Siemens and BAE Systems sign agreement to advance innovation
July 23, 2024
Siemens and BAE Systems have announced a five-year collaboration on innovation in engineering and manufacturing technologies. The agreement will deploy the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform to transform engineering and manufacturing processes through FalconWorks®, the research and development business within BAE’s Air sector.
“The partnership is a good example of Siemens’ broader vision for how we want to work with customers via Siemens Xcelerator, which is built on digital portfolio, eco-system thinking and a digital marketplace,” explained Brian Holliday, managing director at Siemens Digital Industries in the UK and Ireland. “The principle is that by working together in a focused way, we can accelerate the time to business and sustainability benefits through technology.”
The two companies have committed to working together regionally and internationally in sustainability, industrial digitalisation, and supply chain modernisation. The partnership builds on decades of successful collaboration between the two companies and exploits the recent deployment of Siemens’ NX and Teamcenter software for product engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), respectively.
“Collaborations like this help us develop and invest in digital thread enabling technologies in a much more integrated and seamless way,” said Iain Minton, Technology Capability Delivery Director at BAE Systems. “Siemens understand the complexities of our operating environment, so we can very quickly mature an idea to the point where it is put into practice…That’s the real value of this collaboration – the trust and understanding we have built together creates a really powerful force in driving results for the aerospace sector.”
