Realize LIVE 2023: Capital Customer Case Studies Roundup

Siemens' Realize LIVE conference (June 12–15, 2023, Las Vegas) featured a three-day run of Capital-track sessions where actual customer engineers (not just Siemens marketing) presented their own results. This is compiled from three Siemens Capital blog recap posts covering Day 1–3.

Sources:

• Part 1: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/ee-systems/2023/06/27/realize-live-2023-capital-sessions-e-e-systems-advances-with-real-world-examples-part-1/
• Part 2: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/ee-systems/2023/06/28/realize-live-2023-capital-sessions-e-e-systems-advances-with-real-world-examples-part-2/
• Part 3: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/ee-systems/2023/06/29/realize-live-2023-capital-sessions-final-day-of-connections-and-case-study-successes-part-3/

Day 1: Industry analyst perspective + SaaS direction

• Chad Jackson (Chief Analyst/CEO, Lifecycle Insights) and Tom Yip (CEO/Founder, Radica Software — recently acquired by Siemens at the time) co-presented "Modern Electrical Systems Design: Leveraging SaaS to Address Today's Complexity and Collaboration Constraints." Jackson's framing: rising electrical systems complexity affects every company, including small/mid-sized businesses (SMBs), not just large OEMs.
• Yip introduced Capital X Panel Designer, described as a cloud-native SaaS solution aimed at SMBs for electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and P&ID drawings — browser-based, no install overhead, built for remote team collaboration.
• Textron Specialized Vehicles described their transition off legacy wiring harness software to Capital, citing automation improvements and better data governance via Teamcenter integration.
• Boeing's Brian Carbrey discussed digital transformation aimed at efficiency, quality, and safety improvements while shortening cycle times.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software President Tony Hemmelgarn highlighted partnerships including a recent IBM integration for E/E systems development.

Day 2: Product keynote + real-world customer deployments

Keynote: "Transform E/E Systems Development with Capital," presented by Frances Evans (SVP, Integrated Electrical Systems), Karen King (Head of Product Management, IES), and Dan Scott (Marketing Director, Capital).

Customer sessions:

• WISK (Boeing subsidiary, eVTOL air taxi developer) — Dhaval Patel & Kalyan Butte. Reported improved team productivity through Capital-Teamcenter integration and said they eliminated manual bundle/wire length determination during aircraft installation, yielding production time and cost savings.
• Boeing — Bob Conger covered Boeing's enterprise-wide migration to Siemens Xcelerator, which began in 2015 and established "a common lexicon for designers across the Boeing enterprise," addressing electrical design integration challenges across Boeing's global operations.
• Firefly Aerospace — Norman Rivera presented on lunar lander and spacecraft electrical design, describing accelerated design cycles and use of Capital + NX + Teamcenter together to reduce design complexity and mass — mass reduction being a first-order concern for launch vehicles/spacecraft.
• Gulfstream Aerospace — Keith Drittler demonstrated automated validation processes embedded in Capital to cross-check wiring diagrams against harnesses across design iterations.

Day 3: Final day — additional case studies

• Gulfstream Aerospace (Keith Drittler, System Configuration Specialist; Louis Board, Senior Technical Writer) — "Producing EWIS Compliant Wiring Diagram Manuals." Focused on building sustainable wiring-diagram-manual processes that satisfy FAA EWIS (Electrical Wiring Interconnect System) compliance requirements for aircraft maintenance documentation — a regulatory-compliance use case specific to aerospace.
• Navistar Inc. (Rashad Hendricks, Interactive Schematics Manager) — "Using Generative Electrical Design Flow to Drive Aftersales Efficiencies." Argued that technical publications processes need to "exploit the digital twin to provide content-rich documentation" faster, with the stated goal of enabling technicians to complete field repairs within 24 hours.
• Rivian Automotive (Bryan Horvat, Systems Integration Engineer) — "Capital's Flexibility Makes Connections Both Large and Small." Demonstrated that Capital scales across production environments at varying organizational maturity levels — relevant for a relatively young OEM scaling up manufacturing.
• Bell Textron Inc. (Steven Mitchell, Daniel Wawrzynski) — "Leveraging First Pass Generative Workflow." Used Capital Design plus custom scripts in a generative process, reporting significant reductions in design time and labor for aircraft wiring integration.

Practical takeaway

This roundup is one of the few places where multiple named practitioners (not Siemens employees) describe specific, attributable outcomes: eliminating manual bundle-length calculation (WISK), building an EWIS-compliant documentation pipeline (Gulfstream), targeting 24-hour field repair turnaround via generative aftersales docs (Navistar), and using custom scripting on top of Capital Design for a "first pass generative" workflow (Bell Textron). If you need citable, named-practitioner evidence for how Capital is used in aerospace/defense specifically, this is the strongest source found in this research pass.