Toward a people-centric and adaptive production ecosystem.
Alan Porter, Global VP, Electronics Industry, Siemens Digital Industries Software –
Post 3 in our Blog Series, “Sustainability in Electronics. Every Detail Matters.”
At Siemens, we are committed to supporting electronics players along the entire value chain. Our comprehensive platform helps companies streamline their design processes and realize advanced designs efficiently. Additionally, it optimizes manufacturing operations through the integration of facility monitoring and control systems. By integrating Siemens smart solutions for sustainability in electronics, we enable electronics companies and equipment manufacturers to achieve greater productivity, achieve higher initial quality, enhance production sustainability, and stay ahead of the competition.
Accelerating innovation with a smart, end-to-end solution
Siemens Xcelerator acts as the driving force, accelerating the electronics industry’s digital transformation. This powerful platform seamlessly integrates with existing infrastructure, offering a unified environment for data management, analytics, and collaboration. As a result, electronics companies can rapidly establish an adaptive, people-centric, and sustainable production ecosystem.
With the Siemens Xcelerator digital platform, integrated lifecycle management for electronics can connect every aspect of manufacturing processes to establish a flexible plant where all product information and design data and all lifecycle supporting collateral are tied to critical processes and tasks from requirements to final delivered product.
Advancing digitalization throughout the enterprise transforms you into a digital company, offering unprecedented connectivity across business and technical processes. This transformation enables efficient sustainability management, ensures compliance and verification, secures sustainable suppliers, and facilitates material traceability. Ultimately, it guarantees the integration of sustainable practices throughout the entire lifecycle. This enables the optimization of logistics networks and paves the way for creating a secure, collaborative, and sustainable design to production ecosystem.
“Not only will these digitalized processes help optimize the sustainability of supply chains for product, the transparency of the data can also incentivize suppliers in the network to improve their own sustainability and seek further carbon-conscious production methods.”*
– Eryn Devola, Vice President of Sustainability, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Toward an adaptive, sustainable electronics production
As part of Siemens Xcelerator, Industrial Operations X provides a continuously growing, interoperable portfolio to help make your production process more flexible, autonomous and people-centric. With Industrial Operations X, Siemens is consistently integrating IT and software capabilities into the world of automation. It integrates cutting-edge IT, AI, and modular solutions, empowering plants to adjust rapidly to market demands. User-friendly interfaces enable diverse teams to optimize production, driving efficiency, cost reduction, and improved quality – crucial in the innovative and cost-intensive world of electronics. Industrial Operations X enables a people-centric production environment, fosters innovation and agility, keeping you at the forefront of advancements in electronics manufacturing processes and equipment. As an open and interoperable system, it can also interact with 3rd party systems in industrial operations, enabling a more versatile ecosystem.
Future-proofing the electronics workforce
Siemens embodies a commitment to people and the electronics industry. Siemens’ virtual training solutions combined with our Digital Twins enable efficient and trackable workforce training. Our Industrial Copilots leverage generative AI to simplify tasks. Simultaneously, Siemens invests in software and automation training programs to reskill and upskill the workforce in the electronics industry’s continuing rapid evolution. We provide continuous learning opportunities online, onsite, hybrid and virtual simulation. Our training programs equip the semiconductor workforce with the skills necessary to drive ‘design-to-production’ innovation and lead the electronics industry forward.
Siemens ‘design-to-production’ – going smart, secure, and sustainable matters
The pathway to sustainability is empowered by smart manufacturing, with a secure and sustainable design-to-production process. This evolves into a complete Digital Enterprise (DE), integrating digital tools and technologies across operations to offer numerous benefits:
• Accelerated Development: Utilizing Digital Twins and data-driven insights, we facilitate enhanced innovation and sustainability practices, speeding up product design, development and introduction.
• Process Optimization and Quality Improvement: An end-to-end electronics process solution, from design to production, leads to increased innovation, reduced defects, and higher quality.
• Efficiency and Cost Reduction: Predictive maintenance and optimized resource allocation significantly reduce costs and downtime, minimizing production interruptions.
• Flexibility and Market Responsiveness: Improved resilience and adaptability through faster production cycles and flexible manufacturing processes enable rapid adaptation to market changes.
• Environmental Sustainability: Sustainable practices, such as optimized energy use and resource management, foster an eco-friendly production process.
With the Siemens Xcelerator digital platform, electronics companies can begin a comprehensive roadmap to achieving a smart, secure, and sustainable design-to-production process. Seamlessly integrating with existing infrastructure, with a unified environment for data management, analytics, and collaboration, Siemens Xcelerator for Electronics enables electronics companies to scale up while reducing environmental impact. Its adaptive, people-centric, and sustainable production ecosystem provides the agility and intelligent decision-making needed to respond and compete in today’s rapidly evolving market.
Very smart. But just as important, sustainable.
To discover more, please tune into this special sustainability episode of our Digital Transformation Podcast hosted by Maria Mosto – Sustainability in electronic and semiconductor industries- Episode 1 – Siemens Software Podcast Network – where Michael Munsey and I discuss the steps electronics and semiconductor companies are taking to guarantee sustainability from a manufacturing perspective.
*Siemens Blog: Eryn Devola, Vice President of Sustainability, Siemens Digital Industries Software, 30 November 2023, sustainability-starts-with-design/
