• “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge 2020 held online for the first time
• Access to Siemens TIA Portal STEP 7, PLC SIM Advanced, SinuTrain and other simulation software opened for free to support the online competition
• Online teaching covering hot topics such as the digital twin technology and industrial cybersecurity organized
• Siemens constantly practices the concept of “New Engineers” to cultivate interdisciplinary talents for the digital age
The “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (CIMC) 2020, which was held online for the first time, concluded. As a national-class competition jointly organized by Siemens and China’s Ministry of Education (MoE), the competition has been successfully held for 14 years. Facing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s competition was held online, with almost 10,000 students from more than 400 schools participating in it. By providing free simulation software as well as online teaching and lectures for participating students, Siemens continued to empower the development of “New Engineers” with technical, managerial, commercial and humanistic capabilities.
“Committed to the education and training of industrial talents in China for a long time, Siemens has joined hands with China to develop outstanding innovative talents in the digital age to provide an inexhaustible source of motivation for corporate development as well as industrial transformation and upgrading,” said Wang Haibin, Executive Vice President of Siemens Ltd., China and General Manager of Digital Industries, Siemens Greater China. “This year, the ‘Siemens Cup’ CIMC was held online for the first time. Siemens provided participating students with all-round support and unique experience through many new attempts, delivering a steady stream of talent support for China’s intelligent manufacturing.”
In order to support this online competition, while practicing the concept of “New Engineers” to develop interdisciplinary talents for the digital age, Siemens helped the technical team of the competition’s secretariat launch online teaching and lectures covering hot topics such as the digital twin technology, industrial cybersecurity, simulation operation, and industrial control, which attracted more than 50,000 viewers in live streaming, with nearly 200,000 video views. Furthermore, the organizing committee of the competition opened the access to Siemens TIA Portal STEP 7, PLC SIM Advanced, SinuTrain and other simulation software for free, allowing the participating students to submit their works online.
As part of the important contents of the education cooperation between Siemens and the MoE, the “Siemens Cup” CIMC aims to cultivate and select technical and innovative talents needed for intelligent manufacturing. Since started in 2006, the “Siemens Cup” CIMC has attracted almost 100,000 students from nearly 800 schools, delivering tens of thousands of outstanding innovative engineering talents for China’s industrial transformation and upgrading.
Since 2005, Siemens has been promoting the Siemens Education Cooperation Program in China and boosting the country’s development of engineering talents in various forms such as school-enterprise cooperation on construction of laboratories, teacher training, textbook compilation and organization of events. In May 2016, Siemens and the MoE signed a new round of MoC on Education to cultivate innovation-oriented talents for the transformation and upgrading of China’s industry under the framework of Sino-German cooperation. Up to 2020, Siemens has built more than 400 laboratories in China through cooperation with schools, trained over 4,000 teachers engaged in frontline teaching, compiled and published over 50 engineering textbooks.