Reinventing manufacturing: Beyond factory walls

Gunter Beitinger and Petra Monn
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Gunter Beitinger: Head of Factory Digitalisation and Head of Product Carbon Footprint/SiGreen, Siemens, Germany
Petra Monn: Operational Program Lead, Siemens, Germany

Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, 2022, vol. 4, issue 4, 354-368

Abstract: Even before being challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Siemens manufacturing system, which has produced the company’s extensive hardware portfolio since its foundation 175 years ago, needed to reinvent itself. It did so by organising its multiple factory networks to serve a common purpose: to enable intelligent operations through the best automation and digitalisation technologies possible. Deeply rooted in the lean principles, Siemens factories unite their experts in groups across business units while closely integrating IT. Each group is concerned with a I4R technology cluster, defining a ‘north star’ and embedding use cases, as well as implementation projects in their factory overarching approach. This paper describes how, in working closely with solution providers for the realisation of their use cases, those groups act as catalysts — not only for constituting the elements of the factories’ information technology/operations technology (IT/OT) architecture, but also as a ‘Customer Zero’ for new business models, such as a distributed ledge-based CO2 footprint evaluation system.

Keywords: I4R; IT/OT convergence; digital lighthouse; digital twin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L23 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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