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Press Release16 March 2023Digital IndustriesNuremberg

• Siemens and Continental Tires signal strategic provider settlement
• Machine requirements anticipated to maximise interoperability and adaptability
• Siemens to provide automation and drive expertise, software program, industrial communication, and coaching

Continental’s tire division and Siemens have signed a
strategic provider settlement. As Siemens proclaims on the sidelines of the Tire
Expo commerce truthful in Hannover (Germany), the corporate will provide automation and
drive expertise for Continental’s tire factories worldwide in its capability as
a most popular provider. The purpose of the cooperation is to additional optimize
Continental’s world tire manufacturing with modern management and automation
expertise. As a part of the settlement, requirements will likely be established which can
assist Continental make its manufacturing equipment much more environment friendly all through
their lifecycles.

• Siemens and Continental Tires signal strategic provider settlement
• Machine requirements anticipated to maximise interoperability and adaptability
• Siemens to provide automation and drive expertise, software program, industrial communication, and coaching

Continental’s tire division and Siemens have signed a
strategic provider settlement. As Siemens proclaims on the sidelines of the Tire
Expo commerce truthful in Hannover (Germany), the corporate will provide automation and
drive expertise for Continental’s tire factories worldwide in its capability as
a most popular provider. The purpose of the cooperation is to additional optimize
Continental’s world tire manufacturing with modern management and automation
expertise. As a part of the settlement, requirements will likely be established which can
assist Continental make its manufacturing equipment much more environment friendly all through
their lifecycles.

Tire producers can digitalize their manufacturing with Siemens’
automation and software program portfolio. This offers them the chance to rethink
their worth chains and to decrease complete working prices.

“Tires join vehicles and
roads,” says Cedrik Neike, member of the Managing Board at Siemens AG and CEO
Digital Industries. “With out trendy and modern tires, we can not attain our
security, effectivity, and sustainability targets. That’s why Continental Tires and
Siemens have shaped a detailed partnership, one which we are actually increasing.”

To drive standardization, Continental will buy
its automation techniques and enormous components of its drive expertise for brand new machines
and developments from Siemens. The provider will equip Continental tire
factories with Simatic controllers, I/O techniques, WinCC Unified operator management
models, and industrial PCs. Siemens may even practice the related workers at
Continental tire factories in TIA Portal. The excessive diploma of standardization
will likely be even additional developed, particularly the place software program is worried. The
Siemens Tire Library, a software program library for
standardizing the management of sensors and actuators, may even present help
on this matter. This may simplify mechanical
engineering in addition to upkeep for machines and tools for Continental and
its machine suppliers as effectively. Standardization additionally permits the machines to
function uniformly, no matter machine provider.

As well as, using these
digital applied sciences promotes sustainable manufacturing, a key concern within the tire
trade. On this regard, Siemens affords notably lengthy lifecycles for the
{hardware} merchandise for use sooner or later and permits software program and {hardware}
improvements to be simply built-in all through the machines’ lifecycles.
Siemens additionally offers technical help and is engaged on long-term
availability of spare components.

Siemens and Continental Tires have labored collectively in
the previous round digitalization. One instance is the digital twin of an extrusion
plant, which is used, amongst different issues, for digital commissioning.
Continental Tires additionally makes use of Siemens edge expertise and cloud internet hosting for
Mendix functions.

Extra
details about Siemens at Tire Expo 2023 will be discovered at:

www.siemens.com/ttx
Extra
details about Siemens options for the tire trade will be discovered at:

www.siemens.com/tire

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Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation chief in automation and digitalization. Intently collaborating with companions and clients, DI drives the digital transformation within the course of and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI offers firms of all sizes with an end-to-end set of merchandise, options and providers to combine and digitalize your complete worth chain. Optimized for the precise wants of every trade, DI’s distinctive portfolio helps clients to attain higher productiveness and adaptability. DI is consistently including improvements to its portfolio to combine cutting-edge future applied sciences. Siemens Digital Industries has its world headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has round 76,000 workers internationally.

Learn extraSiemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a expertise firm targeted on trade, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From extra resource-efficient factories, resilient provide chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and extra snug transportation in addition to superior healthcare, the corporate creates expertise with function including actual worth for patrons. By combining the true and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its clients to rework their industries and markets, serving to them to rework the on a regular basis for billions of individuals. Siemens additionally owns a majority stake within the publicly listed firm Siemens Healthineers, a globally main medical expertise supplier shaping the way forward for healthcare. As well as, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Power, a worldwide chief within the transmission and technology {of electrical} energy.

In fiscal 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, the Siemens Group generated income of €72.0 billion and web earnings of €4.4 billion. As of September 30, 2022, the corporate had round 311,000 workers worldwide. Additional info is offered on the Web at www.siemens.com.Learn extra

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