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Siemens is on the pulse of groundbreaking innovations. In step with that objective, the Thought Leadership Team at Siemens Digital Industry Software provides podcasts, blogs, articles and white papers based on the knowledge of engineers and experts in their field. We discuss what Siemens is doing in many industries while forecasting the landscape of innovative technologies.

Our team focuses on emerging technologies in the next two to five years that Siemens is investing in and for which we are developing solutions.

Featured posts

Understanding your whole factory with the comprehensive digital twin

December 26, 2024

Goals such as quality assurance, cost reduction, and waste mitigation have encouraged many manufacturers to begin their digital transformation journeys….

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ

Building your digital twin

December 19, 2024

Many manufacturers have begun their digital transformation journeys to achieve goals such as quality assurance, cost reduction, and waste mitigation….

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ

Staying competitive with IT/OT convergence

December 12, 2024

For decades, manufacturing has had to evolve to accommodate a myriad of challenges like labor shortages and supply chain disruptions….

By Bianca Ward
4 MIN READ

Latest posts

Use 3D scanning software to address tooling downtime threats

January 15, 2019

By: Ryan Haylock and Chris Himburg

Tooling failures can spell disaster in today’s just-in-time environment. A typical stamping plant could lose weeks of production when manufacturing tooli…

By Ryan_Haylock
4 MIN READ

Harnessing the power of multiphysics simulation

January 9, 2019

Multiphysics simulation is well established in most product development environments and systems. Leveraging this advanced simulation technology for the process industry is one key to the digital twi…

By EricL
4 MIN READ

Condition-based maintenance: the crystal ball you need

January 7, 2019

Gazing into a crystal ball to know the future has a long, storied past that dates before the Middle Ages.
Today, condition-based maintenance, or maintenance performed on industrial assets only wh…

By senthil-kumar
3 MIN READ

How cloud-based simulation addresses automation challenges

January 3, 2019

Digital simulation has become an essential capability for planning and verifying automated manufacturing processes such as robotic assembly, packaging and palletization. Simulation and process planni…

By GilC
3 MIN READ

The benefits of consumer-grade additive manufacturing

December 28, 2018

Despite all the excitement and experimentation happening around additive manufacturing, some manufacturers are still sitting on the sidelines. While companies with big budgets can forge ahead, others…

By JoshL
3 MIN READ

How MES manufacturing can advance medical device technology

December 27, 2018

In June 2009, Belgian soccer player Anthony Van Loo’s heart stopped in the middle of a match. He collapsed immediately.
In a matter of seconds, thanks to an implanted defibrillator, his body lite…

By P_Meeks
4 MIN READ

How to forge a path to industrial digitalization

December 26, 2018

In the previous blog, How the digital factory made an eyewear company more competitive, I discussed the adoption of digital manufacturing and digital twin within a small company producing lenses for …

By Zvi Feuer
6 MIN READ

OEMs, suppliers and how to use a program management system

December 20, 2018

The challenges of program management between OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers vary, but they essentially are struggling to meet the same goal: use their program management system to reduce time for new prod…

By VikramShah
4 MIN READ

Top Thought Leadership topics of 2018

December 17, 2018

The Thought Leadership blog and program have experienced incredible growth since launching three years ago, but this year has been especially noteworthy.
We continue to highlight many new trends …

By ToniB
5 MIN READ