Bilfinger : Siemens and the industrial services provider Bilfinger SE are intensifying their cooperation
June 12, 2018 at 04:33 am EDT
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June 12, 2018
Siemens and Bilfinger SE step up long-standing cooperation
Comos as a central database focusing on process industry with sufficient flexibility to meet individual project requirements
Customers worldwide benefit from integrated engineering
Exchange of experience enables targeted software development and rapid value creation
Siemens and industrial service provider Bilfinger SE have decided to step up their cooperative association, as Bilfinger drives forward digitalization using the Comos Engineering & Maintenance Platform across its many sites and subsidiaries spread around the globe. This software platform from the Siemens Digital Enterprise portfolio not only allows close cooperation between the different Bilfinger sites and its customers through the use of a shared database, but also offers sufficient flexibility to accommodate individual project requirements. 'By using Comos, we are driving the standardization of our engineering tools forward to a new level,' says Tom Blades, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bilfinger. 'This enables us as a company group to offer broad-based support from every one of our different sites to customers in the implementation of their engineering projects.' This solution allows Bilfinger to respond rapidly to customer requirements and modification requests while at the same time enhancing reliability in terms of both quality and engineering. 'In Bilfinger, we're delighted to have found a partner capable of enriching our Comos software with industry-specific knowledge. Customers benefit from Bilfinger's pre-configured expertise, while using Comos helps them speed up the value creation process,' explains Eckard Eberle, CEO of the Process Automation (PD PA) Business Unit and Director of the Siemens booth at the Achema.
The partnership between Siemens and Bilfinger provides the ideal combination of theory with practice. Through the use of Comos at Bilfinger, Siemens has access to valuable feedback about the way the engineering & maintenance platform is used, particularly by SMEs, which it can use to selectively drive forward the further development of Comos. Because of its many decades of engineering and maintenance experience and expertise in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, chemical, oil and gas industries, Bilfinger is ideally qualified to integrate valuable knowledge into the system. 'Our vision for digitalization envisages predictive maintenance as a preliminary stage to prescriptive maintenance and prescriptive analytics,' summarizes Blades. As he points out, against this backdrop Comos provides ideal conditions for the market-ready development of digital innovations for the process industry.
As a plant engineering and plant management software platform, Comos encompasses the process engineering of components and plants all the way through to complete automation. By providing a consistent system landscape from engineering through to operation, Comos enhances efficiency across every phase of the plant life cycle.
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Bilfinger SE is a Germany-based international industrial services provider. The Company provides customized engineering and services to customers in the process industry. Its Industrial business segment includes industrial maintenance; insulation, scaffolding and painting; oil and gas, and engineering solutions. The Industrial business segment includes activities, such as design, development and erection of industrial facilities; maintenance and repair of industrial plants; project management; assembly and installation of plant components; design, development and implementation of automation solutions, and insulation, surface and corrosion protection, industrial scaffolding. Its Power business segment includes activities, such as repair, maintenance, efficiency enhancements and service life extensions, as well as the demolition of existing power plants, and design, manufacture and assembly of components for power plant systems with a focus on boilers and high-pressure piping systems.