- Digitalization and automation solutions provide companies in discrete and process industries with the necessary flexibility for new conditions
- The Digital Enterprise Virtual Summit showcased concrete and future-oriented solutions
- The Digital Enterprise Virtual Summit had around 12,000 registrations from Customers and Partners with already 6,300 live attendees on the day of the event
The current situation creates major challenges for industrial companies worldwide – and shows that digitalized and highly automated production is more important than ever when it comes to gaining a competitive edge. This is the only way that companies can react to current and future challenges with the required degree of flexibility. Successful solutions were presented at the Digital Enterprise Virtual Summit by Siemens on July 16. As part of the conference, representatives from numerous companies from the discrete and process industries discussed strategies and technologies for future success under these new conditions. The focus was on topics such as the horizontal and vertical integration of the value chain with simulation and optimization from product creation through to servicing and from field level to the cloud. Other topics included online and remote solutions as well as edge and cloud computing, additive manufacturing, industrial 5G and artificial intelligence. The Digital Enterprise Virtual Summit had around 12,000 registrations from Customers and Partners with already 6,300 live attendees on the day of the event. The Summit is now also available to be viewed on demand at http://www.siemens.com/digital-enterprise-summit.
- Mobile working two to three days a week as worldwide standard
- Managing Board approves new model for working independently of fixed locations
- Model based on transformation of leadership and corporate culture
- Siemens among first large companies to adjust working models permanently
Siemens will establish mobile working as a core component of its “new normal” and will make it a permanent standard, both during the global pandemic and beyond. The company’s Managing Board has now approved implementation of a corresponding model. The aim is to enable employees worldwide to work on a mobile basis for an average of two or three days a week, whenever reasonable and feasible. The coronavirus crisis and social distancing measures have shown that working independently of a fixed location offers many advantages and is possible on a much wider scale than originally thought. Worldwide surveys of Siemens’ employees confirmed their desire for greater flexibility and for personalized solutions when it comes to deciding where they work.
- Sitrans SAM IQ app for the Smart Asset Management of field devices increases system availability and process quality
- App makes previously unused device information available
- Prepares data and offers numerous diagnostic options
- Supports NAMUR information model and use cases
Siemens is expanding its field device portfolio for process plants to include the new Sitrans SAM IQ app for the Smart Asset Management (SAM) of field devices. With the Sitrans SAM IQ app, the user has new opportunities to make use of valuable information that was previously hidden. Primarily, this is additional diagnostic data, which can be collected, prepared and visualized clearly. Sitrans SAM IQ has been developed specifically in line with the requirements of NAMUR, the User Association of Automation Technology and Digitalization in Process Industries. The app can process data from Siemens field devices as well as devices from other manufacturers. The transfer of all device data to a uniform information model means that information from all manufacturers can be derived and compared for the first time.
- Protection during grid power outages and avoidance of peak loads
- Reduced power consumption by recovering braking energy
- Higher availability and low installation costs
Siemens is offering new Ultracapacitor Modules which ensure machine operation during grid power outages, avoid peak loads and recover braking energy. The UltraCap "DLC modules" are ideal for use as energy storage devices in machines, such as those used in wood, glass and plastic processing, metal forming technology, machine tools, handling and robotics.
- First digital twin in petrochemical industry in Indonesia – for Chandra Asri
- Transforms analog plant data into automated digital twin framework
- One integrated platform for digital management of all plant asset documentation and data
- Provides control and transparency of plant asset information, increasing performance
Siemens and Bentley Systems will develop the first petrochemical digital twin in Indonesia for Chandra Asri, the country’s largest integrated petrochemical complex. With over 27 year footprint, the latter is set to double its capacity in the next five years to tap into the robust domestic and regional economic growth.
- Siemens Industrial Edge closes the gap between local and cloud computing and enables high-frequency data exchange at field level
- Edge apps for intelligent data analysis and increased productivity
- Industrial Edge includes a backend, Edge devices and Edge apps in Edge Management
With Siemens Industrial Edge, Siemens offers a digitalization solution that adds machine-level data processing to automation devices, by taking the intelligence of Edge computing and thus, sophisticated analytics securely to manufacturing level. Siemens Industrial Edge offers users the opportunity to execute a wide range of intelligent analytics applications. Cloud connectivity is used in conjunction with Edge applications in an integrated hardware and software ecosystem for automation components.
- Acquisition expands Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, enhancing current integrated circuit design offerings with pioneering place and route software
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Avatar technology strengthens Siemens’ leadership in Design to Silicon with place and route for advanced node design
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire
Santa Clara, CA-based Avatar Integrated Systems Inc., a leading developer of
place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. Avatar helps engineers
optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) for complex chips with fewer
resources. Siemens plans to add Avatar’s technology to the
Xcelerator portfolio
as part
of Mentor’s IC suite of software, capitalizing on the growing segment of place
and route. Avatar will be integrated with existing market-leading products from
Mentor, a Siemens Business, including the
Calibre® platform
,
Tessent™ software
, and
Catapult™ HLS software
, to help customers
develop solutions that address today's and tomorrow's design implementation
challenges.
- Together, Industry
leaders Siemens and SAP will deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across
product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management.
- Partnership leverages expertise and technology of both companies to provide
a true digital thread that helps enterprises eliminate process and information siloes,
drives digitalization and delivers a comprehensive solution for the 4th
industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).
- SAP will offer Siemens Teamcenter
software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product
data management.
- Siemens will offer SAP® Intelligent
Asset Management solutions and SAP Project and Portfolio Management applications
to maximize business value for customers over the entire product and service lifecycle and enable new collaborative processes between manufacturers and
operators.
Siemens and SAP today
announced a new partnership that will leverage their industry expertise and bring
together their complementary software solutions for product lifecycle, supply
chain and asset management so their customers can deliver new innovation and collaborative
business models that will accelerate industry transformation globally. Through
this agreement, both SAP and Siemens will be able to complement and integrate
their respective offerings in order to offer customers the first truly integrated
and enhanced solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain,
service and asset management. This will enable customers to form a true digital
thread integrating all virtual models and simulations of a product or asset with
real-time business information, feedback and performance data over the entire
lifecycle.
- New plant intelligence options for the control and monitoring of recipe-controlled processes
- Easy orchestration of production sequences with “WinCC Unified Line Coordination” (LCS)
- Quick changes to processes in recipe and sequence-based production with “WinCC Unified Sequence” (SES)
Siemens is expanding its offer for the Simatic WinCC Unified visualization system to include two new plant intelligence options: Line Coordination (LCS) and Sequence (SES) enable the fast orchestration and adaptation of production sequences for the control and monitoring of recipe-controlled processes, such as those used in the food and beverages industry. With these new software options, users can flexibly design production sequences, monitor different plant sections and therefore utilize the capacity of individual production machines better and more evenly, increasing both effectiveness and economic efficiency. For both SES and LCS, Siemens supplies automation modules and the corresponding controls for the visualization, which can be engineered in the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal engineering framework. Production sequences can be parameterized with the corresponding modules, which eliminates programming effort and reduces engineering effort. The two new plant intelligence options can be combined to meet the relevant requirements.
- Top flexibility thanks to automated guided vehicles (AGVs)
- Conveyor technology solutions enable space-optimized construction
- All conveyor technology components were installed within a record time of 4.5 months only
Within a record time of 4.5 months, Siemens has installed all conveyor technology components for the final assembly of the first fully electric Porsche, the "Taycan". As a result, the time from installation to production of the first vehicle was halved compared to similar projects. As, due to several building restrictions, the final assembly production line had to be built up vertically, a manufacturing concept has been developed in which each level is used for production purposes. The Taycan facility at the parent plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen was put into operation in September last year.