Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced that Panasonic Corporation (“Panasonic”) has started to adopt its Teamcenter® X software, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to accelerate its digitalization in product development and design.

Through this large-scale implementation of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service, Siemens helps Panasonic to integrate data management processes across product design and development, reduce lead times, and support continuous, rapid market availability of high-quality products. By migrating legacy IT assets and traditional on-premises data management to the cloud, Panasonic aims to reduce IT infrastructure maintenance labor hours and the total cost of ownership, enable rapidly deployed access to updated versions for the latest PLM functionality and IT infrastructure capabilities, and access secure systems across locations in Japan and its locations around the world from a variety of device types and via remote access.

Panasonic has quickly migrated to Teamcenter X by eliminating the customizations that had previously been built on-premises and rebuilding business processes based on standard functions (OOTB) at the same time. In addition, Siemens’ Mendix™ low-code platform, which is closely linked with Teamcenter X, quickly implemented Panasonic’s unique requirements. Teamcenter X enables Panasonic to always incorporate the latest technology, improve operational efficiency, and improve business resilience and continuity. Furthermore, it is aimed at realizing an engineering environment that can flexibly and quickly respond to the reorganization of business and user transfers between divisions.

The ability of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service to grow with the needs of customers enables Panasonic’s global foundation for digital twin and digital thread in the development and design domains to be expanded in its scope of application in the future, to improve productivity throughout Panasonic’s comprehensive manufacturing domain.

“Panasonic has positioned digital transformation (DX) as a key strategy for strengthening its management foundation and is working on it under the company-wide name of Panasonic Transformation (PX),” said Hideyuki Miyazaki, Panasonic Chief Information Officer. “As one of our key measures, we are collaborating with Siemens to promote the shift to cloud computing and adopting digital threads for product design and development data management. By expanding this transformation in the future, we expect to enhance our market competitiveness and increase our enterprise value.”

“Our collaboration with a global leader like Panasonic demonstrates once again our expertise in helping our customers to achieve their digital transformation goals with Siemens Xcelerator as a Service,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software. “We are honored to be the first in the world to work with Panasonic on the global standardization of cloud PLM. Siemens will continue to support Panasonic’s rapid, large-scale, and bold digital transformation (DX).”

“We are very pleased to have enabled Panasonic’s success through their adoption of our world-leading Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software and its move to Teamcenter X to help them build the digital base for realizing their digital transformation goals,” said Kunihiko Horita, Country Manager and Vice President, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Japan. “I was deeply impressed by the cooperation and competency of Panasonic and Siemens’ project teams. We, at Siemens, will continue to work together to expand the scope of this initiative and achieve true digital transformation (DX).”

Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware, and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens’ software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering, and manufacturing processes to turn today’s ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating transformation.

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions, and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI’s unique portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies. Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 72,000 employees internationally.Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology to add real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the every day for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare.