Industry Sector
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Siegfried Russwurm
Member of the Siemens Managing Board, Industry Sector CEO
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The car of the future
Visionary production processes from Siemens create the car of tomorrow
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Energy management
Siemens opens the way for efficient energy management
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PLM
Product lifecycle management enables production and operations to be simulated
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Water
Humanity’s most vital resource
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Energy consulting
Minimize costs and increase productivity
Integrated technologies, vertical market expertise and services for greater productivity, energy efficiency and flexibility.
The Industry Sector is one of the world’s leading suppliers of innovative, environmentally friendly products and solutions for industry customers. Solid market expertise, technology-based services and software for industrial processes are the levers we use to increase our customers’ productivity, efficiency and flexibility.
We consistently rely on integrated technologies and, thanks to our bundled portfolio, we can respond more quickly and flexibly to our customers' wishes. With our globally unmatched offering of automation technology, industrial control and drive technology as well as industrial software, we equip enterprises with what they need over their entire value chain – from product design and development to production, sales and service. Our industry customers also profit from our comprehensive offering of services tailored for their market and their needs.
Siemens Industry is able to cut the time needed for the market launch of many products in half with software and automation technology while also significantly reducing energy or wastewater costs for manufacturing companies. In this way we increase our customers‘ competitive strength and make an important contribution to environmental protection at the same time with our energy-efficient products and solutions.
Visionary production processes from Siemens create the car of tomorrow.
Industry production with Siemens technology: The car of the future
Safety, fuel efficiency, and individualized features – the characteristics of the car of the future can already be seen today. Thanks to innovative production technologies from Siemens, this car will primarily be one thing: a product that is fine-tuned to our needs.
A car dealership in 2025: four people – two adults and two children – are standing in front of a projection surface and are moving images through the air with their hands. Is the family looking for its new car? No, it is building one: a flower vase over the navigation device, bottle storage under the passenger seat, a tachometer and speedometer in motorsport design, one multimedia console for the rear seat in blue, the other in green.
From series production to made-to-order
Fuel efficiency, networking with the environment, automatic driving – what will the car of the future bring? The biggest trend in the automotive industry is diversity of variants and individual design. If you take a look at the innovations in production technology, that can already be clearly recognized today. “The future lies in the early identification of customers with the product, when the car purchaser helps decide details of the product’s design already in the planning phase, for example,” explains Matthias Frische, Integration Manager of the Siemens Industry Sector, citing the example of Fiat. For the launch of the new Fiat 500, the manufacturer offered not just a great variety of combination options, but also went a step further in Italy: an online portal allowed consumers to help with the decision about certain design details.
New technology changes the way we work and think
Behind the new options for creating cars in an unimagined diversity of variants – and even for producing niche vehicles with which a great deal of money can nevertheless be made –, there is a lot of innovative technology. First and foremost, however, this trend is leading to a revolutionary change in established ways of working. The path from vision to design to production of a car usually occurs in a step-by-step manner – without a given station in the process being able to influence the previous one. “Between product development and production, there are still gaps on the map,” says Matthias Frische. “Siemens works tirelessly to close these gaps with innovations.” As an example, he describes a production planner who is able to optimize production processes through the Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. He does this, for example, by suggesting to the designer that certain screws be planned in a more favorable location for his tool – and this is accomplished with a graphical interface without the need to pass a lot of papers back and forth. Such innovations are the first important basis of modern production.
Digital factory – planning, testing, building cars
A second pillar of the manufacturing of the individual car of the future is the digital factory: with the virtual representation of the actual factory, production processes can be simulated, new variants can be tested, and processes can be optimized. The results are then implemented in the construction of the manufacturing plants. That makes production both flexible and cost-efficient: if you can eliminate errors in a plant already in the digital world, this creates enormous savings potential. By having design and production grow together, more efficient production methods are also used, allowing material to be conserved, for example.
Intelligently networked energy wonders
Whether intelligent LED lights, low-consumption powertrain concepts, or accident prevention through communication with traffic signs and other vehicles – the car of the future will surely also be individually tailored to the buyer. And that will now be possible on the basis of new manufacturing methods that bring production together with design. Or as Matthias Frische formulates it: “Siemens is the only company worldwide that simultaneously offers a complete solution portfolio on the software side and on the automation side – both for the digital and the actual factory.”
Energy costs in industry can be reduced significantly with energy efficient products and systems.
Efficient energy management
With energy costs rising, competitive pressures intensifying and climate awareness increasing, concepts for energy-optimized equipment and systems are sparking greater interest than ever before. Today, the focus is not only on procurement costs but on a product’s entire lifecycle costs, including operating outlays, energy consumption and resource use. Cutting costs by as much as 70 percent, our energy-saving motors and frequency convertors for variable-speed operation are pillars of efficient energy management. Using our SinaSave software tool, customers can easily calculate how quickly their investments in energy-saving motors and converters will pay for themselves.
The digital factory is breaking new ground with the simulation of production scenarios – all the way from product conception to the recycling phase.
Product lifecycle management
In an age of fast-paced technological change and growing demand for customized products, industrial equipment and systems must be adapted to current market needs more quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively than ever before. Throughout the entire product development process, speed is a key competitive advantage. In today’s increasingly complex environment, conventional development and production processes are reaching their limits. That’s where the digital factory is breaking new ground with the simulation of production scenarios – all the way from product conception to the recycling phase. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the preferred approach for transforming fledgling ideas into successful products.
Our industrial software translates this concept into proven solutions that are open, scalable and flexible. Using our PLM software, manufacturers can simulate production steps and operational states, without the need for costly real-world prototypes. In the field of mechanical engineering, for example, we offer PLM solutions that span the entire process chain – from computer-aided design and manufacturing to the construction of entire virtual machines. The advantages: time-to-market is accelerated considerably, while end customers benefit from improved product quality and productivity.
In membrane filtration systems, the wastewater flows through thousands of fibers that are no thicker than a human hair.
Humanity’s most vital resource
The need for adequate, high-quality, economical and ecofriendly supplies of drinking and process water is posing increasingly complex challenges for both communities and industrial enterprises. Offering customers a dependable, wide-ranging and sustainable supply of everything from individual products to complete, integrated systems, we boast the world’s most extensive portfolio of cost-effective and reliable water technologies, including conventional filtration systems, membrane filtration systems, membrane bioreactors, ultraviolet disinfection technologies and much more. In California’s Orange County Water District, for example, water that was previously discharged into the ocean is now being recovered and reused locally. A MEMCOR® submerged membrane filtration system from Siemens removes suspended matter, bacteria and pollutants from the secondary wastewater. An impressive 284 million liters of reclaimed water are now being delivered to California households, industry and agriculture every day. What’s more, the water quality in the groundwater basin is higher than ever before.
In Singapore, space is just as scare and valuable as water. Coupling high energy efficiency with minimal space requirements, the MEMCOR® membrane filtration system we installed in the Kranji District is ideal for converting wastewater into drinking water on the densely-populated island.
Our innovative and ecofriendly solutions help conserve natural resources, improve energy and capital utilization, and optimize processes.
Energy and environmental consulting
To master the challenges of global competition, our customers must minimize costs, continually increase the productivity of their systems and meet ever-stricter environmental regulations. Our innovative and ecofriendly solutions help conserve natural resources, improve energy and capital utilization, and optimize processes. For our customers, this means lower raw materials consumption, fewer emissions, greater energy efficiency, lower costs and increased output.