Case Study: Siemens AG achieves rapid IoT deployment and real-time OEE visibility with Amazon Web Services

Siemens AG - Customer Case Study

Siemens, Europe’s largest industrial manufacturer, set out to digitize its Monterrey, Mexico factory as part of an Industry 4.0 initiative to improve efficiency. The plant needed a faster, more transparent way to measure overall equipment efficiency (OEE) than weekly manual tracking, so the team sought an industrial IoT solution to capture real‑time production, downtime, and quality metrics.

The plant deployed Siemens MindSphere on AWS, connecting machines to the cloud and launching a pilot into production in under eight weeks without new hardware. Real‑time dashboards quickly exposed a faulty test machine—fixing it raised first‑pass yield by 3%—and gave managers instant OEE visibility; current OEE sits at 40–50% with a target of 60% next year and an eventual goal of 85%. The cloud approach removed infrastructure overhead, accelerated rollout, and produced a scalable model for other Siemens sites.

Siemens AG

Steve Bashada

Executive Vice President and General Manager