Siemens PLM Software Industry 4.0

Today’s Industrial Revolution is digitally transforming manufacturing. This Fourth Industrial Revolution will use electronics and information technology (IT) to further automate production. Take a look at the significant events driving industrial progress over time!

1760-1840: The First Industrial Revolution

Water power, steam power, mechanical tools, the birth of factories

1775: 1785: 1801: 1830: James Watt and Matthew Boulton Edmund Cartwright patents the Richard Trevithick begins George Stephenson builds patent the Watt steam engine, power loom, industrializing building the first steam the first public intercity the first global technology to textile manufacturing. locomotive, leading to the railway, the Liverpool and increase productivity. first locomotive-powered Manchester line. railway.

1776: 1794: 1828: Adam Smith publishes Eli Whitney patents the cotton James Beaumont The Wealth of Nations, gin in the United States, sparking Neilson patents the encouraging businesses explosive growth in the cotton hot-blast process to improve productivity industry. for iron furnaces, by reinvesting profits improving fuel into equipment and efficiency and labor. furnace capacity.

1840-1914: The Second Industrial Revolution Mass production, assembly lines, division of labor, electrification

1837: 1867: 1881: 1913: Samuel Morse patents the Chicago’s meatpacking Siemens & Halske Henry Ford begins operating his telegraph and develops district, the Union Stock build the first electric moving assembly line at Ford Morse code; he sends the Yards, begins using the tramway. Motor Company, reducing assembly country’s first telegram one world’s first moving time by almost 90 percent. year later. assembly line.

1866: 1879: 1886: 1929: Werner Von Siemens Thomas Edison holds the first Karl Benz patents the first The Yosami Radio discovers the dynamo-electric public demonstration of the automobile. Transmitting Station principle and invents the DC incandescent light bulb; he establishes the first wireless electric motor in Germany. patents a system for electricity communications system distribution one year later. between Europe and Japan.

1947-2010: The Third Industrial Revolution – the Digital Revolution Digital technology overtakes analog and mechanical technology, IT systems

Hello? Patent

1947: 1958: 1969: 1973: Physicists John Bardeen, Walter Siemens receives the patent United Computing releases Martin Cooper places the Houser Brattain and William for SIMATIC, marking the UNIAPT, one of the first end-user first cellular mobile phone Shockley invent the transistor beginning of automated computer-aided manufacturing call; digital mobile phones in AT&T’s Bell Labs. production. (CAM) programs. follow in the 1990s.

1957: 1969: 1964: 1973: The Soviet Union launches The United States Department the first artificial satellite, The Mount Fuji Radar System of Defense establishes the IBM develops the first portable Sputnik 1, into orbit, is completed in Japan, making ARPANET network, the first computer prototype; the intensifying the Space Race extensive advances in weather to use Transmission Control first mass-marketed personal between the United States radar technology and complex, Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/ computer (PC) follows four years and the Soviet Union. remote-control electronic IP) technologies, the foundation later. systems. for the Internet.

1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1999: General Motors completes the worldwide 1989: 1996: upgrade of its corporate computer-aided Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Siemens launches totally integrated design (CAD), CAM and product data Wide Web while working at CERN in automation, enabling interaction of management (PDM) systems with software Switzerland; it becomes available to all automation components. from Unigraphics. The company changes its the public two years later. name to UGS Corporation two years later.

1994: 1999: 2007: IBM and BellSouth create Simon, Kevin Ashton invents the term Siemens acquires UGS, laying the the first smartphone, with a Internet of Things (IoT) at MIT’s foundation for the Siemens Industry touch screen display, apps, phone, Auto-ID Center. Auto-ID Labs begins Automation division’s strategic email and fax capabilities. designing the architecture for IoT. business unit and leading to the creation of Siemens PLM Software.

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2010-present: The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Industry 4.0 Automated production, smart factories, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems

99.99885% Perfection rate Industry 4.0 2011: 2015: The German government launches Industry 4.0, an German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Siemens initiative to apply digital technologies to manufacturing Amberg digital enterprise factory, which has a 99.99885 processes; features includes smart data, flexible factories, percent perfection rate and produces one product per highly efficient production, mass customization and second and 15 million SIMATIC products per year. Products merging of virtual and physical worlds. control their own assembly and communicate requirements and production steps to the machines.

2012: NASA’s Curiosity Rover lands on Mars. NASA uses Siemens PLM Software tools to simulate the landing in a digital environment thousands of times before building a prototype.