Siemens has entered into a strategic partnership with Xometry, the global AI-native marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers of custom manufacturing. The deal comes with a financial commitment: a minority investment of approximately $50 million into Xometry, reflecting Siemens’ conviction about AI-powered execution intelligence. Siemens expects it to be a defining source of differentiation in the next generation of industrial software.
At the core of the partnership is a deeper integration of Xometry’s manufacturing intelligence, covering manufacturability analysis, pricing, sourcing, and lead times, directly into Siemens Xcelerator. This integration creates a design-to-source digital thread natively within the platform. The goal: reduce the friction between digital design and physical production.
“Industrial competitiveness is defined by how fast and how confidently companies can turn digital ideas into physical reality,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software. “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.”
AM within the design decision
For the additive manufacturing community, this development is worth paying close attention to. Xometry has long positioned itself as a technology-agnostic marketplace, one where 3D printing sits alongside CNC machining, injection molding, and other processes as a fully integrated sourcing option.
The ability to combine a large spectrum of production capacities across additive manufacturing and conventional manufacturing categories has been one of the platform’s core strengths. By embedding Xometry’s quoting and sourcing capabilities inside Siemens’ design environment, AM becomes part of the design decision earlier in the workflow, not an afterthought.
This also isn’t Xometry’s first foray into deep CAD integration. We previously covered how the company became Dassault Systèmes’ prime partner to provide instant manufacturing quotes to SOLIDWORKS and CATIA users, a move that followed a similar design-to-production logic.
The partnership also supports Siemens’ strategy to broaden access to industrial technology across companies of all sizes. This could meaningfully lower the barrier for smaller manufacturers and service bureaus to participate in more integrated digital supply chains.
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