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Siemens and one of its customers have provided a home-grown solution to meet the huge demand for face masks, ensuring factories across the country can open their doors and diversify to meet the demand. 

It’s 5 am at a bakery in Wales. The smell of freshly baked bread hangs heavy in the air as fluffy loaves race along congested conveyor belts. Shiny metallic arms slice and wrap bread, while a machine datestamps each loaf, before carefully dropping them into a delivery container. For the unsuspecting, everything seems to be running smoothly.

Close collaboration and coordination deliver a chemicals industry first

While we may not realise it, the humble barcode is in fact one of the most seen and trusted symbols in the modern world. It’s thought that there are 6 billion barcode scans every day, with 1.8 billion of those coming from China alone. Look around your office now and you’ll find tens of barcodes, QR codes or data matrix codes. They have become ubiquitous with a product’s provenance, but as we begin to emerge from a Covid-ravaged world, they will also play an integral part in the provenance of people and the Covid-19 vaccination. 

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.

Every professional soccer stadium has an experienced greenkeeper who cares for the sacred turf. And now, for the first time, the greenkeeper at the Allianz Arena – home of FC Bayern – will be assisted by an application. It’s being made possible by MindSphere, the open IoT operating system, and software developers at evosoft.

A world-class luxury hotel recently opened on top of Mount Bürgenberg in Switzerland: the new Bürgenstock Resort. Switzerland’s largest hotel facility is heated and cooled with energy from Lake Lucerne, with approximately 300 m3 of water per hour pumped up the mountain.

Here’s something new: A manufacturer of clamping technology and gripping systems is using digital twins to help plant manufacturers and users to increase their competitiveness. Digital twins enable the virtual simulation and testing of all process steps, from engineering and plant commissioning to performance.

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 new cheese factory in Altendorf is the first facility in Switzerland to be completely configured with the TIA Portal engineering framework from Siemens, including the drive technology. Every year, up to 8 million liters of milk can be converted into Swiss cheese, which finds enthusiastic buyers not only in Switzerland but also internationally.