Exploring the virtual world in reallife

A highlight of the forum is the digitalization globe. Touch screens provide visitors with an interactive opportunity to discover how digitalization is changing our world. Six examples from the areas of energy, digital factory, process industry, building control technology, service and smart data, and mobility enable visitors to experience how to face today the challenges of tomorrow. Four showcases feature current examples from real life and impressively show how digitalization provides for more flexibility, greater availability, significant increases in productivity, and a shorter time to market along the entire industrial value chain. The examples presented include the Maserati Ghibli developed with Siemens software; the innovative multicarrier system for packaging and bottling machines developed with Festo; a liquid circuit, a typical part of a process industry plant, that can be modified during operation; and different technologies for all aspects of the trendsetting topic of additive manufacturing. The actual exhibits are accompanied by a digital twin that illustrates how the virtual and real elements work together. In addition, visitors can watch software engineers and thereby experience firsthand the benefits of digitalization for all steps of the industrial value chain.