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The challenges within the asset-intensive energy, chemicals, and infrastructure According to the report, companies that move fast and manage to radically
industries continue to increase. So do opportunities to drive innovation and outperform their competitors could benefit from $265 billion in annual profit
create lasting change. pools.1

Yet, despite technological investments, your company may still grapple with But how can you imagine what the future would look like when your engineering
product development and engineering design challenges. The most common teams are challenged to deliver on the present?
reasons include a fragmented approach to design, with disconnected people,
processes, and data leading to substantial loss of value throughout the supply The answer lies in shifting to a product-based approach, which can help your
chain. engineering teams design products faster and lead your organization into the
future with next-generation designs.
According to a McKinsey report, the construction industry has been experiencing
unprecedented change in the past few years. It is moving towards a more
industrialized setup, where modularization and customizable designs are
changing the rules of the game—with the potential to dramatically improve
productivity, performance, and sustainability across the industry.1
In 2025, the global market value of modular construction is
expected to reach about $175 billion."
Source: Statista.com

Trends
Lagging productivity
1% increase in productivity vs. 3.6% in manufacturing
in the last two decades2

Time and cost overruns

$1.2 billion cost overruns for an average project with
six months to two-year delays 3

Low profit margins

5% Overall earnings before interest (EBIT). 1
From projects to products:
Redefining construction
engineering
The world of construction engineering and design is changing rapidly. Artificial
Intelligence, virtual reality, and other latest technologies are making a big
impact—transforming how large capital assets are being designed, built, and
managed.

For many engineering teams, however, product development can be a stressful

experience. There can be many unknowns, and the pressure to design faster
and cheaper squarely falls on the engineers, with almost no room for error.
According to Lifecycle Insights’ 2021 Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Productivity Study, more than 94% of those surveyed stated that company
executives expect higher productivity from their engineering teams. 4

Given the complex nature of capital assets, engineers must collaborate with a
larger team of suppliers, stakeholders, and designers across domains, and
integrate their development processes with a host of IT systems. A lack of
oversight at any stage can lead to loss of design data, which in turn may result
in process inefficiencies, and errors, not to mention the loss of valuable time in
fixing those issues.

Empowering your teams to innovate, make better designs, and reuse those
designs for other projects can significantly help your organization bring high-
quality and sustainable assets to the market faster.

What is needed is a “manufacturing mindset,” which calls for a shift in thinking

on how capital assets can move from a project to a product-based approach,
with modularization and repeatability being essential components of the
transition. Imagine a chemical plant or a refinery that needs to be modernized
with the latest equipment. Using a modular approach, engineering teams can
install durable equipment that was prefabricated offsite and transport it to the
location. This approach is not only energy efficient and safer but also results in
faster time to market while minimizing installation issues.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.

Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
Moving forward: Explore more benefits
Designing the extraordinary • Manage multidiscipline design data: Utilize multi-CAD
authoring capabilities and manage design configurations
What if you could synchronize your design workflows, and develop new develop new comprising different options and variants that can be re-used, again
assets for your customers faster, with little to no hindrance? Locate reusable designs and and again, from one project to the next.
customize them, keeping those customers’ needs in mind? Take an industrialized • Open and collaborative environment: Break free of IT
construction approach while fostering real-time collaboration across engineering constraints by using an open, scalable, and interoperable
domains? The good news is that you can. environment to manage multi-CAD design data authored using
Siemens Integrated Design and Configuration for energy and utilities offers a Siemens and third-party software.
comprehensive portfolio of solutions that can help you design faster by facilitating • Optimize designs: Take advantage of our extensive portfolio of
multidisciplinary design and reuse on a single platform. From reusable designs and advanced engineering simulation software to optimize designs for
standard parts to design features, symbols, 2D sections, profiles, shapes, and product improved cost, performance, safety, and sustainability.
templates, you can quickly locate what you need, and drag-and-drop the object into your
design. Your teams can preserve critical knowledge from the design phase all the way • Integrated BOM management: Adopt a more modular and
through analysis and manufacturing processes, while consistently applying best practices repeatable approach to engineering design, using integrated BOM
across product lines. management capabilities, with the ability to configure, manage,
and reuse different options and variants on future projects and
programs of work.
G2, a leading online software marketplace, has named Siemens NX CAM as its • Explore generative designs: Optimize performance and reduce
Spring 2023 leader in the category of Computer-Aided Manufacturing software. costs with generative designs, gaining the ability to conduct more
Learn more experiments in much less time than is possible with traditional
design methods.
Customer success stories
Discover how customers are
innovating with next-generation
design solutions from Siemens
Max Bögl Group
Headquartered in Germany, the Max Bögl Group is the country’s
fourth largest business in its sector and the largest privately owned
and managed German building company. The company needed a
more integrated set of tools to optimize project planning and
manufacturing. It selected Siemens NX™ software and Siemens
Teamcenter software solutions to successfully achieve:
• 3D-driven processes
• Single source for project data management
• Simplified manufacturing operations, substantially faster turnaround
• Reduced project costs
• Greater transparency and safety
• Significantly improved communication internally and with partners
Read more
NX is a precise fit for our requirements; it helps us
solve tasks that we could not do at all, or not
efficiently enough with other systems.”
Alexander Kropp, Building Information Management Development
Manager, Max Bögl Group
Customer success stories

Ansaldo Energia
Ansaldo Energia is Italy’s major provider of power plants, with global operations serving the public
sector, independent energy producers and industrial customers.

Over the years, the company has implemented a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution
with Teamcenter® software from Siemens Digital Industries Software. Teamcenter has been
progressively extended to handle data for component design, configuration management,
product classification, and configuration and document management. The next step was to
integrate plant engineering and service. Thanks to Siemens solutions, the company was able to
increase component reuse by 20 to 40 percent and reduce engineering design cycle time by 10 to
15 percent.

Learn more

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Listen to our Next Generation Design podcast and learn how Siemens NX
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Not interested? Visit our Energy and Utilities homepage and discover how
Siemens solutions can help you achieve design excellence in your mission-
critical energy and utilities assets to drive operational efficiency.

The ability to collect analysis data and reports from our operations
delivers clear benefits in terms of cycle time and data reliability, as you
can re-use previously implemented processes to achieve documented and
reliable results.”
Stefano Santucci, Business Process Analyst PLM Operations,
Software and Related Processes, Ansaldo Energia
References
1. McKinsey – The Next Normal in Construction – How
Disruption is Shaping the World’s Largest Ecosystem.
2. McKinsey – Capital Projects 5.0 – Reimagining Capital Project
Delivery.
3. McKinsey – Capital Investment is About to Surge – Are Your
Operations Ready?
4. The CAD productivity research report, Lifecycle Insights

About Siemens Integrated Design and Configuration

Building on our decades of leadership in engineering design
and product development, Siemens Integrated Design and
Configuration for energy and utilities introduces a
"manufacturing mindset" to designing capital assets and
equipment.
Combining three different design methodologies—multi-
discipline design and reuse, advanced design automation and
systems-driven design—our solution empowers organizations
to industrialize their engineering design processes with the
opportunity to adopt a modular and repeatable approach that
drives business outcomes, sustainability, and innovation.
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