Arena of Digitalization

Experience firsthand the potential of digitalization in motor production and metalworking – and the endless possibilities opened up by the use of data.

Arena of Digitalization, Siemensstraße 15, 97616 Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany

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Data as success factor Where should the manufacturing industries start in order to remain successful and competitive over the long term? Greater flexibility, higher efficiency, and a faster time to market aren’t enough. Other factors also have to be considered, including quality and sustainability. Our Arena of Digitalization is an actual production environment where you can experience how data works as a key success factor – data that’s available in all production plants, including yours!

Discover the potential of digitalization at our Electric Motor Factory in Bad Neustadt.

Generate knowledge from data

Whether you operate machine tools or other production machines in your manufacturing plant, you’re confronted with extremely complex challenges on a daily basis. Discover how you can master these challenges in the practical examples at our Electric Motor Factory in Bad Neustadt. We’ll demonstrate the potential of digitalization using typical machines – all under the motto “We show what we use.”

At the heart of this approach is the abundance of data from a variety of sources that’s generated along the entire value chain – data that, until now, has often been used too little or not at all. Digitalization makes it possible to gather this data, understand it, and use it appropriately to continuously optimize processes based on the knowledge acquired.

Graphic explaining how to exploit the potential of digitalization across disciplines by using a digital twin to achieve a constant exchange of data in between the digital and real world.

Exploit potential across disciplines

The Arena of Digitalization highlights all that can be achieved when the digital and real worlds become one. The conditions for this convergence are created by the digital twin. This precise, virtual model of reality permits a constant exchange of data across all disciplines and specialties. Silo thinking is a thing of the past, and unlimited collaboration has become the order of the day. For example, information from a downstream phase in the product lifecycle can be applied to future optimizations in the design phase. Thanks to this data transparency and the constant exchange of information, you can easily and continuously optimize everything from virtual product development and virtual production planning to real production and the end product.

Digitally design, simulate, test, and optimize products with no need for real prototypes
Digitally plan, simulate, commission, and optimize entire plants
Continuously optimize products and production by evaluating performance data

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Digitalization at Electric Motor Factory Bad Neustadt: Added value along the entire value chain

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faster throughput thanks to new processes

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faster correction loops

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shorter power-up times for new machines

At our digital factory, we produce about 2,000 electric motors every day. That’s more than 500,000 a year in over 35,000 versions. Batch sizes as small as one are possible, with an average of five to ten units. Digitalization helps manufacturers manage the challenges of ever-increasing customization and product variation.

Discover digitalization In the factory’s Challenge Zone, we tackle seven challenges that will be quite familiar to you – as they are to us. You can look forward to learning about how we handle these challenges.

View into the arena of digitalization, illuminated by blue neon tubes on the ceiling

View into the arena of digitalization, illuminated by blue neon tubes on the ceiling. We see people, who are chatting and exploring the environment.

Arena of Digitalization with a guide explaining the digital transformation to a small group of people in front of a wall of screens and space dividers.

View into one of the seven theme rooms, the so-called challenge zones, of the Arena of Digitalization – illuminated by blue neon tubes on the ceiling.

Two people talking about digital transformation in front of the theme rooms of the Arena of Digitalization.

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Theme rooms and wall of screens in the Arena of Digitalization.

The Arena

You’ll find the Arena of Digitalization at the Siemens Electric Motor Factory in Bad Neustadt an der Saale. Discover how we use digitalization in metalworking and motor manufacturing and what we’re doing to steadily advance the digitalization process.

Your visit

As part of a personalized guided tour, we’ll break down complex relationships in a clear and practice-oriented manner. You can look forward to an exciting journey through a world of fascinating opportunities that come with digitalization.

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The facts

In an 800-square-meter space, visitors from around the world learn how they can master the growing challenges in the manufacturing industry – 52 weeks a year, in seven thematic areas, the so-called Challenge Zone, and in the manufacturing plant itself.

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Discover how you, your employees, and your partners can work together to design your digital transformation responsibly and sustainably.

Competence management

Vision, strategy and communication

Partnering and open ecosystem

Energy savings and decarbonization

Citizen development

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Discover how you can optimize your innovation processes, and introduce new products, processes, and technologies as faultlessly, quickly and seamlessly as possible.

Virtual commissioning

Simulation in product design

Process simulation

Additive manufacturing

Efficient product design

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Discover how you can adapt your resources early on, in order to rapidly respond to changing quantities and product mixes.

Process simulation

Planning and scheduling

Digital resource management

Global load balancing

Pay per use concepts

Automated intralogistics

Digital value stream management

Flexible automation and robotics

The picture shows the state-of-the-art production hall of the Siemens Electric Motor Factory in Bad Neustadt. In the foreground, an employee stands in front of a large touchscreen.

Discover how you can maximize the operational reliability and productivity of complex production systems in order to optimize throughput and quality as well as guarantee delivery dates.

Digital performance management

Digital maintenance

Remote Service

Process monitoring

Open ecosystem

Digital process planning

Process simulation