New Accenture Siemens Business Group to Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing for Clients

HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 31, 2025--

Siemens and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) are significantly advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and transform engineering and manufacturing.

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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,” said 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,” said 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.”

Proven track record
Accenture and Siemens have a long history of jointly creating value for clients. For KION Group, a leading supply chain solution company, Accenture and Siemens are unifying and optimizing core engineering processes with Siemens Teamcenter as the client’s common product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. The initiative rethinks and enhances KION’s engineering processes with simulation capabilities, generative AI and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

At Navantia, a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding, technology and defense company, Accenture and Siemens developed and implemented a new product development platform using Siemens Teamcenter and Capital Logic Designer. The platform enables digital twins of Navantia's vessels, increasing the quality of the product design and reducing the company’s total design and manufacturing cost by 20%.

Scalable engineering, manufacturing and services solutions for industry
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 new 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. (A demo of Accenture’s and Siemens’ joint cybersecurity approach for IT/OT environments is available at Siemens’ Hannover Messe booth in Hall 9, booth 53.)

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

Agentic AI-powered industrial process reinvention
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—for example, for simulation and robotics —and ensuring governance across all their AI components. (A demo of embedded generative AI agents in engineering usingSiemens NXand engineering software from its recent acquisition Altair is available at Accenture’s Hannover Messe booth in Hall 17, booth E32).

Agentic AI can dramatically 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. Other areas benefitting from agentic AI are PLM, asset management and servicing of industrial equipment, and remote operations.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

About Siemens AG
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €75.9 billion and net income of €9.0 billion. As of September 30, 2024, the company employed around 312,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Campus activism has flared as the academic year winds down, with pro-Palestinian demonstrations leading to arrests at several colleges.

Compared with last spring, when more than 2,100 people were arrested in campus protests nationwide, the demonstrations have been smaller and more scattered.

But the stakes are also much higher. President Donald Trump's administration has been investigating dozens of colleges over their handling of protests, including allegations of antisemitism, and frozen federal grant money as leverage to press demands for new rules on activism.

Colleges, in turn, have been taking a harder line on discipline and enforcement, following new policies adopted to prevent tent encampments of the kind that stayed up for weeks last year on many campuses.

More are pushing for the same goal that drove last year's protests — an end to university ties with Israel or companies that provide weapons or other support to Israel.

Protesters who took over a Columbia University library this month issued demands including divestment from “occupation, apartheid and genocide” and amnesty for students and workers targeted for discipline by the university. About 80 people were arrested at the protest, which also called for police and federal immigration officials to stay off campus.

A protest at the University of Washington days earlier demanded the school end ties with Boeing, a supplier to the Israeli Defense Forces. Activists wanted the school to return any Boeing donations and bar the company’s employees from teaching at the school. Thirty people were arrested.

Other protests have sparked up at schools including Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Brooklyn College.

The timing of recent protests may owe to developments in the war itself and the approaching end of the school year, said Robert Cohen, a professor of history and social studies at New York University.

Cohen said activists may be energized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's discussion of an escalation of the war, at a time many Palestinians already are at risk of starvation amid an Israeli blockade of food and other goods. “And the fact that it is the end of the semester — maybe it seems like the last chance they have to take a stance, to publicize this,” he said.

Still, he sees the latest flare-up as a return to the kind of protests that campuses occasionally saw even before the Israel-Hamas war. As colleges have imposed stricter rules, many students may be unwilling to risk punishment, he said.

“Essentially, you have a small core of people, and the larger mass movement has been suppressed,” he said of the latest activism. “These are small, scattered protests.”

Colleges navigating protests risk losing federal grants for research if their response runs afoul of the government.

The handling of last year’s protests has been at the center of the Trump administration’s fight with Columbia, Harvard and other universities.

Some schools have had money frozen for what the administration calls a failure to root out campus antisemitism. Federal officials have demanded tougher action against protesters, new limits on protests and other changes aimed at pro-Palestinian activism along with diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

After the University of Washington protest, a federal antisemitism task force said it was launching a review. It applauded quick action from police but said it expected campus leaders to “follow up with enforcement actions and policy changes that are clearly necessary to prevent these uprisings moving forward.”

The stakes are also higher for international students as the federal government moves to deport students with ties to pro-Palestinian activism.

After calling police to clear the library occupied by protesters last week, Columbia University suspended 65 students and barred 33 others from campus.

Columbia’s response drew praise from the Trump administration’s task force, which said it was encouraged by the university’s “strong and resolute statement” condemning the protest.

Even before the latest protest, Columbia had agreed to other changes amid pressure from federal officials, including a ban on face masks used to conceal identities and the hiring of new public safety officers empowered to make arrests on campus.

The University of Washington protest also drew a swift response, with 21 students later suspended.

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FILE - A New York City police officer keeps watch on the campus of Columbia University in New York, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)