Siemens to demonstrate the 'digital enterprise' at Hannover Messe

According to Siemens, the cornerstones needed to achieve a digital transformation are: integrated software tools and systems; industry-capable communication and security solutions; and data-based services. These will enable manufacturing companies to achieve faster, more flexible value-adding processes and so cater more specifically to individual customer needs; allow them to respond more rapidly to new market demands; and make it easier for them to develop complete new business models. Although industrial enterprises are facing different demands depending on their field, the central challenges are the same for all companies: reducing the time-to-market and increasing flexibility and efficiency while achieving an ever-higher standard of quality.

Siemens took an important step towards extending its offering for the ‘digital enterprise’ with its recently announced plan to acquire the US company CD-adapco. Digital Factory Division CEO Anton S Huber said, “By supplementing our portfolio of industrial simulation tools to include the market’s leading software tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and integrating world-leading experts in this field, we are significantly expanding our expertise in the extremely important field of model-based product development.”

Over the past 15 years, Siemens has continuously expanded its portfolio of software tools offered as part of its ‘Digital Enterprise Software Suite’. The Digital Enterprise Software Suite offers a comprehensive portfolio of integral software-based tools focusing on Teamcenter as a collaboration platform.

“Using the software tools, communication solutions, security concepts and solutions, and an open platform for data-based services offered by Siemens, manufacturing companies are already in a position to invest in futureproof automation solutions for the step-by-step implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions today,” said Huber. “Digitalisation gives them the capability to significantly speed up their value-adding processes and so engineer, produce and market their products far more quickly and efficiently.”

Under the banner ‘Ingenuity for life — Driving the Digital Enterprise’, the Siemens booth at the Hannover Messe from 25–29 April will be offering an overview of the company’s extensive portfolio over an area of 3500 m². The booth will feature solutions and products for electrification, automation and digitalisation, offering visitors to Hannover the chance to experience an array of innovations in the fields of power distribution, automation and drive technology as well as industrial software.

Exhibits will include the new performance features of the TIA Portal V14 and the innovative service concept based on MindSphere — Siemens Cloud for Industry. In the field of motion control applications, Siemens is launching a coordinated package comprising the Simatic Advanced Controller and Sinamics servo drive system. Also new at the fair will be the latest release 8.2 of Simatic PCS 7 featuring additional convenience functions, the Simotics reluctance drive system with an extended output range and Simotics AMB active magnetic bearing technology. In the field of energy management, Siemens will be presenting two new series of its moulded case circuit breaker 3VA from the Sentron portfolio in compliance with American standards with UL approval, and the modular multichannel current measuring system type 7KT PAC1200.

Using a range of concrete examples taken from practice, Siemens will be demonstrating ways in which companies can benefit by from the merger of the real and virtual worlds. The central exhibits at this year’s booth will be a series of ‘Highlight Cubes’ on the topics of Energy for Industry, Additive Manufacturing, Automotive and Fiber Industry, which will provide visitors with a graphic illustration of selected topics for a direct hands-on experience. In the Sports Zone, Siemens will be showcasing its long-standing relationship with the USA, the partner country to the fair. Using the example of products by American manufacturers from the sport and leisure industry, this area of the booth demonstrates the influence of automation and digitalisation on the production of sports articles and equipment.