At CES 2026, Siemens shared their big idea: creating an AI operating system for factories. This involves mixing AI assistants, live digital copies, and teaming up with companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta.
Roland Busch, the head of Siemens AG, thinks this is a game changer for industry. Industrial AI is becoming a reality. Siemens intends to open its first factory run by AI in 2026 at their Siemens Electronics Factory in Germany.
A key piece of this plan is working more with Nvidia. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s creator, mentioned that factories will be like “huge robots,” needing AI and digital twins. Siemens supported this by introducing the Digital Twin Composer, coming soon to the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace. This tool makes real-time 3D digital twins of products, actions, and factories, using current information to imitate, improve, and guess results.
PepsiCo is trying it out, already using industrial AI and digital twins to better production and storage. Siemens says this method gave them a 20% gain in efficiency in a few months and caught almost all possible problems early.
Siemens is as well making AI assistants with Microsoft for things like Teamcenter, Polarion, and Opcenter. These assistants should make it easier to get to product info, cut errors, speed up product release, and help with approvals. They’re also testing Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses in factories to help workers.
Even with a small problem during the talk, Busch finished with a clear point: when AI is not obvious but vital, part of regular factory work, it will have grown and changed the world.
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