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Digital engineering and manufacturing services

Digitize what you make. Revolutionize how you make it.

HANNOVER MESSE 2023 | APRIL 17 – 21, 2023

Digitize what you make. Revolutionize how you make it.

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Welcome to Industry X

We use the combined power of data and digital to reimagine the products you make and how you make them.

We call this integrated approach to digital engineering and manufacturing Industry X.

With digital intelligence connecting every point along the way, we will work with you using data and technologies such as AR/VR, cloud, AI, 5G, robotics and digital twins to embed greater resilience, productivity and sustainability into your core operations. And create new, hyper-personalized experiences and intelligent products and services.

Industry X digitizes your business every step of the way to reimagine how products and services are:

  • Designed and engineered
  • Sourced and supplied
  • Manufactured
  • Serviced, returned, and renewed

Imagine what's next with Industry X

Imagine a more sustainable and productive future with Industry X's end-to-end engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

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Capabilities

Our team has expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, technology, consulting and operations. Together we help solve your biggest challenges, create products that consumers love, and get them to market quickly, sustainably and cost efficiently.

Engineering and R&D digitization

Digitizing the R&D process to help clients lower their development costs and get new products to market faster.

Smart connected product design & development

Creating smart-connected products that provide vital digital intelligence and drive organizational change.

Product platform engineering & modernization

Bringing new ideas, products and services to market with increased efficiencies and speed.

Product as-a-service enablement

Enhancing clients’ revenue streams by helping them adapt to as-a-service businesses.

Production and operations

Creating connected factories and plants across multiple sites for enhanced management and efficiencies.

Capital projects

Digitizing large infrastructure projects to bring them in on time and budget.

Intelligent asset management

The power of data and digital to increase asset reliability through self-optimizing operations.

Digital industrial workforce

Harnessing digital technology to increase employees’ safety.

Autonomous robotic systems

Redesigning manufacturing for more productive and efficient human + machine collaboration.

Spotlight our new engineering capabilities

Through our recent acquisitions ESR Labs, Zielpuls and umlaut, we are enhancing our capabilities in engineering.  By combining our expertise and working directly with the products we make, we can deliver more digital transformations end-to-end.

We offer deep engineering and product development expertise across industries, breaking down silos to co-create solutions that are data-driven and embed digital into the heart of the products we make and how we make them.

Our engineers love to tackle problems and find creative ways to solve them. Using bottom-up, completion-oriented thinking to deliver innovative but pragmatic end-to-end solutions that create real value.

Our solutions are customized, rather than standardized and we deliver at scale.

  • Prototyping and design
  • Mechanical and electrical engineering
  • Systems engineering
  • Software engineering
  • Product testing, certification and validation
  • Technical drawings and specifications
  • Data management and analytics

Through a combination of strategic and technical excellence, we lead our customers into the future of product development. Our collaboration is holistic - starting with processes, methods and digital solutions and ending with an integrated view of our customers' products.

From architecture to service platform, our heart beats for end-to-end solutions that also include engineering and smart products. We operate deep in the core value creation of our customers and help them to make the complexity of their products manageable and future-proof.

"Code is craft": This is our motto while forming the interface between hardware and software, between the virtual and physical worlds. The result: high-tech solutions for the automotive industry.

We develop embedded software systems that are already in use in millions of cars today, enabling not only numerous services that improve people's lives and make them safer, but also comprise those critical software components that today’s cars can no longer do without. To do this, we rely on artificial intelligence and large industrial platforms.

Our teams work with leading OEMs, car manufacturers and hardware suppliers. In this way, we have built a global ecosystem that harnesses synergies and offers customers the full range of services they need.

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The State of Play

The mining industry is changing. As the world navigates the energy transition and businesses evolve to meet the demands of stakeholders and consumers who value sustainability and social responsibility, miners are positioned to shift from mineral producers to resource stewards.

They will need to explore new ways of doing business to improve safety and security, to manage skill shortages and to reduce waste. Miners will have to harness technology and innovation to create a future that is net zero, intelligent and circular.

Imagine if you could:

  • Reduce CO2 emissions to help slow climate change and improve air pollution worldwide
  • Decrease mining costs and increase production of mined raw materials
  • Improve operational efficiency through better safety equipment and standards, streamlining maintenance and repair, and design projects with sustainability at the forefront
  • Create a completely autonomous mining operation through digitally automated processes.
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Industry X for mining

Sustainable mining for a better tomorrow

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The State of Play

The stakes have never been higher for the energy sector. Traditional energy sources – coal, oil and natural gas – are being replaced. Environmental accountability, reluctant energy investors and a talent shortage is changing the business landscape.

To sustain relevance, resilient operations, increase productivity and achieve sustainability targets, nothing short of a revolution is needed.

Imagine if you could:

  • Establish infrastructures to support renewable energy sources
  • Lower carbon emissions to create a more sustainable future
  • Increase safety through virtual maintenance checks
  • Have the data and information necessary to make decisions today that will facilitate the arrival of renewable energy sources tomorrow.

Industry X for energy

Making the transition to renewable energy

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The State of Play

The Consumer Goods & Services (CGS) industry used to be all about the brand. But the way brands and consumers relate is changing. Brands must deliver experiences to consumers – connect and develop a deeper relationship with them.

This new consumer driven era is set to transform the entire value chain in the CGS industry. The industry is experiencing the largest ever channel proliferation and fundamental shift in consumer-manufacturer relationships.

The role of digital isn’t just about transactions. Digital can deliver a new experience for consumers while also driving actionable insights for a business.

Imagine if you could:

  • Have better supply chain visibility and react in real-time to minimize disruption
  • Trace your products all the way through to purchase
  • Be truly sustainable for a better today and a brighter tomorrow
  • Increase productivity and reduce waste by up to 75%.

 

Industry X for consumer goods

Consumers have replaced brands in Consumer Goods & Services

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The State of Play

A new economic environment is demanding a change in biopharma. Rising costs of new science and patient care, coupled with a slow adoption of technology has made it challenging for companies to produce and deliver more effective and affordable personalized healthcare treatments.

But the COVID-19 pandemic saw unprecedented collaboration between the private and public sectors to address an urgent global need.

To maintain the pace of change, this community will need to harness new science and technology and reimagine the way they do business.

Imagine if you could:

  • Bring virtual healthcare to patients at home
  • Create more advanced medicines that tell you when a patient took them
  • Submit documents easier and more quickly
  • Deliver complex and time-critical therapies with certainty.

Industry X for life sciences

Collaboration and personalization are changing Life Sciences

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The State of Play

Automobiles are no longer vessels to get us from point A to point B. We are in the age of a new mobility ecosystem. Because of rising expectations around sustainability and new innovative, intuitive digital advancements, the way consumers think about cars has changed.

Companies must fundamentally rethink the products they offer, their business structure and the experience they provide to their customers. Connectivity, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles and shared driving are trends that have transformed the auto industry.

To succeed in the next iteration of the automotive industry, companies will need to be creative and collaborate beyond industry lines.

Imagine if you could:

  • Improve the sales process to track every part of the buyer journey
  • Reinvent the driving experience
  • Create a circular economy and achieve zero emissions
  • Have a car in which the software was the key selling point.

Industry X for automotive

Creating driving experiences in the automotive industry

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Ecosystem partnerships

We work with a global network of market leaders and innovators to give you the ability to move quickly and scale faster, with unrivalled access to top talent, technology, and expertise.

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Reimagine products to control costs and design for resilience

As businesses navigate ongoing volatility, the costs of refining product designs and increasing inventory to remain competitive have spiralled. Embedding a digital thread through the entire value chain is key to building resiliency and optimizing costs.

Many manufacturers encounter two roadblocks in adopting automation: They have to apply it across multiple assets, lines and functions, and their existing manufacturing operations management (MOM) architectures can't accommodate the vast amounts of data required.

Digital twins simulate the operating behavior of physical assets and processes, storing and contextualizing data from multiple sources in a way that engineers, operators and decision-makers understand to help improve decision-making.

Learn the five ways digital twins help businesses build resilience and glean more from their tech investments without requiring a rip-and-replace.

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Reimagine what's possible with digital twin, digital thread and metaverse

Industry X reimagines what’s possible when digital twin & thread, and metaverse come together to create value along the entire product lifecycle.

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Everyone across the enterprise should understand how assets are performing and what changes they can make to improve efficiency, sustainability and safety. But issues like data-sharing, inventory planning, maintenance and department siloes challenge a company's ability to optimize performance and future competitiveness.

SAP Intelligent Asset Management (IAM) helps to bridge the gaps by connecting assets, people and processes across the enterprise and its network, acting as a shared lens to improve performance and maintenance across the operational and asset lifecycle.

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The rise of e-commerce and new business models has transformed the role of the warehouse from a storage facility to a linchpin of customer relationships. The right application of automation and autonomy translates to lower costs, improved delivery times and a more resilient and sustainable business all around.

Companies understand this, but across industries, they're failing to drive returns because of their approach: Mixing innovation with yesterday's quick-fix, tried-and-true solutions.

Learn how warehouse functions stand to change and which elements are key to turning warehouses into drivers of growth.

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How many companies believe they can grow without changing their manufacturing footprints?

Virtually none: 1 percent, to be specific. Accenture's survey of more than 1,000 executives at large companies reveals change is not only in the air, it's the only option.

Businesses are making moves. A stunning 94 percent of North American companies are planning direct investment in reshoring, signalling a shift from surviving disruption to rethinking how their supply chain foundations drive resilience and competitive advantage in future scenarios.

Supply chains are no longer cost centers; they're engines for growth that can positively impact business, society and the planet. Take a closer look into how the second wave of the global supply chain is shaping up.

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The first step to managing disruption is understanding how it affects your business. To do that, you need two types of visibility into your supply chain networks: structural and dynamic visibility.

Structural visibility is a snapshot of your operations, logistics routes, potential weaknesses, etc. Dynamic visibility looks at product status, facility performance and the various ways in which disruptions impact them.

Together, they comprise what we call "intelligent visibility," which helps businesses control costs, inefficiencies, and complexity to improve competitiveness in the short and long-term.

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Accenture ranked number 1 in Industry 4.0 services

HFS has ranked Accenture the #1 Industry 4.0 Service Provider for the second time in a row in a new report, “Top Ten: Industry 4.0 Service Providers, 2022”.

The report examines the role that service providers play in the evolving Industry 4.0 landscape, and HFS assessed and rated the Industry 4.0 service capabilities of 14 service providers across a defined series of innovation, execution, voice of the customer, and OneOffice criteria.

“Accenture ranked #1 in our HFS Top 10: Industry 4.0 study due to its expertise in capabilities addressing the entire value chain of services, including strategy, implementation, and managed services,” – Mayank Madhur, Associate Practice Leader

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What we think

Industry X

Industry X European Pulse Survey on energy transition

Accenture surveyed 200 engineering and manufacturing leaders in Europe, on a range of topics from energy transition to new business model innovation.

Automotive

Automotive industry fast lane is software‐defined

Accenture identified four approaches to help OEMs transform software defined, service-driven mobility experiences to compete effectively.

Digital Engineering & Manufacturing Services

Closing Japan’s digital innovation gap

Accenture outlines how leading Japanese companies are successfully innovating with digital and key actions to become innovators in the digital era.

R&D and Engineering Solutions

How thread-first thinking maximizes value

Human Machine Interface and Experience

A new approach to warehouse automation

Smart Products and Embedded Solutions

The experience first connected products strategy

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Create the future of digital engineering and manufacturing. Take what you dream and make it real with Industry X.

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Welcome to Industry X

Intelligence changes, not just how we think, but industry itself and the very products it makes. Intelligence is Industry's X.

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Our leaders

Nigel Stacey

Lead – Industry X
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Fay Cranmer

Senior Managing Director – Industry X, APAC Lead
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Aaron Saint

Senior Managing Director – Industry X, North America Lead
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Götz Erhardt

Lead – Industry X, EMEA
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Sef Tuma

Senior Managing Director, Global Engineering & Manufacturing Lead, Industry X
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Related capabilities

Cloud

Efficiency, agility, and innovation—we make the promise of cloud real.

Supply Chain

Reimagine supply chain networks that orchestrate change, simplify life and drive sustainability.

The Industry X Innovation Network

Start your journey at one of our Innovation Centers, where we bring digital ideas to life—and to scale.

Frequently asked questions

Digital engineering services utilize data and transformative technologies to help organizations to design, develop and launch software-enabled devices, equipment, products and services for today’s discerning consumers. Alongside digitizing their engineering process to make seismic changes across their product and operating value chain to optimize and transform traditional R&D and engineering processes, tools and methods that have existed for decades. By combining our deep digital engineering solutions expertise, innovation networks and advanced technologies such as digital twins, robotics, AR/VR, cloud, data, AI, we can help you reimagine the products you make and how you make them.

The benefits of digital engineering are plentiful, as it plays a critical role in any new initiatives. And by digitizing the engineering process companies can increase returns on R&D investments; unlock new revenue streams; better optimize existing product portfolios; accelerate time to market; improve product reliability; and increase consumer confidence and loyalty through secure and sustainable products.

Digital manufacturing services utilize data and transformative technologies to help forward-looking organizations digitize and optimize their manufacturing sites at scale, enabling them to produce modern, intelligent and sustainable products that are fit for today’s digitally savvy consumers and omnichannel marketplace. This involves shaking up traditional manufacturing operations to become more customer-centric, agile and responsive. Digital manufacturing services have been revolutionized by today’s technology – allowing organizations to transform the way projects are planned, managed and executed by building smart factories of the future that leverage 5G technology and put advanced robotics and warehouse automation at their core.

The benefits of digital manufacturing include: improved production and operations; greater capital efficiencies; reduced manufacturing costs and environmental impact; improved safety, productivity and experiences for the industrial worker; and enhanced cyber resilience and operational availability.