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Siemens is the world's largest industrial software company.
Siemens is the largest automation company in the world.
Siemens invests 6 billion annually in R&D, which represents approximately 8% of its revenue.
Siemens has initiated a major organizational transformation called the "One Tech Company" program to break down internal silos and scale technologies horizontally.
Siemens expects to complete the major changes of its organizational transformation by October or November of the current fiscal year.
Siemens Mobility is building 2,000 kilometers of railway lines in Egypt, a project intended to connect 90 million people.
An LLM-based agent without specific training has a 60-70% success rate for fixing industrial problems, but this can be improved to over 95% by training it on proprietary operational data.
The CEO of Siemens believes that general-purpose LLMs will not reach the required performance level for industrial shop floor applications without being augmented with specific domain and machine data.
Siemens has formed a data-sharing alliance with nine top German machine builders, including Trumpf and DMG Mori, to train industrial AI models.
To increase geopolitical resilience, Siemens is training its industrial AI applications for China on Chinese LLMs and its applications for the United States on American LLMs.
One-third of all manufacturing lines globally are operated using Siemens control systems.
Siemens employs 45,000 people in the United States, 30,000 in China, 35,000 in India, and 85,000 in Germany.