Accenture has made several moves to expand its activities in the industrial sector recently (see links at bottom of this article). The most recent move was announced at Hannover Messe 2025 and relates to the creation of the new Accenture Siemens Business Group.
According to Accenture and Siemens, this new business will be comprised of 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT experience. Through this business group, the two companies will co-develop and jointly market products that combine automation, industrial AI and software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio with Accenture’s data and AI capabilities.
As part of this announcement, Accenture and Siemens highlighted the history of the two companies’ work together, including their work with Kion — a supplier of forklift trucks, warehouse equipment and supply chain technologies — to optimize the company’s core engineering processes using Siemens’ Teamcenter for simulation, generative AI and model-based systems engineering.
Siemens and Accenture’s work with Navantia, a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding, technology and defense company, was also noted. Here, Accenture and Siemens developed and implemented a new product development platform using Siemens’ Teamcenter and Capital Logic Designer to create digital twins of Navantia's vessels, enabling an increase in the quality of the product design and reducing the company’s total design and manufacturing cost by 20%.
Scalable engineering, manufacturing and services
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will develop technologies for the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products and goods, electronics, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, semiconductors and transportation industries.
The group also plans to introduce new engineering services focused on reinventing engineering and R&D models to help clients create global engineering capability centers and develop software-defined technologies.
New services planned for development by this group include:
- Support the use of manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in real-time.
- Apply IT principles to advance AI-powered shopfloor operations and automation.
- Help clients mitigate and prevent cyber threats to plant floor devices and systems with managed security services including Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) platform.
- Support clients with the development of AI agents and ensure governance across all AI components.
