IFS, a provider of Industrial AI software, announced a strategic partnership with Siemens to deliver integrated, AI-driven solutions that will enhance how energy, utilities, and infrastructure operators plan, manage, and service critical grid assets.
The collaboration unites Siemens’
world-class domain expertise in grid planning, electrification, and smart
infrastructure with IFS’s market-leading capabilities in enterprise asset
management, field service management, and AI-powered scheduling optimisation.
Together, the companies are addressing the pressing challenges facing critical infrastructure operators: aging
assets, supply chain disruption, labour shortages, and the urgent imperative to
accelerate the energy transition through digital transformation and autonomous
grid operations.
The IFS and Siemens partnership delivers a unified solution that bridges the
critical gap between engineering and financial planning, operational technology
and information technology, and strategic asset decisions and real-time field
execution.
IFS is partner in the Siemens Xcelerator
marketplace.
By integrating IFS’s AI-powered enterprise asset management, field service, and
asset investment planning capabilities with Siemens’ Gridscale X solutions,
utilities and energy operators gain unprecedented operational intelligence
across their entire infrastructure.
The result: A pathway toward autonomous, self-optimising grid operations that
address today's most critical infrastructure challenge.
As utilities rapidly integrate distributed
energy resources like solar and wind at scale, these inverter-based resources
are transforming grid dynamics – creating both unprecedented opportunity and
complexity.
The combined solution enables utilities to
manage this transition effectively, improving uptime, reducing costs, and
driving measurable sustainability outcomes while maintaining the grid
reliability and resilience that society depends on.
This cloud-ready, modular approach enables digital transformation without
disruptive rip-and-replace projects, delivering industry-specific solutions
purpose-built for utilities, energy infrastructure, manufacturing, and critical
facilities.
Max Roberts, Chief Operating Officer, IFS, said: “The autonomous grid
isn’t a distant vision – IFS and Siemens are making it a reality today. By
combining Siemens’ unmatched grid intelligence with IFS’s Industrial AI
platform, we’re enabling utilities to make smarter investment decisions,
predict and prevent asset failures, and orchestrate field operations with
unprecedented precision. Together, we're engineering the resilient, sustainable
infrastructure that will define the next decade.”
Dr Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Siemens Grid
Software: “The complexity of modern grid operations demands more than
incremental improvements; it requires a fundamental transformation in how we
plan, operate and maintain grids. We are delighted to partner with IFS,
bringing together the best of engineering excellence and operational
intelligence to help our customers tackle their biggest challenges. With our
joint vision, a lot is possible: faster grid modernisation, reduced operational
risk, and the agility to embrace the distributed energy future while
maintaining the reliability society depends on.”
Timothy Swanson, Industry Advisor and
Retired CIO/CSO, FortisBC, said: “The pace of change in our industry is
accelerating, from electrification demands to extreme weather events to
integrating distributed and variable energy supply at utility scale. We can’t
meet these challenges with yesterday’s tools. What excites utilities about this
IFS and Siemens collaboration is the potential to integrate planning systems
from the equipment level up for utility assets. That integration is essential
if we're going to deliver the cost-effective reliability our customers and
regulators expect while building the grid of tomorrow.” -OGN/TradeArabia News Service
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