The agricultural sector is pressured to increase its production, with fewer resources, while becoming more sustainable. To support this challenge, agricultural OEMs must innovate their offering, enabling smart farming applications. But meanwhile, they must also secure their daily business by timely delivery of mainstream equipment. The digital twin and digital thread approach by Siemens will accelerate the delivery of any equipment type, allowing OEMs to successfully navigate through this complex transition period.
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Predictive performance engineering for heavy equipment
The heavy equipment industry is at a critical juncture as manufacturers face more challenges than ever before. They must comply with emissions and safety regulations from multiple governments and organizations while incorporating the connected technologies that consumers demand.
Heavy equipment manufacturers must combine real-world simulation and IoT solutions to create the next generation of machines. Siemens’ solutions for predictive performance engineering integrate multi-physics design, simulation, testing, and field data analytics into common and connected workflows to produce accurate results faster and at lower costs.
Collaborative Manufacturing for Heavy Equipment
Our collaborative manufacturing solution helps you unify global design, engineering and manufacturing teams so they are able to work on the same requirements, models and manufacturing process plans, while having the flexibility to meet local requirements. In this collaborative environment, you benefit from better simulation and optimization of manufacturing planning, optimized design and manufacturing processes, and manufacturing intelligence connected with product development.
Equipment Service Lifecycle Management and Analytics
Heavy equipment service lifecycle management and analytics on large data from equipment service and operation are trending. OEMs consider equipment service an excellent revenue opportunity during turbulent economic times. Besides, their greater involvement in equipment service is also required to master the exploding complexity in today’s increasingly software-driven and customized machines. But how should OEMs position themselves amidst the current equipment service offer, typically involving dealers and specialized equipment service providers?
Through Siemens Service Lifecycle and Analytics, OEMs can become partners rather than merely vendors, and enrich the equipment service value chain with their unique product knowledge. Equipment service lifecycle management helps OEMs boost overall equipment service efficiency by ensuring service execution consistently happens based on accurate, comprehensive, specific, and up-to-date machine configuration data. Besides, through equipment service lifecycle management and analytics, OEMs can also close the loop between equipment service and design to continuously improve machine performance and to better tune equipment service into the actual need.
Next generation design for heavy equipment
Deliver greater innovation at higher quality and lower cost with comprehensive 3D product design. Our integrated and intuitive solution suite, with broad and deep, best-in-class capabilities, allows your design team to explore multiple machine or mechanism solution approaches and quickly arrive at the most cost-effective, innovative, functional products.
Quickly deliver innovative construction, mining, and agricultural machinery by using most comprehensive 3D design suite. Build larger, more sophisticated and comprehensive models that encompass all design features to overcome challenges of validating multi-configuration requirements.
Accelerated equipment design for heavy equipment
Heavy equipment companies cannot afford to miss out on the ongoing innovation wave, which can be characterized by the massive introduction of new capabilities based on digital technologies and by electrification. They must investigate how to upgrade their products, define their future span of activities, and rethink their position in a market that is in full transformation. But to create the necessary bandwidth for such existential considerations, they must secure their daily business by timely delivery of current equipment.
By accelerating equipment design and delivery, Siemens helps OEMs successfully navigate through this complex transition period. Siemens Accelerated Equipment Design solutions offer OEMs a collaborative design environment for multi-disciplinary design to specifically address those challenges that slow down product development and equipment design. These include dealing with many equipment design variants, increased design complexity, regulatory compliance, and disconnected design workflows.
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Accelerated equipment design for heavy equipment
Accelerated Equipment Design helps OEMs address challenges that slow down equipment design, such as dealing with many design variants, increased complexity, regulatory compliance, and disconnected workflows.
Multidisciplinary Equipment Design
Drive mechanical design, electrical and electronics systems design and software development in a single collaborative multidisciplinary equipment design environment including simulation and verification management.
Smart Manufacturing for Heavy Equipment
Smart heavy equipment manufacturing helps OEMs win in the global marketplace by making the equipment their customers demand in an efficient and sustainable way and achieve zero defect manufacturing to secure their margins
Custom Equipment Design
Master the increasing amount of specific and local requirements for complex custom equipment design by using an approach that allows configure-to-order (CTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), or anything in between.
Compliant Equipment Design
Live up to your customers’ expectations and build a solid reputation in the market by consistently delivering high-quality compliant equipment that meets and exceeds the industry standard.
Equipment Service Lifecycle Management and Analytics
Heavy equipment service lifecycle management and data analytics help OEMs become solution partners rather than vendors and gain additional revenue from equipment service, leveraging their unique product knowledge to enrich the equipment service value chain.
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Engineer to Order Process Automation for Heavy Equipment
Our ETO process automation solution provides a powerful rule authoring environment and repository that allows domain experts to capture rules and best practices used to engineer and bid ETO products, reducing the manufacturing cost of configured products.
Reliability, Functional & Systems Safety for Heavy Equipment
Reliability and System Safety for the Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Industry leverages an integrated “Design for Support” approach which increases the machinery system reliability while decreasing the maintenance and logistics footprint, reducing the total cost of ownership.
Verification Management for Heavy Equipment
Our Verification Management Solution for the Heavy Equipment Industry combines unique capabilities for integrated simulation and test management with plant simulation for manufacturing and manufacturing planning and execution, all while insuring complete closed loop requirements traceability.
Powertrain Mechanical Design
Powertrain Mechanical Design for the Heavy Equipment Industry combines advanced simulation capabilities and best-in-class generative design software to create a state-of-the-art modeling environment to quickly assess the efficiency of powertrain designs.
Software Engineering for Heavy Equipment
Software Engineering for the Heavy Equipment Industry leverages an Integrated product development strategy, where software (both embedded and non-embedded) development is part of a multi-discipline approach, enabling closed-loop performance assessment. Providing bi-directional integration between ALM and PLM which helps to build the complete digital twin.
Supply Chain Collaboration for Heavy Equipment
Our solution offers an easy-to-use, secure platform for interacting with suppliers, even those outside of your PLM environment. A holistic view of product structure, including supplier data, is available by storing and providing product data in a centralized database.
Manufacturing Process & Data Management
The Manufacturing Lifecycle Management Solution for the Heavy Equipment Industry allows you to Manage all of the information defining your products, processes, production resources and plant facilities in a single source of manufacturing knowledge.
In-service Data Management for Heavy Equipment
In-service Data Management solution for the heavy equipment industry allows customers to manage the entire lifecycle of product configuration from concept to variants, from designed to manufacture and service.
Service Engineering & Support for Heavy Equipment
Service Engineering and Support solution for the Heavy Equipment Industry lets you utilize existing product knowledge from design and simulation, while incorporating the experiences and requirements from the field to determine service requirements, service plans and service instructions, that need to be developed, validated, and documented prior to the delivery of your product.
Service Operations for Heavy Equipment
Service Operations for the Heavy Equipment Industry lets you work from previously defined service plans and asset status or from service demands which enable service organizations to generate service work orders, schedule service events, assign service tasks, support service technicians with information and task orders, and track to closure all service work required and performed.
Cabin Interior Design
Deliver greater innovation at higher quality and lower cost with comprehensive 3D cab design. Let our integrated and intuitive solution suite of broad and deep best-in-class capabilities enable your design team to balance operator functionality and safety with comfort and style. Quickly identify and design the high-strength structural cab exterior while determining the best solutions for operator visibility. Locate all the control and interface devices in a logical arrangement, recognizing the parallel needs of operator ergonomics along with multiple configurations and selection of customer-specified components. Create the most intuitive and flexible cab configurations with distinctive style and brand identity.
Next generation design for heavy equipment
Deliver greater innovation at higher quality and lower cost with comprehensive 3D product design. Our integrated and intuitive solution suite, with broad and deep, best-in-class capabilities, allows your design team to explore multiple machine or mechanism solution approaches and quickly arrive at the most cost-effective, innovative, functional products.
Quickly deliver innovative construction, mining, and agricultural machinery by using most comprehensive 3D design suite. Build larger, more sophisticated and comprehensive models that encompass all design features to overcome challenges of validating multi-configuration requirements.
IoT & Lifecycle Analytics for Heavy Equipment
Leverage the Internet of Things to collect information from machinery in the field, mine and construction site, the "physical twin". Combine this with engineering insight contained in the Digital Innovation Platform, the "digital twin", to gain insights necessary for achieving a competitive advantage.
Heavy Equipment Compliance Management
Global heavy equipment manufacturers must be compliant with local, national and global governmental requirements for material source and selection, as well as safety and emissions in order to be competitive.
Composites Engineering & Manufacturing
Take advantage of the promised weight reduction and style advantages of composite parts for your mining, construction and agriculture machinery by leveraging our advanced, integrated, proven solutions for advanced composite part development. Enable your engineering and manufacturing teams to confidently design and build with composites, knowing that our model-based definition, simulation and manufacturing solutions help them meet the strict requirements of your customers’ engineering challenges.
Fuel Economy & Energy Management
Energy management decisions influence a variety of factors in heavy equipment development, from fuel consumption and emissions to powertrain choices and thermal system performance, such as HVAC and cooling systems. This is why it is so important to make the right energy management decisions on the vehicle level early in the conceptual phase. Later in the process, the final design can be balanced to optimize driver thermal comfort and fuel efficiency as well. Engineers can turn to 1D and CFD solutions to provide the scalable simulation tools that can help make the right energy management choices right from the start.
Machine performance engineering for heavy equipment
The new norm for heavy equipment manufacturers is how to address massive, ever-increasing levels of complexity in machine design while improving the engineering process. Siemens simulation, and testing solutions can improve engineering accuracy and development productivity to help create the most comprehensive digital twin and meet the quality standards of the most complex heavy equipment products being produced today.
Operability & Productivity
Improve heavy equipment operability and productivity, and help your customers reduce operational costs. By combining system simulation tools, 3D analysis software including CFD, and testing solutions and services, our solution can help you during all stages of the development cycle - from selecting a design - to optimizing components and fine-tuning the control strategy, to testing the final product prototype.
Heavy Equipment Performance Engineering
The new norm for heavy equipment manufacturers is how to address massive, ever-increasing levels of complexity in machine design while improving the engineering process. Siemens simulation, and testing solutions can improve engineering accuracy and development productivity to help create the most comprehensive digital twin and meet the quality standards of the most complex heavy equipment products being produced today.
Collaborative Manufacturing for Heavy Equipment
Our collaborative manufacturing solution helps you unify global design, engineering and manufacturing teams so they are able to work on the same requirements, models and manufacturing process plans, while having the flexibility to meet local requirements. In this collaborative environment, you benefit from better simulation and optimization of manufacturing planning, optimized design and manufacturing processes, and manufacturing intelligence connected with product development.
Structural Integrity & Durability
Help your customers be more productive by delivering heavy equipment that can withstand higher loads and reducing downtime. Our simulation and testing solutions provide a complete and effective durability engineering process, from high-quality, automated load data acquisition and target setting, to load prediction on full product level, to stress and lifetime behavior assessment of components.
Noise & vibration performance optimization for heavy equipment
Optimize noise and vibration performance to increase the comfort and safety of operators, passengers, and bystanders and to comply with market-mandatory regulations. By providing a comprehensive set of advanced NVH and acoustic simulation and testing solutions, we help engineers calculate load transfer, optimize ride and in-cabin noise comfort, and validate the final prototype for ISO certification.
Digital Mockup, Virtual & Augmented Reality for Heavy Equipment
Digital Mockup and Virtual/Augmented Reality for the Heavy Equipment Industry enables users to perform form, fit and function studies, as well as conduct design reviews by immersing themselves in the virtual world of the product’s digital twin to view and analyze the 3D model at the proper scale.
Fleet Maintenance & Analytics
Fleet Maintenance and Analytics Solution for Heavy Equipment builds on our remote diagnostic foundation to provide integrated analytics and fully integrated data management capabilities to predict fleet maintenance needs and provide field service teams with complete asset-specific information to minimize unplanned downtime.
Digital Powertrain
Our Digital Powertrain solution for the Heavy Equipment Industry, provides manufacturers the tools to deliver the next generation of high-performance drivetrains. By combining advanced simulation capabilities with best-in-class generative design software and electrification, we provide advanced capabilities that allow for increased efficiencies when managing multi-domain solutions.
Product and Portfolio Management
Product and Portfolio Management for the Heavy Equipment industry delivers a comprehensive portfolio management solution that provides a single source of strategic direction, project information and assessment tools that you can leverage to better plan your product portfolio and drive project execution more effectively.
Electrification
Driven by the need to lower emissions and noise, the global heavy equipment market is transitioning to hybrid, electric, and even hydrogen powertrains, impacting all parts of the supply chain. These newly deployed technologies in the heavy equipment sector strongly impact the engineering process. Defining the right electrified machine design is complex and requires engineers to learn and increase their expertise in a new domain. The right design should also allow end-users in the construction, agricultural, or mining field to meet or exceed usual performance levels while ensuring the machine complies with stricter standards for noise and gas emissions.
Predictive performance engineering for heavy equipment
Win with best-in-class real-world simulation and IoT solutions to create the next generation of heavy machinery. Integrate multi-physics design, simulation, testing, and field data analytics into common and connected workflows to produce accurate results faster, and at a lower cost with Siemens Predictive Performance Engineering.
Accelerated equipment design for heavy equipment
Accelerated Equipment Design helps OEMs address challenges that slow down equipment design, such as dealing with many design variants, increased complexity, regulatory compliance, and disconnected workflows.
Equipment Service Lifecycle Management and Analytics
Heavy equipment service lifecycle management and data analytics help OEMs become solution partners rather than vendors and gain additional revenue from equipment service, leveraging their unique product knowledge to enrich the equipment service value chain.
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