The Comprehensive Digital Twin for Intralogistics
March 26, 2020
Increasing stock turnover frequency with shorter storage periods, small order quantities with high delivery speeds, rising return rates and short-term increases in delivery quantities. In the course of digitalization, the intralogistics industry is also facing new challenges. With its Digital Enterprise Portfolio, Siemens supports highly efficient, flexible and intelligent applications in intralogistics. Siemens is thus supporting its customers, both machine builders and operators of logistics centers, on the path towards digital transformation. Using a digital twin for material transport equipment, warehouse operation and performance, the entire value chain is designed and optimized efficiently. This increases efficiency throughout the building and operation of machines and plants, minimizes error rates and downtimes, shortens development times and ensures long-term competitiveness. Through the seamless interaction of the real and virtual world, the technology company helps to increase the productivity and flexibility of plants while keeping costs and energy consumption to a minimum.
The unique portfolio from Siemens for digital transformation, the Digital Enterprise Suite, offers an integrated portfolio of software-based systems and automation technologies. The concept of the digital twin provides a closed connection between the virtual world of planning for warehousing and conveying technology and its physical world of operating and performance. Thus, it can be started at any point of the value chain, starting with the design of the logistics concept up to operation planning, operation technology, operation execution and services, and expand the digitalization process step by step.
The portfolio for intralogistics includes software solutions and automation systems for core applications such as stacker cranes or shuttle warehouses, solutions for tasks in internal industrial logistics and sorting technology as well as solutions for parcel, postal and airport logistics.
