PARIS, FRANCE, and MUNICH, GERMANY — Capgemini and Siemens have announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership, focused on co-developing AI-native digital solutions for product engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
According to Capgemini’s press release, this collaboration aims to bridge the gap between technological promise and industrial reality by embedding artificial intelligence (AI) at the core of new assets from their inception.
Building AI-driven industrial innovation
Capgemini is an AI-driven global business and technology transformation ally that offers end-to-end services in strategy, technology, and engineering. The group has almost 60 years of history, with a workforce of over 420,000 team members across more than 50 countries.
Following its $3.3 billion acquisition of WNS to create a force in agentic AI-powered operations, Capgemini is now leveraging that integrated expertise in its new partnership with Siemens to deliver transformative, intelligent operations for industry.
Capgemini ranked #5 in the OA500 2025, an objective index of the world’s top 500 outsourcing companies.
Meanwhile, Siemens is a large technological company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare, with the capacity to unify the real and digital worlds, enabling customers to transform more quickly.
It is a pioneer in industrial AI and possesses excellent domain knowledge, enabling it to effectively implement AI in real-life applications, making it useful and influential in customer interactions. This, on their part, allows them to construct more efficient plants and sustainable transportation provisions.
Embedding AI at the heart of manufacturing
This strategy entails the development of digital assets in which artificial intelligence is built in and central, rather than a feature added subsequently.
The 16 high-impact capability areas targeted by the companies are made to provide measurable results in the areas of production efficiency, time-to-market, quality, and sustainability.
The foundational application of AI aims to address the decades-old industry problems, including the challenges of IT and operational technology integration, by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as industrial AI and digital twins, as well as next-generation automation.
The practical implementation of this vision relies on a complementary partnership model described by Siemens’ Cedrik Neike, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digital Industries and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, where “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.”
An example of this move is the development of orchestrated AI agents that demolish silos between engineering and manufacturing functions. The ultimate goal is to facilitate digital transformation among customers, enabling faster and more accurate development of scalable, flexible, resilient, and sustainable operations.
Delivering measurable results across key sectors
The expanded collaboration is sharply focused on delivering concrete, quantifiable results within specific high-priority industries and emerging markets. The solutions are not theoretical; they are being implemented for clients in the aerospace, automotive, life sciences, and sectors such as hydrogen and water/wastewater.
It is achieved through the combination of Siemens’ industrial software, automation, electrification, and sustainability portfolio, along with Capgemini’s engineering skills, industry experience, and expertise in business transformation.
“By combining our strengths, our ambition is to help clients navigate complexity and realize tangible business impact, setting new benchmarks for operational efficiency,” explained Aiman Ezzat, CEO of the Capgemini Group.
“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.”
To meet the increasing demand, Capgemini will ensure it has more Siemens-certified experts in the technology to reduce waiting times. It already supports over 100 customers and operates in 20 countries.
Client stories vividly illustrate the tangible business impact both companies aim to achieve. For Sanofi, a GenAI-powered Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) program is redefining production management by replacing paper records with digital ones, reducing review time by 70%, and cutting deviations by 80%.
In the case of Airbus, the partners are utilizing energy system twins to model and identify the most optimal decarbonization roadmap, which helps achieve the goals of reducing energy use by a quarter and cutting Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 85% by 2030.
Likewise, in the case of GravitHy, the digitalization of industrial processes is expected to reduce the cost of hydrogen production by approximately 10%, providing evidence of how the partnership will contribute to addressing complex energy transition issues.
“This strengthened partnership underscores a shared commitment to delivering industrial AI and future-ready intelligent manufacturing, creating new value for industries,” Ezzat concludes.
Nike noted, ”Together, we guide our customers through their digital transformation with speed, precision, and a clear course toward the future.”
