Industry 4.0 in focus at upgarded Siemens hub 

The digital experience centre will allow Chinese companies to tap the full potential of Industry 4.0 and the government’s strategic roadmap ‘Made in China 2025, ’ set to transform the country’s industrial sector towards digital-based intelligent manufacturing. 
The initiative will benefit industrial firms in production flexibility, shorten time to market and to comply quickly towards market dynamism.
The reopening, after a six-month renovation and upgrading, allowed visitors to tour the upgraded digital experience hub onsite and learn more about Siemens’ future-oriented digital enterprise solution covering covers the whole product and production life-cycle and its advantages.
Gu Xin, director of digitalisation and intelligent manufacturing business, digital factory division, Siemens Ltd, China, said that the digital experience centre demonstrates the company’s portfolio of solutions for the digital transformation in both discrete and process industries.
“Digitalisation changes everything as well as the way of life. In manufacturing sector, it changes how we gather information and how the products are produced,” Xin said.
“For Siemens, we can supply comprehensive software and hardware portfolios integrated together to digitalise the full product lifecycle management and its value chain. This future of manufacturing is to cater new market demand and high-pressure customer demand with the customisation of massive manufacturing,” he added.
Opened in June 2017, the Siemens’ digital experience centre received more than 5,000 professional visitors from the industrial sector within six months. The upgraded experience hub, which engages an area of 700 square metres, continues to showcase specific digital applications in the full lifecycle from product design, production planning and engineering to production execution and services. 
The reopened experience hub integrates the manufacturing information technology (MIT) for machine tools and showcases the electronic device manufacturing scenario, giving the audience an experience on Siemens’ applications of industry security and energy management technology through big data dashboard. 
Field data can be uploaded to the new MindSphere 3.0 version in real time and analysed through Mind Apps therein to achieve preventive maintenance and optimisation of the entire production line.
Xin said that Casic, China’s leading aerospace, science and industry company is one of the key pilot customers adopting intelligent manufacturing initiative effectively. 
The experience hub integrates network information security. In the digital age, network information security is crucial. Siemens is continuously promoting development of network information security in industrial applications and infrastructure. Based on the ‘defense in depth’ philosophy, Siemens offers the industrial sector a wide range of product and service portfolios, including factory and network security and system integrity.
Additionally, in Shanghai, Siemens’ digitalisation experience centre for process industry was opened in August 2017. In Chengdu, its global industrial software R&D centre established through its cooperation with Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone was put into operation at the end of 2017 and its intelligent manufacturing innovation centre is scheduled for start of operation by October this year. In Suzhou, a digitalization experience centre with focus on customization of industrial buttons will be opened in August at Siemens Electrical Apparatus Ltd, Suzhou (SEAL).