Siemens will showcase its expanded digital enterprise product portfolio to efficiently use digital data

· The theme of this year’s exhibition: “Digital Enterprise-Thinking about the Future of Industry!”

· Realize the next stage of digital transformation with the help of cutting-edge technologies such as edge computing and cloud computing

· Significantly improve productivity, production flexibility and production efficiency

· More comprehensive and in-depth evaluation and use of data, and the data owner will always have the ownership of the data

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Siemens will showcase the specific industry applications and future of the digital transformation of discrete manufacturing and process industries with the theme of “Digital Enterprise-Thinking about the Future of Industry!” Technology. The booth of more than 4,000 square meters focused on digital enterprise product portfolios, solutions and services, aiming to help customers significantly shorten the time to market, increase productivity, production flexibility and production efficiency.

Siemens will launch a newly developed complete industrial operation and monitoring system based on the Web-based visualization system, consisting of SIMATIC WinCC Unified visualization software and a new generation of SIMATIC HMI Unified smart panels. At the same time, Siemens will also showcase Sinumerik One, a numerical control system for the digital age: through the seamless connection between the virtual world and the real world, it will significantly increase the productivity of machine tools, shorten the time to market, and improve machine tool performance. As part of the digital connection, Siemens will also showcase its new CloudConnect product, which can quickly, easily and securely transfer data from each factory to the cloud.

The product portfolio will integrate and apply cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence and edge computing to the future factory and process automation, which can provide a wide range of new opportunities for companies in various industries and help them better take advantage of the rapid growth in the industry Data, and let the data owner always own the data. Taking the automotive industry as an example, Siemens will show at the exhibition how to reduce development and production time without considering the engine power mode (diesel, gasoline, electric, etc.). The concept of fully automated manufacturing that can bring high-quality, high-precision and industrialized additive manufacturing technology will significantly improve production performance and shorten set-up time, and achieve full transparency in battery development and production processes. At the booth, Siemens demonstrated the advantages of a modular process factory through the “plug and play” separator unit of GEA in Germany. The unit is automated through Module Type Packaging (MTP), supported by Web-based applications and MindSphere-based digital services, and improves plant transparency and production efficiency by optimizing control circuits and maintenance plans.

Use artificial intelligence services to significantly improve factory availability and product quality

Siemens service experts can provide comprehensive digital transformation support services covering from consulting, implementation to optimization, including artificial intelligence-based services, which can realize the connection between the field layer and the edge layer and the cloud. The data is collected and analyzed on field devices, and then uploaded to the cloud for further analysis by artificial intelligence algorithms. Through this method, users can predict unplanned machine downtime and control product quality. At the exhibition, Siemens will also exhibit a modular predictive service package for early detection and correction of faults. In addition, through the “closed loop analysis service”, Siemens will demonstrate how to apply data analysis and artificial intelligence technology to tap the potential of the undeveloped production and process environment, so as to reduce the number of test applications and increase the number of applications through the new data in MindSphere. Production and processing efficiency improves the performance of machine learning models.

Easily upload data to all major cloud platforms

At the exhibition, Siemens will launch CloudConnect, an innovative product for digital connection, which can quickly, easily and securely transfer data from each factory to the cloud. Siemens will also showcase PlantSight, a cloud-based portal that can provide all factory information, to achieve efficient data integration, contextualization, verification, and visualization, across various information sources and data formats, to create a wide-ranging and seamless digital environment, and to improve the factory Information reliability and quality, and availability and reliability of plant operations.

SIMATIC PCS neo is a newly developed system software, completely based on Web technology, which provides new opportunities for process industry companies in the digital age. It not only allows engineers to use HTML5 browsers to access the system directly and securely from any device at any location, but also has the unique usability of providing all relevant information in a single workbench. The intuitive and friendly graphical user interface is also a major feature of SIMATIC PCS neo. Users can access all tasks and obtain relevant information with just a few mouse clicks. The consistency of the object-oriented data model makes the workflow intuitive and fast, which can significantly improve Engineering and operational efficiency.

Set new standards for industrial operation and monitoring

At the exhibition, Siemens will launch a newly developed complete industrial operation and monitoring system, which is a Web-based visualization system, including SIMATIC WinCC Unified visualization software and a new generation of SIMATIC HMI Unified smart panels. The new system provides users with application solutions for HMI and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition). In the future, it will also cover application scenarios such as industrial edge computing, cloud technology, and augmented reality. Other product innovations include the compact drive-based SIMATIC Drive Controller, which directly integrates the SIMATIC S7-1500 controller with motion control functions into the modular SINAMICS S120 multi-axis drive system to achieve synchronization between axes on different CPUs ( Gear or cam synchronization), it is convenient to flexibly allocate the number of axes on multiple CPUs, and easily realize a modular machine solution.

Brand-new information security service, perfect guarantee of productivity

Digitization has led to the further development of industrial networking up to the sensor level. For automated systems, preventing risks is essential. For this reason, Siemens can provide complete information security solutions that comply with the IEC 62443 standard (a widely recognized and adopted industrial automation information security standard). At the exhibition, Siemens launched an industrial information security service concept specifically for SIMATIC automation systems, aiming to achieve the rationalization of information security configuration and the efficient management of weak links.

Innovative driving technology digital solutions

At the exhibition, Siemens also demonstrated its digital product portfolio for drive systems: covering the entire value chain from design to planning, implementation, production and service. The new SINAMICS G120X inverter series, SIMATIC Micro-Drive and SINAMICS S210 servo drive systems, SIMOTICS low-voltage motors and other innovative products are perfectly combined with intelligent software to achieve the transparency of the transmission system and ensure reliable operation. With the new interfaces and connection modules of SINAMICS Connect 300 for low-voltage inverters and SIMOTICS Connect 400 for power-driven motors, machine and plant manufacturers and users can obtain data from the drive system and create digital data such as digital twins Model to realize the overall optimization of the machine and the factory. SINAMICS Connect 300 ensures that the data on the low-voltage inverter is uploaded to the cloud. In the future, the SINAMICS Connect 400 connection module can also be used to modify the running low-voltage motor on site, so that the low-voltage motor can send operating data to the cloud-based Sidrive IQ Fleet App without any structural modification. In addition to the Sidrive IQ Fleet MindSphere App, the Analyze MyDrives App also supports access to important information about the status of the drive, thereby reducing downtime and increasing machine and plant productivity.

Smart and safe power infrastructure solutions

A safe and reliable electrical infrastructure is essential for the smooth operation of automated production plants. By being integrated in the digital environment, it can ensure a safe, reliable and efficient power supply for factories, machines and buildings. At the same time, it also provides important data for improving energy efficiency, optimizing production processes, and achieving predictive maintenance. Siemens will also demonstrate at this exhibition how to achieve the best integration of low-voltage systems, protection and measurement devices, and industrial switch technology with automation and cloud systems.

Siemens will also showcase the 7KN Powercenter 3000 IoT data platform. As a central gateway, it can collect and process energy and equipment data from power consumers, and send the bundled data to the automation system or the cloud-based open IoT operating system MindSphere. By using the Sivacon 8PS busway system with innovative power line technology, data can be transmitted directly through the conductors on the bus bar, using the measurement and switch equipment installed in the tap unit, without the need for additional data lines. The Sirius industrial control product portfolio allows machine and control cabinet manufacturers to benefit significantly from the universal system of switchgear, which helps them to create ideal solutions for all switching and control tasks. These product portfolios are all part of fully integrated automation, supporting efficient project engineering and flexible applications, and being able to collect machine data and use it for detailed analysis in the upper-level system and IoT environment.