Perspective on Siemens' "Realize LIVE" Event: A New Journey of AI + Industrial Software, Continuously Advancing One-Stop AI Solutions

"One cannot step into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."

On June 2nd, Eastern Time, at the 2025 Siemens Realize Live conference held in Detroit, Tony Hemmelgarn, President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software, used a famous quote from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus in his opening speech to illustrate how "change" occurs subtly in Siemens' daily work scenarios.

Tony Hemmelgarn, President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software, delivers a keynote speech at Realize LIVE Americas 2025

As an annual event for Siemens Digital Industries Software, this year's Realize Live had more than 2,500 Siemens customers, partners, and industry experts in attendance. They shared the best industrial practices and in - depth industry insights, focusing on the deep integration of artificial intelligence and digitalization to provide ideas for reshaping the future of manufacturing.

In his keynote speech, Tony Hemmelgarn elaborated on the company's latest progress and strategic direction in promoting the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, and emphasized the continuous evolution of the Siemens Xcelerator platform.

As the core of Siemens' digital strategy, this platform is constantly expanding its functions and services, aiming to help customers build true digital enterprises and significantly improve manufacturing agility. By integrating software, hardware, and services, Xcelerator provides enterprises with a one - stop digital transformation solution, accelerating product innovation, optimizing production processes, and enhancing enterprise operational efficiency.

AI technology can provide automatic problem - detection capabilities in Siemens Teamcenter software, shorten engineering calculation time in Simcenter products, and synchronize factory assets and management configuration challenges in manufacturing technology.

Tony Hemmelgarn emphasized that AI is not a sudden breakthrough but a long - term investment aimed at changing the way enterprises operate. Ultimately, it helps customers gain a competitive advantage by making complex processes smarter and more efficient.

In the past year, Siemens further strengthened its capabilities in the digital twin field through the acquisition of Altair. As one of the key enabling technologies of Industry 4.0, digital twin technology can accurately model and simulate physical systems in a virtual environment, covering all dimensions from mechanical design to electrical systems, from software to automation, thus narrowing the gap between the virtual and real worlds more closely.

By integrating Altair's capabilities into the Siemens ecosystem, Siemens can now provide more comprehensive high - performance computing solutions, achieving workload balancing between GPUs and CPUs both locally and in the cloud.

This acquisition further strengthened Siemens' ability to handle complex engineering, especially in the fields of structural analysis, simulation, and data analysis. Altair's technology supports more complex modeling and prediction capabilities, helping engineers perform advanced computing tasks more efficiently and gain in - depth insights into products and data.

Now, with Altair's advanced technology, Siemens' digital twin solutions can incorporate advanced functions such as nonlinear analysis and electromagnetic simulation, providing customers with more comprehensive and accurate product design and verification tools. This helps enterprises reduce the number of physical prototype productions during the product R & D phase, shorten the time to market, and reduce R & D costs.

"Siemens' digital twin technology is the result of long - term investment. We hope to build a technology that develops steadily," Tony Hemmelgarn emphasized. "Our investment in AI is not a whim - we have been building the foundation for many years, and now these technologies are developing rapidly. Our goal is to ensure that customers can create a stronger market competitive advantage with Siemens Xcelerator."

The importance of low - code development platforms in digital transformation is becoming increasingly prominent. Mendix, a leading low - code platform under Siemens, enables enterprises to quickly build various applications without extensive professional programming knowledge, achieving seamless integration of internal systems and third - party products. This greatly lowers the technical threshold for enterprise digital transformation, allowing business personnel and IT personnel to collaborate more closely and respond quickly to market changes.

In addition, Siemens' PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution has also undergone a major upgrade.

By introducing artificial intelligence capabilities, intelligent management of the entire product lifecycle has been achieved. In the past 18 to 24 months, Teamcenter, the core product of Siemens PLM, has seen a 20 - fold performance improvement. It has also introduced an independent release process and enterprise - level change functions, which can manage multi - product changes simultaneously and achieve full traceability. With the help of artificial intelligence technology, Teamcenter can conduct in - depth analysis of product data.

Jeff Mowry, Chief Information Officer of Workhorse, a zero - emission vehicle manufacturer in the United States, also gave a speech at the conference. The company adopted Siemens Xcelerator to achieve a comprehensive digital transformation and has developed a series of high - quality electric trucks.

Jeff Mowry, Chief Information Officer of electric vehicle manufacturer Workhorse, shares how the company quickly brings products to market through digital transformation

Jeff Mowry, Chief Information Officer of electric vehicle manufacturer Workhorse, shares how the company quickly brings products to market through digital transformation

Jeff Mowry shared the results of Workhorse's adoption of Teamcenter X: "We were a small company without an infrastructure team. Siemens helped us complete all the set - up quickly. It helped us save costs, enhance network security, and gain the ability to expand our product line."

By deploying NX in the Designcenter product portfolio and Teamcenter X PLM software, Workhorse completed the full - process development of the next - generation electric vehicle from design to production in just 22 months, continuously breaking the boundaries of electric vehicle design and manufacturing and continuously exploring more advanced digital capabilities.