Siemens’ Digital Transformation Maturity paper addresses aerospace and defense workforce shortages by framing transformation as a five-level journey: configure, connect, automate, generate, and optimize. Most firms remain at early stages, focusing on data connection rather than leveraging full integration. Siemens stresses automation to free engineers from repetitive tasks, generative design to multiply workforce impact, and optimization to run thousands of iterations with digital twins. Industrial AI, trained with domain-specific data, is central to advancing maturity, enabling faster, smarter, and more cost-effective product development while reducing reliance on scarce engineering talent.

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