Talking Digital Industries

Unlock industrial sustainability with digitalization & AI. Discover how circular models are reshaping business, driving investment, and building resilience. Real-world use cases included! In this episode of Talking Digital Industries, host Alex Chavez sits down with Eryn Devola, Head of Sustainability at Siemens Digital Industries, and Katja Grimme, sustainability analyst at IDC, to...

Why does it take ten years to bring a new medicine to market, and how can we reduce that number? In this episode of Talking Digital Industries, host Alex Chavez dives into the future of pharma and life sciences with Siobhan Fleming, Solution Owner for Digital Lab at Siemens; Andy Whytock, Pharma Expert at Siemens; and Sean Ruane, Principal Data Scientist at the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation C...

How can textiles be produced more sustainably while remaining economically viable? In this episode of Talking Digital Industries, host Alex Chavez explores a groundbreaking innovation in textile fiber production with Juha Salmela, CTO and co-founder of Spinnova, and Eryn Devola, Head of Sustainability at Siemens Digital Industries. Spinnova’s revolutionary textile fiber has a 74% smaller carb...

What do automation, flies, agricultural waste, and Digital Twins have in common? They’re all part of a revolutionary approach to producing sustainable animal feed. This episode of Talking Digital Industries starts with an unusual snack before host Alex Chavez embarks on a fascinating discussion with Matt Simmonds, Managing Director at Entocycle, and Keith Thornhill, Head of Food & Be...

Is AI already making an impact on industry? Absolutely! In this episode of Talking Digital Industries, host Alex Chavez explores the world of industrial AI solutions with Alvin Clark from NVIDIA and Dr. Michael Schrapp from Siemens. They discuss AI-driven solutions available today thanks to the collaboration between Siemens and NVIDIA. The conversation focuses on groundbreaking innovations and rea...

Does Siemens drink its own champagne? This episode gives profound insights into a real sustainable Digital Enterprise – the Electronics Factory Erlangen in Germany. Moderator Chris Brow leads his guests Kevin O’Donovan, Stefan Krug, and Magnus Edholm through a conversation on the factory’s digital end-to-end production processes, which are made possible with technologies like the Digital Twin and...

To tackle today’s challenges, the automotive industry is currently undergoing a major shift to electrification. Data transparency across the entire supply chain and new ways of collaboration are required. In this episode, Gunter Beitinger, Head of Factory Digitalization & Head of Product Carbon Footprint at Siemens Digital Industries, and Jan Burian, Analyst at IDC, focus on digital technologi...

Say goodbye to cardboard-box planning! Designing factory workstations is now four times faster with a solution based on virtual reality. In this episode, host Alex Chavez meets with Tobias Haslböck, Business Developer at the startup Halocline, and Julian Boha, Head of the Siemens program Fast Lane for Startups. They talk about the solution that speeds up workstation planning, and they also share r...

Want to increase the performance of your product? Katrien Wyckaert, who is responsible for strategy and innovation for the Simcenter software, talks about how simulation and testing in the virtual world can help. She is joined by Magnus Edholm. As a Siemens expert in helping companies becoming a Digital Enterprise, he knows how to use data to connect the top floor with the shop floor to continuous...

Programmable logic controllers – or PLCs – were introduced to the market around 60 years ago. Now, this classical hardware stands on the cusp of going digital. Efrossini Tsouchnika and Oliver Narr from Siemens talk about the implications and opportunities of virtual PLCs with host Alex Chavez. As it turns out, these two technologies are likely to exist side by side. The best of both worlds, so to...

Are you already tapping into digital technologies to transform the way you compete, collaborate, and connect? At the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, Siemens Digital Industries CEO Cedrik Neike welcomed three guests whose companies have made big strides in their digital transformations: Laura Matz, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Merck, spoke about how...

When it comes to the aerospace industry, people are usually talking about propulsion and the fuel it takes to keep planes high above the clouds. But there is so much more to it than that. For example, have you considered what it takes to construct one of those behemoths? Or have you given thought to the ecological footprint over the entire lifecycle? The guests of this Talking Digital Industries h...

In this episode of Talking Digital Industries moderator Chris Brow learns all about Additive Manufacturing. He is joined by Dr. Karsten Heuser, VP of Additive Manufacturing Siemens Digital Industries. Tune in and join them as they travel through the history of 3D-printing to the present day and discuss the impact this technology has on giant and tiny applications. Listen how Phillip Jung, Chief St...

Surfing. For many, it’s freedom, a sense of adventure and the feel of riding the wave with the wind and spray hitting you as you come into shore. In this episode moderator Chris Brow learns how digitalization can help to create the perfect surfing wave – without being dependent on wind and weather conditions. Together with Tom Lochtefeld, CEO and founder of Surf Loch and Thomas Tengan, Director of...

In this episode moderator Christine Brunner learns all about the drive train. Together with the Siemens experts Michael Leipold and Dominik Bittner she discusses how drive data can be used most efficiently and why the drive train is a good place to start the edge computing journey. Check out the podcast and learn how machine users and machine builders can become real machine whisperers using data...

“In the end it’s all about speaking the same language!” If you want to know what this sentence has to do with human-centric technology and low-coding, tune into the summer edition of our podcast. Chris Brow will be moderating from his holiday destination in Rome and joined virtually by his guests Cyril Coste, consultant for the digital transformation, and Jakob Schillinger, low-code evangelist at...

This episode is about a topic that really affects us all: food and drinks. The food and beverage industry plays a central role in our lives. Moderator Chris Brow explores how recent trends are changing the industry and how manufacturers can adapt to new trends or even to a pandemic in the shortest possible time. Together with his guests Kai Schneiderwind, Senior Vice President Food & Beverage...

In this episode Moderator Christine Brunner dives deep into the world of machine tools and data analytics. Sinumerik Edge expert Björn Rosenbaum explains that mechanics will reach a limit at some point and shows that data processing and analyzation offer new possibilities to observe and enhance the production process and the product quality, reduce unexpected downtimes and create new business mode...

In this Deep Dive episode moderator Christine Brunner is focusing on the personalized production of goods. Each one of us knows the situation: we are looking for the perfect product. We expect the ideal product in matters of size, material, shape, color, quality and much more – all of it manufactured to our individual needs. The personalization that was considered fiction a few years ago is alread...

This episode of the Talking Digital Industries podcast is all about ecosystems. Moderator Chris Brow takes a look at biology and explores what industry can learn from nature. He and his guests Cedrik Neike (MBM Siemens AG & CEO of Siemens Digital Industries), Elie Girard (CEO of Atos), and Antonio Santos (Co-founder of the Digital Transformation Lab), talk about coral reefs, bees, and the impa...

In this Deep Dive episode moderator Christine Brunner explores the history and the future of Computerized Numerical Controls. For 60 years the Siemens Sinumerik CNC has made production easier, faster and more flexible. For this episode Christine is joined by CNC experts Ankita Kambale and Karsten Schwarz. Together they discuss how NC programs were coded into punched tapes and how the Sinumerik evo...

This episode of Talking Digital Industries podcast takes moderator Chris Brow into the pharma industry. Together with his guests Rebecca Vangenechten, Head of Pharma at Siemens Digital Industries, and Gunther Bechmann, Senior Manager Operations at Pfizer in Freiburg, he discusses how digitalization can help the pharma industry to shorten the time of vaccine or drug development. His guests share th...

Quite a few specials form this episode of “Talking Digital Industries,” moderated by Chris Brow : A collection of his personal highlights from the Digital Enterprise Virtual Summit, a major industry online event organized by Siemens with more than 6,000 live participants from around the world. The topic: How to adapt to a rapidly changing world? How can industrial companies respond to the new situ...

Welcome to the first Talking Digital Industries Deep Dive! In the deep dive format Christine Brunner takes over and dives into a topic. In this episode she explores Edge Computing in SMEs. Together with Felix Kretschmer an edge-expert from Siemens Digital Industries she discusses how Edge Computing gives SMEs the possibility to bring IT and OT together. Tune in and listen! Just try, there is no ri...

In this episode of Talking Digital Industries moderator Chris Brow dives into the topic of Industrial 5G and learns why it is an essential topic for the industry. Together with his guests Sander Rotmensen, Head of Product Management Industrial Wireless & Security Components at Siemens Digital Industries and Andreas Kornbichler, Head of research group “Wireless Networks” at Siemens Corporate Te...