Why data consistency is key How many brand-new factories with a state-of-the art IT/OT infrastructure are built each year?  Quite a number, I am sure. But in most cases, our customers are facing the challenge to upgrade or extend existing production lines or plants. With our concept of Totally Integrated Automation we started a couple […]

The digital twin is everywhere. It brings benefits to designing houses or operating trams and it helps to develop and operate machine tools. You want to know more about that? Then you might enjoy reading this article! When I started work at Siemens, I was soon confronted with the term “digital twin”. I began to […]

Building Information Modeling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). It is no secret that gamers have played a significant role in driving major advancements in digital image processing. What was initially dismissed by industrial automation developers progressed quickly and professionally. Photorealistic, dynamic virtual worlds computed and displayed in real time are considered state […]

Modern technology help tram operators to ensure the transport of their passengers rapidly, reliably and comfortably – day by day. A digital twin feeded by Simatic Real-Time Locating (RTLS) supports the managem

How has digitalization made integrated engineering more efficient? The concept of integrated engineering refers to information and processes that are available in a single database with interfaces to various engineering and automation systems. Actions and activities done in the engineering phase can be more consistently executed in the operations and maintenance phase because of the […]

Remember that haunting Hollywood vampire tale from the 90s? Tom Cruise and Brad Pritt as beguiling immortals roaming fabled cities and centuries lusting for blood? Well, I guess, I’m the Christian Slater in that story. At the Siemens booth on the packing industry’s FachPack2018 fare in Nuremberg I had the honor to sit down for […]

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These days people in all industries are faced with new impact-words mainly coming from the IT sector. Sometimes they are self-explanatory, but most of them are used in a context inexplicable to third parties. If we have no idea it will be done somewhere “in the cloud”. A new expression is now used in the world of digitalization: digital twins. What’s behind it and what is its potential?

A year ago I didn’t know what a digital twin was, now it seems everything has one. I have been working with a digital twin called S2AM, the Siemens Sheffield Advanced Multimodal Simulator. A mouthful, but this is our name for a new system that simulates how people move through a transport network.