Today, Siemens unveiled the Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase at the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) in Chicago. This showcase is designed to help enable industrial manufacturers to observe and explore a working digital enterprise so they can better understand its potential value to their own organizations.
Siemens has been a tier one partner with DMDII since its inception, with a focus on joint collaboration with the government, industry and academia. The partners work on solving some of the most challenging questions facing manufacturing today through the Project Call process established by DMDII. Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase creates a hands-on environment to illustrate how digitalization can help answer questions such as how manufacturers can extend the digital twin strategy across the value chain, including supply chain and the factory floor, to realize bottom line results; how to optimize human-systems integration; how to make organizational transformations to experience the full potential of digitalization of the value chain; and how to educate America’s workforce on digital manufacturing and design technologies.
“Siemens and DMDII share a vision of transforming American manufacturing,” says Raj Batra, President, Digital Factory US, Siemens. “Working together with DMDII and its partners, we can create the tools and technologies to help solve today’s most pressing manufacturing challenges and help U.S. companies become more competitive through digital technologies. The Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase is an example of how Siemens and DMDII are partnering to break new ground in manufacturing innovation.”
The fourth industrial revolution is underway, making it vital for OEMs and suppliers to take a holistic approach to the entire product lifecycle process, from ideation to production design and all the way through the utilization the product. Digitalization and automation of the complete workflow can help provide a long-term competitive advantage and are essential steps in creating “digital twins” i.e. virtual models that duplicate and simulate the real world properties and performance of physical products, production lines and processes. Whether a process manufacturer, a discrete manufacturer or a hybrid, the key to remaining competitive is using digitalization to connect operations across the entire product lifecycle, and the Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase demonstrates how this can be done.
“With its Digital Enterprise Software Suite, Siemens offers companies a holistic set of hardware and software solutions to establish their Digital Enterprise,” says Bob Jones, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Americas, Siemens. “Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase at DMDII provides a hands-on opportunity to see how these solutions can help play a stronger role in the future Internet economy being brought on by Industry 4.0.”
The Siemens Digital Enterprise Showcase includes kiosks with automation and software demonstrations of the Digital Enterprise Software Suite, which is Siemens answer to the technology requirements of the digital age. Software suites such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) provide the required functionality to remove barriers and merge engineering disciplines that can connect operations from the shop floor to the enterprise level of a manufacturing organization.
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