In the 28th episode of the Digitalization Tech Talks podcast, we talk about how important it is for process plants to have a strong reference architecture. Standalone services and applications are no longer enough to make you competitive, so it’s become increasingly critical to create a foundational structure that ties them all together. A reference architecture serves as the backbone of your data transfer between the process manufacturing equipment that produces the data and the system that will be used to analyze it.

Joining your two Siemens digitalization experts and hosts, Don Mack and Jonas Norinder, for this important discussion is Alex Pfalzgraf, a digital transformation consultant with Siemens and a repeat guest on this podcast. Alex has spearheaded and been involved in numerous consulting projects focused on helping companies kickstart their digital transformation journey.

Show notes:

• Website: ISA-95 model, ISA 2010 (https://go.siemens.com/31171971)
• Website: What are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS?, IBM 2023 (https://go.siemens.com/16805021)
• Article: Unified Namespace: The Hub and Spoke Model for Your Data, AutomationWorld 2021 (https://go.siemens.com/78989230)
• Article: Converge IT and OT to turbocharge business operations’ scaling power, McKinsey 2022 (https://go.siemens.com/55602021)
• Website: Competitive thanks to digital Transformation, Siemens (https://go.siemens.com/38532404)

Contact us:

• Alex Pfalzgraf (alexander.pfalzgraf@siemens.com)
• Don Mack (mack.donald@siemens.com)
• Jonas Norinder (jonas.norinder@siemens.com)