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Smart mining applications are disrupting the mining industry. Mining equipment OEMs must upgrade their offering. But meanwhile, they must also secure their daily business by timely delivery of mainstream mining equipment. Siemens' digital twin and digital thread approach will accelerate the delivery of any mining equipment type, allowing mining equipment OEMs to navigate through this complex transition period successfully.
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.
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.
Heavy equipment manufacturing companies must manufacture a totally new generation of machines to address today’s increasing demand for digital technologies, electrification, and specialization. This adds complexity to their heavy equipment manufacturing process, such as more components from more diverse suppliers and a greater degree of customization. To stay in business, they must find a way to deliver this without affecting their margins, thereby additionally challenged by having global operations and an increased mandate to implement a sustainability strategy.
With smart heavy equipment manufacturing capabilities, Siemens helps companies win in the global marketplace by making what their customers demand in an efficient and sustainable way. Siemens Smart Heavy Equipment Manufacturing solutions offer heavy equipment manufacturing companies all the necessary capabilities to achieve zero defect manufacturing everywhere. They can achieve this by optimizing their manufacturing operations and by digitally connecting departments and locations, throughout their organization as well as with suppliers.
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has become indispensable for today’s innovative machine design. Heavy equipment development programs have always happened under pressure because of machine complexity, the numerous configurations, and the timebound delivery. Still, many OEMs spend half of their resources on fixing integration problems due to flawed communication between domains and with suppliers. Today, with software, digital innovations and electrification multiplying the interactions between subsystems and with the environment, they can no longer afford that.
With MBSE, they can eliminate all static document-based information exchange between stakeholders from across departments and suppliers. Instead, MBSE helps them drive dynamic collaboration between everyone, based on shared system models and their interactions at the interfaces, while continuously focusing on the overall requirements. In this way, MBSE will help OEMs achieve their design goals faster and dramatically reduce the risk that problems are discovered late, when they are expensive or even impossible to fix.
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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.
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.
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.
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 helps OEMs address challenges that slow down equipment design, such as dealing with many design variants, increased complexity, regulatory compliance, and disconnected workflows.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
MBSE for heavy equipment helps OEMs achieve their design goals faster and reduce the risk for late discovered problems by driving dynamic collaboration between all design stakeholders, based on shared system models and their interactions at the interfaces.
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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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 helps OEMs address challenges that slow down equipment design, such as dealing with many design variants, increased complexity, regulatory compliance, and disconnected workflows.
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.
MBSE for heavy equipment helps OEMs achieve their design goals faster and reduce the risk for late discovered problems by driving dynamic collaboration between all design stakeholders, based on shared system models and their interactions at the interfaces.
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The increasing demand for raw materials to drive the energy transition, combined with recent logistical challenges, have probably started a supercycle for the mining industry. During the coming years, mining will hardly keep up with demand, resulting in high prices for commodities. We cannot afford that this would impede global decarbonization. Also mining companies realize that they themselves could be among the first to suffer from climate change consequences like extreme temperatures, droughts, and floods. That inspires them to adopt environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria as core part of their corporate strategy, further stimulated in that respect by investors, governments, and regulations.
These evolutions create a setting that fosters innovation in a sector that is generally more conservative because of its continuous focus on productivity and eliminating risk. The number of initiatives in the field of smart mining is growing, with mining sensors, mining robots, connected mining, IoT in mining, and autonomous haulage systems as typical examples. Many of such applications have demonstrated immediate and significant improvements in both productivity and safety. It helps, of course, that the digital technologies these capabilities require, have already matured in other industries and therefore entail less risk.
Mining equipment OEMs must realize that as this innovation wave has taken flight, it can go very fast. In a smart mining setting, there is little room for intermediate forms. Applications such as connectivity and autonomous operation only make sense if all equipment can participate. OEMs must upgrade their fleet with such digital capabilities, while securing their daily business by timely delivery of mainstream mining equipment. With Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions, mining equipment OEMs can successfully navigate through this complex transition period. Our digital twin and digital thread approaches help manufacturers accelerate the design of any mining equipment type, from mainstream to advanced.