Digital Transformation Accelerates Ventilator Production in South Africa

With the COVID-19 pandemic taking a huge toll on lives worldwide, a multidisciplinary, multiorganizational South African team was able to design, develop, and produce 18,000 ventilators within the span of 3 months.

Scanfil realizes 10% – 40% improvement in manufacturing KPIs with Siemens Opcenter

“Ultimately, we embarked on our Smart Operations journey to be the best partner for our customers as possible,” said Kesten. “We wanted to improve productivity, quality control, and planning efficiency to meet their changing needs. As we saw a shift to lower volume and higher mix of products, we needed to have greater setup efficiency for NPI velocity. We also needed to assure regulatory compliance with automated traceability.”

Doctors in an operating room using high quality medical device equipment

Terumo Charts their Course to the Factories of the Future

“We set out to build our digital factories of the future,” said Kalyan Balsubramanian, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Terumo Americas. “This initiative was not about technology. It was about transforming the way we did business.”

BLOG: Perspectives from Realize Live 2020: Opcenter Portfolio Update

At Realize Live 2020, we featured an extensive update on the latest and greatest innovations in the Opcenter portfolio. This article is a Q&A with Rene Wolfe an Tobias Lange regarding Openter.

EVENT HIGHLIGHT – Realize LIVE Special Session on Streamlining CSV with the FDA

Join us at a special session of Realize LIVE to learn how to reduce costs and simplify the task of documenting Computer Software Verification (CSV).
In this session, you will learn about several …

SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT – Integrated Manufacturing Operations in CPG and Process

Realize LIVE special session

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) and process industries software professionals attending Siemens Realize LIVE Forum, you have an opportunity to hear about the suc…

SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT – Danfoss Digital Journey and Strategic Approach to MOM

Realize LIVE special session

Discrete manufacturing software professionals, join us at the Siemens Realize LIVE Forum to hear about the successful manufacturing operations management (MOM)…

SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT – Realize LIVE Special Session on the Secure Digital Twin

Recognizing how critical the issue of microelectronics trust and assurance is to our Camstar Semiconductor and Electronics suite user communities, Siemens has tapped industry expert Brett Attaway to …

SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT – Lessons from Building a Smart Factory

Realize LIVE special session

Take it from a key manufacturing leader: the transition to smart factories is successful only when the deployment team keeps its focus on the factory’s core mi…