The industrial world is facing monumental challenges: rapidly changing market conditions, a soaring global population requiring dependable supplies, and simultaneously, an increasingly urgent need for greater sustainability. These highly complex challenges are better mastered by industrial companies that fully digitalize and automate their processes – and efficiently utilize the resulting data. Only by effectively using infinitely available data can we save our finite resources and make confident business decisions.

We help our customers to fully exploit the potential of data for their company by connecting the real and digital worlds and combining the power of hardware and software. This way, we bring together processes that previously ran separately into one continuous flow of data, thus enabling the industrial Internet of Things. An Internet that covers the entire value chain, from shop floor to top floor, from sensors to the cloud.  

The heart of our offering is our Digital-Enterprise-Portfolio. It offers enterprises of every size and type products, end-to-end solutions, and services for integrating and digitalizing the entire value chain. Optimized to meet the specific needs of each industry, they support our customers in shortening their development times and increasing the flexibility, productivity, and environmental efficiency of their production processes. To make this possible, we work closely with our customers and partners in ecosystems and on cloud-based platforms.

The advancing digitalization, in tandem with the increasing flexibilization of production processes, provides new opportunities and choices for industrial companies all across the globe – enabling them to address more and more differentiated customer needs and reduce their time to market. Digitalization also optimizes the use of resources such as energy, water, and wastewater, which simultaneously increases environmental efficiency. Digital transformation paves the way for still more innovation, new services and even entirely new, data-based business models.

We support our customers in unlocking the full potential of digitalization for their company: as a partner providing leading technologies for the automation and digitalization of the discrete and process industries.

The Digital Enterprise portfolio is at the core of our offer. It provides companies of all sizes with the right products, along with consistent solutions and services for the integration and digitalization of the entire value chain. Optimized for the requirements of specific industries, our Digital Enterprise enables customers to reduce their product development times while at the same time increasing the flexibility, productivity and environmental efficiency of their production processes.

Thanks to a very high degree of automation and digitalization, Dulux Australia offers efficient production even in a batch size of one. For Project Director Kevin Worrell this means as little as one pallet of paint – 100 liters – can be produced for special orders or in response to market demands. 

Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. produces polyamide from corn and other types of renewable biomass in its digital factory. When it comes to manufacturing yarn, 50 percent less CO2 is discharged into the environment if the fibers are produced from corn, compared to fibers made from oil.