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Digital Enterprise Suite – the holistic offering for the discrete industry

The digitalization productivity bonus: Learn how digitalization can improve productivity in your company

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Highlight Companies from many industries and of different sizes already use the Digital Enterprise Suite successfully. The digital twin and interdisciplinary work based on standardized data retention lead to significant gains in efficiency and innovative solutions.

Rosendahl Nextrom

Machine builder Rosendahl Nextrom is constantly looking for new solutions to improve its market position with innovation, while facing global competition. Thanks to the connection of simulations with automation, especially with the TIA Portal, the company managed to gain significant increases in efficiency and to create new product generations faster.

Beat the challenges The disruptive nature of digitalization opens up new business opportunities and ways to satisfy customer requirements more efficiently.

Shorten time to market

Manufacturing companies need to get their products to market faster – and at the same time master the increasing complexity of products and production methods.

Increase flexibility

The increase in individualized products requires flexible and effective manufacturing.

Improve quality

Quality is essential if you want satisfied customers. Digitalization makes it possible to manufacture with top quality right away.

Increase efficiency

In today's world, not only does the product have to be sustainable and environmentally friendly, but energy-efficiency in production has also become an increasingly important competitive advantage.

Develop new business models

Many products and production facilities generate data. Being able to record and evaluate it means you can develop new, data-based business models.

Increase security

Multi-level security measures to counter cyber-attacks are necessary to protect a company’s intellectual property, both now and in the future.

Holistic approach Manufacturing companies and machine builders can start the digitalization process at any point in their value chains.

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.

Digital Twins 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.

At a glance: The Digital Enterprise Suite for manufacturing companies

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Digital Twin Product

The product digital twin comprises the product design as well as virtual, system-oriented product development. This enables complex products to be designed, simulated, and validated, multiphysic simulation, electronic design automation and software management – across domains with no need for physical prototypes.

Digital Twin Production

The digital planning, simulation, and optimization of the production with automatic generation of the PLC code creates the production digital twin. The co-simulation of mechatronics and automation results in a holistic simulation model that serves as the foundation for virtual commissioning.

Digital Twin Performance

In the real world, the digital twin of the performance is constantly fed with data from the product and the production facilities, which leads to new insights. Thanks to the connection with integrated automation components, the shop floor provides all relevant data. Feeding back all insights into the entire value chain via MindSphere – right back to product design – generates a fully closed decision-making loop for the continuous optimization of the production and product in the real world.

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.

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.

At a glance: The Digital Enterprise Suite for machine builders

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