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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

Building better: sustainability in CPG

November 22, 2024

Globalized and highly competitive, the CPG industry has remained eternally resilient; however, emerging trends are set to significantly impact demand…

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ

Digitize to prepare for the future of CPG

November 7, 2024

Competition is fierce in the consumer packaged goods industry. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) or fast-moving consumer goods landscape encompasses…

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ

An overview of digitalization in CPG

October 24, 2024

The exceedingly competitive consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry continues to remain resilient despite emerging trends that could significantly impact demand….

By Bianca Ward
2 MIN READ

Latest posts

Smart engineering’s impact on heavy equipment design

August 15, 2018

Today’s heavy equipment machinery—equipped with increasingly intelligent embedded systems run by engineering control units, sensors and actuators—is smarter than ever before. These smart machines inc…

By Rahul Garg
4 MIN READ

Innovative product design: verify using a digital twin

August 13, 2018

Innovative product design in the world of smart products is more critical than ever to your success. Companies today are facing existential threats as smart products flood the market. The old way of …

By Bill Lewis
5 MIN READ

Digitalization is key for sustainable shipping success

August 8, 2018

With the international push to achieve more sustainable shipping and more stringent shipping regulations, the shipping industry—from designers and builders to shipyards and ship owners—faces increasi…

By JanVanOs
4 MIN READ

Industry 4.0’s impact on the Generation Z workforce

August 6, 2018

In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I came across an interesting observation. Of those listed as the 75 all-time richest people in the world, which included everyone from the Sultan of Brunei and Queen C…

By AbhijitB
5 MIN READ

Autonomous vehicles and future highways

August 1, 2018

Hundreds of automakers and startups around the globe are working on autonomous vehicles so these vehicles can eventually be mass produced. But what challenges do these companies need to overcome befo…

By ToniB
2 MIN READ

Why does new product development fail 80 percent of the time?

July 30, 2018

Somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of ideas from new product development fail.

To the outsider, this figure seems wildly exaggerated. But somewhere along the line, this statistic has made…

By RyanR
5 MIN READ

Virtual testing, validation of autonomous vehicle safety

July 25, 2018

 
Automakers around the world are looking to mass produce autonomous vehicles, but they must first conquer some big challenges before that mass production can happen.
I recently spoke with…

By ToniB
2 MIN READ

The product design process: Deciding what to do

July 23, 2018

The product design process for smart products has many challenges. We previously explored smart product development and some lessons we can learn from Michelangelo. If companies want to have a succes…

By Bill Lewis
4 MIN READ

Autonomous vehicle technology will rely on software, sensors

July 18, 2018

Automakers around the globe are designing and testing autonomous vehicles. But what needs to happen before these vehicles hit the road in masses?

I recently had the pleasure of speaking wi…

By ToniB
2 MIN READ