Siemens received the “Charity Driver Award 2019” at the 9th China Charity Festival. The award recognizes Siemens’ dedication to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and efforts of actively promoting social charity undertakings in the country. This is the fifth time in a row that Siemens is awarded at the China Charity Festival.

Siemens fully showcased its products and solutions for the digital transformation of the chemical industry on “Siemens Chemical Day 2020” held in Nanjing, to help chemical enterprises seek new possibilities on the road of improving quality, reducing costs, increasing efficiency and greener development. As Siemens’ annual gathering targeting chemical industry, the event themed “Digital Enterprises - Thinking Process Industry Further” focused on solving pain points and difficulties of China’s chemical industry during its digital transformation, and explored how to speed up digital transformation through building digital enterprises with over 300 industrial experts and partners onsite.

Siemens has launched a new generation of machine-level block I/O devices in the form of the Simatic ET 200eco PN. The new I/O family with IP65/67 degree of protection includes five digital I/O devices as well as an IO-Link master device and offers users a whole range of new functions for modern machine concepts and requirements. In their new industrial metal enclosure, the devices are reliably protected from UV radiation and harmful substances even under adverse environmental conditions, making it possible to use the devices outside of factory buildings. The devices are supplied with power via an L-coded plug, resulting in a considerably higher current-carrying capacity. In turn, this enables longer cable routes in the field, and the supply and connection of more energy-intensive components (such as valve terminals) without the need for more supply cables.

Siemens and TRS Group (TRS) officially signed a consulting contract, under which Siemens would help TRS deliver its “TRS313 Vision” with holistic management consulting approaches and create an excellent husbandry food company in the whole industry chain. Siemens will help TRS decouple and plan its strategic objectives and develop an implementable digital operation strategy and talent training system. This is the first management consulting project in husbandry industry won by Siemens IoT Services in China.

With Siemens Industrial Edge, Siemens offers a digitalization solution that adds machine-level data processing to automation devices, by taking the intelligence of Edge computing and thus, sophisticated analytics securely to manufacturing level. Siemens Industrial Edge offers users the opportunity to execute a wide range of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics applications. Cloud connectivity is used in conjunction with Edge apps from Siemens, from third-party providers or from users themselves in an integrated hardware and software ecosystem for automation component

With the new TIA Portal V16 (Totally Integrated Automation Portal), Siemens has expanded its engineering framework with practical new functions for various phases from planning, to engineering, to commissioning. The innovations concentrate on the continuous integration of the development process. These include standardization, integrated engineering spread across teams and an integrated function test. This enables users to increase the quality of their software, shorten commissioning times and reduce engineering costs.

Siemens officially launched SIMICAS, a complete digital solution tailored for growing enterprises, on Alibaba e-commerce platform today. Developed by Siemens’ local team in China taking more than a year, SIMICAS is a lightweight digital solution aiming to provide enterprises with a flexible choice to the digital world, and to customize their digital development paths base on real needs. SIMICAS consists of four parts: SIMICAS intelligent gateway, SIMICAS configuration tool and two APPs based on MindSphere: SIMICAS Metrics Performer and SIMICAS Performance Analyzer.

At SPS 2019, Siemens presents its latest solutions for smart and networked drive technology. By networking entire drive systems, machine and plant builders as well as users can simulate achines and plant more accurately using digital twins, perform commissioning, reduce downtimes and therefore increase productivity.