Increasing stock turnover frequency with shorter storage periods, small
order quantities with high delivery speeds, rising return rates and short-term
increases in delivery quantities. In the course of digitalization, the
intralogistics industry is also facing new challenges. With its Digital
Enterprise Portfolio, Siemens supports highly efficient, flexible and
intelligent applications in intralogistics. Siemens is thus supporting its
customers, both machine builders and operators of logistics centers, on the
path towards digital transformation. Using a digital twin for material transport
equipment, warehouse operation and performance, the entire value chain is
designed and optimized efficiently. This increases efficiency throughout the
building and operation of machines and plants, minimizes error rates and downtimes,
shortens development times and ensures long-term competitiveness. Through the
seamless interaction of the real and virtual world, the technology company
helps to increase the productivity and flexibility of plants while keeping
costs and energy consumption to a minimum.
The
unique portfolio from Siemens for digital transformation, the Digital Enterprise
Suite, offers an integrated portfolio of software-based systems and automation technologies.
The concept of the digital twin provides a closed connection between the virtual
world of planning for warehousing and conveying technology and its physical
world of operating and performance. Thus, it can be started at any point of the
value chain, starting with the design of the logistics concept up to operation
planning, operation technology, operation execution and services, and expand
the digitalization process step by step.
The portfolio
for intralogistics includes software solutions and automation systems for core
applications such as stacker cranes or shuttle warehouses, solutions for tasks
in internal industrial logistics and sorting technology as well as solutions
for parcel, postal and airport logistics.
Smartphone users as well as industrial companies are looking forward to the advent of the new 5G wireless mobile standard, thanks to which companies will be able to connect their machines and thus make their production plants and intralogistics operations more efficient, more autonomous, and more flexible than ever before.
Industrie 4.0, the smart factory, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – these are the future of industrial manufacturing. Designing production plants and intralogistics to be more flexible, autonomous, and efficient requires the right communication framework and comprehensive connectivity. The new 5G communication standard opens up important new prospects. It will initially have a data speed of between one and 5 gigabits per second, subsequently increasing to 20 gigabits per second – a quantum leap that will make it between 10 and 20 times faster than the system’s predecessor, LTE.
At the Munich Security Conference 2018, Siemens and eight partners from industry signed the first joint charter for greater cybersecurity. Initiated by Siemens, the Charter of Trust calls for binding rules and standards to build trust in cybersecurity and further advance digitalization. Since 2018, the Charter of Trust has grown to 16 members. In addition to Siemens and the Munich Security Conference, the signatories include AES, Airbus, Allianz, Atos, Cisco, Daimler, Dell Technologies, Deutsche Telekom, IBM, NXP, SGS, Total and TÜV Süd.
In addition, the German Federal Office for Information Security, the CCN National Cryptologic Center of Spain and the Graz University of Technology in Austria have joined the charter as associate members. On February 19, 2019, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) signed a letter of intent to join the Charter of Trust for cybersecurity in Tokyo, expanding the Charter’s reach into Asia. The company’s membership is expected to be finalized by the end of September 2019. MHI will be the first Asian company to join the global cybersecurity initiative.
With the commissioning
of BorWin3, Siemens has handed over the fifth North Sea grid connection to its
customer TenneT. After completion of successful test runs, the German/Dutch
grid operator accepted the project. Siemens was responsible for the grid
connection system including an onshore converter station. The grid connections
HelWin1 and HelWin2, BorWin2, SylWin1, and BorWin3 – for which Siemens supplied
all the technology for direct current transmission – are thus now in commercial
operation and are transmitting power. Siemens was awarded the contract for BorWin3
in the spring of 2014. Being the fifth North Sea grid connection, it provides
power to over a million German households. In July 2017 Siemens won the order
for the grid connection DolWin6, which is scheduled to go into operation in
2023. A total of almost six million households will be supplied with
electricity generated from wind power via these six links.
The
historical Siemensstadt will be transformed into a new working and living
environment. With Siemensstadt 2.0, Siemens is planning to implement the largest
development project in its history.
Siemens Mobility's Vectron locomotives are used for both freight and passenger service. During the development of the locomotive, the focus was on providing a future-proof design, investment security, environmental compatibility, fungibility, retrofitting capability and convertibility. The Vectron can be delivered as a purely electrical version for operating with alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) power systems as well as a multisystem (MS) variant in the power classes 5.2 MW, 5.6 MW and 6.4 MW. Along with the desired national train control system, the locomotives can also be equipped with the latest European Train Control System (ETCS). The locomotives are built in the Siemens Mobility plant in Munich-Allach, Germany. The first Vectron was delivered in 2012. Siemens Mobility has sold over 800 Vectrons to date to a total of 42 customers. The Vectron fleet has accumulated more than 175 million kilometers of service so far. The locomotives are currently certified for operation in 18 countries. For freight transport in Germany, Siemens Mobility also offers the Smartron standard locomotive and the Vectron Dual Mode, a combination of diesel and electric locomotive.
Shifting freight transport to rail has its limitations. Therefore, a share of this transport will need to be carried out by trucks that combine reliable service with minimum environmental impact. The eHighway system is twice as efficient as conventional internal combustion engines. This Siemens Mobility innovation supplies trucks with power from an overhead contact line. This reduces local air pollution and contributes significantly to the decarbonization of the transport sector.
The breath-taking rise of Bangkok to become a leading business center in Asia created a basic challenge for the city to ensure the mobility of millions of people. Before 1999, people used to take a bus, motorcycle or taxi for almost 80 per cent of their daily travel needs. This created congestion in large parts of Bangkok's infrastructure, making traffic jams a daily occurrence. The travel speed in downtown Bangkok was usually less than ten kilometers per hour. This not only affected the mobility of the commuters but had also an impact on the quality of life. Without a working rapid transit and mainline traffic concept, Thailand's capital was bound to grind to a standstill.
Control rooms of process engineering plants are usually
as old as the plant itself, often 30 years and more. Today, digital
transformation is placing new demands on automation: Simatic PCS neo is a brand-new system software, which
offers companies in the process industry unique opportunities in the age of
digitalization. Main features include global web-based collaboration in
engineering and operation and intuitive handling representing all relevant
information in a single workbench.