• Increase production flexibility with a new digital enterprise portfolio, services and solutions to adapt to rapidly changing market demands
Practice-oriented presentations and models that present digital outcomes across the entire value chain

With the theme “Data Power is unlimited”, Siemens participated online at the 2021 Nuremberg Electrical Automation Systems and Components (SPS) show to showcase the latest products, services and solutions in its digital enterprise portfolio, enabling manufacturing and process industries to better respond to rapidly changing market demands and external environments. Siemens achieves this by merging the physical and digital worlds. As a result, industrial companies can tap into the value of data while leveraging the benefits of automation, electrification and digitization for flexible, sustainable production. Among the innovations and highlights on display at the SPS show are driver connectivity to the Siemens Industrial Edge platform, rack-mounted industrial 5G routers, and driver simulation software solutions. In addition, Siemens introduced new spare parts management services and solutions, B2B markets for industrial companies, and ecosystem-based carbon emission data exchange solutions.

The supply chain accounts for the largest share of a product’s carbon footprint, and the decarbonization of industry is a long and arduous task that requires the joint efforts of all stakeholders. As a leader in automation technology and industrial software, Siemens for the first time launched a solution for product carbon footprint information recording, accurate calculation, trusted sharing and query, which can realize the trusted exchange of carbon emission data throughout the supply chain, and can be integrated with the company’s own data, so as to obtain real product carbon footprint information. To this end, Siemens has launched the open, cross-industry Estainium ecosystem, which aims to help manufacturers, suppliers, customers, partners and others to share trusted data on the carbon footprint of their products. Based on SiGreen, companies can realize the transparency of the product carbon footprint throughout the supply chain, and then take quantifiable and precise measures to decarbonize. Support companies to achieve carbon neutrality through carbon management, helping them turn their sustainable development Goals into a decisive competitive advantage.

At the industrial edge, Siemens has also established an independent mall across manufacturers for its industry customers. The mall hosts the trading mechanism of Siemens’ Industrial edge: an innovative IT platform that enables scalable deployment of IT technologies on the production floor. Customers will benefit from a wide range of software components from numerous suppliers and manufacturers and integrate them into their manufacturing processes in a standardized manner. At present, the various products in the mall cover connectivity, data storage, visualization and analysis, machine monitoring, as well as energy and asset management. As an open software platform, industrial edge technology is therefore the basis for creating an edge computing ecosystem.

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The industrial edge technology portfolio on the hardware side also continues to evolve. Industrial-grade SIMATIC IPC227E and 427E are ideal platforms for industrial edge and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

In addition, in the field of drive technology, Siemens explained the importance of further integrating drive technology with digital technology, and introduced DriveSimBasic software solutions for simulating, tuning and optimizing drive systems and their performance in machines and plants. This innovative solution, designed by Siemens, enables machine and equipment manufacturers to quickly and easily implement drive technology simulation, thereby speeding up their development process. Not only that, but with Analyze MyDrives Edge, drive systems can now also be connected to industrial edge platforms for real-time data analysis.

Industrial communication and networking, identification and positioning technologies form the basis of industrial digitalization. Siemens is presenting its rack-mounted industrial 5G router for the first time at an online event with its Scalance MUM856-1. The device connects local industrial applications to public 5G, 4G (LTE) and 3G (UMTS) mobile wireless networks. With public 5G networks, the router will have extremely high data rates and flexibility to remotely monitor and maintain plants, machines, control elements and other industrial equipment. Not only that, the device can also be integrated into a dedicated 5G network. As a result, the Scalance MUM856-1 has the capability to support future-oriented applications such as mobile robots for manufacturing, autonomous guided vehicles for logistics, and augmented reality applications for service technicians.

Operators of large enterprise networks are increasingly faced with the challenge of remote intervention in production while following OT and IT security guidelines. To ensure that the convergence of OT and IT does not expose communication networks to greater potential threats, the “defense in depth” OT security concept has been expanded to a “zero trust” IT security concept. Siemens is working with Zscaler LTD. (NASDAQ: ZS), a leader in cloud security technology, to develop security solutions to ensure that customers can remotely and securely access systems and applications in production networks (OT) in the workplace (office or remote locations). These new capabilities need to not only continue to meet users’ production requirements in terms of availability and real-time capabilities, but also give users the ability to remotely manage, control quality, and diagnose problems remotely. To achieve this, application connectors for Zscaler Private AccessTM (ZPATM), a cloud-based remote access service, can be installed on Docker Containers on the Siemens Scalance LPE local processing platform. To create an access solution for manufacturers.

Siemens Digital Enterprise Services combines expert wisdom, traditional services and cutting-edge technologies into a unique, holistic solution to support companies in all industries to successfully and securely implement digital transformation. During the virtual event, Siemens also presented its dedicated service solution for predictive maintenance of spare parts inventory: Predictive Spare Parts Services. The solution provides efficient digital spare parts management, as well as comprehensive analysis of historical spare parts consumption data and systematic scrap management. Users can use this solution to optimize their spare parts inventory and ensure the suitability of spare parts, while improving the availability of plants and reducing inventory costs.