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Panasonic and Siemens strive for the common advancement of digital production for the electronics industry. Against the backdrop of the Hannover Messe, Panasonic Corporation and the Digital Factory Division at Siemens AG signed a Memorandum of Understanding setting out the intention of the two companies to work more closely together in the future in the fields of automation concepts for the electronics industry. The focus lies on standardized line integration concepts, which the partners plan to develop, not only for individual production lines, but also, as overarching integration concepts for all process steps at the factory level, and as company-wide automation standards for globally distributed production networks.
Over recent years, Panasonic and Siemens have both worked independently on pioneering concepts linking digitalization and automation. In essence, the Smart Factory offering from Panasonic encompasses automatic assembly systems and the Manufacturing Execution System application PanaCIM. With the Digital Enterprise, Siemens is bringing to the table a portfolio encompassing the core elements of industrial software and automation, industrial communication, security and services. The contribution Siemens aims to make to the jointly developed concepts will be first and foremost its expertise in control and automation technology.
Keywords: Digital Production, Electronics Industry, Line Integration Concepts, Automation Standards, Distributed Production, Industrial Communication, ARC Advisory Group.