Company Tour: Siemens Energy & Smart Factory of TU Graz

First stop: Siemens Energy, Weiz

The Siemens Energy site in Weiz has been a place where the future has been built for over 130 years. This is where highly complex power transformers are produced, helping to stabilize power grids worldwide and enabling the integration of renewable energy sources.

With deep expertise, strong manufacturing capabilities, and an international outlook, Weiz stands for industrial excellence “made in Austria.” Highly sophisticated technologies such as phase-shifting transformers make the site a key partner for grid operators around the globe.

Weiz is therefore more than just a production facility – it is a central driver of the energy transition.

Second stop: Smart Factory of TU Graz

The guided tour through the Smart Factory of TU Graz offers a structured insight into current key technologies of industrial transformation. In a realistic learning and research environment, central Industry 4.0 approaches are demonstrated using concrete application examples. Participants gain insights into networked production systems, data-based process optimization, and the use of modern communication technologies, augmented reality for worker support, and collaborative robotics. In addition, innovative concepts such as digital co-design processes in the metaverse and data-sovereign networking approaches for cross-company collaboration are presented. The tour provides a hands-on demonstration of how companies can shorten development times, make production processes more flexible, and unlock innovation potential through digitalization. It is aimed at specialists and executives who wish to receive concrete impulses for the implementation of Industry 4.0 strategies.