Evolve into ecosystems companies

The newly formed Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens PLM plus Siemens EDA) became the first tech company to tear down the barriers between engineering disciplines to facilitate the design of entire digital ecosystems. Siemens recognized that to develop tomorrow’s digital innovations more rapidly, the most successful companies and their suppliers have adopted a system of systems mindset. Today, however, “the system” is no longer just the IP core, IC, PCB, embedded software, ECU, or even automobile your team is developing. Rather it is all those electrical, software and mechanical systems and the network connecting all those systems integrated into smart business environments, smart factories, smart infrastructure and smart cities. It is the whole ecosystem your enterprise or your customers’ enterprises are building.

Digital Ecosystems Enable Innovation

To deliver optimal, safe, secure and truly innovative products to market requires more than designing, verifying, validating and testing the functionality of advanced systems individually. Companies must also test these systems together – virtually running all component systems in the context of the end-system or entire ecosystem before committing to manufacturing. And after manufacturing, the data from the end product running in the field and the manufacturing processes can be analyzed to ensure safety, optimize performance and build better next-generation products.

As the demand for innovative and advanced products grows across industries, more and more organizations are evolving into ecosystem companies. This evolution is spurred on by a mastery of digitalization that has allowed companies to adopt a true system-of-systems perspective on product development. With this perspective, these companies have become leaders in their industries and are now seeking to consolidate their advantage through the creation of custom ICs for their end-systems.

A Digital Ecosystem Partner

Mirroring what is happening with customers, Siemens, with its Xcelerator portfolio, is also
adopting a system-of-systems mindset by building the industry’s most compressive, integrated product design ecosystem to enable more companies to design with the end-system/ecosystem in mind and deliver tomorrow’s innovations to market today. Download our new white paper to learn more about Siemens EDA software.