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 Advanced analytics can detect anomalies or decompose installed photovoltaic in the network.

In the UK, there are seven electricity distribution network operators (DNOs), six of whom have a mandated area, with a total customer base of 28.5 million consumers.

Our Client: BKW Group, an international energy & infrastructure company established in 1898 with head office in Bern, Switzerland.

 Our Lean Digital Factory approach creates transparency and paves the way to a successful use of digitalization in the factory. 

Due to increasing digitalization in business and manufacturing and new emerging technologies in production our client wanted to develop their own industrial IoT cloud platform. With the implementation of a scaled Agile setup we achieved reduced time to market and increased release frequency in the product development process.

A national railway company wanted to define a new world-class standard for reliability, availability and asset efficiency leveraging state-of-the-art digital platform capabilities while laying the foundation for future technologies, e.g. AI-based decision making.

A major Oil & Gas player approached us urging for an external view on value potential digitalization could bring for its business. An holistic view on assets, technologies, people and organization as well as business models was necessary to reach that goal.

Our client had to optimize their field service and increase efficiency of installed assets. Using Customer Value Co-Creation, we concretized their user journey and business model for digital workflow optimization.

IT asset management is key to cyber security. But it is often highly manual and ineffective due to a lack of data integration. It is highly important to make available IT asset data usable. 

The power of digital ecosystems had been long known in the consumer space. Our client wanted to open the advantages of such digital networks to its professional healthcare customers, with the aim to help further improve on their goals.

A global manufacturer had to deal with a big reorganization with individual set-ups in >100 countries. We were able to help our client by increasing acceptance of the corporate department´s reorganization significantly due to profound change management & a workers council concept.

While targeting for higher efficiency, testing of new concepts in real plant operations is risky. The BMW Group wanted to sound the capabilities of a digital twin with respect to Additive Manufacturing processes and technology. Together we developed a Digital Twin based on a 3D material flow simulation model created with the Siemens software Plant Simulation.

Our client, Suzhou Financial Leasing, as the first non-bank financial institution to cooperate with Siemens, launched an intelligent post-leasing platform for assets management at the end of 2019. The state-of-the-art platform, which has been successfully implemented by Siemens-Advanta, uses an advanced data layer and IoT technology and has been instrumental to unlock the potential of the digital age for Suzhou Financial Leasing. 

Our client's implementation of a new operationg model caused need for cultural change. By applying our integrated change management approach we helped our client to tap the full potential of the new structure.

Utilities all over the world face major challenges like aging infrastructure that can be addressed using digital solutions. Together with our utility client, we share the vision to leverage the digitalization of grid asset management to optimize capital expenditure, maintenance cost and risk through more informed and therefore more effective grid infrastructure stewardship.

As a result of changes in the manufacturing footprint, our client needed to adapt his logistics concept. Leveraging digitalization potentials, a holistic and sustainable approach was created to guide our client into the future.

Our client was looking for ways to provide services using digital technologies in previously unaccessible areas whilst still ensuring health and safety requirements for employees.

Additive manufacturing, known as 3D printing, can help to improve designs, produce complex parts on demand and manufacture discontinued parts. STRATA wanted to leverage these potentials but was challenged by the aerospace specific certification process. 

We enhanced our clients' sales operations by baselining the current forecasting process, benchmarking it against industry best practices and leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, to improve the quality and efficiency of the forecast.

The typical product portfolio of an industrial company is a complex, historically grown catalogue. This makes it hard to understand which products, in fact, demonstrate a positive impact on the bottom line. With our end-to-end analysis, we determined the true profitability on the most granular level. 

We helped our client to build up their own competencies in AI and advanced analytics. Businesses need to deliver value to their customers in increasingly competitive industries. Speed, efficiency, precision, and availability are only some drivers of today’s market environments regardless of the industry.

As a result of changes in the manufacturing footprint, our client needed to adapt his logistics concept. Leveraging digitalization potentials, a holistic and sustainable approach was created to guide our client into the future.

The German utilities sector undergoes radical transformation. Distributed renewable generation, digital technologies, changing consumer expectations, new competitors and regulatory uncertainties translate into a continuous decline in the profit of an integrated electricity, gas and water utility. 

In cities, ice regularly blocks tram switches. We pointed out a way how to use already operating mobile sensors to provide local temperature measurements and optimize the operation of the switch heating system.

Our client was lacking a stable process in their engineer-to-order activities. We therefore implemented a digitalized end-to-end value stream process for engineer-to-order activities with state-of-the-art concepts and solutions in digitalization and automation.

In a competitive market with ever emerging new players our client planned to develop a software as a service (SaaS) business to broaden his portfolio and strengthen his position in the market. We defined our client's way forward to grow digital business and build a sustainable ecosystem to win in competitive environment.

The growing demand for renewable energy forces traditional energy companies to rethink their business models. Market participants need to understand implications of energy policy decisions and industry trends on their business in the coming years to identify and address new business opportunities as well as to size and mitigate potential risks.

How to create value from data: an electronics supplier wanted to understand the relevance of data for his business, i.e., which data is potentially relevant (and which is not) and how to monetize it. Therefore, we identified data landscapes and sources to forge efficiency improvement potentials for our client.

The Oil & Gas industry across the globe is facing a number of macro challenges, the slump in oil prices and flat forecast being the primary one. There is a heightened need in Upstream to increase production and lifetime of existing fields while reducing operating costs. To address those major challenges we developed an integrated digital transformation concept for low-manning an upstream field of a leading Oil & Gas company. 

Our client required a new customer portal that reacts to their customers' needs. We helped them to create a new plattform including support in validation and implemenation.

Challenges at the commoditized market forced our client to act by initiating a digital transformation. A missing sense of urgancy as well as a strong focus on technology hindered smooth progress. We addressed the challenges of our client with a digitalization roadmap including dedicated, focused change management.

The client is a water and wastewater services provider in the UK, serving millions of customers. It supplies 2.6 giga liters of drinking water and treats 4.4 giga liters of wastewater per day.  It operates 67,000 miles of sewers.

The market environment and changing customer behavior requires new digital service offerings and business models. We helped our client by setting up efficient delivery capabilities through a process-driven setup.

Our client wanted to understand where digitalization could help with fast results. We conducted a quick and structured analysis with the goal to gain transparency regarding digitalization potentials and identified lead time reduction of more than 40% - which we jointly tackled with the client.

Siemens Advanta supported a large electronical parts supplier in creating a digital solution, enabling client to enter new business.

Digital transformation and structural change yield immense challenges for an organization’s workforce. These challenges create a significant need for upskilling and reskilling measures in order to close the gap between the workforce of today and the workforce of the future. Together with Siemens HR, we have developed our unique approach to tackle structural changes in order to build a future-proof workforce.

The modern business world as well as societal drivers like climate change make big employers reconsider their concepts for industrial sites and working environments. Therefore, our client urged for futuristic and sustainable concepts based on state-of-the-art technologies and innovations. We operationalized this vision through a strategic roadmap.

Monitoring and prediction of air quality in the city using sensor-, traffic - and weather forecast data. Simulation of up to 17 short term measures (e.g. Diesel ban) and their impact on Nitrogen Oxide and particulate matters with an accuracy rate of almost 90%.

Joint venture between the energy provider and network operator of Vienna and Siemens, to explore solutions for the energy future within an urban development zone.