Siemens has been on the path of digital transformation since 2007 and is now one of the top ten software companies in the world. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Siemens in China, and for many years Siemens has been committed to contributing to the development of China’s digital transformation. As a leader in traditional industrial automation, Siemens has a wide range of hardware and control equipment to assist infrastructure operations in various industries. At the same time, based on the digital twin technology, Siemens can connect the real world with the digital world, and more effectively promote the digital transformation of manufacturing.

Behind this, Siemens China Research Institute also plays a key role, mastering core technologies including network and information security, artificial intelligence, software systems and development processes, simulation and digital twins, automation, etc., to support and promote the connection between the real world and the digital world.

Siemens contributed to the success of major events in Beijing

Digital transformation is closely related to network information security technology. During the important events held in Beijing, Siemens provided technical support for the ice making system and network security of the venues. The organizer of this important event has put forward new requirements for all control systems, among which, there are strict requirements for the interconnection, functional linkage and data sharing of control systems of different manufacturers and different business scenarios. Siemens uses network information security technology based on situational awareness to provide all-round and multi-level security protection for industrial networks, and applies artificial intelligence technology to quickly identify abnormal traffic, so as to ensure that abnormal behavior can be quickly identified and protected.

The autonomous PaaS platform achieves cost savings and efficiency gains

Kingdomain Medical is a leading company in the medical inspection industry with more than 100 business systems, an IT infrastructure of more than 2,000 servers, and a complex environment of more than three laaS service providers. Siemens assisted Kingland Medical in planning the independent PaaS platform, building new application operations, and completing application modernization of the old system. Its versatile, highly scalable PaaS platform improves infrastructure resource utilization and operational automation, reducing innovation project cycles by 80% and business failure repair times by 50%.

Provincial-level green factory products reduce carbon emissions by 70%

Siemens helped a power transformation equipment company build an end-to-end “dual carbon” solution, developed a vision and carbon reduction roadmap on the basis of establishing corporate and product carbon emission transparency, and enabled the company to achieve a breakthrough in the implementation of carbon reduction effect “from 0 to 1” in the project through the analysis of the return on investment of carbon reduction initiatives. In the process of carbon reduction, the product cost is reduced by 5%, the product carbon emissions are reduced by 70%, and the power equipment enterprise has become a provincial green factory.

Self-developed IT/OT fusion low code engineering tools

Siemens China Research Institute has independently developed the IT/OT integration low-code engineering tool, which opens up the process and data interface between IT and OT through advanced information technology, so that engineers can complete some low-code arrangement and implementation work in a simple environment. In specific production line application scenarios, IT/OT integration of low-code engineering tools enables a production line to flexibly implement additional functions in the field, such as adjusting the process at any time without affecting the design of the entire production line, and ultimately achieve the goal of saving 50% system integration time.

Simulation and digital twins increase core workshop output by 50%

At present, the application scenarios of the real world and the digital world have been opened up. Through technologies such as simulation and digital twins, programs can be programmed in virtual scenarios and applied in real equipment to improve factory efficiency. In the process of building a digital benchmark factory for a large mechanical structure industry, Siemens built an event model based on digital twin technology to map the virtual logistics system and the real system to each other and achieve data interaction. At the same time, a variety of design schemes can be evaluated and optimized through simulation technology, and the best strategy can be fed back to the factory implementation system to help the production and operation information system really land. As a result, the solution increased workshop output by 50%, reduced production cycles by 60%, and reduced work-in-process by 80%.