Does Siemens drink its own champagne? This episode gives profound insights into a real sustainable Digital Enterprise – the Electronics Factory Erlangen in Germany. Moderator Chris Brow leads his guests Kevin O’Donovan, Stefan Krug, and Magnus Edholm through a conversation on the factory’s digital end-to-end production processes, which are made possible with technologies like the Digital Twin and AI. Among others they talk about the challenges of digitalizing a brownfield site, cutting the carbon footprint in manufacturing and product design, and, last but not least, the importance of the people. This episode is peppered with examples of what’s possible today with digitalization, such as using AI to reduce fake failures and how robots are trained to pick unsorted parts. Best of all, the solutions they talk about are available for all industrial enterprises.

Electronics Factory Erlangen

To tackle today’s challenges, the automotive industry is currently undergoing a major shift to electrification. Data transparency across the entire supply chain and new ways of collaboration are required. In this episode, Gunter Beitinger, Head of Factory Digitalization & Head of Product Carbon Footprint at Siemens Digital Industries, and Jan Burian, Analyst at IDC, focus on digital technologies in manufacturing and supply chains. They discuss the crucial role of technology, innovation, and data in the industry’s sustainability transformation. We take a deep dive into the challenges automotive companies are facing and look at solutions like SiGREEN, a tool that enables transparent CO2 data exchange for products across the supply chain.

Decarbonizing your supply chain with data

Say goodbye to cardboard-box planning! Designing factory workstations is now four times faster with a solution based on virtual reality. In this episode, host Alex Chavez meets with Tobias Haslböck, Business Developer at the startup Halocline, and Julian Boha, Head of the Siemens program Fast Lane for Startups. They talk about the solution that speeds up workstation planning, and they also share recommendations for startups on collaborating with a global player like Siemens. Listen in to find more about the benefits of working within the Siemens ecosystem!

Industrial Partner Ecosystem

Fast Lane for Startups

Want to increase the performance of your product? Katrien Wyckaert, who is responsible for strategy and innovation for the Simcenter software, talks about how simulation and testing in the virtual world can help. She is joined by Magnus Edholm. As a Siemens expert in helping companies becoming a Digital Enterprise, he knows how to use data to connect the top floor with the shop floor to continuously optimize everything. In this episode, both guests reveal to host Chris Brow how this technology aids in designing electric vehicles – like the SimRod. Katrien and Magnus present a concrete example of how the Siemens team has increased the range with the SimRod. In this episode, the guests also talk about their personal experiences with e-mobility, and they even touch on autonomous mobility.

Digital Enterprise

Programmable logic controllers – or PLCs – were introduced to the market around 60 years ago. Now, this classical hardware stands on the cusp of going digital. Efrossini Tsouchnika and Oliver Narr from Siemens talk about the implications and opportunities of virtual PLCs with host Alex Chavez. As it turns out, these two technologies are likely to exist side by side. The best of both worlds, so to say.  

Are you already tapping into digital technologies to transform the way you compete, collaborate, and connect? At the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, Siemens Digital Industries CEO Cedrik Neike welcomed three guests whose companies have made big strides in their digital transformations: Laura Matz, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Merck, spoke about how digitalization is speeding up the development of therapies. Patrick Verwer, CEO of Govia Thameslink Railway, or GTR, presented how digitalization is helping to deal with growing passenger volumes on legacy infrastructure. And Trond Skjellerud, CEO of Elvia, talked about managing the grid in the age of electric mobility. Host Alex Chavez guides you through this episode. 

Siemens Xcelerator

Becoming more sustainable is no longer a nice-to-have: it’s a business imperative. Consumers are demanding more sustainable products while governments are imposing regulations. In this episode, host Alex Chavez meets with Paul Miller, Analyst at Forrester, and Eryn Devola, Siemens Digital Industries’ Vice President of Sustainability, to talk about what companies can do today to become greener. As it turns out, most of the tools are already there – they just have to be implemented. Listen in to find out what role digitalization plays to make industries more sustainable.

Sustainable industries: www.siemens.com/sustainable-industries

When it comes to the aerospace industry, people are usually talking about propulsion and the fuel it takes to keep planes high above the clouds. But there is so much more to it than that. For example, have you considered what it takes to construct one of those behemoths? Or have you given thought to the ecological footprint over the entire lifecycle? The guests of this Talking Digital Industries have. Host Chris Brow peeks behind the scenes together with Richard Aboulafia, Managing Director at AeroDynamic Advisory, and Jürgen Nolde, Vice President Aerospace at Siemens Digital Industries. Learn how automation and digitalization are helping airplane manufacturers cope with the challenges of cost pressure, managing complexity, and society’s demand for sustainable mobility. Also, find out where Richard and Jürgen are heading for their next holidays.

Aeroworld: www.siemens.com/aerospace

In this episode of Talking Digital Industries moderator Chris Brow learns all about Additive Manufacturing. He is joined by Dr. Karsten Heuser, VP of Additive Manufacturing Siemens Digital Industries. Tune in and join them as they travel through the history of 3D-printing to the present day and discuss the impact this technology has on giant and tiny applications. Listen how Phillip Jung, Chief Strategy Officer at HP, and Dr. Adrian Keppler, Managing Director at EOS, share their insights and their business cases in this field. Finally our experts look forward into the future to forecast how Additive Manufacturing will change the industry as a whole.

Siemens Additive Manufacturing Experience Center (AMEC): https://new.siemens.com/global/en/markets/machinebuilding/additivemanufacturing/additive-manufacturing-experience-center.html

Surfing. For many, it’s freedom, a sense of adventure and the feel of riding the wave with the wind and spray hitting you as you come into shore. In this episode moderator Chris Brow learns how digitalization can help to create the perfect surfing wave – without being dependent on wind and weather conditions. Together with Tom Lochtefeld, CEO and founder of Surf Loch and Thomas Tengan, Director of Digital Enterprise at Siemens Digital Industries Software Chris discusses the impact of the digital twin on the surfing industry.

Surf Loch reference page: https://new.siemens.com/us/en/products/campaigns/company-topics/surfloch.html