Nuremberg, March 1, 2016 – Siemens continues to extend its range of products for what has come to be known as the "Digital Enterprise" – or the achievement of end-to-end digitalisation. At the Hannover Messe 2016, Siemens will be showcasing an array of innovations in the fields of power distribution, automation and drive technology as well as industrial software. Under the banner "Ingenuity for life – Driving the Digital Enterprise", the Siemens booth in Hall 9 at the Hannover Messe 2016 will be offering an overview of the company's extensive portfolio over an area of 3,500 square meters.

The four cornerstones needed to achieve a digital transformation are integrated software tools and systems, industry-capable communication and security solutions as well as data-based services. These will enable manufacturing companies to achieve faster, more flexible value adding processes and so cater more specifically to individual customer needs, allow them to respond far more rapidly to new market demands, and make it easier for them to develop complete new business models. Although industrial enterprises are facing different demands depending on their field, the central challenges are the same for all companies: Reducing the time-to-market and increasing flexibility and efficiency while achieving an ever higher standard of quality.

Siemens took an important step towards extending its offering for the "Digital Enterprise" with its recently announced plan to acquire the US company CD-adapco. Speaking at the press conference ahead of the fair, the Digital Factory Division CEO Anton S. Huber said: "By supplementing our portfolio of industrial simulation tools to include the market's leading software tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and integrating world leading experts in this field, we are significantly expanding our expertise in the extremely important field of model-based product development".

Over the past 15 years, Siemens has continuously expanded its portfolio of software tools offered as part of its "Digital Enterprise Software Suite". The Digital Enterprise Software Suite offers a comprehensive portfolio of integral software-based tools focusing on Teamcenter as a collaboration platform. In future, this will increasingly bring about the seamless integration of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), MES/MOM (Manufacturing Execution System/Manufacturing Operations Management) and TIA (Totally Integrated Automation). In common with industrial communication networks, security solutions and the rapid, smart evaluation of large volumes of data based on MindSphere – the Siemens Cloud for Industry – Siemens is helping its customers achieve transformation towards the Digital Enterprise. MindSphere offers industrial enterprises an open infrastructure based on SAP HANA, and enables innovative digital services.

"Using the software tools, communication solutions, security concepts and solutions, and an open platform for data-based services offered by Siemens, manufacturing companies are already in a position to invest in future-proof automation solutions for the step-by-step implementation of Industrie 4.0 solutions today", said Huber. “Digitalisation gives them the capability to significantly speed up their value adding processes and so engineer, produce and market their products far more quickly and efficiently.”