Source: Featured Blogs – Forrester
Siemens is publicly pivoting from building AI models to deploying integrated systems that run actual factory operations—and hosting its inaugural RXD Summit in Beijing shows that China, not Europe or the US, is where the company will prove this works at scale. This isn’t about model capability anymore; it’s about who can operationalize AI across supply chains, quality control, and predictive maintenance in messy real-world environments, where Chinese manufacturers offer both the urgency and the density of deployment sites that German industrial software needs to validate its systems. The geography matters: Siemens is betting that winning in China’s hypercompetitive manufacturing sector will create the reference customers and competitive pressure needed to make its AI platform stick globally.