The new possibilities of digitalization allow you to master today’s and tomorrow’s challenges
The challenges in discrete industry are growing – producing goods becomes increasingly difficult. Thanks to the disruptive nature of digitalization, new possibilities are available that help companies to master these challenges.
They can reduce the time to market, increase flexibility and quality of their products, and become more efficient. Digitalization also enables to develop new business models and to improve security within the company.
The Digital Enterprise Suite enables manufacturing companies to integrate and digitalize their business processes – including their suppliers. They can start at any point in their value chain, from product design to production planning, production engineering, production execution, and services, and expand the digitalization process step by step.
The same goes for machine building: from the machine design to engineering, commissioning, machine operation, and services. MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system, creates a link to the Internet of Things. This means manufacturers can analyze their production facilities and products in actual use, and feed back the insights into the entire value chain for continuous optimization. Machine builders can analyze the machine performance for ongoing optimization of the machine allowing even new machine concepts.
The comprehensive Digital Twin in detail
Our holistic approach for creating Digital Twins offers tangible benefits: You can substantially reduce the number of prototypes you need, predict the performance of the production unit and the products themselves, and ensure you produce what your customers expect.The Digital Twin in manufacturing companies
The digital twin is the precise virtual model of a product or a production plant. It displays their development throughout the entire lifecycle and allows operators to predict behavior, optimizing performance, and implement insights from previous design and production experiences.
Our comprehensive concept of the digital twin consists of three forms: the digital twin of the product, the digital twin of production, and the digital twin of the performance of both product and production. Thanks to our comprehensive domain expertise and optimized tools, Siemens is the only company that offers this holistic approach.
There is tremendous value gained from performing "what if" scenarios and predicting future performance with the digital twin. The ultimate goal of the digital twin is in the closed-loop connection between the virtual world of product development and production planning with the physical world of production system and product performance. Through this connection actionable insight is gained from the physical world for informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of products and production operations.
Digital twins take productivity in aeroplane construction to new limits
Digitalization is already changing every aspect of life and existing business models. It enables industry to turn its product ideas into reality in a new way by drawing on technological trends like generative design and intelligent models. Additive manufacturing and advanced robotics put production on an innovative footing, and the use of cloud solutions and knowledge automation lets machine builders develop new service models.
The Digital Twin in machine building
The digital twin is the precise virtual model of a machine or a production plant. It displays their development throughout the entire lifecycle and allows operators to predict behavior, optimizing performance, and implement insights from previous design and production experiences.
Our comprehensive concept of the digital twin consists of three forms: the digital twin of the product, the digital twin of production, and the digital twin of the performance of both product and production. Thanks to our comprehensive domain expertise and optimized tools, Siemens is the only company that offers this holistic approach.
There is tremendous value gained from performing "what if" scenarios and predicting future performance with the digital twin. The ultimate goal of the digital twin is in the closed-loop connection between the virtual world of product development and production planning with the physical world of production system and product performance. Through this connection actionable insight is gained from the physical world for informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of products and production operations.
The digital twin provides new opportunities for plant and machine builders
New plant and machine concepts enable industry to increase flexibility to the point where individual mass production becomes possible. One prerequisite for this is that plant and machine builders integrate and digitalize their entire value chain. This creates a digital twin of the machine, its production, and the performance of production and the real machine in operation. Learn more about the digital twin in machine building and plant engineering.
Digital Enterprise Suite – our unique offering for the digital transformation
The Digital Enterprise Suite provides an integrated portfolio of industrial software and automation for the discrete industry. This allows product manufacturers, machine and line builders to integrate and digitalize their entire value chain – including their suppliers.
Cutting-edge technologies – the future of industry
MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system
MindSphere enables industrial companies of various sizes worldwide to link their machines and physical infrastructure to the cloud and the Internet of Things. It uniquely simplifies the challenges of many industries, regarding connectivity, data analysis and prediction or the development of own applications and new business models and therefore it supports every company of its digital transformation journey.
Services for the Digital Enterprise
With our extensive digitalization expertise combined with comprehensive industry knowledge, our experts support you on your journey to become a digital enterprise. Enabling future proofed product and production development – quick, efficient and holistic. Benefit from the knowledge built up by our experts and start the digitalization of your company, step by step.
Virtual commissioning
Commissioning a new production machine, cell, or line is a critical stage in the life of a project: only at this point, shortly before approval, you learn whether the entire system, with its mechanical, electrical, and automation components, is working together as planned. Unexpected behavior quickly leads to delays and increased costs. Virtual commissioning drastically reduces this risk.
Enable your digital future with Digital Enterprise Finance
The adoption of digitalization in manufacturing is accelerating as industry players demonstrate the substantial efficiency and competitive advantages that digital transformation offers. Digital Enterprise Finance from Siemens helps you realize your digital future with specialist finance solutions.
Specific solutions for your industry
The time is ripe
Make your digital transformation a reality ‒now!
The time has come for companies in the manufacturing industry to develop the potential in digitalization. With the Digital Enterprise Suite, we provide the technical prerequisites to enable companies of all sizes and from all industries to start the digital transformation right now.
