Siemens Digital Industries Software said Panasonic Corporation has started to adopt its Teamcenter® X software, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. Accordingly, the Japanese conglomerate will use the Siemens solution, based from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, to accelerate its digitalization in product development and design.

Through this large-scale implementation of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service, Siemens helps Panasonic to integrate data management processes across product design and development. In addition, it will help in reducing lead times and supporting continuous, rapid market availability of the high-quality products.

By migrating legacy IT assets and traditional on-premises data management to the cloud, Panasonic aims to reduce IT infrastructure maintenance labor-hours. Furthermore, this will also decrease the total cost of ownership. Thus, will enable rapidly deployed access to updated versions for the latest PLM functionality and IT infrastructure capabilities. It will also enable access secure systems across locations in Japan and its locations around the world from a variety of device types and via remote access.

Improve Manufacturing Productivity

Panasonic has quickly migrated to Teamcenter X. particularly, by eliminating the customizations that had previously been built on-premises and rebuilding business processes based on standard functions (OOTB) at the same time. In addition, Siemens’ Mendix™ low-code platform quickly implemented Panasonic’s unique requirements.

Teamcenter X enables constantly to incorporate the latest technology, improve operational efficiency, and improve business resilience and continuity.

Furthermore, it aims to realize an engineering environment that can flexibly and quickly respond to reorganization of business and user transfers between divisions.

The ability of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service to grow with the needs of customers enables Panasonic’s global foundation for digital twin and digital thread. Specifically, in the development and design domains to be expanded in its scope of application in the future. The aim of which is to improve productivity throughout Panasonic’s comprehensive manufacturing domain.

“Panasonic has positioned digital transformation (DX) as a key strategy for strengthening its management foundation and is working on it under the company-wide name of Panasonic Transformation (PX),” said Hideyuki Miyazaki, Panasonic Chief Information Officer.

In addition, Miyazaki said, “As one of our key measures, we are collaborating with Siemens to promote the shift to cloud computing and adopting digital threads for product design and development data management. By expanding this transformation in the future, we expect to enhance our market competitiveness and increase our enterprise value.”

Meets Digital Transformation Goals

On the other hand, Tony Hemmelgarn, President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software, said, “Our collaboration with a global leader like Panasonic demonstrates once again that our expertise in helping our customers to achieve their digital transformation goals with Siemens Xcelerator as a Service.”

Siemens will continue to support Panasonic’s rapid, large-scale, and bold digital transformation (DX).

Kunihiko Horita, Country Manager and Vice President, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Japan said the company expressed delight with Panasonic’s success with Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Thus, its move to Teamcenter X to help them build the digital base for realizing their digital transformation goals.

02 August 2024