Siemens Realize LIVE Americas 2024

About Realize LIVE Americas 2024

Whether you are a technical user or you are leading enterprise-wide deployment of Siemens software, Siemens Realize LIVE has something for everyone. This year’s event will serve up in-depth technical content, product previews and the first look at new solutions. With an agenda packed full of presentations and hundreds of Siemens experts from across industrial sectors exhibiting, attendees will have access to insights on the future of industry, fresh perspectives and best practices delivered straight from Siemens partners and customers.

Engineering Industries eXcellence will be joining this global community of thinkers, doers and leaders that enable organizations to optimize technical solutions and improve business processes through a mix of community-based learning, connection-building and collaborative problem-solving.

Visit Engineering Industries eXcellence at Booth #307

Engineering Industries eXcellence’s team of Digital Transformation experts will be at Booth 307 all week. Visit us to discuss your current challenges, discover end-to-end solutions and watch live demonstrations of our Digital Thread for Industry 4.0. One exciting addition to our booth this year will be an immersive Metaverse experience where attendees crossover into a digital version of the event to retrieve educational collateral, learn about our solutions, explore our partners and play games to win awesome prizes! Experience a full story from the design, build and delivery of products and services from the Siemens Digital industries portfolio, including:

• Product & Process Design - NX & Teamcenter
• Product, Process & Plant Simulation - Simcenter & Tecnomatix
• Shop Floor Integration & DNC - Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter
• Sales & Operations Planning - Opcenter APS
• Manufacturing Execution & Quality - Opcenter Execution
• Asset Performance Management - Insights Hub, Mendix & Opcenter MI
• IoT, AI, Machine Learning & Data Analytics Applications

Join Our Sessions @ Realize LIVE Americas 2024

Presentation: Scaling Bayer’s Global OEE Solution with Opcenter Intelligence & Insights Hub

When: Monday, May 13th @ 1:30 PM in Lagoon I

Who: Brandon Johnson, Head of MES/MOM, North America

About:

In the realm of industrial operations, inefficiencies and performance gaps are bound to persist among global organizations without digital solutions in place. This is where Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) serves as a game changer and important solution for manufacturing and production companies. Given its ability to measure equipment and process efficiencies, it provides quality control for a more productive workforce. In this scenario, OEE helped Bayer Crop Science gain visibility on the production and efficiency of manufacturing lines, creating a great basis for comparing metrics between their existing facilities.

In this presentation, viewers will learn how Engineering Industries eXcellence partnered with Bayer Crop Science to provide solutions that could improve processes and gain actionable insights with asset and operational data. Our system integration experts delivered Siemens Opcenter Intelligence and Insights Hub to help teams leverage real-time monitoring support of manufacturing operations, calculate effectiveness and perform downtime analysis. With over 40 sites using these solutions, Bayer Crop Science has learned how to accurately record machine data, measure and manage equipment downtime and engage in proactive maintenance as necessary. Throughout this project's execution, seed site facilities worldwide have gained the ability to streamline operations and refine production.

With this story uncovered, participants will obtain key insights on how OEE provides endless benefits like how to record machine data to analyze patterns, ways to measure equipment efficiency for increased productivity and how to reduce machine failures.

Presentation: Best Practices in Teamcenter Setup for Efficient Data at Henny Penny

When: Tuesday, May 14th @ 11:45 AM in Lagoon G

Who: Andrea Salerno, PLM Practice Service Director and Doug Claywell, PLM Manager

About:

In a world where data is abundant, reviewing shop floor systems and managing product data is a challenging but critical task for seamless collaboration across teams. By implementing robust, comprehensive solutions that cover an entire product lifecycle from design and manufacturing to service delivery, organizations can quickly recognize the importance of synchronized operations.

This presentation will dive into how Engineering Industries eXcellence partnered with Henny Penny to define an Industry 4.0 roadmap. With a corporate-wide data management initiative at the top of mind, the ultimate goals included improving management of extensive product configuration data and communications, increasing reusability of data across systems, refining product quality for metrics and reliability and achieving a completely paperless shop floor.

We will cover the foundational setup of Siemens Teamcenter, exploring valuable insights gained from the redeployment process. It will address crucial aspects of business requirements and streamlined, structured processes that enhance efficiency and effectiveness of Teamcenter implementations. Experts will also uncover key knowledge on searching for product design data, examining landscapes for Bill of Materials (BOM), Easy Plan and Active Workspace Client (AWC). By highlighting the impact that data accessibility has on an industrial organization, users can better understand Teamcenter benefits and how to enhance their overall experience by successfully navigating product design information.

Presentation: Practical Use of Generative AI & Low Code to Empower Decision-Makers

When: Tuesday, May 14th @ 4:30 PM in Breakers CD

Who: Fabio Sala, Vice President and Subba Rao, Director of Manufacturing Industries Cloud, Mendix

About:

The simplicity of low code can enable industrial organizations right now to realize practical applications of generative AI in the manufacturing industry. Join Mendix, a Siemens Business and Engineering Industries eXcellence as we discuss the power of intelligent data applications with simplicity of low-code to transform the knowledge exploration and decision-making process across your operations and enterprise.

Mendix is the fastest and easiest low-code platform used by businesses today to develop multi-experience and multi-platform smart applications at scale. Engineering Industries eXcellence builds intelligent data application solutions for manufacturers leveraging Mendix together with advanced simulation methodologies and Generative AI.

Use cases to be shared and discussed include:

1. Digital Product Passport / Battery Passport: This application showcases the passport viewer built in the Mendix platform for the new European Union battery traceability regulation launched recently

2. Intelligent Decision-Making: This methodology and examples on how to leverage Generative AI together with low-code and its connectivity with Amazon Bedrock and simulation modeling to support the decision-making process in manufacturing.

Presentation: Delivering the Digital Thread with Excellence

When: Wednesday, May 15th @ 11:20 AM in Knowledge Theater 1

Who: Drew Peer, Senior Strategic Account Manager

About:

The traditional manufacturing industry is in the midst of a massive Digital Transformation, growing each day by evolving newer technology solutions. The interaction between the virtual and real worlds is opening new ways for companies to integrate their customers' needs and preferences into their own development and production processes. The utilization of manufacturing data in smart production systems is revolutionizing a seamless Digital Thread, promoting continuous success throughout the entire supply chain. The Digital Thread covers 4 general phases of the manufacturing product and manufacturing process lifecycles:

• The design & the definition of the product
• The simulation of the process & the Digital Twin
• The execution & control of production
• The monitoring & maintenance of the product and process

The integration and continuity between all factors of the manufacturing business promotes re-use of proven successes and enables continuous improvement throughout the business. Overall, the Digital Thread helps manufacturers attain the goals of smart manufacturing facilities, reducing time-to-market with shorter innovation cycles and more complex parts, enhancing flexibility by individualized production with higher productivity, and increasing resource and energy efficiency in all operations.

Learning Objectives:

• Innovative strategy to digitalize business for sustainability
• Strategize to meet current industry trends using Siemens solutions
• Analyze current industry trends that will impact the future

When: Monday, May 13th – Thursday, May 16th, 2024

Who: Ric Hotchkiss, Principal Design Automation Architect

Presentations:

Presentation 1 - Configuring Check-Mate to Enhance User Experience

When: Monday, May 13th @ 2:45 PM in Breakers L

Check-Mate is a powerful tool for checking NX model quality, validating conditions such as layers, drafting standards, modeling practices, reference sets and more. The huge list of out-of-the-box checks can be a bit overwhelming.  Using Check-Mate is easier for users when checks are grouped into profiles that are configured to simplify how checks are presented to the user. The following topics will be presented:

• Defining the Check-Mate environment variables
• Setting Check-Mate Customer Defaults
• Creating and maintaining profiles interactively
• Configuring Check-Mate to simplify the results presentation

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Presentation 2 - NX Programming Tools Roundtable

When: TBD

NX provides extensive programming tools that can be used to customize and automate NX processes. This session will be an open discussion regarding the current state of NX programming tools functionality (NX/Open, Journals, SNAP, Knowledge Fusion). The following topics will be presented:

• Programming tool best practices and successes
• Programming tool issues
• Desired enhancements

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Presentation 3 - Improve Efficiency with Advanced Automation using NX Open

When: Tuesday, May 14th @ 10:30 AM in Breakers L

NX is an extremely powerful CAX tool.  It can be further enhanced by writing custom code to automate repeated or complex tasks. Configuring, developing and implementing NX/Open applications can be complicated. The following topics will be presented:

• NX Automation production environment and directory structure
• Ribbon button configuration
• NX/Open development tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Net Beans…) C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Python
• License considerations
• Development best practices

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Presentation 4 - Streamline Grading Projects in Academia with NX Automation and Check-Mate

When: Wednesday, May 15th @ 4:30 PM in Reef A

Grading a large number of student projects can be time-consuming. NX automation tools and Check-Mate can help simplify the process. NX automation tools (NX/Open, SNAP, Journals) provide extensive access to NX functionality and could be used to evaluate certain aspects of student projects. Check-Mate is a powerful tool for checking NX model quality and validating conditions such as layers, drafting standards, modeling practices, reference sets and more. In this session, we will discuss the most important criteria for grading that can be addressed by using these tools

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Presentation 5 - Developing NX/Open Efficiently Using Visual Studio

When: On-Demand

NX/Open can be used to extensively automate and customize NX. Visual Studio can be used to develop C, C++, C#, Visual Basic and Python NX/Open applications. Configuration and organization in Visual Studio can help streamline the development process. The following topics will be presented:

• Setting up and re-using a project template
• Using Intellisense
• Using the Object Browser to find function, class and method documentation
• Signing the resulting dlls
• Using post build events to streamline development
• Debugging

Our Expertise & Partnership with Siemens

To help overcome the challenges of digital transformation, Engineering Industries eXcellence works with customers across all industrial sectors to define what Industry 4.0 means to them and how to achieve it. A strategic partnership with us can provide guidance for those trying to navigate the digital landscape across different systems, business units and technologies. Our collaborative methodology and industry expertise help enterprises define their Industry 4.0 roadmap via a solution maturity model that aligns with their unique multi-year vision.

Siemens Digital Industries Software is well-known for enabling transformation across digital enterprises of all shapes and sizes. As a certified reseller, solution provider and system integrator, Engineering Industries eXcellence leverages Siemens' robust product portfolio to create Digital Twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. Engineering Industries eXcellence is the only partner in the world that has the combined vision, industry experience, resources and technical skillset to deliver integrated solutions across all of Siemens Digital Industries' technology offerings.

Contact Us @ Realize LIVE Americas 2024

Engineering Industries eXcellence’s team of global executive, sales, marketing and technical leadership will be available all week for one-on-one discussions at our booth, after presentations and during conference networking events within the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.

Interested in learning more about this event or requesting a meeting with our team? Contact us at info@indx.com.