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The digital and sustainable future of glass production

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

Overcome industry challenges with digitalisation

The glass industry faces critical challenges with production speed and complexity, as well as overall sustainability. The solutions require digitalisation 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 decarbonisation initiatives. To meet sustainability goals in the energy-intensive glass industry requires multiple strategies, from process optimisation to waste heat recovery.

Complex requirements and standards

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

Digitalisation

To overcome time pressure and increasing complexity, digitalisation can be used to enable optimised 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 optimise production changes.

Real-world applications

Explore solutions for the entire value chain

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Decarbonisation 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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Digitalisation in glass finishing

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

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Plant-wide automation

Plant-wide automation based on the end-to-end integration of all automation components makes it possible to combine different machine and system manufacturers in a single, plant-wide automation system.

Digitalization consulting

Digitalisation consulting in the glass industry

Explore Siemens digitalisation consulting approach for the glass industry, step by step. Discover how we can speed up the successful digital transformation of your glass production. Our experts provide in-depth consulting, including analysing the digital maturity of your glass manufacturing and finishing systems and helping you to develop an effective digitalisation 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 that you always have a reliable solution available.

Let's advance manufacturing – by empowering the ecosystem to design, produce and use additive applications across industries.

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