I have been virtually attending the Siemens SPS Event this week taking technology, inspiration and connected innovation to a new level. Siemens does do these events well. I have been associated with Siemens for nearly four years in an external influencer group, #SIEx. This association provides me with a significant focus on what they are doing in a rapidly changing market for mobility, smart infrastructures for cities and grids, and their digital industries business.
The evolution (perhaps transformation) of Siemens in these last few years has been a significant one. Siemens has separated or spun-off companies, such as Siemens Healthineers and Siemens Energy, and reorganizing the remaining core businesses around these three core areas of mobility, smart infrastructure and digital industries.
The SPS Event
This event, the Siemens SPS virtual experience event, focused on a digital enterprise portfolio. You can’t fail to learn of several new concepts or innovations within this portfolio offered.
Under the motto “Infinite opportunities from infinite data”, Siemens showcased solutions from its Digital Enterprise portfolio that enable companies to consistently digitalize, automate and make intensive use of the resulting data.
When you enter the Siemens virtual trade fair experience, you discover all highlights in a virtual 3D showroom, auditorium event program and Tech Meetups. Register here: sie.ag/3b1jZJH, as you can watch the event for some weeks to fit your schedule. You miss out on tech talks or contact an expert after finishing tomorrow, Thursday 25th November, 20201.
The opening session by Rainer Brehm (@rainer_brehm ), the CEO of Factory Automation touched on different parts of the SPS event. For me, it was the expanding range of innovative concepts that are emerging.
Here I only want to provide a short glimpse into three I found exciting
My three exciting takeaways from the event were:
The continued integration of the Industrial IoT stack between OT & IT is where app development connects IT/ OT into the cloud, at the Edge, and finally onto the Shopfloor. This stack holds great promise for integrating the IIoT process.
The launch of SiGREEN provides and drives decarbonization throughout the extended supply chain by focusing on high levels of carbon qualification through the use of Blockchain to keep data secure and confidential, offering an open industry solution to define the product very precisely carbon footprint.
The solution provides a trustworthy aggregation of an overall Product Carbon Footprint across the supply chain without compromising the partners’ need for supply chain confidentiality.
Extending the Industrial Edge concept of 2020 into a new Industrial Edge Marketplace, where partners together can have a platform to exchange and find collaborative value in providing greater solutions for industrial applications.
Already established partners will now benefit from a more open marketplace platform approach to expand their own solution in collaboration with a growing attraction of a wider network looking to build applications that are related to specific IIoT needs and build out interfaces and attract a broader, more diverse community of providers and developments.
I want to explore these innovative solutions in deeper ways. Still, I simply wanted to briefly “flag” how Siemens is making rapid progress in offering a Digital Enterprise looking to build sustainable industrial solutions that have a growing resilience and collaborative trust built into them.
More to come…..hopefully soon.
I want to get into a deeper dive in separate posts either here or more likely on my dedicated posting sites on ‘given’ topics covered briefly above for ecosystem and sustainability developments or my innovate4industry or digital4energy posting sites depending on the focus I take.