Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything

Siemens CEO Roland Busch details the company's fundamental reinvention, centered on using technology to automate everything from product design to factory operations via a comprehensive industrial operating system. This transformation involves moving from automating the physical world ('atoms') to automating the digital world ('bits') using AI, digital twins, and software-defined automation across its core businesses: Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, and Mobility. Busch explains the complex matrix structure of Siemens, which is being streamlined through the 'ONE Tech company program' to create horizontal 'fabrics' (data, technology, sales) to scale horizontally and overcome organizational silos, driven by the necessity of AI. He addresses concerns about job displacement by noting that aging societies still require labor in non-automatable sectors like healthcare and trades, while manufacturing jobs shift toward higher-skilled roles. Furthermore, Busch acknowledges global geopolitical risks, stating Siemens builds resilience through localization ('local for local') and by training industrial AI models on proprietary data, emphasizing that augmentation, not raw LLMs, is key to achieving the required precision for industrial applications.

(Source：The Verge)