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Rethinking machine building

How to develop machines faster, configure them more efficiently, and impress users with clear added value: Benefit from coordinated processes in design, engineering, and commissioning.

Your path to efficient projects and new services

How do you master the ever-increasing pressure to innovate, more stringent demands on safety and cybersecurity, and growing complexity in your machine projects? Are you reaching the limits of established processes and realizing that it is no longer enough to simply be faster? Then it's time for you to rethink mechanical engineering: With solutions that blend competencies and project phases, you can achieve more transparency, automate processes, and benefit from fewer errors and risks. This is the secret to making your ideas more productive for you and your users – and laying the foundations for new services and business models.

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Discover the benefits

Make informed decisions

Identify and reduce risks at an early stage, plan resources and costs efficiently, and improve your competitiveness.

Design projects efficiently and securely

Apply standards consistently, test functions early, and implement directives and guidelines reliably – for fewer risks and project disruptions.

Create space for innovative ideas and services

Use operating, status, and diagnostics data for monitoring, predictive maintenance, or remote services and win over users with data-based offers – even beyond the machine.

Your keys to greater efficiency, quality and innovation

Added values with data-based services

Make machine states transparent and utilize operating data in a targeted manner for new services – for example, for a truly forward-looking maintenance offer. Condition-based monitoring and analysis minimize downtimes for maintenance. These are all ways you can optimize the productivity of your solutions in operation – and inspire your users with additional added value.

Senseye Predictive Maintenance

Safety and cybersecurity belong together

A safe machine not only protects people, but also itself: from damage, from unauthorized access, and from attacks. With our integrated approach, we make it easy for you to bring safety and cybersecurity together and reduce risks early on – for greater clarity in development, fewer adjustments, and secure and consistent solutions.

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Test early with virtual solutions

Discover the potential of digitalization for your engineering: Test design, programs, and functions on a virtual model. This enables you to verify and validate control logic, motion sequences, and safety functions early on in the project, resulting in rework savings and lower effort. Both you and your users benefit from fast, smooth commissioning.

Validate the automation program with SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced and SIMIT

Optimal design of drive solutions made simple

You want more dynamism, more precision, more reliability, and more energy efficiency. What you don't want is more complexity. Find your perfect drive solution quickly and easily: Simulate load cases, motion profiles, and system behavior at an early stage and design drives to suit your requirements right from the start – for fewer technical risks and targeted development.

SINAMICS variable frequency drives product family

Standard-compliant electrical design for machines

Whether UL 508A or IEC standards: Your electrical planning is ready and prepared. With clear processes, consistent data, and structured planning, you can reliably meet the applicable requirements, reduce possible sources of error and discrepancies, and implement your projects more effectively – for standard-compliant, efficient, and transparent planning, documentation, and approval of your electrical systems.

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