Siemens: “Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise for the bakery industry” at the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne

Using examples taken from the food industry, the exhibits on show at the booth are designed to bring home to visitors how digitalization can enhance flexibility and allow even customized, individual products to be mass produced. Visitors will also have the opportunity to find out more about energy management, manufacturing operations management and security. Siemens will additionally be demonstrating how producers can use the digital twin of a product, machine or a whole plant to generate added value. When creating a recipe for a new product, for instance, data relating to the ingredients is transferred directly to the label, taking into account legal rules and regulations. This is made possible by using the Teamcenter shared data platform. Using the plant’s digital twin, it is also possible to test out planned changes to the plant and what effect they will have on production capacity. This capability permits the food industry – as applies in general to all sectors of the manufacturing and process industries – to significantly increase its innovation speed and boost its productivity, and also to take the lead in defining whole new business models. This development can also benefit machine and plant builders and allow them to pass the advantages on to their customers.

At the Anuga, Siemens will also be illustrating how companies can respond flexibly to changing market demands – such as the growing diversity of different flavors – across every stage from food processing to packaging, labeling and filling. Visitors to the show will have the chance to experience at first hand how chocolate bars can be precisely manufactured to individual customer order. The scope offered by digitalization enables consumers to design products and packaging in line with their own personal tastes. This facility will be illustrated by Siemens at the Anuga using the example of chocolate processing – from the product idea through actual manufacture and filling to packaging and labeling using end-to-end automation and data utilization. Digital twins of the products, plants and production lines are simulated and optimized with special software. Using several different processing stations, Siemens will be illustrating how this process works for visitors to the booth. Fair-goers can also experience how KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) of relevance for the whole production line or a particular process element can be visualized and evaluated using specific apps in the cloud-based open IoT operating system MindSphere.

This press release is available at www.siemens.com/press/anuga