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The digital and sustainable future of glass production

Transform glass production with digitalization. As you face increasing costs and complexity, it is essential to become a digital enterprise that optimizes and digitalizes its processes. Learn how Siemens solutions can improve productivity, efficiency and quality across your value chain.

Overcome industry challenges with digitalization

The glass industry faces critical challenges with production speed and complexity, as well as overall sustainability. The solutions require digitalization to improve productivity and flexibility across the entire value chain.

Production speed and time pressure

Accelerate production without compromising quality control. To keep machinery and plants running reliably and continuously, operators must find opportunities to make processes more flexible, efficient and automated.

Energy costs and sustainability

Scale energy efficiency and decarbonization initiatives. To meet sustainability goals in the energy-intensive glass industry requires multiple strategies, from process optimization to waste heat recovery.

Complex requirements and standards

Meet or exceed strict standards and complex requirements, such as with automotive glass. Improving process digitalization and process transparency are key steps to ensure compliance.

Digitalization

To overcome time pressure and increasing complexity, digitalization can be used to enable optimized production.

Innovation

Continuing innovation in products, production and machines can create opportunities, but it also requires new technology and strategy.

Flexibility

Plant-wide automation supports greater flexibility to optimize production changes.

Real-world applications

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Decarbonization of the glass industry

Digital solutions across the entire lifecycle of the glass plant enable glass manufacturers to increase transparency and reduce carbon emissions and energy costs.

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Digitalization in glass finishing

Transparency at all stages of the process in your plant is essential. Our automation and software portfolio lets you achieve this using a digital twin of your production system.

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Machine building in the glass industry

As a machine builder, you must make it possible for your customers to adapt their production processes quickly. Digitalization is offering significant advantages in this respect.

Digitalization consulting in the glass industry

Explore Siemens digitalization consulting approach for the glass industry, step by step. Learn how we can speed up the successful digital transformation of your glass production. Our experts provide in-depth consulting, including analyzing the digital maturity of your glass manufacturing and finishing systems and helping you develop an effective digitalization strategy.

Partner ecosystem

1,000+ products and growing

While Siemens offers extensive products, solutions and services, a core part of our model is to work closely with trusted partners. Our partners augment what we offer so you always have a reliable solution available.

Lets advance manufacturing - by empowering the ecosystem to design, produce and use additive applications across industries.

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