Automotive smart manufacturing
Get high-quality electric and autonomous vehicles to market faster. Predict and mitigate operational issues, expedite launches and line-changeovers and maximize resilience in the face of changing demands and manufacturing disruptions.
Leverage automotive smart manufacturing solutions
The push for sustainable electric and autonomous vehicles requires a cutting-edge approach to automotive manufacturing. Transform your operations by harnessing the power of data and next-level automation to drive sustainable production excellence.
Minimize operational challenges
Enable flexible, efficient and sustainable operations by updating and connecting plant processes, people and advanced automation.
50% Reduced time to market
Develop a scalable greenfield factory in less than two years and build a fully digital factory 50% faster than usual.
Faster implementation
Siemens is supplying innovative conveyor technology solutions for production of the Porsche Taycan eCar in Zuffenhausen.
15% Increased throughput
Optimize production processes by leveraging advanced IoT data analytics and increase throughput in your paint shop by up to 15%.
Transform automotive manufacturing
Transform manufacturing for next-gen mobility. Embrace digitalization: virtual representation, simulation, and data for a fully digital enterprise. Adapt processes for product variants, global customers, and sustainability. Explore 3 key paths to build a digital backbone.
Unite the digital and real worlds to design for automation. Enable operational flexibility and virtually commission equipment and lines to ensure a successful launch with fast ramp-up.
- Validate producibility with a reliable virtual version of production
- Reduce costs and ramp-up time while enhancing precision
- Produce sustainably by simulating energy and material usage
- Identify, track and achieve manufacturing metrics
Update operations with next-level automation. Connect IT and OT by leveraging AI, machine learning, IIoT, edge computing, the cloud and the Industrial Metaverse.
- Apply advanced automation and the digital twin to legacy systems
- Establish a single source of product and process data
- Train maintenance personnel using virtual solutions to reduce training time and minimize risk of manual errors
Foster a manufacturing ecosystem that's autonomous, predictive and responsive. Monitor and adjust processes in real time, optimize supply chain operations and logistics and make progress toward carbon neutrality.
- Gain complete visibility into every step of your operations
- Identify and mitigate issues with automated anomaly detection
- Eliminate unplanned downtime in production
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Connect processes, technologies, equipment and personnel from planning to execution with our automotive smart manufacturing solutions.
Solutions to transform automotive smart manufacturing
Process planning and verification
Collaborate instantly and securely to optimize part production and assembly operations. Execute all related activities more efficiently with a digital thread that spans your organization and plants.
Production operation and optimization
Modernize plants with latest tech. Compress development to bring new products to market faster. Quickly adapt to production shifts, ensuring flexible, efficient lines to improve market responsiveness.
Predictive maintenance
Monitor quality and equipment performance to enable predictive, automated maintenance and condition monitoring.
Centralized data management
Deliver business value with industrial IoT data by implementing reliable asset monitoring, enhancing manufacturing performance and enabling quality prediction.
Material transport
Drive efficiency in material transport and adapt your production processes to market needs rapidly and at scale. Leverage capabilities that will help you reduce development time, errors and costs.
Production order execution
Receive all data necessary to determine how well equipment is operating and identify improvement opportunities.
Application development platform
Accelerate innovation, increase agility and capitalize on the value of your core systems using our scalable, adaptable solutions.
Industrial cybersecurity
Protect the know-how and productivity of automotive companies by securely combining the real and digital worlds.
Line automation engineering
Making automotive line automation engineering faster, more flexible and more efficient with an end-to-end approach.
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On-demand webinar | Rapid factory evolution for the automotive industry
On-demand webinar | Virtual development of manufacturing
On-demand webinar | The value of smart manufacturing in automotive
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White paper | Rapid plant evolution in automotive
Infographic | Virtual development of automotive manufacturing
Ebook | Automotive smart manufacturing