Smart Machines
Can manufacturers simplify complexity and redefine what’s possible in the industrial equipment industry with smart machines? With Dassault Systèmes, they can.
Reinventing Manufacturing Machinery With Smart Machines
In today’s era of automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), smart machines are revolutionizing the specialized manufacturing machinery industry. These machines are no longer just mechanical systems. Instead, they are intelligent, connected and self-optimizing, capable of autonomous decision-making and continuous learning.
What is powering this transformation? Data.
But data alone isn’t enough. Without the right tools to harness it, managing and making sense of that data can be a painful and costly process.
Here’s where Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin technology, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, changes the game. By enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to design, simulate and optimize machines in a virtual world before they’re built, manufacturers can enhance performance, boost flexibility and accelerate innovation.
With the smart manufacturing industry projected to reach USD479.17billion by 20291, are you ready to lead this transformation?
Key Challenges in Building Smart Machines
Manufacturers face a unique set of challenges as they strive to build connected, smart machines that meet market demands, including:
Real-time Data and Connectivity
Smart machines rely on accurate, real-time data to perform effectively. Fragmented, legacy systems and siloed operations often disrupt data flow, reducing efficiency and responsiveness.
Autonomous Operations
Smart machines with autonomous decision-making capabilities require advanced AI integration and accurate, real-time data input. Without the right strategy and tools, costly delays can happen.
Predictive Maintenance and Reliability
Predictive maintenance reduces costly unplanned downtime and boosts uptime and asset reliability. But, with insufficient data quality and poor analytic capabilities, preventing failures is difficult.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
As sustainability regulations tighten, smart machines must deliver more with less. Without real-time insights to track energy consumption and carbon footprint, sustainable production is out of reach.
HMI & Operator Empowerment
Intuitive human-machine interfaces (HMI), better diagnostics and simulation-driven operator training are crucial to ensuring usability, safety and efficiency on the shop floor.
Cybersecurity & System Interoperability
As connectivity risks increase, ensuring cybersecurity across connected machines and supporting open interoperability standards with legacy or third-party systems becomes vital in smart manufacturing.
Talent Shortage and Knowledge Transfer
Shortage of skilled workers adds pressure. Smart machines fill this gap by enabling faster onboarding, knowledge retention and virtual training environments that reduce dependency on expert operators.
Mass Customization
Rising demand for engineer-to-order and configure-to-order equipment pushes OEMs and line builders to deliver solutions without increasing cost or lead times.
Delivering Value in Smart Machines
Dassault Systèmes’ comprehensive solutions empower specialized manufacturing machinery OEMs to address these challenges head-on and reap a host of benefits. With us, they can:
- Design intelligent, self-learning machines
The virtual twin experience allows manufacturers to model, simulate and validate smart machines in a virtual environment before physical deployment, reducing errors and unplanned downtime. These machines are optimized and highly configurable, and can seamlessly switch between products and processes with speed and precision to deliver high-performance outcomes. - Improve uptime with AI-driven predictive maintenance
By integrating IIoT, AI and edge computing, OEMs can prevent downtime, increase reliability, and offer new service-based business models, including remote diagnostics, feature updates and Equipment as a Service (EaaS). - Empower operators with better interfaces and simulation
Virtual twins can simulate not just the machine, but also the human interactions with it — optimizing HMI design, improving safety and enabling immersive training environments for faster skill development. - Enhance agility with digital continuity and real-time monitoring
Connecting people, processes and data fosters digital continuity, which enables seamless collaboration and real-time monitoring. With vast amounts of data gathered and analyzed in real time from sensors, machines and production lines, manufacturers can streamline operations and meet market demands with greater agility. - Reduce costs and environmental footprint with optimized performance
By embedding intelligence into the machinery itself, manufacturers can monitor operations in real time, identify inefficiencies and optimize processes to cut down waste, cost and carbon footprint. This optimized machine performance improves overall equipment efficiency (OEE), leading to lower operational costs and a smaller environmental footprint. - Protect and integrate your ecosystem
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers enterprise-grade cybersecurity, while supporting interoperability with third-party systems, standards and legacy equipment — helping manufacturers innovate without compromise.
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One Unified, Collaborative Environment
To lead in the next era of manufacturing, manufacturers must adopt a smart approach that brings together the following strategies: Maximizing data use, embracing edge computing, designing flexibly, designing for circularity and extending machine value and services. Dassault Systèmes’ industrial equipment solution experience solutions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform unifies these pillars together in one collaborative environment.
The Virtual Twin Advantage in Smart Machines
Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin technology creates a dynamic, AI-powered environment where machines can be designed, tested and optimized virtually to deliver real-world results. Discover how the following industry leaders leverage virtual twins to solve complex challenges, innovate faster and transform successfully.
Yutaka Electronics
Eliminated early design flaws, onsite rework and missed deadlines while ensuring efficiency through virtual commissioning.
automation.eXpress
Streamlined processes, fostered efficient collaboration and boosted efficiency by up to 25% with automation.
Changshu Innovation
Integrated fragmented systems to improve efficiency, save costs and speed up innovation.
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1Source: MarketsandMarkets
2Source: McKinsey
3Source: Medium
4Source: Economist Impact