NEWS n 5 Siemens and Accenture create 7,000-strong group to ‘re-invent’ manufacturing SIEMENS AND ACCENTURE are forming a jointly-run business group that will employ 7,000 people helping industrial customers to develop software-defined products and factories, thus “re-inventing” engineering and manufacturing. The Accenture Siemens Business Group, which builds on a longstanding relationship between the partners, will codevelop and jointly market systems that combine automation, industrial AI and software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, with Accenture’s data and AI capabilities. The new group will work with clients in industries such as machinery, aerospace, defence, automotive, consumer goods, electronics and transportation. It plans to introduce engineering services that will reinvent engineering and R&D models. It will also help www.drivesncontrols.com May 2025 clients to create global engineering centres, and to develop softwaredefined products. It will optimise their use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and speed the adoption of Accenture’s and Siemens’ software-defined vehicle (SDV) framework for car-makers. New manufacturing services will support clients in implementing, harmonising and migrating manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in realtime. By applying IT principles, the group will advance clients’ AI-powered shopoor operations and automation. It will also help clients to mitigate and prevent cyberthreats to operational technology (OT) and critical engineering and manufacturing systems with a security platform and services including Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response platform. Announcing the venture at the Hannover Messe, Roland Busch, Siemens’ president and CEO, predicted that the new venture will help customers to shorten cycle times and cut costs: “By strengthening our partnership, we combine the unique capabilities of two market-leaders – Siemens’ technology, access to data and deep domain knowledge in software, automation and industrial AI, with Accenture’s power to apply data and AI in engineering and manufacturing. With the new business group, we will empower customers in all industries to supercharge their entire value chain by embedding AI at the core of their businesses.” “Engineering and manufacturing are the next digital frontier,” added Accenture’s chair and CEO, Julie Sweet. “The Accenture Siemens Business Group scales the power of automation, data and AI to help clients re-invent their products and how they make them. Together with our long-standing partner Siemens, we will increase speed and eciency, reduce cost and strengthen the digital core, which is essential for continuous reinvention and the creation of new value.” Siemens CEO, Roland Busch: shortening cycle times and cutting costs ‘With the new business group, we will empower customers in all industries to supercharge their entire value chain’ SEW-EURODRIVE HAS FORMED a strategic partnership with Schaeffler to expand their digital services. They expect maintenance teams to benefit. The two companies see the tie-up as a digital extension of the close integration that already exists in the mechanical design of SEW-Eurodrive products such as motors that use Schaeffler bearings. For example, SEW-Eurodrive will use Schaeffler's Optime wireless condition monitoring system to provide information on the health of machines and bearings. Data will be collected via wireless vibration sensors and transmitted to a gateway via a mesh network. This information is then sent to the Optime cloud, where it is analysed and converted into values and alarms. The data can be used by SEW’s DriveRadar APPredict platform to provide data on temperatures, oil condition, and other key parameters. Users will be given recommendations for action and alarms, based on Schaeffler's expertise in rolling bearings and machine dynamics, combined with SEW’s experience of drive technologies. “The integration of our Optime solutions into the DriveRadar APPredict solution from SEW-Eurodrive significantly expands the possibilities of predictive maintenance,” explains Schaeffler’s Head of Predictive Maintenance Industrial Lifetime Solutions, Dr Philipp Jussen. “Combining our shared digital skills with SEW-Eurodrive’s service expertise gives customers more precise and comprehensive information that helps prevent unplanned downtimes.” “Schaeffler is the ideal partner for us, as we operate in the same industry and complement each other perfectly,” adds Tobias Nittel, head of SEW-Eurodrive’s Corporate Solution Centre for Electronics. “This collaboration allows us to provide innovative digital solutions that optimise production processes and increase maintenance efficiency.” SEW-Eurodrive partners with Schaeffler to expand digital services
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