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IFS and Siemens join design and field service data to go after a 40% efficiency gap

IFS and Siemens have partnered to connect product design data with field maintenance, targeting what IFS calls a 40 per cent efficiency gap. Both vendors pitch it as filling each other's gaps, and the only public account so far comes from the IFS Unleashed stage, as reported by itwire.

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What happened

  • Moffat said the two teams demonstrated their capabilities side by side for the first time earlier this year, and Siemens acknowledged a gap in operations, incidents and service management.
  • IFS recognised the inverse: its platform covers asset operations and service across the whole lifecycle, while product engineering and design fall outside its core.
  • Hemmelgarn said the Siemens digital twin spans mechanical design, electronics, electrical systems, embedded software, manufacturing processes and manufacturing engineering.
  • Siemens' agentic tools in Intelligence Center X can analyse a part such as a landing gear using design, simulation and configuration data, and let engineers run what-if scenarios.

Why it matters

  • decision Customers of either vendor face a sequencing choice: commit to the joint route on an early look, or keep their existing links until the integration is shown working.
  • exposure The 40 per cent figure is IFS's own description and anchors the pitch, so a business case built on it relies on a vendor's number.
  • capability If delivered, linking operations data to the digital twin would extend Siemens' agentic analysis past the design, simulation and configuration data it draws on today, in our view.

The weak spot Siemens is said to have admitted reaches the reader through IFS's chief executive. Mark Moffat said: "They said, we're a little bit weaker there, but we tell a good story." [4] Tony Hemmelgarn's reported remarks describe scale and technology. His division, he said, is "probably the largest industrial software company in the world". [10] On the evidence available, the claim that Siemens is weaker in service management rests on Moffat's account. [3]

The 40 per cent figure carries the pitch. Moffat said: "Two industrial giants shaping the future, with that 40 per cent gap in the middle. And together, our aim is to close it across the entire product lifecycle." [12] IFS describes the gap as persistent across industrial organisations. [11] The report does not say how IFS measured it. A gap described as sitting between two platforms closes only if data moves between them, so in our view the figure is a target for the integration and cannot yet be treated as a result.

Siemens brings reach. Moffat noted that 92 per cent of Fortune 500 industrial companies use Siemens software. [9] At that penetration Siemens software is already present at most large industrial buyers. We think the open work sits in connecting it to the IFS side, which covers the end-to-end lifecycle for asset operations and service. [5]

The landing gear example shows where the data starts. Hemmelgarn said: "Because we know the configuration, we know everything about the design, the simulation, everything about this thing, we can have agentic tools go through and start figuring out what's going on." [8] Every input he lists there is design-side. Whether field maintenance records from IFS feed those what-if scenarios is the test of the partnership. Moffat and Hemmelgarn offered an early look at how the two platforms will work together, and the account of that look is all that is public. [2]

What to watch

  • Whether IFS or Siemens publishes a delivery date or pricing for the integrated product.
  • Whether either company explains how the 40 per cent efficiency gap was measured.
  • Whether a joint customer shows field maintenance records feeding Intelligence Center X what-if scenarios.

Clarity's read

What the record supports and how the coverage leans. The claims behind it follow.

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence45
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  1. [1]

    IFS and Siemens have entered a partnership aimed at connecting the full product lifecycle, from engineering design through to real-world operations and field maintenance.

    ReportedSupportedSource: itwire report of the IFS Unleashed sessionView cited source
  2. [2]

    IFS Chief Executive Mark Moffat and Siemens Software President Tony Hemmelgarn appeared together on stage at the IFS Unleashed conference to outline the rationale and offer an early look at how the two platforms will work together.

    ReportedSupportedView cited source
  3. [3]

    Moffat recounted a meeting earlier this year where the two teams demonstrated their capabilities side by side for the first time; on operations, incidents and service management, Siemens acknowledged a gap.

    ReportedSupportedSource: Mark Moffat, IFS chief executiveView cited source

Sources

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  1. itwire.com

    1 article · October 13, 2026

    IFS And Siemens Strike Partnership

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