Hannover Messe 2019    

Tronrud Engineering cuts engineering and assembly times in half for world’s fastest packaging machine

To meet the requirements of their customers, Norwegian machine builder Tronrud Engineering developed an innovative prototype in close cooperation with Siemens. Their goal was a machine that can pack 300 pillow bags per minute into boxes while maintaining the same footprint, which relates to twice the speed of traditional machines.

With help of the Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal) Tronrud Engineering managed to increase engineering efficiency as well, because they could use the same software environment for PLC, HMI and drive technology.

Cathay needed a technology partner who could provide the full potential of digital manufacturing. Consistency, repeatability, guaranteed quality and greater efficiency – this was the secret to Cathay’s successful expansion, and the key to a new future for the bio-manufacturing industry.

Cathay’s Wusu plant adopts Siemens’s complete digital factory solution, covering the entire lifecycle of the plant in design, construction, operation and maintenance, enabling Cathay to fully upgrade every step of its process, from R&D to production

Cathay built its digital factory, opening up a new phase of efficient, controllable and continuously optimized production, with Siemens as its reliable digital technology partner.

SWW Wunsiedel GmbH. By developing a regional and sustainable energy supply system, the publicly owned local utility in the Upper Franconian town of Wunsiedel has adopted an innovative approach to the future of energy.

Courage, vision, and power of innovation all come together in Wunsiedel: By engaging Siemens as consultant and technology partner, SWW Wunsiedel GmbH is seizing all the opportunities the energy transition offers for publicly owned local utilities.

The path of WUNsiedel shows how a public utility can lay the foundation for future economic success with the latest technology from Siemens.

In collaboration with Siemens, the machine and plant manufacturer GEA is working on a standardized machine-platform communication. That helps integrate components and plants into higher-level systems with practically no effort or expense in the future. Thanks to a common “language,” centrifuges for instance will have the necessary process know-how ex-works.

With MTP, GEA is now using a description standard that permits machine builders to transfer all the necessary information, module properties, status descriptions, interfaces, and even the position, color, and size information for operating screen elements in a standardized form. The process knowledge that GEA has already been integrating into individual modules for years is now supplied in a standardized form and is ready for transfer to a higher-level system.

Sello is Finland’s most visited and most sustainable shopping center. Its 102,000 square meters of gross leasable area welcome 24 million visitors per year from all over the world. 

The shopping center needed to be modernized and its efficiency improved to secure ongoing LEED certification. This was critical to shop tenant retention, who expect fair and consistent rents and low operating costs. This was equally important from a marketing perspective: Air quality is key for the overall quality of the shopping environment offered to the public, because visitors want to feel comfortable.

The relationship between Sello and Siemens started over 25 years ago and led to the shopping center’s first LEED certification as well as a 50 percent reduction in energy consumption and savings of €133,000 per year. 

Ritter Sport is the first major manufacturer of chocolate bars to grow its cocoa sustainably. Now its production practices will also be safer for the environment. By using a new energy management system, the company intends to cut its energy consumption by an additional 1.5 percent each year.

The new energy management system was intended primarily to integrate all energy data from production, buildings, and power generation into a single system and to store and archive the data in a central database. The new system also had to be able to link energy data with process information so that Ritter Sport could determine the energy efficiency of its production practices. Finally, the new solution needed to be intuitive to operate, so that the production and energy management teams could view the data at any time.

Ritter Sport found a solution that meets all these criteria: Simatic Energy Manager PRO from Siemens. The system collects not just the data from production but also the energy data from the Desigo Insight building management system. It’s user-friendly, easy to maintain, and can be scaled or modified in the future without having to use any external resources.

The latest chapter in the Siemens electromobility story: The company’s BlueVault lithium-ion battery modules are now being assembled in a new plant in Norway. The batteries are used to power the country’s ferries as well as store energy on offshore rigs. That puts Norway ahead of the game.

The decision to invest in new technologies is often quite straightforward. For instance, when it comes to opening an assembly site for Siemens’ BlueVault lithium-ion battery modules in Trondheim, Norway. The batteries are at the heart of the company’s energy storage solutions for the marine industry. The factory also helps to serve a considerably growing market that wants to take advantage of technology advancements and the increasing demand for an environmentally friendlier, quieter and, last but not least, more cost-effective energy source.