Siemens Additive Manufacturing Network, the Value Embodiment of a Flexible Ecosystem

In order to enable customers to meet all manufacturing needs through a single, convenient platform, Siemens has further expanded its additive manufacturing network to cover more manufacturing services, including machining services, molds and dies, sheet metal, and printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Since November 2019, when Siemens officially introduced additive manufacturing network to the market, the customer and supplier base network has grown. Throughout this year's New Crown pneumonia pandemic, Siemens built a additive manufacturing network ecosystem of more than 70 procurement organizations, 120 suppliers and 40 additive manufacturing knowledge experts to meet the needs of people to combat the crisis and reflect the impact of responding to rapid innovation. Siemens Additive Manufacturing Network also helps customers increase their capacity exponentially through an online ecosystem of order delivery. Driven by increased product satisfaction, customers under this network experience more efficient functions in additive manufacturing technology, accelerating the adoption of additive manufacturing components. These components are mainly used for product innovation, spare parts/replacementparts for older products, and manufacturing tools. Supplier productivity has also been significantly improved thanks to the automation of digital processes such as quoting, scheduling and production monitoring.

A wonderful example is the French sporting goods retailer Di Cannon, which uses additive manufacturing to rapidly expand the on-demand product development process, and they need to follow up on the changing trend of sporting goods and offer more personalized options. With 1200 stores, $12 billion, it serves more than 70 sports. Most of the products belong to their own brands and are designed and produced by Di Cannon.

To respond quickly to a large number of customers' customized services, Di Cannon must write on innovation. Fortunately, With Siemens Cloud Solutions, Decanofounda has found the perfect solution, the Additive Manufacturing Network, to meet the three key challenges of increasing in-house capacity, enhancing collaboration with online suppliers and developing the entire process from order to delivery, and successfully achieving its target: increasing the number of Di Cannon 3D printers from 1 to 40 in two years;

Speaking on Cloud Solutions at Siemens 2020 (MAC), Raymond KOK, Senior Vice President of Cloud Application Solutions for The Digital Industrial Industry, noted that the industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, with rapid innovation and products becoming more intelligent and personalized. They are creating complex systems that pose serious challenges to the complexity and data of our management layers.

With Siemens MindSphere's cloud strategy: The Internet of Things as a Service, customers can focus on real value generation. Siemens IoT applications and solutions provide new levels of insight that customers dream of, or that can help customers build specific applications for new digital services to empower them. And the industry-leading IoT solution stack with Mendix.

In the face of the outbreak, Siemens has opened up its additive manufacturing network and expanded its capacity to deal with critical supplies shortages. Doctors, hospitals and individuals can use manufacturing ecosystems to obtain supplies to respond to outbreaks. In fact, the additive manufacturing network has indeed received a warm response from these organizations and supplier groups, which have voluntarily increased their capacity and offered free or paid related services.

In order to enable customers to meet all manufacturing needs through a single, convenient platform, Siemens has further expanded its additive manufacturing network to cover more manufacturing services, including machining services, molds and dies, sheet metal, and printed circuit boards (PCBs). Additive manufacturing networks thus provide the technology required for typical multidisciplinary products. In addition, Siemens plans to provide platform-based engineering services to meet customer engineering and manufacturing needs in one-stop.