Siemens – Octotronic

Octotronic USE CASE with SIEMENS

Standardizing Shopfloor Communication for Enhanced Efficiency and Flexibility

Siemens AG partnered with Octotronic to standardize communication across all shopfloor levels, integrating seamlessly with existing applications and enhancing overall operational efficiency. This collaboration leveraged the specialized capabilities of Octotronic in the Smart Factory Shopfloor domain and Siemens’ deep technical expertise.

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Electronics
Manufacturing

Europe

Company

SIEMENS AG is a leading technology company focusing on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. Siemens supports its customers with technologies that offer concrete benefits, including resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, intelligent buildings, and grids, low-emission and comfortable trains, and advanced healthcare. By combining the real and digital worlds, Siemens enables its customers to transform their industries and markets, improving the daily lives of billions of people.

Use Case Objectives

The primary objective was to standardize shopfloor communication, ensuring seamless integration with existing applications. This initiative aimed to empower Siemens’ highly skilled employees with deep knowledge of shopfloor automation, enabling them to carry the project forward independently.

Collaboration

Siemens and Octotronic created ideal synergies between their specialized capabilities, leading to successful implementation and the potential for future project expansions.

Key Achievements

Proof of Concept (PoC): Transformation of OT system architecture to improve integration, flexibility, and maintainability.

QR for Customer: Integration of QR codes into the production process, linking each product to the value chain.

Modular Line Gateway (MLG): Automation and control of previously manual material transport within the production line.

Customer Benefits

The collaboration yielded several significant benefits:

Data-Driven Analysis: Octotronic brought speed to the analysis and problem-solving process, overcoming the challenges of manual, sporadic issue tracking.
Enhanced Machine Availability: Addressing the challenges led to a substantial increase in machine efficiency, ensuring the timely completion of the acceptance test.
Cultivating Trust: The objective data provided by Octotornic helped dissolve tensions between FFT and the luxury car manufacturer, fostering evidence-driven communication and reducing unnecessary managerial discussions.
Cost Efficiency: The expedited acceptance test, facilitated by Octotornic, resulted in estimated savings of over 50,000€ for FFT.
Impressed Clientele: The efficacy of the system so impressed the machine operator that they later procured an Octotornic system for themselves.

Octotronic Expertise

The collaboration brought significant improvements:

Agile Project Development: Rapid setup of a development environment for testing and optimizing applications. The Smart Factory architecture facilitated quick project startups.
Productive Use: Prototype environments were set up close to production settings, utilizing live data and extending the developed system architecture to other production areas.
Employee Empowerment and Standardization: Workshops introduced Siemens employees to new IT systems, enabling them to extend and enhance these systems independently.
Partner Network Management: Octotronic managed projects involving specific customer requirements from sub-suppliers, ensuring smooth project execution.

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