Smart Manufacturing
a lack of insight into manufacturing data. A digital platform can help factories capture and leverage this vital information by migrating processes to a digital interface, enabling the planning and designing of products and production lines using digital models, methods and applications.
The advent of these digital solutions will help factories with high levels of automation and complexity, in particular, to overcome production challenges. Process industries, for example, usually involve highly complex manufacturing activities, and struggle to integrate their facility design and production operations. Digitalisation will be able to enable process industries to eliminate potential issues in the pre-production phase and achieve optimised operations through highly integrated engineering and operations.
Going digital
Having an integrated landscape across the entire production lifecycle, including
engineering and commissioning, is a pre- requisite for digitalisation. The various sizes of factories and level of automation and integration they have achieved will determine how to best set up a digital operating process model. Depending on the results of the plant’s maturity assessment and the prioritisation of digital initiatives, various strategies can be taken. For example, advanced automation technologies such as a control systems upgrade can be first incorporated to the existing operations for improved integration.
Although it would be ideal for manufacturers to digitally transform their workflows as a whole, financial constraints and unfamiliarity with a new system are likely to be contributing factors in their decision to adopt a step-by-step approach instead. Businesses that eventually reach their full digital potential will enjoy the benefits that come with virtual production simulation and watertight integrated system. These operations will enable
Siemens predicts great potential from those who invest in digitalisation
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