Under the motto "Infinite opportunities from infinite data", Siemens is demonstrating at the "Digital Enterprise Virtual Experience" at Hannover Messe 2021 how the merging of the physical and virtual worlds enables industrial enterprises to act flexibly and sustainably, as they are facing huge challenges: The Covid 19 pandemic has changed markets and requirements almost overnight. Added to this are the growing individualization and the urgent need for more sustainability. This can only be mastered with the help of digitalization and automation. Siemens brings together the data generated in this process in a continuous cycle between the virtual and physical worlds. This enables companies to better understand and use data. Traditional silos between previously separate industrial domains are breaking down and new opportunities for sustainable and flexible production are being created. This enables employees in industrial enterprises to make appropriate decisions based on data or, for example, to react a lot faster to changes such as suddenly increased resource consumption.

Effective May 1, 2021, Dr. Xiao Song has been appointed the new Chairman, President and CEO of Siemens China, succeeding Lothar Herrmann, whose delegation is ending after more than seven years at the company’s helm. As CEO, Dr. Xiao Song will assume all his predecessor’s responsibilities.

Siemens Advanta today signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with the Management Committee of the Shenfu Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone (Shenfu Demonstration Zone) in Liaoning Province and Shenyang Shuangyi Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly build the Digital Liaoning Enabling Center, powered by Siemens. The center will fully integrate Siemens’ digital concepts as well as its advanced technologies and solutions in such fields as the industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing, and healthcare. The establishment of the enabling center will attract enterprises in upstream and downstream industrial chains to gather in the Shenfu Demonstration Zone, and help Liaoning Province build a “digital Liaoning” and a strong province in intelligent manufacturing by creating industry demonstration projects and national demonstration projects in the future.

Siemens and Swire Coca-Cola China Co., Ltd today formed a strategic partnership on digitalization. The two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in fields such as digital plant construction, supply chain intelligent management and training for digital talents, and to jointly build digital plant benchmarks in the beverage industry, aiming to promote digital transformation of Swire Coca-Cola in China and around the world. In addition, the Manufacturing Information System (MIS) customized by Siemens for Swire Coca-Cola has been successfully applied to its digital production line in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. In the next two years, MIS will be applied to nearly 100 production lines in 18 plants of Swire Coca-Cola in China. Upon the implementation of the project, Swire Coca-Cola will unlock an annual production capacity of 550 million cans of Coca-Cola.

Siemens has expanded its product portfolio for parcel sorting centers and developed a globally unique, ultra-compact variant of the proven Visicon singulation technology specifically for the Chinese market. The impressive new Visicon Compact requires very little space and can be integrated flexibly into the layout of both new and existing systems. The intelligent, fully automated solution singulates up to 7,000 small consignments per hour within an area measuring less than 7 square meters. Large volumes of e-commerce parcels with different sizes, formats and packaging materials can be processed rapidly and smoothly and prepared for the next steps in the sorting process. Siemens Visicon is widely used in the world, and Visicon Compact has also set up pilot reference in China recently.

Siemens and the Yulin Municipal Government today signed the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement at the 3rd China International Import Expo (CIIE), thus reached strategic partnership between the two parties. Siemens and Shaanxi Energy and Chemical Safety Industry Technology Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd. (SASIT) also signed Energy and Chemical Enabling Center contract to promote the implementation of the Energy and Chemical Enabling Center in Yulin National High Tech Industrial Development Zone. The signings are a further step to the Yulin Municipal Government – SASIT – Siemens Energy and Chemical Enabling Center Project Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed yesterday. Under the MoU, the three sides will work together in such fields as the development of the hydrogen energy industry, new talent cultivation and international exchanges.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure Truck Road Show kicked off in Shenzhen today and will continue its way to Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Fujian in the coming months. At the opening ceremony of the first stop in south region - Shenzhen Tellhow today, Siemens and a number of local industry customers and partners gathered to explore cooperation opportunities to build a new ecosystem of smart infrastructure with innovative digital technologies, and promote the green, low-carbon and intelligent development of cities.

The Siemens Industry Since 1847 Membership program is officially launched today. By pooling the technical capabilities and industry experiences accumulated over the years into digital knowledge asset, Siemens will provide one-stop technical content and value-added services to a wider range of industrial customers through this new membership program, empowering professionals in the industrial sector to effectively improve their technical capabilities and thereby helping enterprises resolve bottlenecks in technology and talent training on the road of digital transformation.