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Digital tools help the electronics industry stay ahead at every step

Artificial Intelligence explained the easy way

The Covid-19 crises increased the need for resilient and adaptive production systems. A significant contribution is made by the digital transformation.

COVID-19 virus in front of a building (montage).

How technology can help get buildings ready for a new normal after the pandemic.

Artificial Intelligence helps improve our understanding of complex connections and describe them using simple equations

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What happens when systems become intelligent? The answer: One of the most revolutionary developments ever seen. Find out more.

Internet of Things (IoT): the network of devices with internet connectivity that can connect, interact and exchange data.

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Digital tools help the electronics industry stay ahead at every step

Porsche is using a digital twin of the Taycan to optimize maintenance

Smart finance can help to invest in digital transformation and cope with new normal

Klaus Helmrich on how to make production future-proof

Remote applications offer valuable support for maintaining availability and productivity of machines and plants

Following a holistic approach, Airborne realizes efficient and highly flexible production

Two Knauf Insulation sites in the UK are producing insulation more efficiently

Digital twin of pumping station tests and verifies innovative concepts

Data to improve motorbike and rider’s racing strategy and riding style

From the first “thing” in the 1980s to 27 billion devices today – the rapid rise of a technology that’s changing the world.

The advance of digitalization is bringing countless benefits to business and society, but at the same time is presenting new challenges in dealing with the huge volumes of generated data. When processing this data, edge computing offers enormous advantages to manufacturers and is evolving as a technology of the future.

Artificial intelligence offers tremendous potential for industry. It’s already making production more efficient, more flexible, and more reliable.

By Katrin Lange

Preparations are moving at full speed. In just a few years, many companies will be able to network their plants completely wirelessly, making their production more efficient, autonomous, and flexible than ever before thanks to local 5G networks.

Wildpoldsried blockchain-based local energy market

The prosumers of Wildpoldsried are testing a blockchain-based local energy market.

Solar panels and windmills in Wildpoldsried, Germany

Why the interface between the grid and consumers plays a key role in decarbonizing the energy system.

Blue Lake Rancheria

How Blue Lake Rancheria, a Native American reservation in Northern California, masters the challenges of today.

How a Canadian power utility together with Siemens is shaping the smart grid of the future.

Aspern Smart City in Vienna

What’s life like in a smart city? We visited Peter, a resident of Aspern Smart City in Vienna. He and his apartment are part of Europe’s most innovative research project into the future of urban energy.

What distribution system operators need to do to ensure that their grids are prepared for the future.

EV charging in London's "Electric Avenue"

In a conservation area in Maida Vale, lampposts are doubling up as EV charging points.

Siemens and Volkswagen test new mobility concepts in Rwanda.

At its Vienna location, Siemens is creating a comprehensive smart system to optimize the management of energy and heating.

Sello shopping center in Espoo, Finland

Sello shopping center has its own virtual power plant: there’s nothing like it anywhere else.

At its South African Headquarters in Johannesburg, Siemens has created a microgrid to reduce its ecological footprint.

The electrical engineering company Klebs+Hartmann is at the forefront of technical trends. To tap energy efficiency potentials, existing switchboards and power monitoring systems are expanded by communication-capable components that seamlessly fit into digitalization.

Electrical wholesaler Rexel Germany uses cloud-based power monitoring in the IoT for energy efficiency and consulting.

Whether in industry, infrastructure, or buildings: Each environment is dependent on a smart, efficient and reliable power supply. Read more!

Grid management with a digital twin.

Intelligent sensors, big data, and the IoT lay the foundations for an efficient, carbon-free multidirectional energy system.

Transmission grid

A digital twin of Finland’s power grid is going to shake up the future of infrastructure investment.

NRGi - Poul Berthelsen

Danish grid operator Konstant Net began to analyze its smart meter data – and discovered a treasure trove of digitalized information.

As Chief Digital Officer, Matthew Timms is leading the transformation of E.ON, one of the largest investor-owned utilities, into the digital age. And when he’s done, it may well be that his company will look less like an energy provider and more like a technology company.

Leading energy academic Professor Benjamin Sovacool explains the shift to prosumers and the opportunities for utilities in the energy transition.

At a Finnish bioproduct mill increased production and environmental efficiency go hand in hand

Ritter Sport aims at making production practices safer for the environment

A Danish food company is using digital condition monitoring to improve plant and environmental efficiency

By using a cloud-based application for efficient energy management codeveloped with Siemens, Spanish automotive supplier Gestamp didn’t just reduce its energy consumption by 15 percent in a very short time – it has also moved closer to a future of sustainable “connected” plants with Industry 4.0 solutions.

Buenavista del Cobre copper mine in Mexico has reduced downtime by 60 percent and costs by 50 percent. At the same time, safety and security have increased. Customized control technology to manage and administer the mine’s power supply networks have made these achievements possible.

Financing smart buildings

Why buildings in the ‘new normal’ have to be smart – and how to finance them.

importance of time in a data center

What role does time play in a data center? Interxion in Vienna, Austria, provides some answers.

Branddirektor Westphal

Why Europe’s most advanced fireboat is setting new standards – and the technology behind it.

Heat pump remote control application

The heat pump is deemed to be the key component for sustainable energy systems of the future. Why? – Karl Ochsner, the Managing Partner of Ochsner Wärmepumpen GmbH, has the answers.

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Thanks to modern technology, the collection in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau is safe from fire.

COVID-19 virus in front of a building (montage).

How technology can help get buildings ready for a new normal after the pandemic.

Building Twin application

Why smart buildings need a digital twin to realize their full operating potential.

Andrew Whalley, Chairman of Grimshaw

Andrew Whalley, Chairman of Grimshaw, discusses his ideas for smart buildings that respond to their environment.

Christoph Leitgeb

Smart buildings call for smart planning. To develop their full potential, they also need to be able to communicate well with their users, says Christoph Leitgeb, head of the Construction Office at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

Martina Otto, UN Environment’s Head of Cities, says the next 15 years will be critical.

Cedrik Neike, CEO Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Using renewable energy to create clean power for UNESCO world heritage site.

Jeff Merritt, renowned expert in the area of smart cities, the IoT, emerging technologies, and government innovation.

Real-time data will transform workplaces and even entire industries, says WEF expert Jeff Merritt.

Serhan Ili, CEO of the consulting firm ILI Consulting, talks about digitalization and artificial intelligence in the building sector.

At its Vienna location, Siemens is creating a comprehensive smart system to optimize the management of energy and heating.

With strong competition from the UAE’s numerous free zones, Dubai Airport Freezone sets itself apart with state-of-the-art building management systems that ensure operational and environmental efficiency as well as delivery of best-in-class infrastructure and services to its clients.

In an industrial park dedicated to the development of green technologies in cooperation between German and Chinese firms, Qingdao’s Passive House Technology Center showcases how buildings can provide full comfort and functionality with minimal emissions.

A software program from Siemens is helping municipal authorities keep nitrogen oxide and fine dust concentrations under control.

Visualization of buildings at Expo 2020 Dubai

Why the first World Expo in the Middle East has the potential to become a blueprint for smart cities around the globe.

How can cities leverage the benefits of digitalization to relieve stress on overstretched services and resources?

Artificial Intelligence helps improve our understanding of complex connections and describe them using simple equations

Coaty enables things like autonomous vehicles in logistics and machines to find each other, “date” each other and fulfill jobs together. Whoever is available, joins and collaborates.

Looking ahead to 2030: International experts forecast the role digital twins will play within the next ten years.

Technologies of the Web of Things (WoT) are intended to make the IoT convenient in a way similar to application development on the web

New survey offers a unique insight into the future of AI in industrial enterprises

What happens when systems become intelligent? The answer: One of the most revolutionary developments ever seen. Find out more.

Internet of Things (IoT): the network of devices with internet connectivity that can connect, interact and exchange data.

Wherever large amounts of information are stored, criminals are not far away. Find out more about effective solutions against cyber intruders

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