Printing machines

Enhance efficiency, flexibility and performance in printing machinery. We combine proven standards and integrated automation, control and drive technologies with digital solutions to help machine builders respond to evolving market demands and create intelligent, high-performance printing systems.

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Changing market demands raise new challenges

Growing demand for customization, shorter production runs, new application areas such as functional printing, and increasing pressure to improve productivity are transforming the printing industry. Machine builders must deliver more flexible, efficient and intelligent printing machines while reducing engineering effort and accelerating time to market.

Meeting these challenges requires machine concepts that combine intelligent automation, digital engineering and data-driven technologies. Digital twins, simulation and Industrial Edge help optimize machine performance, increase transparency, reduce downtime and improve efficiency while lowering engineering and operating costs.

Digital printer outputting a test sheet with peacock images and CMYK color bars.

Optimizing the printing machine value chain

Printing machine builders rely on integrated solutions to develop, commission and operate high-performance machines. We support OEMs with automation, digital engineering and software solutions across the machine lifecycle – helping them improve efficiency, flexibility and machine performance.

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Optimize machine development with digital engineering

Optimize the development and commissioning of printing machines with digital engineering, digital twins and simulation. Siemens solutions such as virtual commissioning and multiphysics simulation help OEMs validate machine concepts, test automation functions and analyze complex machine behavior before the physical machine is built. By identifying optimization potential early in the design phase, OEMs can reduce engineering effort, shorten commissioning times and improve machine performance.

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Discover how others are approaching their challenges

Printing machine, developed at BW Papersystems

BW Papersystems, Germany

Integrated solution for innovative sheeter

Reduced complexity by up to 50% through standardized Converting Toolbox functions like Rotary Knife or Winder and Tension Control, cut setup times by 50% with automation, and improved support through remote access and diagnostics.

Close-up of sheet feed and conveyor mechanism inside a Koenig & Bauer MetalPrint printing machine.

Koenig & Bauer MetalPrint, Germany

Modular and standardized from unit to application

Up to 40% less design time through standardization and modularization, leaner architectures, and one TIA Portal project enabling efficient multi-user engineering with up to five programmers working in parallel.

AB Electric employee using the Modular Application Creator to generate automation projects for printing machines.

AB Electric A/S, Denmark

From three weeks of programming to half a day

Modular Application Creator accelerates engineering through automated TIA Portal project generation, reducing errors and commissioning time while freeing engineers from routine tasks to focus on creative solutions and innovations.

manroland Goss, Germany

Faster printing machine development with digital twins

Digital twin and virtual commissioning optimize printing machine development, shorten on-site commissioning by up to 50% and reduce lifecycle costs. Operating and process data enable continuous machine optimization.

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Holistic machine concepts with the Converting Toolbox

Do you need to perform converting tasks? Stephan Karl presents the Converting Toolbox library with preconfigured converting functions designed specifically for applications using continuous web materials.