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Manufacturing Applications
Thus far, this course has primarily centered on Siemens
products used to distribute power throughout residential,
commercial, and industrial applications. In all these applications,
this electrical energy is also used for lighting, heating, air
conditioning, office equipment, and other non-industrial
systems. Unlike commercial and residential applications,
however, in industrial applications most of the electrical energy
is used to power manufacturing equipment.
The equipment used in manufacturing varies widely depending
upon the volume of production and the types of processes
employed. As a result, Siemens offers a vast array of products
for use in virtually every phase of manufacturing. Many of these
products are purchased by machine builders or OEMs (original
equipment manufacturers) for resale to the end user. In other
cases, the end user may engineer a machine or process line or
employ another company to do the engineering. The end result,
however, is a coordinated system or process.
There are a variety of ways to represent manufacturing
processes. However, since the goal of this course is to present an
overview of Siemens Industry, Inc. products, we need only take
a high-level view of manufacturing processes.