Integrated Manufacturing

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The automotive landscape is evolving more rapidly than ever before. Manufacturers must respond to disruptive trends like electrification and autonomous driving. They experience increasing levels of personalization and connectivity of vehicles and government mandates of stricter regulatory and sustainability requirements. OEMs and suppliers are under pressure to innovate and bring new features to market faster to expand their portfolios. Launching the next generation of vehicles simultaneously with current production forces manufacturers to manage multiple processes while trying to protect the reliability and profitability of their operations. Integrated manufacturing is a revolutionary solution that allows start-ups, OEMs, and suppliers to plan, optimize, automate, and validate assembly processes virtually, in parallel with product development. Hosted on a digital backbone that runs through the entire ecosystem, an integrated manufacturing solution promotes seamless collaboration by connecting all engineering disciplines to a single source of up-to-date information, ensuring a predictable and flawless product launch.

The automotive landscape is evolving more rapidly than ever before. Manufacturers must respond to disruptive trends like electrification and autonomous driving. They experience increasing levels of personalization and connectivity of vehicles and government mandates of stricter regulatory and sustainability requirements. OEMs and suppliers are under pressure to innovate and bring new features to market faster to expand their portfolios. Launching the next generation of vehicles simultaneously with current production forces manufacturers to manage multiple processes while trying to protect the reliability and profitability of their operations. Integrated manufacturing is a revolutionary solution that allows start-ups, OEMs, and suppliers to plan, optimize, automate, and validate assembly processes virtually, in parallel with product development. Hosted on a digital backbone that runs through the entire ecosystem, an integrated manufacturing solution promotes seamless collaboration by connecting all engineering disciplines to a single source of up-to-date information, ensuring a predictable and flawless product launch.

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Maximize efficiency and quality with simulation-based manufacturing process planning

Enable early validation and design issue resolution with collaborative manufacturing planning and reduce errors and improve efficiency with integrated work instruction creation.

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Accelerating the Launch Process

Launching a vehicle has always been a balancing act between quality assurance and achieving line speed and throughput targets. With processes honed over 120 years, manufacturers are used to setting aggressive launch targets that their customers expect them to meet. However, the challenges manufacturers face today have upset this balance by increasing production complexity, making their current processes obsolete, and driving launch or ramp-up delays. Automakers who continue to rely on traditional approaches and fail to leverage legacy equipment in this evolving landscape risk making critical mistakes that cause quality issues and leave them having to fix unforeseen problems during commissioning that put the launch at risk. A digitalized manufacturing approach that integrates product design and manufacturing design processes accelerates the launch timeline by preventing last-minute errors that are costly to fix.

Virtual Commissioning with an Integrated Manufacturing Solution

Instead of the traditional development sequence beginning with product engineering and followed by production design, an integrated manufacturing solution provides everyone early access to critical engineering data promoting collaboration between disciplines to eliminate failures before they occur. Carmakers and suppliers can virtually commission manufacturing assets before physical commissioning to predict and resolve problems before they happen. Smart manufacturing through digitalization also mitigates the risk of late design changes by providing a virtual environment, known as a digital twin, to simulate and validate the changes before incorporating them. With a digitalized approach to product lifecycle management, carmakers can support the modular platform strategies they recently adopted to expand their portfolios efficiently. OEMs, start-ups, and suppliers will increase flexibility, accelerate start-up time, achieve first-time quality, and launch successfully with Siemens integrated manufacturing solution.

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