Siemens 2013 Annual Report Download - page 55

 – Professor Berend Denkena has
headed the Institute of Pro duction
Engineering and Machine Tools
at the Centre for Production
Technology at Leibniz University
in Hanover, Germany, since .
The activities of the institute’s
roughly  researchers focus on
production processes, mechatronic
components and production plan-
ning and organization.
 – A machine tool controlled
by a Siemens SINUMERIK system
produces an implant.
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Efficient manufacturing processes
Making production more
flexible and affordable
Potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Our experts compare manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial
Revolution to a chess computer. Why? Because a chess computer
in training mode determines the optimal move in any situation by
analyzing and comparing all possible future game scenarios. And
this is precisely what happens in the Industry 4.0 world: all the
parameters and data used to develop and manufacture products
are analyzed in order to predict optimal production paths and
then reevaluated after each step. This approach makes it possible
to identify the best options for the rest of the process under the
given conditions and the impact their implementation would have
on the development and production steps taken so far.
Such flexible, optimized manufacturing processes will slash time-
to-market, for example, by speeding up the construction of produc-
tion facilities. They’ll also make it possible to manufacture product
variants and even single customized products easily and at low
cost. The Siemens solution described in this report – which demon-
strates the advantages of lean, customized production in the area
of surgical prosthetics – is one good example of how this approach
will work. Another is our electronics factory in Amberg, Germany,
where our engineers simulate and optimize production processes –
including the control of entire factories – and adapt them to current
conditions when developing new products and while production is
already underway.
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