New Accenture Siemens Business Group to Drive Product Development

Siemens and Accenture are advancing their alliance partnership to help clients transform engineering and manufacturing, the companies report.

At Hannover Messe 2025, the two companies announced the formation of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, a dedicated business practice to comprise 7,000 professionals with proven manufacturing and IT experience globally. Through the business group, the companies will co-develop and jointly market solutions to clients that combine automation, industrial AI and software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio with Accenture’s data and AI capabilities. 

“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,” says Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens. “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,” says Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “The Accenture Siemens Business Group scales the power of automation, data and AI to help clients reinvent their products and how they make them. Together with our long-standing partner Siemens, we will increase speed and efficiency, reduce cost and strengthen the digital core, which is essential for continuous reinvention and the creation of new value.”

Scalable Engineering

The Accenture Siemens Business Group will create solutions for software-defined products and factories for clients in industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products and goods, electronics, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, semiconductors and transportation. 

The group plans to introduce engineering services that will focus on reinventing engineering and R&D models. It will help clients create global engineering capability centers and develop software-defined products. It will also optimize clients’ use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and speed the adoption and use of Accenture’s and Siemens’ software-defined vehicle (SDV) framework for automakers.

New manufacturing services will support clients in implementing, harmonizing and migrating manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in real time. By applying IT principles, the group will advance clients’ AI-powered shopfloor operations and automation.

Additionally, it will help clients mitigate and prevent cyber threats to operational technology (OT) devices and critical engineering and manufacturing systems with managed security services including Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) platform. 

New industrial assets services will include after-sales service, maintenance, repairs and overhaul.

Agentic AI-powered Industrial Process

The Accenture Siemens Business Group will enable its solutions for clients with Accenture’s suite of Industry X digital engineering and manufacturing assets. These support clients in building AI agents, customizing pre-built agents and foundation models and ensure governance across all their AI components. 

Agentic AI can increase the efficiency and productivity of product development by, for example, automatically validating the impact on feasibility, cost and performance of engineering changes and new designs, according to Siemens. Other areas benefitting from agentic AI are PLM, asset management and servicing of industrial equipment, and remote operations.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.