Siemens provides hardware and software that enables Omnifactory to have one of the most advanced digitally connected infrastructures in a production environment.

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This connected infrastructure serves as a transformative enabler, seamlessly integrating product requirements into the entire developmental life cycle while establishing a direct link to the manufacturing system.

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By synchronising product design with the build of materials and processes, Omnifactory’s framework enables the formulation of comprehensive models and simulations of the manufacturing workflow. This capability not only ensures precision in planning but also supports dynamic adaptability, accommodating late-stage design modifications with remarkable efficiency.

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Such modifications automatically generate updates across a spectrum of critical facets, including bills of processes and materials, models and simulations, robotic coding, workplace instructions and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) which orchestrates the operations. This coherent integration prevents the need of repeating tasks from the initial stages, thereby significantly improving operational efficiency and adaptability within the developmental framework.

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The digital infrastructure creates a virtual manufacturing environment, known as an advanced digital twin, of the entire production process, which eliminates waste, costs of building physical systems, and optimises the processes.

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By virtually manufacturing and commissioning you don’t need to create prototypes anymore. Completing this activity in the software means that it’s right first time. The first time you actually build the system, you know it’s going to do exactly what it was supposed to do, because you’ve proved that in the software.