Implementation of the Digital Enterprise

At the Han­nover Messe 2018, Siemens will be show­cas­ing a com­pre­hen­sive series of exam­ples which demon­strate how users can har­ness the poten­tial of Indus­trie 4.0 by imple­ment­ing Dig­i­tal Enter­prise solu­tions. The focus of the booth in Hall 9 is on indus­try-spe­cif­ic imple­men­ta­tion of Dig­i­tal Enter­prise solu­tions over the whole life cycle. Exam­ples from aero­space, auto­mo­tive, food and bev­er­age, elec­tron­ics and machine build­ing as well as the chem­i­cal, fiber and oil and gas indus­tries illus­trate how com­pa­nies of any size and from any indus­try can increase their com­pet­i­tive­ness with indi­vid­ual dig­i­tal solu­tions – through greater flex­i­bil­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and qual­i­ty as well as short­er times to market.
Mind­sphere Ver­sion 3, con­crete use cas­es and ref­er­ences from Siemens and part­ners such as OEMs as well as the new glob­al user orga­ni­za­tion Mind­sphere World will all be pre­sent­ed in the Mind­sphere Lounge. Siemens will also be demon­strat­ing how pro­duc­ers can already ben­e­fit now from indus­tri­al­ized addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing, and show­cas­ing Sidrive IQ, the new dig­i­tal plat­form for the Mind­sphere-based eval­u­a­tion of dri­ve data. Also fea­tured on the Siemens booth will be inte­grat­ed solu­tions for indus­tri­al enter­pris­es and infra­struc­ture projects in the pow­er util­i­ty sec­tor, with the focus on smart ener­gy man­age­ment using Mind Apps.

At the booth, Siemens will be show­ing how today’s com­pa­nies can increase their com­pet­i­tive­ness through dig­i­tal­iza­tion – with solu­tions for dig­i­tal twin­ning through­out the val­ue chain, the open cloud-based IoT oper­at­ing sys­tem Mind­Sphere, and the world lead­ing automa­tion port­fo­lio from Siemens. Inte­gra­tion and dig­i­tal­iza­tion of the val­ue chain pro­vide sus­tain­able com­pet­i­tive ben­e­fits through greater flex­i­bil­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and qual­i­ty in near­ly every indus­try. It pro­vides new oppor­tu­ni­ties in terms of added val­ue, inno­v­a­tive busi­ness mod­els, and future-ori­ent­ed meth­ods of cooperation.
Siemens will be pre­sent­ing Mind­sphere Ver­sion 3.0 at the exhi­bi­tion, which is now avail­able on Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS). Ver­sion 3.0 offers a more pow­er­ful devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment with open pro­gram­ming inter­faces (API/Application Pro­gram­ming Inter­face) as well as addi­tion­al ana­lyt­i­cal fea­tures and extend­ed con­nec­tiv­i­ty. The show will also be used to intro­duce the new inter­na­tion­al user orga­ni­za­tion Mind­Sphere World, which has 18 founder mem­bers. The aim of this group is to extend the ecosys­tem sur­round­ing Mind­Sphere through­out the world.

Harnessing the potential of digitalization in the discrete industries

“With the Dig­i­tal Enter­prise Suite we sup­port both prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­ers and machine builders from the dis­crete indus­tries in achiev­ing their dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion,” says Jan Mrosik, CEO of the Dig­i­tal Fac­to­ry Divi­sion. “It allows us to cre­ate a holis­tic vir­tu­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion, the so-called Dig­i­tal Twin, of prod­ucts, pro­duc­tion and per­for­mance. Through the knowl­edge gained from Mind­Sphere, we are also able to con­tin­u­ous­ly opti­mize the entire val­ue chain of our cus­tomers. This applies not only to dif­fer­ent indus­tries and tra­di­tion­al pro­duc­ing meth­ods, but also to new tech­nolo­gies such as Addi­tive Man­u­fac­tur­ing.” Addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing will also form a focus of this year’s trade fair pre­sen­ta­tion. Siemens is the world’s only sup­pli­er of inte­grat­ed soft­ware and hard­ware solu­tions cov­er­ing every phase of the addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing val­ue chain. For users, this means that the entire dig­i­tal process chain is depict­ed in a sin­gle inte­grat­ed soft­ware envi­ron­ment. The tools required for engi­neer­ing, sim­u­la­tion, prod­uct prepa­ra­tion and 3D print­ing are merged in an inte­grat­ed sys­tem and can be accessed by means of a stan­dard­ized user inter­face. This elim­i­nates the need for data con­ver­sion and the asso­ci­at­ed pos­si­ble loss of infor­ma­tion con­tent. This already offers users the pos­si­bil­i­ty to achieve a rapid tran­si­tion when scal­ing up from pro­to­typ­ing and small-series pro­duc­tion on sin­gle machines to ful­ly indus­tri­al­ized series production.
Siemens will also be show­cas­ing a series of new apps sur­round­ing the field of automa­tion with Simat­ic sys­tems. The new Simat­ic Mind Apps Machine Mon­i­tor, Noti­fi­er and Per­for­mance Mon­i­tor are spe­cial appli­ca­tions designed for Mind­Sphere which allow users to tap into the ben­e­fits of cloud-based ser­vices and gen­er­ate added val­ue. The Simat­ic Min­dApps export the rel­e­vant data from pro­duc­ing machines or plants for analy­sis, process it to gen­er­ate mean­ing­ful infor­ma­tion and dis­play it on dash­boards, or use it as the basis for smart warn­ing sys­tems and mes­sage pre­sen­ta­tion. To ensure that this data is just as secure as the plants and infra­struc­ture it serves, the “Defense in Depth” con­cept accord­ing to IEC 62443 pro­tects against cur­rent and future cyber threats.
Siemens is launch­ing a new soft starter gen­er­a­tion for every­thing from the sim­plest to the most com­plex dri­ve require­ments in the form of Sir­ius 3RW5. This seam­less range of devices designed to ensure a gen­tle start­up for three-phase asyn­chro­nous motors from 5.5 to 1,200 kW can be used to imple­ment effi­cient, future-proof machine con­cepts with the utmost sim­plic­i­ty and economy.

Individual entry into digitalization for verticals of the process industry

It’s time to lever­age the poten­tial and ben­e­fit from the advan­tages of dig­i­tal­iza­tion in order to opti­mize the entire val­ue chain in the process indus­tries,” empha­sizes Jür­gen Bran­des, CEO of the Process Indus­tries and Dri­ves Divi­sion. This applies just as much to new (green­field) plants as to long-stand­ing lega­cy (brown­field) plants. An impor­tant first step is to make con­sis­tent use of sta­t­ic and dynam­ic data already exist­ing in the com­pa­ny to cre­ate trans­paren­cy across the com­plete life cycle as the basis for opti­miza­tion. “Thanks to our pro­found elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and automa­tion exper­tise, we sup­port com­pa­nies in imple­ment­ing their indi­vid­ual dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. Our offer­ing is tai­lored in each case to the added val­ue and the busi­ness mod­els of our cus­tomers.” This is where the new Siemens “Dig­i­tal­iza­tion Con­sult­ing” con­cept comes into its own. This entails work­ing togeth­er with cus­tomers to sound out the dig­i­tal scope of the com­pa­ny over the entire val­ue chain and draw up a dig­i­tal­iza­tion roadmap includ­ing a cal­cu­la­tion of the invest­ment needed.
The dig­i­tal twin of a process pro­duc­tion plant plays an instru­men­tal role here. Dig­i­tal twin­ning takes place dur­ing the engi­neer­ing phase and con­tin­ues to be updat­ed and enriched by addi­tion­al data over the com­plete life cycle of the plant. The ongo­ing analy­sis of process data and addi­tion­al smart sen­sor data from the field lev­el of a pro­duc­tion plant cre­ates a whole new dimen­sion in terms of trans­paren­cy, enabling a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in terms of main­te­nance and ser­vic­ing. The dig­i­tal twin also offers deci­sive ben­e­fits when it comes to com­mis­sion­ing. This is where Ver­sion 9.1 of the sim­u­la­tion soft­ware Sim­it enables even sim­pler com­bi­na­tion of vir­tu­al plant com­mis­sion­ing and oper­a­tor train­ing, speed­ing up actu­al com­mis­sion­ing by as much as 60 per­cent and reduc­ing unwant­ed down­time peri­ods to a min­i­mum, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing plant con­ver­sion and migra­tion processes.
Anoth­er inno­va­tion fea­tured at the Han­nover Messe is Sidrive IQ, a new dig­i­tal plat­form for the eval­u­a­tion of dri­ve data using Mind­Sphere. It pro­vides plant and machine oper­a­tors with a whole new dimen­sion in data trans­paren­cy for installed dri­ve sys­tems, sim­pli­fy­ing fleet man­age­ment and opti­miz­ing ser­vic­ing activ­i­ty. The con­tin­u­ous analy­sis of data saves time and enhances plant avail­abil­i­ty, for instance by the ear­ly iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and rem­e­dy of pos­si­ble error sources. These ben­e­fits make Sidrive IQ the basis for greater dri­ve tech­nol­o­gy effi­cien­cy and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty across the entire life cycle.
Time-Sen­si­tive Net­work­ing or TSN is anoth­er theme fea­tured on the booth. This per­mits even more robust, reli­able and stan­dard­ized Eth­er­net com­mu­ni­ca­tion between automa­tion devices, even under extreme net­work loads. Profinet net­work infra­struc­tures will be grad­u­al­ly upgrad­ed in future to inte­grate basic TSN tech­nol­o­gy. As a first step towards this goal, Siemens will be demon­strat­ing how TSN-based OPC UA Pub­Sub (Publisher/Subscriber) is used on the con­trol lev­el using the exam­ple of a robot­ic trade fair model.

Smart energy management

Fric­tion­less pro­duc­tion runs and con­tin­u­ous process­es are impos­si­ble to imag­ine with­out a con­stant ener­gy sup­ply. The ever-increas­ing demand for ener­gy from indus­try requires new solu­tions to reduce ener­gy costs by improv­ing effi­cien­cy, result­ing in increased com­pet­i­tive­ness. One focus of the Siemens booth in Hanover will be on the ben­e­fits of seam­less inter­ac­tion between reli­able and safe pow­er sup­ply solu­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tion-capa­ble mea­sur­ing devices and sophis­ti­cat­ed ana­lyt­ics. This pro­duces the required ener­gy trans­paren­cy vital to opti­mum ener­gy man­age­ment. “This also includes find­ing smart ways of deal­ing with the ris­ing flood of data which already exists in the pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion sec­tor today,” says Ralf Chris­t­ian, CEO of the Ener­gy Man­age­ment Divi­sion. “Using Dig­i­tal apps, we can offer our cus­tomers smart ana­lyt­i­cal tools for more effi­cient oper­a­tion.” Using the Span­ish auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­er Gestamp as an exam­ple, Siemens will be demon­strat­ing how improved trans­paren­cy has led to ener­gy sav­ings of 15 per­cent and to a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion in CO₂ emis­sions. The data cap­tured is then fed to Mind­sphere. The Mind App Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Ana­lyt­ics cal­cu­lates the ener­gy require­ment, sug­gests mea­sures to reduce the load where appro­pri­ate, and uses real-time ren­der­ing of con­sump­tion data from sev­er­al loca­tions to help to opti­mize the plants and man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es in order to reduce the over­all ener­gy con­sump­tion of the busi­ness. “In indus­try’s search for new ways to reduce pro­duc­tion costs, in-house pro­duc­tion of elec­tric­i­ty is becom­ing more and more attrac­tive in addi­tion to opti­mized ener­gy effi­cien­cy,” explains Ralf Chris­t­ian. At Hanover, Siemens will be show­ing how com­pa­nies can flat­ten their demand peaks, exploit fluc­tu­at­ing elec­tric­i­ty prices, and gen­er­ate addi­tion­al rev­enue, for instance by par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ener­gy bal­anc­ing mar­ket. Issues such as demand response, bat­tery stor­age sys­tems and con­trol of micro­grids are part of the solution.
In addi­tion to the main booth in Hall 9, Siemens is also col­lab­o­rat­ing close­ly with its part­ners in Hall 6 to show­case its PLM soft­ware port­fo­lio. Vis­i­tors to the “Inte­grat­ed Ener­gy Plaza” in Hall 27 will be able to find out how the whole inte­grat­ed sys­tem works — from ener­gy pro­duc­tion, through dis­tri­b­u­tion and stor­age to ener­gy demand. In this con­text, Siemens will be show­ing its elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty high­lights: Vis­i­tors will be able to dis­cov­er com­plete solu­tions for the charg­ing infra­struc­ture and find infor­ma­tion on com­po­nents, charg­ing man­age­ment sys­tems and com­plete end-to-end solutions.