Siemens and Xometry partner to expand AI-based supply chain intelligence

Siemens reported May 7 that it’s partnering with Xometry, an AI-based marketplace of custom-manufacturing solutions. Their partnership is accompanied by Siemens’ approximately $50 million minority investment in Xometry. This will enable Siemens to embed proprietary manufacturability, pricing, sourcing and lifecycle intelligence into a digital design thread in its Xcelerator platform.

This partnership also builds on Siemens’ broader supply-chain-intelligence vision. In this case, its existing Supplyframe marketplace provides design-to-source intelligence across electronic components, and Xometry can extends that intelligence into standard and custom mechanical parts via its digital marketplace business and Thomas, which is Xometry’s extensive North American industrial sourcing network.

Siemens reports its minority investment reflects its conviction that AI-powered execution intelligence will differentiate future industrial software. By tightly integrating design, pricing, sourcing insights and production insights across the digital thread, Siemens and Xometry add they’re are creating capabilities that neither company could deliver independently.

"Industrial competitiveness is defined by how fast and how confidently companies can turn digital ideas into physical reality,” says Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens’ digital industries software division. “By infusing Siemens’ comprehensive, digital-twin expertise and industrial AI innovation with large-scale, AI-driven manufacturing intelligence, we’re breaking down the boundary between design and production. Our partnership with Xometry enables us to leverage AI to deliver the intelligence captured from millions of manufactured custom parts directly into the design process, empowering designers to work smarter, faster, and with greater impact.

Randy Altschuler, co-founder and CEO of Xometry, adds, “Xometry and Siemens share a common opportunity—embed AI directly into the design digital thread, putting manufacturability, pricing, sourcing and execution intelligence in front of engineers at the instant design decisions are made. Xometry has built and trained its AI-native platform on the real-world complexities of manufacturing, including millions of part files, actual manufacturer feedback and production outcomes at global scale. This partnership enables us to deliver this intelligence to engineers inside the design systems and workflows where manufacturing decisions are made. When that intelligence is embedded inside the world's leading industrial software, everyone wins.”

Xometry reports it’s built its platform on millions of part files, design feedback from real world manufacturers, and production outcomes across a global supplier network of more than 5,000 active suppliers. Its models are built and refined on real-world feedback to provide design for manufacturing (DFM) AI and the Xometry Instant Quoting Engine (IQE) outputs that deliver part price and quality.

Unlike other integrations that require separate logins, Siemens adds its customers will gain a unique deep, native integration workflow that will provide access to real-time feedback on design feasibility, manufacturing options, pricing and lead times directly within their existing design and lifecycle workflows. As designs progress, the collaboration extends beyond design into execution visibility, allowing teams to move from digital intent to physical production with fewer handoffs and greater transparency.