The German manufacturer has been exiting heavy-equipment businesses and shifting its focus to software to improve profitability.

Siemens AG—and that’s Siemens Siemens, not Siemens Healthineers—is expanding its industrial software business further into the life sciences, with a $5.1 billion plan to acquire digital R | The German conglomerate said the deal would not only add to its work in artificial intelligence and digital twins but would also help it provide customers with a more seamless connection between research and manufacturing.

Germany group Siemens said on Wednesday it is buying Dotmatics, a US software company, for $5.1 billion to leverage its use of artificial intelligence to make drug discoveries.