Case Study: Siemens halves engineering costs and beats time-to-market with Wind River VxWorks

Siemens halves engineering costs with Wind River VxWorks and ships 4 months early

Siemens, a market leader in industrial PCs, faced the challenge of maintaining its costly and difficult-to-support homegrown real-time operating system for its high-performance computers. The company needed a proven commercial RTOS to ensure determinism, fast response times, and safety. Siemens turned to vendor Wind River and its VxWorks RTOS to replace its in-house system.

By implementing Wind River's VxWorks, Siemens eliminated numerous development steps. The solution provided the required safety, security, and reliability, along with optimal compatibility with Intel hardware. As a result, Siemens cut its engineering costs by 50% compared to its previous system and released its product four months ahead of schedule.

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Anton Sauter

Product Manager SIMATIC IPC, Siemens Industrial PC Group