Siemens has been awarded the "Vitrines Industrie du Futur" label for its ambitious digital transformation project at its production site in Haguenau (67). Awarded by the Alliance Industrie du Futur, this label recognizes concrete, innovative industrial projects. Since its creation in 2015, it has helped to bring to light best practices with emblematic characters, imagined by companies.
Dedicated to the production of measuring instruments for the process industries and gas analyzers, the Haguenau production site, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, employs 900 people. Over the past twenty years, the site has experienced significant growth, with the successive introduction of the manufacture of pressure transmitters, valve positioners, temperature transmitters, laser technology gas analyzers, and since 2010 the entire range of flowmeters.
Since 2015, the site has begun its transformation towards the factory of the future with :
- Digitization of workflows: order entry, automatic order confirmation and production planning, using the Siemens Preactor solution.
- Implementation of Plant Simulation, a production line simulation software program that simulates production in real time, thus optimizing the flow of products on production lines.
- Digitalized energy management, thanks to the Energie Management system, which enables energy-hungry equipment to be controlled in order to reduce the site's energy consumption and thus contribute to protecting the planet.
- Use the Mindsphere IOT platform to connect the most critical equipment, monitor it in real time and optimize its operation.
- Robotization, thanks to an innovation laboratory that deals with the integration of robots and cobots within the plant.
- The installation of an AMR fleet of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR), capable of transporting products from production to dispatch, in collaboration with Norcan, also based in Haguenau.
- The creation of an R&D center, which currently employs 80 people.
"The introduction of all these new technologies enables Siemens to deliver a wider variety of products in ever shorter lead times, since several tens of thousands of variants are produced on the same production lines," says the company.
Siemens also works with the region's universities, IUTs and schools to train the generations of the future, and welcomes nearly 70 apprentices at all levels and in all disciplines.
"These technological successes would not have been possible without the extremely favorable environment in which we are developing. The Grand Est region is rich in dynamic companies, which have enabled the creation of structures such as Resilian, the Réseau des Industries d'Alsace du Nord, and the Communauté des Leaders, at the initiative of the region", explains Didier Mayer, Director of the Siemens site in Haguenau.
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