Integrates cutting-edge technologies

Through inno­va­tions and the inte­gra­tion of cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies into the Dig­i­tal Enter­prise port­fo­lio, Siemens helps com­pa­nies from all sec­tors to achieve a more flex­i­ble and envi­ron­men­tal­ly effi­cient pro­duc­tion. “The Dig­i­tal Enter­prise port­fo­lio is already well estab­lished glob­al­ly in all indus­tries for the imple­men­ta­tion of Indus­trie 4.0. Many appli­ca­tions demon­strate the tan­gi­ble ben­e­fits of these solu­tions for our cus­tomers,” explains Klaus Helm­rich, Mem­ber of the Man­ag­ing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Dig­i­tal Indus­tries. “Now we are tak­ing the next step: with numer­ous inno­va­tions und cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies, we are tak­ing the Dig­i­tal Enter­prise port­fo­lio and there­fore Indus­trie 4.0 to a new level.

At SPS, Siemens has showed numer­ous inno­va­tions and sec­tor-spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tions that illus­trate how these require­ments can be met using new prod­ucts, solu­tions and ser­vices from the Dig­i­tal Enter­prise port­fo­lio. For exam­ple, a more pre­cise and pow­er­ful dig­i­tal twin helps to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce CO₂ emis­sions in prod­uct devel­op­ment through the com­pre­hen­sive sim­u­la­tion of real pro­duc­tion. The analy­sis of pro­duc­tion process­es high­lights poten­tial sav­ings for resources such as water and pow­er. And last but not least, the use of inno­v­a­tive pro­duc­tion meth­ods – for exam­ple Addi­tive Man­u­fac­tur­ing – can save mate­ri­als and pre­vent waste. With this port­fo­lio, Siemens is paving the way for mod­u­lar, high­ly flex­i­ble and above all envi­ron­men­tal­ly effi­cient pro­duc­tion flows.

Increas­ing require­ments for greater flex­i­bil­i­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty can­not be met through con­ven­tion­al automa­tion solu­tions alone. An inte­grat­ed, scal­able sys­tem is required from pro­duc­tion to the Cloud. The tech­ni­cal pre­req­ui­sites for this are already avail­able in the form of end-to-end solu­tions across the entire val­ue chain, which cre­ate an even more seam­less con­nec­tion between the vir­tu­al and the real world – for all dis­crete indus­try and process indus­tries. This is achieved using plat­form inno­va­tions such as Sinu­merik One, the first dig­i­tal-native CNC sys­tem, the inno­v­a­tive web-based process con­trol sys­tem Simat­ic PCS neo, the new­ly devel­oped visu­al­iza­tion plat­form Simat­ic WinCC Uni­fied and the Xcel­er­a­tor port­fo­lio, which com­bines the entire spec­trum of indus­try soft­ware, ser­vices and Mind­Sphere with an extend­ed Men­dix plat­form for the devel­op­ment of low-code apps.

The trend toward flex­i­ble and mod­u­lar pro­duc­tion con­cepts also cre­ates chal­lenges for wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion: more devices, greater reli­a­bil­i­ty and low­er laten­cy. The com­mu­nica­tive net­work­ing of pro­duc­tion and logis­tics ele­ments is the key; from net­worked automa­tion through to more flex­i­ble pro­duc­tion. Indus­tri­al 5G is the basis for this as it offers ultra-reli­able broad­band trans­mis­sion and ultra-low laten­cy for net­works with a large num­ber of devices.

Anoth­er ele­ment for the next step in imple­ment­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion is the grow­ing ecosys­tem for Indus­tri­al Edge and Cloud. This enables data inte­gra­tion from data analy­sis on the shop floor through the automa­tion sys­tem to the Cloud. To this end, Siemens offers new Edge apps for machine tools. In addi­tion, Siemens has acquired Edge tech­nol­o­gy from US com­pa­ny Pix­eom, strength­en­ing its port­fo­lio for easy app man­age­ment and cen­tral device updates even on dis­trib­uted infrastructures

Dig­i­tal­iza­tion is increas­ing­ly chang­ing the face of indus­try: the more pow­er­ful con­nec­tion of the vir­tu­al and the real world leads from the con­ven­tion­al show­room to the dig­i­tal design and sales room, from the foreman’s office on site to the sim­u­la­tion room in the fac­to­ry and from linked automa­tion to the flex­i­ble shop floor.