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Industrial Automation - It Doesn't Have To... Be Painful

August 09, 2022 • elliTek, Inc. • Season 4 • Episode 7

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From Mars🚀 to your facility -- hear how manufacturers can utilize Siemens's innovative, NASA-type technology to manage the painful issues that we have been going through the past couple of years.

Joining us in this episode are three guests from Siemens Drives Group to explain Siemens Drives technology from an interstellar perspective down to the local level, so it doesn't have to be painful.

Our first guest is Rudy Hauser, the Programs and Promotions Manager at Siemens. Rudy provides a 300,000 ft. view of Siemens Drives from SINAMICS, SIMOTIS, Totally Integrated Automation, and Digital Twins to the innovative solutions that are here today -- Siemens Xcelerator. As Rudy said, "These are exciting times!"

Bringing a Channel Partner perspective is Andrew Miller, a Partner Manager at Siemens. Andrew brings it down to a National level and shares how Siemens selects their partners, the benefits of having a local presence, and the benefits to the local manufacturers. "It's a win-win-win" according to Andrew, and we concur!

Matt Wagner is a Drives & Motion Consultant for Siemens. Matt shares a more granular, local perspective of Siemens Drives from a millennial point of view. We find out what ELDP is. Matt walks us through some of the cool new products that are rolling out. "Where you're seeing a lot more of the innovation is on the Usability," said Matt. Brandon wholeheartedly agrees!

Learn more about Siemens Xcelerator: https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/xcelerator.html.

Read about Siemens and Nvidia partnership: https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-and-nvidia-partner-enable-industrial-metaverse.

Wherever you are in your Automation Journey, elliTek AND Siemens will meet you there!

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