With the UK still lagging behind other G7 countries on its adoption of industrial robots, Neli Ivanova of Siemens Financial Services (SFS) in the UK explores how specialist finance can help to support investment to keep UK manufacturing world-leading.
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Financing smart buildings – delivering value in the “new normal”
COVID-19 has caused a crisis for building owners and landlords – both in the public and private sectors. Patterns of work and public service are clearly changing as a result of the crisis and its aftermath. With this, the way in which we use public and commercial indoor spaces has been profoundly altered, shining a light on the need to optimise the hygiene, safety and energy efficiency of buildings.
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Food & Beverage manufacturers look to smart finance to meet pandemic investment challenge
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has released a new whitepaper entitled Rising to the New Challenge: The role of Smart Financing in helping the Global Food & Beverage Sector navigate the economic ‘new normal’. This is the second in a series of insight papers on the automation, retrofit and digital transformation investment challenges faced by manufacturers.
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OEMs hold the key to the Industry 4.0 toolbox
Brian Foster, Head of Industry Finance at Siemens Financial Services in the UK, explores how digitalisation is boosting the market for manufacturing Internet of Things (IoT) and how integrated finance can help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their customers capture the benefits of automation in a financially sustainable way.
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Transforming manufacturing with the Internet of Things
Brian Foster, Head of Industry Finance at Siemens Financial Services in the UK, considers how digitalised technology will transform the UK’s manufacturing industry and how new financing methods are key to this development.
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How is the new breed of CFO in manufacturing enabling digital transformation?
Deciding to embark on digital transformation is one thing for a manufacturer. Analysing and clearly articulating the commercial imperatives to do so – as well as the risk of not acting – is another. Operationalising Industry 4.0 is yet more challenging and complex. A growing reliance, therefore, is now being placed on the CFO to enable digital transition without undue strain on the business. Brian Foster, Head of Industry Finance at Siemens Financial Services UK takes a closer look.
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