Two electrical manufacturing openings
Manufacturing Dive reported on 10 March 2025 that Siemens opened facilities in Fort Worth, Texas, and Pomona, California, in the United States. The investments were $190 million and $95 million respectively. Pomona’s new building completed the first phase; rebuilding its legacy plant remained the second phase.
- Fort Worth: 500,000 square feet.
- Pomona’s new building: 100,000 square feet.
Investment and production background
The November 2023 factory plan
In its 6 November 2023 investment report, Manufacturing Dive described a $150 million Fort Worth plant, with construction planned to begin in 2024 and full operation targeted for the first quarter of 2025. Siemens then envisaged 700 jobs. The facility formed part of a $510 million US manufacturing programme. Its electrical equipment was intended to serve growing data-centre demand. Siemens said it had more than 100 suppliers in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area and several hundred elsewhere in Texas. Manufacturing tools, digital twins and automation were planned for construction and operation.
The February 2025 workforce account
In her 12 February 2025 written congressional testimony, Siemens USA chief executive Barbara Humpton said the company had used industrial artificial intelligence to develop a digital representation of the Fort Worth facility’s products and production lines. She reported 480 new jobs already created and another 320 planned for the following year. Former high-school teachers had been recruited to devise training for people without manufacturing experience. She described the factory’s future output as electrical components for American data centres. Her account preceded the opening celebration, which she said would take place three weeks later.
The earlier software partnership
On 31 October 2023, Siemens and Microsoft introduced Siemens Industrial Copilot, a jointly developed assistant intended to help users generate, optimise and debug automation code. The companies said it combined automation and process-simulation information from Siemens Xcelerator with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. They named automotive supplier Schaeffler as an early adopter in engineering, with operational use planned later. The announcement also scheduled general availability of Teamcenter for Microsoft Teams for December 2023, connecting product-lifecycle information with collaboration tools for factory and field-service workers.
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