Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced the appointment of Mathew Thomas as the new Country Manager and Managing Director for India. Mathew succeeds Suprakash Chaudhuri, effective immediately. Bringing 30 years of industry experience to the role, Mathew, and his team, aim to drive profitable growth through customer success and by nurturing a high-performance organization. Previously, Mathew served as the Head of Sales for Software and Hardware business for four years, where he played an instrumental role in helping the India business witness significant year-on-year growth.

“I am delighted to welcome Mathew as the Country Manager and Managing Director for India. His strong experience in business will help Siemens continue to develop solid relationships with our customers in the region, assist them in making the switch to a software-driven manufacturing strategy and open up fresh prospects for the market.” said Bas Kuper, Senior Vice President and Managing Director Asia Pacific, Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Commenting on his appointment, Mathew said “I am excited about the new role and thrilled to be a part of the Siemens digital transformation journey. I look forward to helping strengthen our client and ecosystem relationships in India that support our growth ambitions in this region”.

Prior to joining Siemens Digital Industries Software, Mathew worked at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) where he was part of the Digital & Technology Advisory leadership team and helped to build and grow the Technology Business in India. Mathew also served as Vice President – Strategic Industries with SAP where he was responsible for building and growing the Strategic Industries Unit. In Oracle, he worked as Senior Director – Applications Channels driving growth for Oracle’s Applications business. He has also worked at Wipro , Tata & Godrej in the early part of his career.

• Integrated software and hardware solutions form building blocks for digitalization – a convergence of virtual and real worlds
• Industry benefits include shorter time to market, increased flexibility and enhanced productivity
• Siemens to showcase integrated digitalization solutions for the Machine Tool industry for the first time in India at IMTEX 2017

Digitalization entails the ever closer meshing of processes and applications in the virtual and the real world. With a wide spectrum of integrated software, hardware solutions and services, including state-of-the-art SINUMERIK controllers, Siemens India is supporting both machine manufacturers and operators on their way to become a digital enterprise. Showcasing its Integrated Engineering approach at IMTEX 2017, Siemens is demonstrating how machine tool industry can respond faster to the needs of the market, increase their flexibility to meet the customer’s individual requests and also develop products efficiently.

Ashish Bhat, Country Division Lead, Digital Factory, Siemens India, said, “Siemens follows a holistic approach towards digitalization. In the machine tool space, we focus on three main areas through the lifecycle of the machine tool, which is build (during production), operate (during operation) and optimize (of the process / machine tool). The machine tool industry plays a critical role in the entire industrial landscape and also the success of Make in India, and it is imperative that it transitions into a digital enterprise at the earliest.”

Siemens is the only solution provider offering both a seamless CAD/CAM-CNC process chain and solutions for integrating machine tools and higher-level IT systems. Using these integrated products, software solutions and services, machine tool and other manufacturers can benefit considerably from the opportunities offered by digitalization and enhance their competitiveness.

For the first time ever in India, Siemens is showcasing cutting-edge digitalization solutions that help in virtual part production using digital twin concept and cloud-based data services – Mindsphere, which can support machine and plant data evaluation using special tools in order to assess and optimize the condition of machines and plants. Other highlights include a comprehensive range of CNC and metal-cutting machine tool technologies, products, solutions and services – for the smallest job shop to the complex production environment in every segment of the industry, from tool-and-die and mold- making to primary automotive, aerospace and medical part manufacturing.

Visitors to the stall will also get a glimpse of the Technology & Application Centre (TAC), a state of the art knowledge sharing and training facility created by Siemens in India at Peenya, Bangalore. Also on offer are smart financing solutions for equipment and technology from Siemens Financial Solutions. These financial solutions are designed to help businesses of all sizes grow and to fuel the pace of technology adoption.

• Siemens technology to support Local Motors’ leadership in 3D-printed cars
• Local Motors Labs program to leverage Siemens’ digital twin expertise
• Companies share vision of digitalization in product design and production

Siemens and Local Motors have formed a new partnership which is intended to help advance the future of manufacturing by optimizing the development and large-scale 3D printing of cars. The partnership combines the power of Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software technology with Local Motors’ leadership in co-created and 3D-printed vehicles – a process called direct digital manufacturing (DDM). With a shared vision for the future of product development, Local Motors plans to enhance productivity in its innovative Local Motors (LM) Labs program by leveraging Siemens’ expertise in creating “digital twins”, while Siemens expects to further enhance its digital enterprise software suite to support the latest advances in additive manufacturing and 3D printing.

“We have been partners with Siemens since 2011, and today’s announcement takes that partnership to the next level by enabling our community of co-creators to innovate even faster,” said Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors. “We developed the world’s first co-created vehicle and 3D-printed car, and now our LM Labs program is providing the world’s makers with a way – both online and offline – to create new technologies to advance the future of transportation. Open to anyone, LM Labs helps brilliant minds create new technologies the world needs. While our primary focus is on developing vehicles, LM Labs is a place where the community can advance any technology.”

Siemens’ Solid Edge® software, a mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) application, has been in use at Local Motors for several years and has been crucial in facilitating its co-creation model. Using Siemens’ exclusive synchronous technology, Local Motors is able to seamlessly import into Solid Edge non-native CAD models from design collaborators around the world, and then use Solid Edge to easily edit these models.

This new partnership expands the use of Solid Edge and adds Siemens’ NX software and its Fibersim portfolio to all Local Motors facilities around the world. NX, a comprehensive computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering simulation (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution and Fibersim, a portfolio of software for composites engineering, are both leading solutions in the global manufacturing industry with a high concentration in the automotive sector. By expanding its use of Siemens’ digital enterprise software suite, Local Motors and its community of co-creators can leverage digital twins to increase productivity and quality in product design and DDM.

DDM and digital twins save time, reduce costs and increase quality by integrating and streamlining the design and production processes. The DDM process, which takes advantage of additive manufacturing technologies including 3D printing, produces parts directly from 3D models. DDM helps eliminate the need for tooling, removes time lag between design and production, and simplifies redesign. Siemens’ digital twin software technology links design and production by enabling the creation of virtual models that accurately represent the form, function and performance of a product and its production system. These high fidelity digital twins enable engineers to test the functionality of the products and manufacturing processes in the virtual world in order to predict and optimize performance in the physical world.

“By focusing on initiatives like Industrie 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things, big data analytics, cloud computing and much more, Siemens leads the way in advancing the future of manufacturing, said Dr. Helmuth Ludwig – Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Siemens PLM Software. “As part of this leadership, we recognize the growing importance of additive manufacturing and 3D printing for the global manufacturing industry. That is why we are delighted to partner with innovative companies like Local Motors who are leading the way for large-scale 3D printing. By working closely together, we can help advance this technology so that all manufacturers can better realize innovation.”

Local Motors plans to open three new facilities this year, all of which will feature LM Labs. Siemens PLM Software plans to be a sponsor of all three LM Labs. A lab space plus a showroom and demonstration facility is scheduled to open near Washington DC in National Harbor, Maryland this summer. The National Harbor opening is slated to be followed by the debut of a lab facility in Berlin and a full-scale DDM microfactory in Knoxville, Tennessee later this year. The microfactory in Knoxville will serve as the main Local Motors facility for the development and construction of 3D-printed vehicles.

Local Motors is a technology company that designs, builds, and sells vehicles. From bytes-to-bits, the Local Motors platform combines global co-creation with local micro-manufacturing to bring hardware innovations, like the world’s first 3D-printed car, to market at unprecedented speed. Discover more at www.localmotors.com and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daioWlkH7ZI .

• NX, Teamcenter used at German auto supplier’s Electrical Drives division
• Siemens software replaces legacy system as part of unified Bosch strategy
• Bosch introducing digital collaboration across product development

March 17, 2016: Siemens’ integrated suite of computer aided design (CAD), product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions are replacing the legacy system of German automotive supplier Bosch in its Electrical Drives division. Starting in summer 2016, Siemens NX software and Teamcenter® software will serve as the common development platform for the division’s global operations. Bosch has been using CAD/PDM/PLM software from Siemens in other business units for several years. Its decision to expand into the Electrical Drives division is part of its strategic plan to consolidate its diversified tool landscape with a unified methodology for modelling, design and collaboration. The volume of the deal will not be disclosed.

Bosch’s decision for Siemens software aligns with its goal to optimize the value chain of the Electric Drives division with a modular toolkit-concept. This will also be the basis for digital collaboration between different departments across the product development process. The increased standardization and new functionalities will help Bosch realize scale effects more specifically. The digital end-to-end process Bosch is deploying will enable faster innovation, accelerated time-to-market and broader support for the Industry 4.0 strategy, which will secure and extend competitive advantages for the Stuttgart based automotive supplier.

“Siemens PLM Software believes that the increasingly complex products today’s automotive suppliers offer require a systems-driven approach to product development that combines systems engineering with an integrated product definition,” said Urban August, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Siemens PLM Software, Germany. “To facilitate systems-driven product development (SDPD), Siemens PLM Software provides product line engineering capabilities, a consistent process-enabled framework for mechatronic engineering, advanced modeling and simulation, an intuitive user experience and an open PLM environment.”

NX, Siemens’ integrated 3D computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution, will be used to establish and optimize an integrated product development environment. Additionally, utilization of Teamcenter, Siemens’ comprehensive digital lifecycle management solution, provides a fast and easy method for instantly accessing relevant information for rapid evaluation, decision making and re-use of proven best practices. The solutions provide a platform for a broad range of development tasks, from various actuating drives for window lifts, seat adjusters, sliding roofs, steering column adjustment and lift gate drives to motors for anti-lock breaking and electronic stability control systems, fan modules and coolant pumps for motor cooling systems, front and rear wiper systems as well as drive motors for e-scooters and e-bikes.

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 375,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2015). According to preliminary figures, the company generated sales of more than 70 billion euros in 2015. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 60 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2015, Bosch applied for some 5,400 patents worldwide. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” For more information, visit www.bosch.com.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software, systems and services with over nine million licensed seats and more than 77,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with its customers to provide industry software solutions that help companies everywhere achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by making real the innovations that matter. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

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• Smart Operation allows jobshops to integrate machine tools simply into their production processes
• More efficient operation using modern working methods
• New operating concepts for touch technologies at the machine
• Fast job preparation with Sinutrain
• Accessing job status and component supply information on mobile devices
• Viewing all job-related documents over the network at the machine

Siemens is presenting a ground-breaking new concept for efficient work processes surrounding the Sinumerik 840D sl CNC controlling the form of Smart Operation. Jobshops will benefit particularly from the use of Smart Operation, as it allows all kinds of work at the machine tool to be performed with greater flexibility and speed and so helps to boost productivity. The new concept encompasses aspects such as job preparation, IT networking, improved usability with touch operation and the use of mobile devices to perform monitoring and control functions. In short, Smart Operation significantly simplifies the integration of machines into the production process. Smart Operation does not require support by IT specialists and can be simply implemented independently by machine operators – meaning that companies can implement the individual functions using minimal financial and organizational resources.

Smart Operation encompasses four areas: Smart Prepare, Smart Operate, Smart IT, and Smart Mobile. Smart Prepare is concerned with job preparation and the generation of CNC programs at the PC. Siemens offers high-performance software for this purpose in the form of Sinutrain. Known as training software, Sinutrain is used as an offline programming workstation within the scope of the new concept. The benefit: By programming and simulating the next job ahead of time offline at the PC, producing companies can make significant gains in terms of productive time at the machine.

Smart Operate comes with a number of innovations to enhance usability and improve the user interface. The Sinumerik Operate user interface now offers comprehensive touch control. In combination with the new Blackline Panels OP 015 black and OP 019 black, Sinumerik Operate now offers an array of carefully considered and innovative multitouch operating features. Siemens has optimized the representation of familiar functions to improve user experience, for instance with an improved overview, simpler operation or faster interaction. All the softkeys and the keyboard can now be displayed and arranged for optimum convenience on-screen. The folder and file structure screen has also been improved, for instance with a function for adjusting font sizes and for hiding or showing detailed information.

The Smart IT aspect of Smart Operation enables data to be accessed and managed. Smart IT makes available all job-related documentation such as component programs, DXF drawings and pictures at the operator panel over the network connection. A new DXF viewer and reader now depicts files in the popularly used CAD data exchange format to be viewed directly at the machine tool. The user can select the geometry elements displayed in a DXF file using the contour capture function and transfer them directly for programming a workpiece machining operation. The option “Execution from External Storage” (EES) enables elective data accessing by the machine tool from connected USB memory sticks, hard drives and network resources. This permits workpiece data to be viewed directly at the machine and even large component programs to be run from external memories. If required, several NCUs – for instance in rotary transfer machines – can jointly access a central network memory.

Smart Mobile is a solution designed to enable the use of mobile devices in the machine tool environment. Using a secured webserver, users can deploy monitoring and control functions using a notebook, smartphone or tablet. This allows up-to-the-minute information such as the current job status or component supply situation to be accessed remotely, or service information to be displayed. These functions can benefit machine builders right from the early development stage of new machine concepts, allowing mobile access to be included as a standard feature from the outset.

Siemens and Silicon Valley Combine Engineering and Entrepreneurship to Forge Breakthrough Technologies, Harness the Power of Data and Make ‘Real’ Things.

Frontier Partner Program Grants 3D Printing and Robotics-focused Startups Access to Siemens Software and Technology to Accelerate Product Development.

Announcements Made at The Atlantic Silicon Valley Event Discussing Software Innovation and the Next Generation of manufacturing and 3D printing. 

Combining Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial spirit with its own engineering expertise, Siemens today announced the expansion of the startup Frontier Partner program run by Siemens Technology to Business (TTB) and Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software organization. The Frontier Partner program deepens Siemens’ long-standing ties to the area as it continues to find, fund, and forge the breakthrough technologies that will harness the power of data and accelerate the development and manufacturing of tomorrow’s innovative products.

The Frontier Partner program grants manufacturing-focused startups access to Siemens’ PLM software, its technology partner program, and other developmental resources. Siemens PLM Software is a leading global provider of digital software solutions that address areas such as product development, manufacturing, product data management and manufacturing operations management.

Siemens has already enrolled several startup companies into the Frontier Partner program as part of a pilot focusing on 3D printing innovations. With today’s announcement, Siemens is expanding the Frontier Partner program to entrepreneurs with a focus on robotics technologies.

In addition to the more than $1 billion Siemens invests annually in the U.S. for research and development, this latest digital entrepreneurial initiative from Siemens is aimed at getting innovations to market quicker by building on existing, industry-proven tools. With a presence in Silicon Valley since the 1950s, Siemens envisions a future where Silicon Valley companies will infuse the excitement and creativity seen in consumer-focused apps into industrial software that will increase productivity, efficiency, speed-to-market and flexibility in modern manufacturing.

Founded in 1999 in Berkeley, California, Siemens TTB aims to nurture partnerships with startups to connect thousands of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to business opportunities around the globe. TTB is part of the Siemens Corporate Technology unit, which is comprised of some 7,400 of the world’s most talented innovators, scientists, engineers and technical experts from over two dozen countries.

“The Frontier Partner program joins a long line of Siemens Technology to Business programs that partner with startups to add value to our core and future businesses so we can better serve our customers,” said Chenyang Xu, General Manager, Siemens Technology to Business Berkeley. “The startups accepted into this program demonstrate excellence in developing unique and innovative technologies and partnering with Siemens can bring the scale and scope necessary to help their business succeed.”

The Frontier Partner program supports startups in the product development phase. Startups accepted into the pilot receive a year-long development license to a comprehensive suite of Siemens’ PLM software that enables them to develop the new product. Additionally, participants have access to Siemens development mentors and other technology partners who utilize Siemens software.

“Businesses across the globe in industries from autos to aerospace to consumer electronics are constantly striving to get products to market faster and more efficiently,” said Chuck Grindstaff, CEO and President, Siemens PLM Software. “Our PLM software solutions are being utilized today by virtually every segment of the industrial base worldwide, helping to enable the next era of advanced manufacturing. We’re proud to offer our tools to Frontier Partner startups as they work to bring their own manufacturing-focused innovations to market.”

Initial Frontier participants are:

• Authentise – engineering software to securely stream 3D designs directly to printers.
• Avante Technology, LLC – providing software that repairs and prepares 3D files for printing.
• Matterfab – developing a metal 3D printer for industrial use.
• MatterMachine – platform enabling scalable bespoke manufacturing.
• nTopology, Inc. – building software to generate optimized 3D lattice structures.

“We’re delighted to be part of the Siemens Frontier Partner program to bring our secure delivery tools for additive manufacturing to a greater audience,” said Andre Wegner, Founder and CEO of Authentise. “This is just the start of a long partnership to learn and develop products for a distributed manufacturing future together.”

The pilot startups were chosen because they are all focused on solving industrial users’ challenges that are encountered with 3D printing including reliability, scalability, and ease-of-use for mass-scale applications. Now, startups with a focused on robotics will also be able to access the Frontier Partner program.

The expansion of the Frontier Partner program was announced at Bold Bets: Tomorrow’s Industrial Entrepreneurship (And How Everything Will Change) – an event held by The Atlantic at the University of California, Berkeley that focused on the digitalization of infrastructure and how the infusion of entrepreneurship and data will impact industrial manufacturing and software. The event was underwritten by Siemens.

Startups looking to join the Frontier Partner program can apply here at www.ttb.siemens.com/frontier.

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With the new application center in the direct vicinity of its headquarters, KUKA Roboter Italia SpA has opened completely new premises where KUKA can offer customers numerous different robot cells for training purposes, information and advanced technical training.

The demo cells cover areas of application from the most varied of sectors – from consumer goods and machine control on to programming with Siemens Sinumerik and KUKA Motion Control for non-anthropomorphic kinematic systems and robot-controlled welding.

The opening ceremony in March also presented an opportunity for inaugurating the new KUKA showroom – a facility that provides that extra something for seminars and conferences.

Demo Cell– LBR IIWA
In this cell, the LBR iiwa robot carries out the assembly of metal and plastic components, thus demonstrating its “adaptive” properties through the use of its integrated sensors in the robot arm and the force feedback signals. The cell is also used to demonstrate how safe interaction between operator and robot can be achieved in a shared workspace – with particular emphasis placed on the extremely high sensitivity of the robot in response to potential collisions.

Demo Cell– Mxautomation / Siemens Runmyrobot
In this cell, the KR AGILUS Waterproof small robot demonstrates the handling of workpieces and simulates the loading and unloading of a machine tool. The special feature of this cell is that the robot is programmed directly via the Siemens 840d control module: with the RunMyRobot option, this module makes it possible for operators of the machine to program the robot themselves – without any knowledge of the specific programming language – using intuitively designed operator control elements. In this manner, even KUKA newcomers are immediately comfortable with the system.

Demo Cell – Safeoperation
In this cell, the KR 90 R3100 EXTRA from the KR QUANTEC family demonstrates the capabilities of the KUKA.SafeOperation option using a 3D laser scanner from SICK. Thanks to the laser scanner, the robot cell can be operated without any safeguard and can be awarded a Category 3 safety certificate. Beyond this, the cell provides a view of the various safety level settings, taking into account the proximity of the operator.

Demo Cell – KUKA Motion Control Continuous Kinematics
This cell shows how the KUKA robot controller can also control other motion sequences, including, for example, a station for handling and palletizing objects. Customers even have the option of standardizing the controller and the user interface of the robot so that these can be used not only for KUKA robots but also for any other external kinematic systems.

Demo Cell – Consumer Industry
This cell is, above all, oriented towards products for the consumer goods sector. Applications in this sector require high-performance robots for Pick&Place tasks as well for palletizing objects. These tasks are all coordinated with a high-speed conveyor and image processing systems for the localization and control of products.

A KR 40 PA robot – a particularly compact, high-performance palletizing robot with four axes – can be directly synchronized with a conveyor using the ConveyorTech option. The robot also features the KUKA VisionTech image processing system, which allows images to be displayed directly on the user interface of the SmartPad and/or on an external.

Salient Features of the New Series :

• Flender Planurex 3 with torque range from 1,700 to 5,450 kilonewton meters (kNm)
• Harmonized size grading and additional sizes
• Higher power rating with lower weight in comparison to the previous series
• Integrated Drive System (IDS), comprising motor, gear unit and coupling, for efficient plant operation

Siemens has widened its portfolio of planetary gear units, showcased at the Hannover Messe 2015. The Planurex 3 is available in ten sizes, with a torque range from 1,700 to 5,450 kNm. This raises the highest torque in the standard modular system from the previous 2,600 kNm up to 5,450 kNm. The size grading is harmonized to reduce the jump in power ratings between different sizes. This makes a suitable torque and a suitable transmission ratio available for almost every application. The gear units also have the highest efficiency in their class. This has been achieved by increasing the torque density (Nm/kg) by an average of 17.2 percent in comparison to the previous series. A compact design enables space-saving, high transmission ratios to be achieved. This not only reduces the weight, but also the stress on the gear unit and application. Planurex 3 is part of an Integrated Drive System (IDS), which is available as a complete solution, comprising motor, gear unit and coupling, combined with an oil supply system. The integrated drive system facilitates economic, efficient plant operation, as the components are perfectly matched to one another. The technologically further developed Flender Planurex series 3 replaces the Planurex 2 planetary gear unit series, initially in the XL range up to 5,450 kNm. The harmonized size grading across the entire torque range allows better dimensioning of the gear units.

Thanks to their ruggedness, all sizes of the new planetary gear unit can absorb peak loads up to twice their nominal torque. Siemens has also extended the warranty on the Planurex 3, and shortened its delivery times.Planetary gear units are primarily installed where high output ranges are required in limited space. They are typically used as roller press and central drives for tube mills in mines and cement plants. The Planurex 3 planetary gear unit series is available in ten sizes, and has the highest efficiency in its class. This technologically further developed series replaces the previous Planurex 2, initially in the XL range up to 5,450 kNm.

The Siemens Managing Board is establishing a Siemens Technology & Innovation Council (STIC). Comprising internationally experienced and respected experts from the research and scientific communities, the Siemens Technology & Innovation Council will closely support the Managing Board in systematically analyzing and monitoring strategic topics in the areas of technology and innovation. The council will focus, in particular, on developments, innovations and technologies that will have an impact on Siemens’ business over the next ten years. Peter Gruss has been appointed to head the expert panel. He will also steer its orientation and composition.

“We want to engage in a dialogue with internationally leading scientists regarding key innovation trends in electrification, automation and digitalization, leveraging
their knowledge and experience more intensively for the benefit of our company’s long-term technological orientation,” said Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

“I’m very pleased that Siemens has found a highly respected and very experienced scientist like Mr. Gruss to shape and lead the new expert council, which will be of vital importance for our company’s future,” said Siegfried Russwurm, Chief Technology Officer of Siemens AG, who will be responsible for coordinating the Siemens Technology & Innovation Council within the company.

“Heading the Siemens Technology & Innovation Council is a very attractive and exciting task. I’m sure that Siemens will profit from the experience and expertise of external scientists and researchers,” said Peter Gruss, future Head of the Siemens Technology & Innovation Council.

Peter Gruss was formerly President of the Max Planck Society and is currently a member of Siemens’ Supervisory Board. He will resign from the Supervisory Board at Siemens’ Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on January 27, 2015 and head the Siemens Technology & Innovation Council.

Acquisition to Expand Siemens’ Manufacturing Execution Systems Offerings; Delivers on Siemens’ Strategy for a Fully Integrated Digital Enterprise.
Adds Manufacturing Execution Systems Leadership in Key Industries; Will Add Big Data Product Performance Analytics across Global Supply Chain.

Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Camstar Systems, Inc., one of the proven market leaders in enterprise Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software. The acquisition will build on Siemens’ industrial digitalization strategy by broadening its integrated product development and production automation solutions for the electronics, semiconductor and medical device industries. Today’s announcement represents the latest step to help companies realize innovation with a truly integrated digital enterprise. Camstar’s best-in-class MES solutions will complement Siemens’ existing vertical industry offerings. Camstar will become part of Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) business. The transaction is expected to close during the second half of November, 2014. Terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.

Camstar’s enterprise MES portfolio delivers scalable, flexible, enterprise-wide solutions for centralized or distributed multi-site manufacturing environments. Today’s complex product development environment is driving strong demand for enterprise MES solutions among manufacturers in discrete industries. The Camstar portfolio includes next-generation, high-performance analytics to gain insight into the operations of complex and global processes. This cloud-based capability leverages state-of-the-art, big data technology across the operations and global supply chain of the enterprise.

“The addition of the Camstar team and products represents the latest step in Siemens’ focus on delivering industry leading, comprehensive functionality and the deep expertise needed to support our customers’ digital enterprises,” said Chuck Grindstaff, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. “The addition of Camstar’s solutions will further accelerate our integration of PLM with the Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) domain. In the integrated digital enterprise, we are enabling PLM, MOM and industrial automation to work together to help customers realize innovation in their products and processes throughout the value chain. Camstar’s unique value and industry-centric approach complements the Siemens strategy for the MOM domain and will be a welcomed addition to our premier MES brand, SIMATIC IT.”

“Camstar has established a long-standing reputation as the industry standard in MES capabilities and value delivery to the medical device, semiconductor and electronics segments,” said Scott Toney, CEO, Camstar. “Siemens clearly recognizes the value we bring to these segments, and the natural fit we are for their industry strategy. We view this as a great benefit for our customers, and we welcome the expanded opportunities that will result from being a part of Siemens.”

“Siemens’ acquisition of Camstar is a smart move that aligns well with their industry strategy,” said Greg Gorbach, vice president, ARC Advisory Group. “It enhances their capabilities in important industry segments, adds powerful technology and expertise to their solution offering, and enables their customers to realize innovation.”

Founded in 1984, Camstar is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., and has 250 employees in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, China and The Netherlands.