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Whitepaper: Insight to the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Platform
Dive into this whitepaper to explore the strategic approach of the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Platform, see how it can be used to streamline digital initiatives across operations, and learn how it effectively raises the digital maturity of organizations while ensuring compliance with global standards.
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Unified Namespace’s Role in German Manufacturing - A Youtube Interview
Join Jeremy Theocharis, CTO of United Manufacturing Hub, in this compelling interview with Jacques Engländer from Onward Partners & Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center. They delve into the significant shift in Germany's manufacturing landscape, focusing on the transition towards Unified Namespace and its impact on the industry.
Onward Partners joined the Siemens Xcelerator
There are big news to celebrate: The launch of Onward Partners in the Siemens Xcelerator was announced yesterday at SPS. 𝑺𝒊𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝑿𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 is an initiative introduced by Siemens to support companies in their digital transformation. Various partners are integrated into the ecosystem via an open marketplace so that customers can reliably generate added value and take full advantage of the benefits of digitalization.
Whitepaper: Realizing Open IIoT Architectures to Scale Industrie 4.0
This whitepaper is dedicated to presenting the significance of open IIoT architectures. By examining the core principles that define openness, case studies from real example solutions, and expert insights, we will explain and show the wide-ranging ways open IIoT architectures drive sustainable innovation, elevate business value, and secure the future of your business.
Whitepaper: Industrie 4.0 at scale - Insights from the process industry
Activities on plant and corporate level are to be coordinated and aligned to agile and continuous value creation. This paper reveals, how industry champions from the chemical process industry face the current situation and which tools they use to shape their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.
Whitepaper: How to Transform Manufacturing Companies
Today, seeking for market leadership implies a worldwide footprint representation. In this environment, a company’s long-term competitiveness is strongly depending on agility which enables faster adaptation tno changing and diverse requirements. This paper reveals, how manufacturing companies are managing their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.
acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index Smart Services
Smart services – an effective triad of product, service and customer-centric value proposition – offer opportunities for manufacturing-focused companies to achieve differentiation and seize new market opportunities. This acatech study presents a maturity model with six structural areas for transforming manufacturing-focused companies into smart service providers. Using a specially developed toolkit, companies can be guided through the adoption of a smart service business.
Realization project of a modern and flexible Industrial IoT Architecture to fully scale digital transformation
To remain competitive in the future, our customer decided to set up the new plant as a Smart Factory. This required a fundamentally different system and process landscape. The new IIoT architecture had to enable a production that is as automated and event-driven as possible based on measurement and process data.
Running a requirement analysis for the international roll-out of transformation projects in a leading pharmaceutical company
Four use cases were selected for a start of the digital transformation that bring high added value globally. These must be rolled out efficiently and adapted to local requirements.
Increasing the production capacity by mining process data & simulating optimization scenarios with an end-to-end digital twin
The pet food factory is working at its capacity limit and demand continues to rise. Different investment options to increase the capacity / speed of certain machines exist; however, their impact on the overall process cannot be calculated.
Cross-site development of a digital roadmap for a global player in process industry
By looking at the company's entire value chain, the digital transformation could be approached holistically.
Scaling digital condition monitoring solutions with MRO customers
First, conducting 25 interviews with MRO to deeply analyze relevant success factors such as requirements, roles and various action items to scale a digital solution more efficiently, faster and with greater focus. Afterwards, the goal was to develop a targeted sales and scaling strategy to increase specific customer impact.
Improving efficiency and flexibility by data-based decisions in one of the world's largest crop protection companies
The factory has already implemented assets with long-lifetime and high energy-demand. However, changeovers have to be realized with shorter cycle times. The IT landscape is standardized on ERP level throughout the corporate but on DCS level a full availability must be given during the full transformation.
Global roll-out of the digitalization by a standard approach at one of the world's largest medical device company
Four use cases were selected for a start of the digital transformation that bring high added value globally. These must be rolled out efficiently and adapted to local requirements.
Digitalizing the production system of one of the biggest automotive suppliers
The company has grown strongly through acquisitions in recent years and decades. The different technologies in the plants and cultural diversity needed to be considered to scale a global digitalization initiative and to create a value-maximizing digital program consisting of local projects and global solutions.
Development of an individual, group-wide training program for managers on the digitization of manufacturing companies
The challenge was to build a group-wide internal education program with current, relevant topics on digital strategy, digital transformation, status quo and roadmap creation, calculation of ROI on Industrie 4.0, building digitization teams, Internet of Production and best practices.
acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index
Experience from the application of the Industry 4.0 Maturity Index shows that the fourth industrial revolution cannot be realized by implementing individual, isolated prototypes. The German manufacturing industry has now recognised this. Rather, the focus today is on designing systematic transformation programmes which aim for clear added value and are stringently structured.
Whitepaper: Value of Digital -Strategic Reflections on Industrie 4.0
How can companies prioritize their digitalization measures and build a roadmap that considers all structural aspects of a production plant? Here is a way to do it!
Building a digital lighthouse in one of the world’s largest chocolate factories
The challenge of this collaboration was to set up an effective digitalization program management for an efficient transformation. By co-creating a detailed roadmap and project charter that included required resources, budget, and estimated impact, we were able to identify the digitalization potential of 10-15%.