{"id":2264,"date":"2021-09-03T05:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T09:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:03:23","slug":"achieving-operational-excellence-through-smart-manufacturing-in-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/achieving-operational-excellence-through-smart-manufacturing-in-medical-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving Operational Excellence through Smart Manufacturing in Medical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains on a monumental scale, rushing all MD&amp;D manufacturers to quickly re-adapt and respond to new challenging market scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a global level, important investments from US and China in their national supply chain and manufacturing processes have been actioned to provide high-quality and ready-to-use products in the MD&amp;D industry for future crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These new market conditions have led medical manufactures to embrace a Siemens digital infrastructure specific for the MD&amp;D industry called \u201cOperational Excellence through Smart Manufacturing\u201d. This means to develop a digital infrastructure by using production digital twins to design and simulate manufacturing scenarios, schedule and execute production, enforcing routes, and quality inspections to deliver high quality devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discover more and<\/strong> <strong>sign to our dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/webinar\/smart-manufacturing-in-medical-devices\/100435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webinar<\/a> to discover more on how to accelerate your digital transformation in the MD&amp;D industry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn more about digital transformation, download our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/resource\/accelerating-growth-emerging-medical-device\/97309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eBook<\/a>\u00a0here and discover how Siemens can support you building up your digital enterprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visit also Siemens website to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/industries\/medical-devices-pharmaceuticals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siemens solution for the MD&amp;D industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains on a monumental scale, rushing all MD&#038;D manufacturers to quickly re-adapt and respond to new challenging market scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77383,"featured_media":2265,"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":[234,1,242],"tags":[],"industry":[225],"product":[],"coauthors":[10644],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebook","category-news","category-webinar","industry-medical-devices-pharmaceuticals"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/SIEMENS_MOM_HD_WEB-ups1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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\/77383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}