Overview
- At CES 2026, PepsiCo announced a multi‑year collaboration with Siemens and NVIDIA to apply physics‑based digital twins and AI across plants, warehouses and its supply chain.
- Siemens introduced Digital Twin Composer in early access, connecting Siemens Xcelerator data to real‑time operations using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, with marketplace availability targeted for mid‑2026.
- Company‑reported pilots at select U.S. PepsiCo sites showed about 20% throughput gains, near‑100% design validation and 10–15% CapEx reductions, with up to 90% of issues identified before physical changes.
- Siemens and NVIDIA broadened their partnership to build an Industrial AI operating system and will GPU‑accelerate Siemens’ simulation portfolio with CUDA‑X and PhysicsNeMo to enable larger, faster and generative simulations.
- The first fully AI‑driven, adaptive manufacturing site is slated as a 2026 blueprint at Siemens’ Erlangen Electronics Factory, with customers such as Foxconn, HD Hyundai and KION Group evaluating the capabilities.