Tech-Clarity

Making the value of technology clear

  • Published Research
    • eBooks
    • White Papers
    • Survey Results
    • Buyer’s Guides
    • Infographics
  • Research Invitations
    • Survey Invitations
    • Assessments
  • Presentations & Videos
    • Webinars
    • Live Presentations
    • Tech-Clarity TV
    • Virtual Events
  • Insights & Activity
    • In the News
    • Insights
  • About
    • Team Tech-Clarity
    • Jim Brown
    • Michelle Boucher
    • Julie Fraser
    • Rick Franzosa
    • Arvind Krishnan
  • Search
  • Search
  • Date

Siemens Advances IT/OT Convergence with Industrial Operations X (Insight)

Industrial Operations X: the next steps of IT/OT convergence from Siemens has IoT at the core, low code, and announced virtual PLC.

Julie Fraser - April 24, 2023

ITOT convergence
Share

Are the next steps of IT/OT convergence at hand? Siemens would say yes. IT and OT are blending more than ever in some new offerings under an umbrella of data-driven manufacturing.

Siemens just announced the expansion of their Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) framework into Industrial Operations X. Industrial Operations X includes Industrial IoT, Industrial Edge, and Mendix Low-code technologies. The focus is on making it easier to integrate manufacturing IT (such as MES, HMI/SCADA) and OT (such as PLCs, DCS, and other automation). Siemens aims to deliver more flexible, interoperable, scalable, and open solutions. If they succeed, it should lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Software-defined automation for speed and ease of converging IT and OT is another angle. News there includes the virtual PLC, an S7-1500 controller with no hardware to install. Another breakthrough is configuring OT with modern IT tools such as GitHub and text-based programming. Beyond bringing their products together, Siemens intends to help transform manufacturing engineering processes. With the skills shortage, this may be crucial.

They also announced that the IIoT platform MindSphere will be called Insights Hub starting this week. Insights Hub is one domain capability within Industrial Operations X. The foundation for all other Insights Hub applications is an app called Monitor. Other apps include OT such as SIMATIC Energy Manager and Manage MyMachines as well as new ones in IT such as OEE, Quality Prediction (combining asset and process data to feed a machine learning model), and Asset Health and Maintenance.

Siemens explains that this set of announcements is the beginning of a journey. Clearly, it expands the ecosystem they started with Industrial Edge. New IoT-based applications are in the works both from Siemens and from partners and customers leveraging low-code capabilities. HANNOVER MESSE is always a big time for Industry 4.0 announcements, and Siemens always has a big presence. Thank you Jon Heidorn, Raymond Kok, and Roland Melzer for delivering us a preview of these announcements. We look forward to following the continued convergence of Siemens’ automation and software offerings to enable manufacturers to accelerate their success.

ITOT convergence

Related Posts

  • Siemens Shows Progress with Mendix Lowcode for Industrial Applications (insight)
    Siemens Mendix

    We just learned a lot in an interesting update briefing on Mendix from Siemens. Jim…

  • Industrial Design: 7 Ways to Reduce Non-Value-Added Work
    Industrial design

    How much of your industrial design work can be leveraged during detail design? Could your…

  • Accelerate Life Sciences Innovation with Operations Digital Twin
    Operations Digital Twin

    How can manufacturing software accelerate life sciences innovation? By combining MES with an operations digital…

Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity, Slideshow Tagged With: #energymonitoring, OEE, Edge, #manufacturingengineering, Lowcode, #itotconvergence, #virtualplc, #github, Quality, #machinemonitoring, IoT

Join our community to receive our newsletter and survey invitations.

Copyright © 2012-2024 – Tech-Clarity, Inc.

  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Date

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook

Copyright © 2012-2024 – Tech-Clarity, Inc.