New Accenture Siemens Business Group to Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing for Clients

HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 31, 2025--

Siemens and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) are significantly advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and transform engineering and manufacturing.

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At Hannover Messe 2025, the two companies announced the formation of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, a dedicated business practice to comprise 7,000 professionals with proven manufacturing and IT experience globally. Through the business group, the companies will co-develop and jointly market solutions to clients that combine automation, industrial AI and software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio with Accenture’s data and AI capabilities.

“By strengthening our partnership, we combine the unique capabilities of two market leaders: Siemens’ technology, access to data and deep domain knowledge in software, automation and industrial AI with Accenture’s power to apply data and AI in engineering and manufacturing,” said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens. “With the new business group, we will empower customers in all industries to supercharge their entire value chain by embedding AI at the core of their businesses.”

“Engineering and manufacturing are the next digital frontier,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “The Accenture Siemens Business Group scales the power of automation, data and AI to help clients reinvent their products and how they make them. Together with our long-standing partner Siemens, we will increase speed and efficiency, reduce cost and strengthen the digital core, which is essential for continuous reinvention and the creation of new value.”

Proven track record
Accenture and Siemens have a long history of jointly creating value for clients. For KION Group, a leading supply chain solution company, Accenture and Siemens are unifying and optimizing core engineering processes with Siemens Teamcenter as the client’s common product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. The initiative rethinks and enhances KION’s engineering processes with simulation capabilities, generative AI and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

At Navantia, a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding, technology and defense company, Accenture and Siemens developed and implemented a new product development platform using Siemens Teamcenter and Capital Logic Designer. The platform enables digital twins of Navantia's vessels, increasing the quality of the product design and reducing the company’s total design and manufacturing cost by 20%.

Scalable engineering, manufacturing and services solutions for industry
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will create solutions for software-defined products and factories for clients in industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products and goods, electronics, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, semiconductors and transportation.

The group plans to introduce new engineering services that will focus on reinventing engineering and R&D models. It will help clients create global engineering capability centers and develop software-defined products. It will also optimize clients’ use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and speed the adoption and use of Accenture’s and Siemens’ software-defined vehicle (SDV) framework for automakers.

New manufacturing services will support clients in implementing, harmonizing and migrating manufacturing execution systems to track and control manufacturing in real-time. By applying IT principles, the group will advance clients’ AI-powered shopfloor operations and automation. Additionally, it will help clients mitigate and prevent cyber threats to operational technology (OT) devices and critical engineering and manufacturing systems with managed security services including Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) platform. (A demo of Accenture’s and Siemens’ joint cybersecurity approach for IT/OT environments is available at Siemens’ Hannover Messe booth in Hall 9, booth 53.)

New industrial assets services will include after-sales service, maintenance, repairs and overhaul.

Agentic AI-powered industrial process reinvention
The Accenture Siemens Business Group will enable its solutions for clients with Accenture’s suite of Industry X digital engineering and manufacturing assets. These support clients in building AI agents, customizing pre-built agents and foundation models—for example, for simulation and robotics —and ensuring governance across all their AI components. (A demo of embedded generative AI agents in engineering usingSiemens NXand engineering software from its recent acquisition Altair is available at Accenture’s Hannover Messe booth in Hall 17, booth E32).

Agentic AI can dramatically increase the efficiency and productivity of product development by, for example, automatically validating the impact on feasibility, cost and performance of engineering changes and new designs. Other areas benefitting from agentic AI are PLM, asset management and servicing of industrial equipment, and remote operations.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

About Siemens AG
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €75.9 billion and net income of €9.0 billion. As of September 30, 2024, the company employed around 312,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

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Accenture and Siemens have announced the formation of the Accenture Siemens Business Group to reinvent engineering and manufacturing for clients.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in the Las Vegas trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, the former “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls.

Prosecutors allege he used his reputation as a spiritual leader and healer to take advantage of his victims over two decades. Chasing Horse, who was present in the courtroom Tuesday, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges, including sexual assault, sexual assault with a minor, first degree kidnapping of a minor and the use of a minor in producing pornography.

The case sent shock waves across Indian Country when he was arrested and indicted in early 2023. After several delays, the case finally proceeded to trial after prosecutors added allegations that Chasing Horse filmed himself sexually abusing a girl younger than 14.

Best known for portraying the character Smiles A Lot in the 1990 movie “Dances with Wolves,” Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.

After starring in the Oscar-winning film, according to prosecutors, Chasing Horse proclaimed himself to be a Lakota medicine man while traveling around North America to perform healing ceremonies.

Prosecutors say he led a cult called The Circle, and his followers believed he could speak with spirits. His victims went to him for medical help, according to a court transcript from a grand jury hearing.

One victim was 14 years old when she approached him, hoping he would heal her mother, who was diagnosed with cancer. Chasing Horse previously had treated the victim’s breathing issues and her mother’s spider bite, according to a court transcript. He allegedly told her the spirits wanted her to give up her virginity in exchange for her mother’s health. He allegedly sexually abused her and said her mother would die if she told anyone, according to the victim’s testimony to the grand jury.

The original indictment was dismissed in 2024 after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled prosecutors abused the grand jury process when they provided a definition of grooming as evidence without any expert testimony.

The high court, specifying that the dismissal had nothing to do with Chasing Horse's innocence or guilt, left open the possibility of charges being refiled. In October 2024, the charges were refiled with the new allegations that he recorded himself sexually abusing one of his accusers.

Prosecutors have said the recordings, made in 2010 or 2011, were found on cellphones in a locked safe inside the North Las Vegas home that Chasing Horse is said to have shared with five wives, including the girl in the videos.

Jury selection is expected to take multiple days. Judge Jessica Peterson asked potential jurors if they could be fair and impartial having heard the charges. Several spoke up about past experiences of sexual assault and said they'd be biased.

The trial could last four weeks, and prosecutors plan to call 18 witnesses. A week before the trial, Chasing Horse attempted to fire his private defense attorney, saying his lawyer hadn't come to visit him. Peterson removed Chasing Horse from the courtroom when he tried to interrupt her, and she denied his request.

The case is a reminder that violence also occurs within Native communities and is not just something committed by outsiders, said Crystal Lee, CEO and founder of the organization United Natives, which offers services to victims of sexual abuse.

Chasing Horse’s trial requires hard conversations about Native perpetrators, she said.

“How do we hold them accountable?” she said. “How do we start these tough conversations?”

Judge Jessica Peterson presides of the trial of Nathan Chasing Horse on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Nathan Chasing Horse, right, sitting next to attorney Craig Mueller, holds a shoe as he appears for his trial on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Nathan Chasing Horse appears for his trial on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Nathan Chasing Horse appears before judge Jessica Peterson for his trial on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Nathan Chasing Horse, right, talks to his attorney Craig Mueller during his trial on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)