering green steel manufacturing.

Their collaboration aims to optimise efficiency, boost flexibility and advance the company’s transition to sustainable production.

The initiative is projected to lower hydrogen production costs by up to 10%, a key enabler in its clean energy strategy.

A scalable model for global industries

The collaboration between Siemens and Capgemini spans nearly two decades, already enabling more than 100 clients across 20 countries.

As the partnership enters its next phase, Capgemini plans to expand its pool of certified experts across technologies, industries and regions to strengthen its delivery capacity on Siemens platforms.

Together, the companies aim to advance digital transformation within complex industrial environments through fully integrated, AI-native systems designed from the ground up.

These systems intend to enhance operational efficiency, minimise environmental impact and redefine standards for industrial performance.

By uniting Siemens' robust technological foundation with Capgemini’s transformation expertise, the alliance is positioned to help clients streamline processes, cut emissions and embrace future-ready manufacturing today.