August 4-5, 2026 | Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel and Convention Centre, India
INDUSTRIES
Manufacturing
Future-Ready Manufacturing: Partnering in your journey to a sustainable manufacturing enterprise
Consumer Packaged Goods and Distribution
Enabling Product Innovation and Omnichannel Experience in CPG
Life Sciences
Patient-centered Care Models Taking Center Stage in Life Sciences
High Tech
High Tech Solutions to Drive Business Transformation through Technology
SERVICE
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering: Building autonomous enterprises where intelligence is embedded directly into the value chain and operating models
Overview
At Siemens Realize LIVE APAC 2026, TCS will showcase how enterprises can turn digital investments into real business impact.
By connecting engineering, manufacturing, assets, and services through a unified digital thread, TCS demonstrates how organisations can break down silos, improve visibility, and enable seamless operations. Powered by industrial AI, enterprises can make more contextual, real-time decisions across connected ecosystems.
The outcome: faster innovation, improved productivity, enhanced quality, and more resilient, future-ready operations.
Navigating industrial complexity
- Fragmented industrial systems are slowing transformation. Many enterprises have already invested in PLM, MES, automation, and AI pilots, but engineering, manufacturing, operations, and enterprise systems still operate in silos.
- Disconnected data limits enterprise-wide decision intelligence. Without a connected digital thread spanning product, process, and operational data, organisations struggle to make timely, context-aware decisions throughout the industrial lifecycle.
- Innovation speed is increasing, but execution remains unpredictable. Industries such as aerospace, automotive, pharma, and medical devices must accelerate product development while managing quality, compliance, traceability, safety, and risk.
- Operational inefficiencies directly impact cost, margins, and resilience. Delays, rework, downtime, yield loss, waste, energy usage, and quality issues continue to affect financial performance and operational predictability across industries.
- AI value often remains trapped in pilots unless it is operationalised at scale. The real challenge is moving beyond isolated use cases towards connected plants, adaptive manufacturing, and coordinated enterprise ecosystems where human + AI can drive continuous optimisation.
Engagement opportunities with TCS
Description: Meet our TCS IAE experts at Booth #10 and discover how autonomous enterprises come to life through connected intelligence. Experience live demonstrations, practical use cases, and real-world industry scenarios that showcase the future of industrial autonomy.
- AI-powered connected digital enterprise with human + AI autonomy
Unlock real-time visibility and closed-loop decision-making across product, plant, and operations. - AI-powered digital thread and digital twin convergence
Create lifecycle continuity and traceability to enable faster, more confident decisions. - Autonomous factory and pharma 4.0 manufacturing line
Experience self-optimising, self-healing manufacturing environments designed for efficiency and resilience. - Software-defined OT
Modernise operations for greater agility, manageability, and scalability. - Physical AI: Autonomous industrial inspection with robotics
Explore how physical AI is transforming industrial inspection and enabling intelligent, autonomous systems. - Software-defined everything (SDx) services
Transform traditional hardware into intelligent, reconfigurable, and connected digital platforms.
4th Aug || 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM IST || Breakout sessions area
Description: Discover how integrated digital threads are transforming next-generation vehicle development. This session will decode how connected engineering across vehicle design, autonomous systems, electrification, and software and systems engineering is enabled.
Learn how digital threads connect requirements, design, simulation, electronics, software, validation, and lifecycle data to improve collaboration, traceability, and development efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into how connected engineering approaches can help organisations manage complexity, accelerate innovation, ensure compliance, and deliver high-quality automotive products faster and more efficiently.
Speaker
Rakesh Bidre
Global Delivery Partner–R&D, AI, Simulation, Mfg. Tech & Alliances, IA&E, TCS
Rakesh has over 25 years of experience in product development, AI, and innovation for the mobility industry. He currently leads a team of 1,100+ engineers across R&D, AI, architecture, simulation, and manufacturing technologies, while driving strategic alliances and technology partnerships to accelerate innovation and growth.
Meet TCS experts
Ready to move from digital pilots to enterprise-scale impact?
Meet TCS experts at Siemens Realize LIVE Asia Pacific 2026 to understand how your organisation can accelerate its journey towards connected, intelligent, and increasingly autonomous operations.
Explore how AI-powered connected digital enterprises, digital threads, industrial AI, and next-generation automation can help connect engineering, manufacturing, operations, assets, and enterprise systems to drive innovation, productivity, resilience, and sustainable business outcomes.