ZUG, Switzerland, Jan 16, 2025 – Siemens eMobility has been selected as the technology partner for two major electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure projects in Italy. Partnering with Autolinee Toscane and IPLANET, Siemens eMobility is leading efforts to electrify public transportation and repurpose gas stations into key service hubs. These changes support sustainable mobility across the region.
IPLANET has tasked Siemens eMobility with equipping over 120 logistics sites with advanced charging infrastructure. Source: Siemens AG.
73 charging points for Autolinee Toscane S.p.A.
Siemens eMobility is electrifying multiple bus depots for Autolinee Toscane, a public transport operator and part of RATP DEV Italia Group, in the cities of Florence, Prato and Lucca, supporting the rollout of the company’s zero-emission bus fleet. Leveraging Siemens’ innovative charging infrastructure technology, the project ensures effective and steadfast operations across Tuscany’s public transport network.
The project consists of a total of 73 SICHARGE UC charging points, capable of supplying 100 and 150KW of power to charge electric vehicles. In addition, Siemens supplies medium and low voltage electrical distribution systems with switches equipped with IoT modules to ensure reliable and transparent energy supply. Siemens eMobility also provides DepotFinity for monitoring, reporting, programming and managing charging operations within the depots. The main benefits for Autolinee Toscane are the monitoring of charging processes with the implementation of optimized smart charging logics of loads based on the operator’s service, pre-conditioning functionality of vehicle batteries and reporting of the kilometers traveled by each vehicle.
Advanced charging infrastructure for 120 IPLANET service sites
In another project, IPLANET, an energy transition solutions provider, has tasked Siemens eMobility with equipping over 120 logistics sites with advanced charging infrastructure, featuring integrated Point of Sales (POS) systems compliant with Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), activation via app or QR code, and interactive screens ensuring accessibility also for users with disabilities. The network features hundreds of 300-400 kW charging stations, all monitored remotely through secure connections to ensure reliability and uptime. The sites also incorporate Siemens medium and low voltage electrical distribution systems, scalable compact transformer substations, and telecontrol capabilities, enabling integration with renewable energy sources. Additionally, some of the turnkey service areas, including photovoltaic installations, parking area battery energy storage systems (BESS), and facilities for heavy-duty EV charging (e-trucks), are already operational.
“Driving sustainable mobility together”
“Projects like these underscore Siemens eMobility’s mission to integrate sustainable mobility into everyday life. By combining cutting-edge technology and strong partnerships, we’re helping to transform the transportation and logistics sectors for a more sustainable future,” said Markus Mildner, CEO of Siemens eMobility.
MUNICH, Germany, Jan 13, 2025 – Siemens launched “Siemens for Startups”, a new program to empower early-stage engineering and manufacturing startups. Announced at CES 2025, the program will enable new companies to accelerate innovation, offer venture services to speed up development and scale faster, reducing costs for Siemens software and hardware access. “Startups are essential to making our customers more competitive, sustainable and resilient. By collaborating with startups, Siemens helps bring breakthrough ideas to industries faster, empowering customers to address global challenges more effectively with cutting-edge technologies, tools and solutions,” said Peter Koerte, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, chief technology officer and chief strategy officer.
The Siemens for Startups program has three pillars:
Connect – Startup companies to connect with the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace, providing access to a global go-to-market channel and the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem.
Collaborate – Siemens will collaborate with startups through venture clienting. This will help startups with growth and early revenue.
Empower – “Siemens for Startups” program will provide startups with packaged access to essential software tools from Siemens Xcelerator.
Partnership with AWS
As part of its ongoing strategic collaboration with AWS, Siemens will link the “Siemens for Startups” program with AWS’s Startup program to accelerate innovation, streamline development processes and enable startups to scale faster. The collaboration underscores both companies’ commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and driving digital transformation in the industrial sector.
“Collaborating with Siemens allows us to extend the capabilities of our AWS Startup program to a new generation of innovators in the engineering and manufacturing space,” said Jon Jones, vice president and global head Startups at AWS. “By providing startups with advanced software, generative AI and cloud services, AWS and Siemens are enabling them to bring their ideas to life more quickly and boost entire industries with cutting-edge solutions.”
Integrating Siemens’ comprehensive suite of industrial software – including design, simulation and manufacturing solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio – into AWS’s scalable cloud infrastructure and startup program will enable startups to access the tools and resources they need to seize market opportunities. For technical and go-to-market support, qualifying startups will receive AWS credits, business development resources and access to the AWS Activate program.
Showcasing startups
At CES 2025, Siemens highlighted the following startup companies that are collaborating with Siemens’ teams and technology to scale operations.
Arkisys is building one of the first business platforms in space for new technology hosting, satellite integration, assembly and resupply.
Dirac, a Siemens Technology Partner, has introduced BuildOS, the first automated work instruction platform, using physics-based simulations and manufacturing best practices to automatically generate animated, interactive, 3D assembly-ready work instructions directly from CAD models. Dirac brings technological advancements to the Automotive and Aerospace & Defense industries.
EthonAI is developing the EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System (MAS), a software suite designed to achieve operational excellence at scale. Customers using EthonAI have achieved waste reductions of over 50 percent.
Haddy is revolutionizing furniture manufacturing with advanced 3D printing and robotics, producing sustainable products at a low cost and on a commercial scale. Haddy is building a global network of local micro-factories equipped with hybrid Flexbot systems from CEAD and recycling units that shorten the supply chain and help the environment by reducing waste.
Instrumental technology automates failure discovery and root cause analysis in electronics manufacturing — accelerating new product development.
Tended uses geospatial data and wearable technology to transform the safety of high-risk work environments.
TEANECK, NJ, Jan 10, 2025 – Cognizant has announced new collaboration with Siemens Digital Industries Software to integrate Siemens’ PAVE360 into its software-defined vehicle (SDV) solution accelerator. This enhanced accelerator, featuring Siemens’ Simcenter Prescan for sensor modeling and scenario-based testing, aims to meet rising customer demands by accelerating the SDV development cycle. It is designed to enable continuous and simulated verification and validation, streamline the development process and reduce the time required to deliver features while managing the increasing software complexity from diverse platforms and components.
As the automotive landscape evolves, clients face increasing amount of pressures to innovate amidst growing customization and hyper-personalization demands. The shift toward continuous verification and validation throughout the vehicle development lifecycle necessitates partnerships that can provide robust, agile solutions.
“We are already in an era where software is the differentiating factor in the automotive industry,” said Sidhant Rastogi, president, of Zinnov. “From OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to new-age carmakers, tech service providers and platform providers, an ecosystem-driven approach is becoming central to building the capabilities required for SDVs. By enabling a shift-left approach that addresses safety and security requirements, the Cognizant-Siemens collaboration intends to accelerate product development cycles, a critical advantage for automakers in today’s competitive landscape.”
The automotive industry faces high demand to accelerate product development and testing with limited resources, manage competitive pressures and handle the complexity of over 100 million lines of code. The Cognizant solution accelerator aims to address these challenges by enabling continuous and simulated verification and validation across vehicle development.
“Cognizant’s expertise in scalable, hardware-agnostic software development aligns perfectly with our goals to innovate and meet the increasing demands for customization and hyper-personalization in the automotive industry,” said David Fritz, vice president, hybrid and virtual Systems, of Siemens. “This collaboration with Cognizant allows us to respond to customers’ growing demands effectively, leveraging our combined expertise to accelerate product development and testing processes.”
“We are thrilled to collaborate with Siemens to drive the future of mobility through our advanced solution accelerators,” said Aditya Pathak, vice president and Americas head of auto, transportation and logistics, of Cognizant. “Our expertise in developing scalable, hardware-agnostic software solutions for SDVs will help us toward our goal of delivering exceptional vehicle experiences, features and capabilities to meet the evolving needs of the automotive industry and our clients.”
LAS VEGAS, NV and MUNICH, Germany, Jan 7, 2025 – Siemens has presented its vision for the future where data, AI and software-defined automation will converge to enable unprecedented flexibility, optimization and continuous improvement across the world’s industries, for companies of any size. This ambition is at the heart of Siemens’ presence at CES 2025, the world’s most influential tech event. Siemens – the global leader in industrial software –demonstrated how its technologies are empowering customers to take bold leaps in industrial innovation.
Peter Koerte, Member of the Managing Board, chief technology officer and chief strategy officer, Siemens AG at CES 2025, Las Vegas.
“Industrial AI is a game-changer that will create significant positive impact in the real world across all industries. Industrial AI allows us to harness the vast amounts of data generated in industrial environments and turn it into insights that drive real business impact. We are adding new industrial AI capabilities across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to enable our customers to stay competitive, resilient and sustainable in an increasingly complex world,” said Peter Koerte, Member of the managing board, chief technology officer and chief strategy officer, Siemens AG.
Siemens is bringing Industrial AI directly to the shop floor with the new Siemens Industrial Copilot for operations, enabling AI tasks to run as close as possible to machines. This facilitates rapid, real-time decision making for shop floor operators and maintenance engineers, boosting productivity, operational efficiency and minimizing downtime. The Siemens Industrial Copilot ecosystem is continuously evolving to offer AI capabilities across the industrial value chain and into sectors including discrete and process manufacturing, infrastructure, and mobility. This suite of copilots can enhance human-machine collaboration across all experience levels, helping to accelerate development times and innovation cycles. The Siemens Industrial Copilot will be integrated with the Industrial Edge ecosystem, which has been enhanced with AI for deploying, operating and managing AI models within the production environment.
JetZero Selects Siemens Xcelerator Platform
During Siemens’ press conference at CES 2025, the company announced an agreement with JetZero, a pioneering aviation startup working to build the future of sustainable air travel, to collaborate on the development and production of JetZero’s revolutionary blended wing aircraft. The innovative blended wing design aims to improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, reduce noise and deliver the promise of zero carbon emissions by 2035. JetZero will leverage the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform to design, manufacture and operate their new aircraft.
Blended wing aircraft by JetZero
JetZero is planning to build “Factory of the Future”, a new greenfield factory in the United States where they intend to tightly integrate Siemens’ automation hardware, software and services to help it achieve its remarkably ambitious vision encompassing electrification, automation and digitalization of both the aircraft and its production. The JetZero aircraft and its associated manufacturing operations will be simulated virtually using comprehensive digital twins – enabling the company to de-risk the manufacturing process, validate the approach and scale processes long before any ground is broken or jets take to the skies.
“Siemens is giving us the confidence to take a leap, not just a step, in revolutionizing air travel,” said JetZero CEO Tom O’Leary. “Their digital twin and industrial metaverse technologies will be instrumental in helping us design, build and operate the world’s first fully digital aircraft, delivering a better experience for passengers and airlines while also reducing fuel consumption by 50 percent.”
Siemens democratizes industrial tech for startups
Siemens’ presence at CES also highlighted the company’s commitment to enabling startups and companies of all sizes to use its industrial metaverse technologies. Through the new Siemens for Startups program, innovators of any size have access to the intelligence, ecosystems and technologies they need to turn their big ideas into world-changing innovations. Siemens is providing access to venture partnering and clienting services along with dramatically reduced cost access to software and hardware from the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform. In addition, Siemens is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to offer AWS credits, business development resources and access to the AWS Activate program for technical and go-to-market support.
Collaborating with NVIDIA to bring photorealism to PLM
Together with NVIDIA, Siemens announced new additions to the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform, including the Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, which brings large-scale, physically based visualization directly into the product lifecycle management (PLM) system. This capability also enables teams to collaborate in a secure, digital twin environment using their live 3D data, reducing errors and data discrepancies while streamlining workflows and decision-making.
“Our continued collaboration with NVIDIA will be transformative for our customers, empowering them to virtualize and visualize product and plants like never before. Bringing together the best-in-class capabilities of each company, we’re equipping customers with the tools they need to make informed decisions, optimize their operations and accelerate their digital transformation,” said Koerte.
Enabling immersive engineering with Sony
In collaboration with the Sony Corp., Siemens is delivering a new solution for immersive engineering that brings together Siemens NX software for product engineering with a breakthrough head-mounted display from Sony to enable content creation for the industrial metaverse. Now available for pre-order and shipping beginning in February, Siemens’ new Immersive Engineering toolset brings the power of mixed reality to the product engineering and manufacturing community, enabling high-fidelity mixed reality and 3D-focused collaboration.
“In the era of digital twins, Siemens and Sony have collaborated closely to bring NX Immersive Designer to market. With 4K OLED Microdisplays, intuitive controls and the comfortable design, closely integrated with Siemens’ advanced software, we firmly believe this new immersive engineering solution will pave the way for the future of engineering.” said Seiya Amatatsu, Incubation Center, XR Technology Development Division, Sony Corp.
Introducing Designcenter for product engineering
Koerte was joined on stage at CES by Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software, to unveil Siemens’ new Designcenter software suite, which brings together its portfolio of design and engineering software including Solid Edge and NX software in one unified offering so that companies of any size can design and collaborate using the industry-leading Parasolid modeling kernel.
“A lot of companies make their design software available to small businesses or to the very largest enterprises. Designcenter is unique in that it is truly open and accessible for everyone – companies of every size can scale with the same solution set, their data in the same format – without interruption,” said Hemmelgarn.
Technology to transform the everyday
At the Siemens booth in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Siemens is showcasing how its technology transforms the everyday, for everyone, through examples of solutions created by Siemens and its customers that impact personal, local and global communities. In addition to JetZero , these examples include:
Spinnova is a Finnish technology company that enables circularity in textile manufacturing with sustainable and chemical-free fabric production using Siemens’ Digital Twin technologies and factory automation.
Wayout International , a Swedish water technology company developing a proprietary drinking water production solution to improve personal health and well-being in daily life using Siemens’ edge computing, digital twin technologies and Insights Hub, the industrial IoT as a service solution from Siemens.
Desert Control is a Norwegian startup aiming to revolutionize sustainable agriculture and urban greening in regions suffering from desertification, fostering agricultural prosperity and healthy green space using Siemens’ Industrial Operations X.
Arc is an American company focused on the electrification of the marine industry and making boating more modern, enjoyable, and sustainable using Siemens’ NX, Teamcenter and Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software.
