Advanced Machine Engineering for Food and Beverage

Food and beverage machine builders gain three main benefits from advanced machine engineering. First of all, they gain plug and play machine designs that meet customers’ requirements for compatibility and quality, incorporating Siemens’ battery technical guidelines to ensure machine compatibility. Secondly, they gain multi-disciplinary collaboration from concept design through detailed multi-disciplined design, test, and commissioning activities. And finally, they gain a single, extendable platform, taking advantage of the cloud so that it can grow with your business, whether that means adding more users, capabilities, or factories

Design modularity lets you deliver machines more efficiently and profitably with flexible, modular designs for easy and smooth integration for the end customer that allows maximum re-use when design variants to support production. Through standardization, end-users will be able to deploy lines faster and run them more efficiently, while machine builders can offer differentiation through user experience (HMI), machine performance and energy usage. Development time can be reduced by using preconfigured tools and an integrated framework. In many areas, engineering tasks can be automated, using libraries to accelerate machine development. Companies can use this technology to construct a multi-disciplinary machine and line design integrated with the Plant, allowing them to run simulations of future production and fine-tune manufacturing processes and layouts.

Next generation machining lets you integrate design functions such as mechanical, electrical, software and automation with customer requirements, letting you deliver more machines faster. Performance can be improved through simulation-driven design, which can take operational data (IIoT) directly into the simulation models. Bid management, concept design, project planning and product quality can all be integrated into a single system. To speed up machine deployment, commissioning in the virtual model can replace much of today’s physical commissioning with virtual verification. Companies can use this technology to construct a multi-disciplinary machine and line design integrated with the Plant, allowing them to run simulations of future production and fine-tune manufacturing processes and layouts. In addition, for machines to become more sustainable, machine builders must have ongoing visibility into energy and operations costs. By adopting technology that enables them to measure progress towards sustainability targets they gain a fully comprehensive outlook on their costs and environmental impact.

With data-enabled services, you can build data acquisition capabilities into your machines, such as embedded sensors, predictive maintenance & analytics, reliability optimization and computer science for machine control, machine builders can offer a lifetime package for machinery through remote service capabilities. Visibility of operational data supports closed-loop validation, increasing clarity of how machines are used – information that can be used to influence designs and maximize the end users’ efficient operations. This technology enables firms to conduct human and robot simulations in the virtual workplace to ensure ergonomic operations and improve service and maintenance operations in the virtual environment