Automation machine building solutions

Across industries, machine builders who embrace a holistic automation engineering solution can optimize processes and deliver high-quality projects on time and cost-effectively. This holistic approach impacts different industries in distinct ways:

• Industrial Machinery: Equips machine builders with advanced design tools to create a digital twin of machinery — encompassing mechanical, electrical, software and automation details. This empowers them to execute projects efficiently and effectively.
• Battery: Provides battery machine builders the tools and expertise to design, simulate and commission highly flexible, efficient and future-ready production machines. This enables them to adapt to the dynamic requirements of the rapidly evolving battery manufacturing landscape.
• Food and Beverage: Enables machine builders to develop production machines for the F&B industry that ensure the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance. Additionally, it optimizes efficiency, flexibility and traceability across the manufacturing process.

Integrating diverse components, customizing solutions to customer needs and upskilling the workforce — these are just a few of the hurdles machine builders face when adopting automation engineering solutions. Ensuring seamless compatibility with existing infrastructure, managing lifecycle updates and meeting stringent regulatory requirements add further layers of complexity. Scalability and flexibility to accommodate future changes are also critical considerations.

Overcoming these obstacles requires a comprehensive, integrated automation engineering approach. This approach must be powered by a holistic solution that addresses the unique needs of machine builders and empowers them to deliver innovative, future-ready solutions to their customers.

Our automation engineering solution for production machines enables machine builders to achieve easy standardization and modularization. This allows them to create more consistent, flexible and maintainable automation solutions by leveraging standardized function blocks and modular program structures.

Furthermore, the solution enables them to develop more flexible software that can be easily modified or updated for different machines or products. This reduces the time and cost associated with software development.

Lastly, the solution drives collaboration between all engineering domains, enabling engineers to work in parallel on a single project, enhancing efficiency and productivity.

Our solution is designed and built with open, future-proof technologies. It complies with industry standards and leverages a global partner ecosystem of solution providers, system integrators and Siemens service engineers. All of our solutions are open and interoperable with other Siemens or non-Siemens solutions, enabling seamless integration of systems and processes.

Our holistic automation engineering solution includes two powerful simulation tools that enable you to leverage the digital twin to simulate and validate your production machines virtually. This helps identify potential issues, optimize the design and validate the performance of the machine before actual manufacturing begins, reducing the risk of errors.

NX Mechatronics Concept Designer (MCD) is specifically designed to help engineers and machine builders develop and validate mechatronic systems, which combine mechanical, electrical and software components.

SIMIT is a simulation platform that allows users to virtually test and validate automation and control systems before commissioning. This enables closed-loop simulation of the entire automation system, including PLCs, HMIs and other connected devices.

Our machine automation engineering solution enables machine builders to innovate and utilize new technology to produce energy-efficient production machines — aligning with customers' environmental expectations and business objectives.

The solution empowers machine builders to achieve sustainable engineering by leveraging the comprehensive digital twin to validate and optimize machine designs virtually, drastically reducing prototyping and saving resources. In addition, software and hardware capabilities can be employed to design more innovative and sustainable production machines and machine tools that can optimize energy consumption, without compromising its performance and reliability.