Siemens Ushers in the Age of Intelligence at CES 2026

Siemens CEO and President Roland Busch took the stage at CES 2026 and opened with a bold claim: artificial intelligence will revolutionize the world in much the same way that the discovery of electricity did over a century ago. Manufacturing and supply chains have long been informed by the information and capabilities available to us. 

As technology grows, so too do our capabilities, our awareness, and our understanding. According to Roland Busch, the AI revolution is already underway. Join us as we explore his CES 2026 keynote and how Supplyframe, a Siemens company, will support and accelerate this bold vision for the future of global electronics manufacturing. 

Delivering on The Promises of AI 

During his Keynote, Roland Busch honed in on three key capabilities and resources that Siemens is using to make the vision of industrial AI a reality. They include: 

• Technology
• Domain know-how
• Industry partners

Through all these three elements, data is the common denominator. How do we connect data and intelligence to these things and use that as the basis for more reliable, more informed, and ready to harness what AI has to offer? 

Data is today’s world is everywhere, but too often it’s fragmented and relegated to silos. It exists without context, which is why the creation of an end-to-end industry AI stack is one of the primary focus areas for Siemens.

To enable this level of growth in the AI space, Roland Busch also announced a deeper collaboration with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform. This collaboration aims to create an “Industrial AI Operating System” that will reinvent the entire industrial value chain from design and engineering, to sourcing, supply chain, and of course, manufacturing. 

Roland Busch’s keynote also introduced a new flagship product called the Digital Twin Composer, which is set to launch on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace in Mid-2026. This new software will combine Siemens’ digital twin technology with NVIDIA’s Omniverse simulations, which will further enhance the capacity for digital twins to simulate real-world system and impacts. 

By the end of his keynote, the message from Siemens was clear: 2026 is the year that companies lean in to the capabilities that industrial AI offers across design, engineering, and supply chain. 

This will enable organizations to become more resilient, competitive, and sustainable by bridging the gap between digital simulations and real-world impact. Next, let’s take a look at how Supplyframe is supporting and enabling this vision as part of the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace. 

Supplyframe: Your Partner for the Age of Intelligence

Much like Siemens, Supplyframe works in a wide range of industry verticals, including automotive, A&D, high-tech, and more. In the 20+ years that Supplyframe has been in business, we’ve also worked with both the buy and sell sides of the global electronics industry, affording us a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities that teams everywhere face. 

Through our solutions, our teams, and our global DSI Network, Supplyframe offers the technology, domain know-how, and industry partners that you need to take that first step into the age of intelligence. 

Our Design-to-Sourced Intelligence platform and solution, we enable access to real-time intelligence. We empower teams to make smarter design and sourcing decisions, and we do it all while breaking down silos and encouraging collaboration across the enterprise. 

And of course, much like Siemens, we see the potential for AI in the realm of design, sourcing, and procurement. Our future vision for AI includes an approach that combines agentic automation with co-pilot assistance. Imagine having the ability to talk to your digital agent, and collaborate with them as well. 

It’s more than just information and intelligence. It also enables teams to take action, with the assistance and resources they need to act on the insights delivered to them. 

And we won’t stop with one agent, either. Imagine an entire team of digital assistants, all of whom connect and communicate to harness our real-time intelligence for better decision making. This concept, known as “federated agents” is already becoming a reality. 

This workforce of agents will operate independently, and with a level of atuonomy that allows them to function with minimal coordination amongst themselves and with human users. 

At Supplyframe, we’re already laying the foundation for this resilient future. Our solutions today offer access to deep insights around risk, inventory, pricing, and more. Whether it’s industry-wide trends through Commodity IQ, part-level insights for new product introductions, or intelligent quoting through our CPQ solution. 

And, these capabilities extend to the Siemens ecosystem. Teamcenter users, for example, can already take advantage of Design-to-Source Intelligence to enhance their PLM efforts.

Now that we have achieved cross-platform integration, the next step is orchestrating agent automation across entire digital threads. This is the vision that directly supports what Siemens is doing with industrial AI, and it will play a crucial role in the design-to-source process for enterprises everywhere. 

All of this supports a future where digital threads seamlessly connect technology, people, and processes across the enterprise. A future where collaboration is seamless, and decision-making is backed by real-time intelligence, and amplified with AI. 

Together with Siemens, we’re building that future today. Contact one of our industry experts today to learn more.