Digitalisation is rising rapidly around us. The world is changing at a drastic rate and I’m excited to be a part of it… By a pure chance encounter in 2014, as a 17-year-old working in a pub chatting with one of my ‘regulars’ who worked at Siemens, I found out about the company. Back in […]

At Digital Talks 2019, I chatted to science and technology journalist, Katherine Templar-Lewis, about the journey of continuous improvement that the Congleton factory is on To find out more and request to see the Congleton factory in action, click here

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” Mention this legendary quote of Henry Ford’s to manufacturers in 2019 and you’ll barely get a weary smile. In a world of endless new digital possibilities, consumers are demanding products that are increasingly customized – and preferably […]

Ready for a journey to the world of machine tools? Boring? I promise you not! You may not be aware, but you would not be able to read this text on your laptop or mobile phone without them. And forget about the coffee you might have thought of drinking just now. Yes, it’s true – […]

Have you ever been to an aerospace factory? As a business developer in this industry I know the numbers and a good deal about the technology behind building an aircraft. Still, seeing an airplane production hall for the first time left me dumbfounded. The sheer size of the parts, towering aircraft tail sections, large cantilevered […]

Adaptive Control and Monitoring (ACM) is a quick win for manufacturers, even for Siemens itself. Adaptive feed control continuously adjusts the feed rate based on individual cutting conditions, resulting in cycle time reduction and tool protection. Digitalization offers many options, including optimizing the core metal machining process. In conjunction with years of production know-how experience, […]

As manufacturing procedures can sometimes delay production with, waste materials handling and process change over or recipe adjustment, more plants have begun to automate their procedures than we have seen before.

As we’re gearing up for the Siemens Automation Summit, which is running June 25-28, 2018, in Marco Island, Fla., there will be a ton of sessions opening the conference concerning digitalization, smart manufacturing, cyber security and modernizing processes. So how do you modernize your process and make your system more efficient? There are several benefits […]