Siemens and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Sustainable Product Development and Operations
西門子和IBM合作加速可持續產品開發和運營

Siemens Digital Industries Software and IBM have announced they are expanding their long-term partnership by collaborating to develop a combined software solution integrating their respective offerings for systems engineering, service lifecycle management and asset management.

西門子數字化工業軟件和IBM宣布，他們將通過合作開發一個組合軟件解決方案來擴大長期合作伙伴關系，該解決方案集成了各自的系統工程、服務生命周期管理和資產管理產品。

Increasing competitive pressures, tight labor markets and growing environmental compliance objectives require organizations to adopt a more holistic management approach that spans the product and asset lifecycle. The companies will develop a combined software solution to help organizations optimize product lifecycles, and make it easier to improve traceability across processes, prototype and test concepts much earlier in development, and adopt more sustainable product designs. The goal is to help organizations speed innovation and time to market which can lead to improved quality and lowered costs.

日益增加的競爭壓力、緊缺的勞動力市場和不斷增長的環境合規目標要求組織采用跨越產品和資產生命周期的更全面的管理方法。兩家公司將開發一個組合軟件解決方案，以幫助組織優化產品生命周期，并更容易地在開發的早期更早地改進跨流程、原型和測試概念的可追溯性，并采用更具可持續性的產品設計。目標是幫助組織加快創新和上市時間，從而提高質量并降低成本。

The new combined SysML v1 standards-based suite of integrated engineering software is expected to support traceability and sustainable product development using a digital thread that links mechanical, electronics, electrical engineering and software design and implementation. It is intended to span the product lifecycle, from early design and manufacturing to operations, maintenance, update and end of life management. Initially, the companies are working to connect IBM Engineering System Design Rhapsody for systems engineering with solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services including Siemens’ Teamcenter software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Capital software for electrical/electronic (E/E) systems development and software implementation. The companies have also connected the IBM Maximo Application Suite for asset management with Siemens’ Teamcenter software to support an integrated digital thread between service engineering, asset management and services execution.

新組合的基于SysML v1標準的集成工程軟件套件有望使用連接機械、電子、電氣工程和軟件設計與實施的數字主線支持可追溯性和可持續產品開發。它旨在跨越產品生命周期，從早期設計和制造到運營、維護、更新和生命周期結束管理。最初，兩家公司正在努力將用于系統工程的IBM Engineering System Design Rhapsody與西門子Xcelerator軟件和服務組合的解決方案連接起來，這些解決方案包括用于產品生命周期管理 (PLM) 的西門子Teamcenter軟件和Capital軟件用于電氣/電子(E/E)系統開發和軟件實施。兩家公司還將IBM資產管理套件Maximo Application Suite與西門子的Teamcenter軟件連接，以支持服務工程、資產管理和服務執行之間的集成數字線程。

These integrations will focus on the effective reuse of processes and materials to allow traceability for sustainable product development. This can help companies to make informed decisions earlier in the design and engineering process to help drive improvements in cost, performance and sustainability. For example, companies can more quickly identify under-performing components or design elements that consume excessive amounts of power, or require maintenance or early replacement, and product innovation can be driven through an integrated digital thread that connects the physical and software assets back into product development.
 
這些集成將側重于流程和材料的有效再利用，以實現可持續產品開發的可追溯性。這可以幫助企業在設計和工程過程的早期做出明智的決策，以幫助推動成本、性能和可持續性的改進。例如，企業可以更快地識別性能不佳的組件或設計元素，這些組件或設計元素消耗過多的電力，或者需要維護或提前更換，并且可以通過將物理和軟件資產連接回產品的集成數字主線來推動產品創新發展。

Siemens and IBM are also collaborating to create a SysML v2 based solution with a migration path to help customers transition to next generation systems engineering. SysML supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. Service lifecycle management can assist in maximizing business value for product servitization by connecting service engineering to service maintenance to facilitate new collaborative processes between OEM and operators.
 
西門子和IBM還合作創建基于SysML v2的解決方案，該解決方案具有遷移路徑，可幫助客戶過渡到下一代系統工程。SysML支持范圍廣泛的系統和系統系統的規范、分析、設計、驗證和確認。服務生命周期管理可以通過將服務工程與服務維護聯系起來促進OEM和運營商之間的新協作流程，從而幫助擴大產品服務化的商業價值。

Siemens will be supported by benefits through IBM's newly launched Partner Plus program and will offer the solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem.

西門子將通過IBM新推出的Partner Plus計劃獲得收益支持，并將提供作為西門子Xcelerator生態系統一部分的解決方案。