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Discover the digital twin of your machines
Digital twins of your machines help you develop your plant faster and more efficiently. Optimize new machines from the design phase, discover possible improvements before actual commissioning, and use machine data to continuously optimize operations. Siemens provides the technical foundation to grow into a digital enterprise - go for it!

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Digitization in mechanical engineering and plant engineering
Use the advantages of digitization in a flexible and efficient way to produce increasingly individualized products faster. This is possible today for companies of any size, in any market.

Digital twins in mechanical engineering

A digital twin is an exact virtual model of a machine or production unit. The concept represents development throughout the life cycle and allows operators to predict behavior, optimize performance and apply insights from previous design and production experiences.

Our comprehensive digital-twin system is three-tiered and includes a digital twin for product, a digital twin for production and a digital twin for both product and production performance. Thanks to our extensive expertise and optimized tools, Siemens is the only company to offer this holistic approach, creating a seamless transition between the virtual world of product development and production planning and the physical world of production system and product performance. This provides actionable insights from the physical world for thoughtful decisions throughout the life cycle of products and manufacturing operations.

Holistic approach

The Digital Enterprise Suite enables manufacturing companies to seamlessly integrate and digitize their business processes, including their suppliers. They can start using it at any point in their value chain, from product design to production planning, production engineering, production execution and services, and they can expand the digitization process step by step. The same applies to mechanical engineering: from machine design to construction, commissioning, machine operation and services.

MindSphere, the open, cloud-based, IoT operating system, provides a connection to the Internet of Things. That means manufacturers can analyze their production facilities and products in actual use. The insights gained then flow back into the entire value chain for continuous optimization. Machine builders can analyze machine performance to continually optimize the machine, so that even new machine designs become a possibility.