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The positive impact of digital transformation on the manufacturing sector

Digital transformation is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry, with 83% of manufacturers expecting significant changes by 2025. This transformation brings numerous benefits, including resource efficiency, productivity, product quality, cost reductions, safety improvements, and sustainability advancements.

“By embracing a comprehensive digitalization strategy, manufacturers can digitally define entire workflows, enabling seamless collaboration between design, engineering and manufacturing.”

Zvi Feuer, Senior Vice President, Digital Manufacturing Software Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Collaboration between design, engineering, and manufacturing is seamless, enabled by automation, robotics, cloud computing, and AI. Industries like automotive, aerospace, electronics, and healthcare are already embracing digital manufacturing to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Cloud computing plays a crucial role by providing scalable and cost-effective solutions for manufacturing. It facilitates seamless data sharing, democratizing access to advanced tools for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Cloud technology empowers SMBs to implement digital transformation strategies, adapt to market changes, and optimize manufacturing operations through AI and machine learning.

The industrial metaverse, an emerging concept, combines digital technologies to revolutionize manufacturing. It creates a real-time, physics-based digital environment using comprehensive digital twins, edge devices, and IoT sensors.

The metaverse enhances visualization, collaboration, and decision-making, allowing companies to anticipate issues and optimize operations before physical production. The cloud supports the storage, processing, and sharing of massive amounts of data, enabling better collaboration and decision-making.

As more companies adopt the industrial metaverse, the digital thread and detailed digital twins will become standard practices. This will lead to improved collaboration, faster time-to-market, better product quality, and sustainable manufacturing practices.

Embracing digitalization in manufacturing brings unprecedented efficiency and productivity, ensuring a robust future for the industry. The integration of AI, cloud technology, and the industrial metaverse will drive innovative manufacturing techniques and further enhance the industry’s capabilities. Overall, digital transformation empowers manufacturers to adapt, thrive, and meet the evolving demands of the market.

Empowering manufacturers for digital transformation

As said, in today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, businesses need comprehensive solutions that integrate seamlessly and empower them to thrive in the digital enterprise. Siemens Xcelerator’s Opcenter is a key component that offers an end-to-end manufacturing operations solution, ensuring cost-effective and efficient production while maintaining the highest product quality.

Integration and flexibility

Opcenter’s strategy revolves around its seamless integration with Siemens’ product lifecycle management and automation technologies. This integration enables manufacturers to streamline their operations and achieve optimal efficiency. Furthermore, Opcenter’s flexibility supports various deployment scenarios, whether it’s single-site or enterprise-based, on-premises or cloud-based.

Driving excellence

Siemens’ commitment to innovation is evident through the six main pillars that drive Opcenter’s journey towards excellence. These pillars focus on reducing the total cost of ownership, improving application performance through artificial intelligence, supporting streamlined upgrades with zero downtime, simplifying deployment and application management, enhancing scalability, performance, and user experience, and optimizing uptime and reducing deployment costs while improving portfolio integrations and observability.

MENDIX low-code technology

Opcenter’s adoption of MENDIX low-code technology significantly reduces the total cost of ownership by accelerating the speed and efficiency of building user interfaces by 50%. This enhancement empowers manufacturers to develop their interfaces faster than ever before, resulting in cost savings and improved productivity.

Seamless integration

Opcenter MES solutions seamlessly integrate with various Siemens solutions, including Teamcenter, Simcenter, Insights Hub (data analytics), Teamcenter Quality Management System, AX4 and Supply Chain Suite, and Tecnomatix. This integration reduces the burden on regional IT teams and overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while providing a cohesive ecosystem for manufacturers.

Digital transformation for SMBs


In today’s fast-paced and disruptive business environment, digital transformation has become essential for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the manufacturing industry. Opcenter X empowers SMBs to embark on a stepwise digital transformation journey.

Built with cloud technologies and offered as software as a service (SaaS), Opcenter X lowers the time and cost barriers for SMBs to adopt manufacturing operations management (MOM) capabilities. Its modular approach allows companies to start small and scale up as their digital enterprise matures, resulting in rapid return on investment (ROI) and improved time-to-market.

Continuous improvement

Siemens is dedicated to providing the best MES value, constantly enhancing the core capabilities of Opcenter’s out-of-the-box solutions. Additionally, Siemens actively seeks opportunities to lower the total cost of ownership of Opcenter, ensuring that customers can benefit from the latest advancements in manufacturing operations management.

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Alessandro Cereseto

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/opcenter/the-positive-impact-of-digital-transformation-on-the-manufacturing-sector/