As we begin this new decade, I\u2019ve reflected these past few\nmonths on where we have come in the manufacturing industry, and where we are\nheaded. I\u2019ve spent the last two decades in manufacturing and been fortunate to\nwork with some of the best and brightest here at Siemens, as well as digital\nevangelists within our customer base and our ecosystem of system integrators. Our\nSiemens team has a unique and privileged position to see so many aspects of\nmanufacturing challenges, with our team members representing diverse domains\nand bringing a variety of viewpoints. Siemens is a manufacturing software provider,\nintimately involved in solving today\u2019s challenges \u2013 and anticipating tomorrow\u2019s\n\u2013 for our customers. Since our first acquisition in 2001, we have built strong\nexpertise across manufacturing industries. We are a manufacturer ourselves and a leader\nin industrial automation, digitalizing our own factories. We have hard-earned\nknowledge, not only as we have invented and innovated a broad array of digital\ntechnologies, but more importantly as we have successfully implemented them for\nthe full spectrum of manufacturing enterprises around the globe \u2014 including our\nown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With that backdrop, several interesting observations have\nemerged for me. First, since the introduction of I4.0 early in the last decade,\nit has spawned related concepts like The Smart Factory and Digitalization, as\nwell as a proliferation of digital manufacturing technologies for supporting\nsystems. The industry experienced widespread puzzlement over how to apply these\nconcepts in practice. What I\u2019m seeing now is consensus among manufacturers,\nvendors, and integrators about implementation and contribution from a practical\nperspective. Investment and focus have become reality, with true momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of that momentum in the industry is coming about simply because we now have systems and technology convergence (e.g., IT and OT) to actually deliver digital transformation and the concepts of Industry 4.0 for manufacturers across all industries. We at Siemens have worked tirelessly over the past decade to create a software portfolio that enables digital transformation from product ideation to product realization to product utilization \u2013 connecting the entire value chain. Within the Siemens digitalization portfolio is Manufacturing Operations Management, or MOM, a key enabler of Industry 4.0. We announced our MOM portfolio, Siemens Opcenter<\/a>, to the world late last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to the outstanding commitment of the Siemens team, we\nwere able to identify and align the best technologies available, leverage\nsynergies across those technologies, innovate new technologies, and create a\nseamless user experience in a single, personalized, modern UI tailored for\nspecific industry needs. A huge amount of work from all of my teammates was\nrequired to realize Opcenter. Now, we are able to deliver digital\ntransformation in a holistic way across manufacturing operations functions and processes\nand continue to be highly agile as a manufacturing innovation leader,\nsupporting manufacturers on their digital journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The innovations in Opcenter are key drivers of the momentum\nin the industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n First, Opcenter is a holistic portfolio of solutions that\nallows for a stepwise approach to digitalization, with an open and flexible\necosystem.<\/strong> The Opcenter portfolio is comprised of Advanced Planning and\nScheduling (APS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Quality Management\nSystems (QMS) and Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) along with Enterprise\nResource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and automation\nconnectivity for seamless shop-floor process orchestration. All of these solutions\nare built within an open and flexible architecture to be able to realize\ndigital transformation in a stepwise manner. This is critical in ensuring rapid\nROI and minimizing disruption of mission-critical operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, Opcenter is built to advance the Digital Twin\nconcept. <\/strong>The key to full visibility of every aspect of product life is the\nDigital Twin \u2014 the virtual representation of a physical product and associated manufacturing\nprocesses, from conception through lifetime product performance in the hands of\nthe end user. The comprehensive Digital Twin enables companies to continuously\noptimize their products, production and performance in the virtual realm \u2014 minimizing\ncosts and realizing closed-loop manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third, Opcenter is extensible and scalable, with personalized,\nmodern adaptability.<\/strong> Opcenter, with industry-focused out-of-the-box\ncapabilities, provides built-in extensibility in the architecture that supports\nbusiness logic, UI and interoperability to extend customer-specific processes.\nAlso, Opcenter enriches the value of using low-code platforms (like Mendix)\nthrough exposed APIs, enabling our customers to create purpose-built apps\ntailored to their business environment and their processes, with connection to\ntheir IT landscape. With the increased need to enrich the value of a plethora\nof data from the shop floor, IIoT and associated technologies (MindSphere),\nOpcenter Intelligence delivers actionable intelligence by transforming that raw\ndata into smart data, adding product, process, and resource context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As we move into this new decade of manufacturing, I am more excited than ever and proud to be part of this team and journey. We are realizing true breakthroughs not only in products, but in the enabling technology that can bring those products to market \u2013 rapidly, safely, and efficiently. We are empowering a practical, stepwise approach <\/a>that is realizable beyond pilot purgatory and scalable for the enterprise of today and tomorrow. We will continue our dialogue with our customers and partners as we face new challenges together and continue our work for the future of our industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we begin this new decade, I\u2019ve reflected these past few months on where we have come in the manufacturing industry, and where we are headed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11394,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/2020_manufacturing_outlook.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}