Siemens PLM Software<\/A> and Volkswagen AG are hosting Volkswagen Start-up Challenge 2017, which is taking place this week in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. Over the three-day event, fledgling businesses have the opportunity to work with system experts from Siemens PLM Software and users at Volkswagen Group on current projects, with a view to developing innovative solutions for digitalizing production.<\/P><\/p>\nThe Volkswagen AG Start-up Challenge is part of the company group\u2019s Digital Factory Conference held on June 27-28th. The Start-up Challenge offers young entrepreneurs the opportunity to spend 24 hours working in cooperation each with Siemens PLM Software system users and Volkswagen users to develop solutions for their respective applications and present them in front of a panel of judges. The experts from Siemens and Volkswagen will then decide whether the solutions presented will be integrated into the Siemens system landscape and subsequently implemented at Volkswagen.<\/P><\/p>\n
Shared solutions for the future<\/STRONG><\/P>
\n\u201cDigitalization is a fundamental building block for our factories of the future,\u201d<\/EM> explains Frank Jelich, Head of VW\u2019s \u201cDigital Factory\u201d working group and co-initiator of the Start-up Challenge. \u201cThis is why we decided to bring young, creative businesses together with experts from Siemens and Volkswagen. In this way, we aim to jointly develop innovative solutions for digitalizing production.<\/EM>\u201d Volkswagen AG is expecting that the innovative drive brought to the table by young start-up businesses combined with the technological expertise of Siemens PLM Software will provide some very promising approaches and concrete results: \u201cThis collaboration will help us develop ways of integrating solutions devised by small companies into an international concern,\u201d<\/EM> says an enthusiastic Jelich.<\/P><\/p>\nA win-win for all<\/STRONG><\/P>
\nFor the system experts at Siemens PLM Software, the partnership between Siemens and Volkswagen is definitely a good thing: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted at this opportunity to carry out the Start-Up Challenge together with a high-caliber partner like the Volkswagen Group,<\/EM>\u201d says Zvi Feuer, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering Software at Siemens PLM Software. \u201cWithin the scope of our joint project work, the start-ups will be offered an insight into the production challenges at Volkswagen \u2013 and at the same time they\u2019ll experience the benefits of PLM solutions for the Digital Factory.\u201d <\/EM><\/P>
\nThe article was originally published by Siemens’ Ursula Lang on the Siemens AG blog.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n![\"Moshe](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Moshe-event1-1.png\" "\\"Moshe")
Participants enjoying today’s event<\/span><\/span><\/P>
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