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The Value of Smart Manufacturing

Siemens' Smart Manufacturing solutions help automotive manufacturers optimize and monitor operations by digitizing processes. This allows manufacturers to anticipate and prevent production issues before launches, achieve error-free product launches, and gain real-time visibility into operations. Adopting Smart Manufacturing through virtual development and self-organizing manufacturing environments allows manufacturers to test operations virtually, reduce development time, quickly ramp up production, and keep lines running safely and efficiently.

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The Value of Smart Manufacturing

Siemens' Smart Manufacturing solutions help automotive manufacturers optimize and monitor operations by digitizing processes. This allows manufacturers to anticipate and prevent production issues before launches, achieve error-free product launches, and gain real-time visibility into operations. Adopting Smart Manufacturing through virtual development and self-organizing manufacturing environments allows manufacturers to test operations virtually, reduce development time, quickly ramp up production, and keep lines running safely and efficiently.

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SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES SOFTWARE

Smart
Manufacturing
Drive production excellence with intelligent manufacturing
siemens.com/sm
Transportation is being redefined before our very eyes. Never has the Siemens’ Smart Manufacturing solutions help automotive
pace of change been so fast or the pressure facing automotive manufacturers achieve this goal. It empowers you to efficiently
manufacturers so high. optimize and monitor operations by digitizing your processes. It helps
your manufacturing plants achieve:
Vehicles are evolving into complex, connected computers on wheels,
enabled by electronics and software and more strictly regulated by • An error-free product launch
environmental and homologation requirements.
• Real-time visibility into operations
All of this comes at a time when global competition is fierce, and
manufacturers must reduce their time to market or risk getting left • Self-organizing manufacturing lines
behind as their competitors forge ahead.
Adopting Smart Manufacturing allows you to better plan your
This new era has presented manufacturers with challenges to:
manufacturing work cells, lines, and operations to ensure your launch
• Modernize plants rapidly with new technologies is flawless. You can more quickly ramp up, achieve line speed, and
meet business and productivity targets. And, throughout production,
• Compress development and launch timelines you can keep your line running safely and securely to produce high-
quality, compliant products on time.
• Adjust to production changes quickly

You are already changing the way you approach manufacturing to


meet these challenges. However, your changes have significantly
increased production complexity which leads to the question:

How can you anticipate production issues before they prevent


you from launching successfully and manufacturing profitably?

Key Drivers
for the Automotive Industry
• Increasing demands for higher fuel efficency and
lower emissions require rapid innovation

• Higher levels of personalization reduce batch


sizes and increase the number of components

• New technologies require improved data


exchange and cybersecurity

• Adding EV, AV, and ADAS to a current portfolio


requires revamped manufacturing processes
Plan, optimize, and test operations virtually
before physical commissioning

With a Smart Manufacturing approach, With virtual development, you can


your mechanical, electrical, electronic, practice the launch of a new product
controls, and software domains build to ensure that costly last-minute
their plans using a single collaboration changes do not delay your launch.
backbone to make designs accessible to
each other and downstream operations. Virtual manufacturing development
enables you to:
This integration forms a virtual
replication, known as a digital twin, of • Bring all engineering disciplines
your work cells, manufacturing lines, and together to build a comprehensive
even your entire plant. digital twin

• Optimize production processes,


A digital twin enables you to develop
pre- and post-launch
work cells and assembly lines virtually
before physical commissioning. It helps • Practice product launch with virtual
you to achieve launch readiness by commissioning
providing an overall picture where you
can use data to virtually identify • Share product design data with
obstacles, test solutions, and validate manufacturing early in the
new scenarios. development cycle

• Easily duplicate or relocate


manufacturing lines anywhere
in the world

Actual customer value

30% Reduction in 200% Gain in


development time productivity

Maserati
Build a self-organizing
manufacturing environment

Not every manufacturing line can be built A continuous communication loop With Siemens’ Smart Manufacturing solution, automotive manufacturers can:
from the ground up, which makes it creates manufacturing lines that can
challenging to implement cutting-edge manage themselves to prevent errors, Boost flexibility and react faster to issues on the line by deploying edge technology that
technologies as they become available. minimize downtime, and produce first- incorporates a self-organizing environment.
time quality parts at launch and
Reduce energy use and carbon footprint by leveraging advanced scheduling
With a Smart Manufacturing solution throughout the product lifecycle. Feeding
technologies.
that includes hardware and software that this data back into the digital twin of the
work seamlessly together, you can product and manufacturing operations Gain agility to implement cross-line and cross-plant production, using a cloud
update legacy equipment with sensors also improves the quality of future environment that manages data analytics to enable you to commission anywhere in the
and edge devices to collect and analyze production. world.
data for trends and prescriptive insights.
Modernizing your equipment and Ensure that the right parts are built at the right time on the right machine with
Technologies like artificial intelligence creating a self-organizing ecosystem will manufacturing execution systems (MES).
(AI) and the industrial internet of things drive efficiency and agility today while
(IoT) can connect work cells, assembly building the foundation for tomorrow’s Fully merge the physical and digital worlds with Siemens Smart Manufacturing.
lines, and the entire plant to optimize technological advancements.
production processes and resolve real-
time issues.
About Siemens’ Smart Manufacturing:

Siemens Smart Manufacturing offers automotive


manufacturers and their suppliers the tools to
implement intelligent manufacturing. With Siemens’
Xcelerator portfolio, they can combine state-of-
the-art technologies and automation to convert
production lines into autonomous self-organizing
environments.
A comprehensive digital twin enables companies to
simulate products and manufacturing, providing the
flexibility to replicate production anywhere in the
world. Closed-loop feedback offers predictive insights
that can be used to fine-tune manufacturing and
increase uptime to maximize profitability.
Smart Manufacturing is a fully integrated, scalable
approach that enables manufacturers to transform
their operations rapidly.

For more information on Siemens Smart


Manufacturing, visit siemens.com/sm or follow us on
LinkedIn and Twitter.

Siemens Smart Manufacturing,


Where today meets tomorrow.

Americas: +1 314 264 8499


EMEA: +44 (0) 1276 413200
Asia-Pacific: +852 2230 3333

© Siemens 2022. A list of relevant Siemens


trademarks can be found here.

Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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