Siemens flags India as innovation hub

Siemens said India has become a core base for building products sold worldwide, with its local teams now feeding more inventions into the company’s global pipeline. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com) Pankaj Vyas, managing director and chief executive of Siemens Technology and Services, told ETTelecom on April 13 that Siemens’ India center has “roughly tripled” the number of inventions contributing to global products over the past few years. He said teams in India build end-to-end work in industrial software, automation, digital twins, cloud and edge platforms, and cybersecurity. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com) Siemens has also tied that India role to its latest industrial artificial intelligence push. In a March 2 press release, Siemens said more than 10,000 software and artificial intelligence experts in India are helping develop its industrial artificial intelligence operating system through an expanded partnership with NVIDIA. (press.siemens.com) Industrial software is the code that helps factories, rail systems, power networks and buildings design, simulate and run machines. A digital twin is a software copy of a machine or plant that lets engineers test changes on a screen before making them in the real world. (press.siemens.com) Siemens has been widening that India message in public this year. At its Transform Innovation Day in Mumbai on March 6, the company said engineers in India worked on core technologies behind products including the Digital Reality Viewer and Digital Twin Composer, and that it has deployed more than 700 digital references in India with 25 ecosystem partners. (press.siemens.com) The company is also putting cybersecurity into that mix. In September 2025, Siemens and the Data Security Council of India opened an operational technology cybersecurity lab in Noida focused on protecting industrial control systems and critical infrastructure. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com) That hiring signal is less about one job title than a blend of skills. Vyas said engineers now need mechanical knowledge plus software, data and systems thinking because product development and supplier management are moving onto the same digital platforms. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com) Siemens is scaling that bet from a large global base. The company said it spent €6.6 billion on research and development in fiscal 2025, employed about 53,200 people in research and development, and generated about 5,300 inventions across the group. (siemens.com) The India push also fits Siemens’ broader growth plan. In its fiscal 2025 financial report, Siemens said it is targeting mid-term comparable revenue growth of 6% to 9% a year, making lower-cost, high-skill engineering centers more important to how quickly it can ship new software and automation products. (assets.new.siemens.com) For Siemens, India is no longer just a sales market or back office. The company is describing it as a place where global industrial products are designed, tested and secured before they reach customers elsewhere. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com)