"The Siemens Xcelerator is like a well-functioning collaborative universe of industrial ecology, in which many stars coexist and live together, following the same celestial laws."

During the 2023 China International Industry Fair, Wang Haibin, executive Vice president of Siemens (China) Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Siemens China) and general manager of Siemens Greater China Digital Industry Group, pointed out in an interview with the media group that the ultimate result of digital transformation is to meet the needs of actual industrial scenarios. The Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform gives you the complete picture of your enterprise's digital transformation.

"As an integrated, open platform covering software, services and application development, the digital perspective of Siemens Xcelerator is enhanced." Wang Haibin explained that the Siemens Xcelerator system includes many devices and digital services such as MindShpere, industrial edge, code APP and PLC. These components and services come not only from Siemens itself, but also from Siemens' ecological partners, through the integration of cross-domain technology, knowledge and experience, to create and collaborate to form an open, flexible and continuously iterative ecosystem universe.

At present, small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for more than 90% of the number of industrial enterprises in China, have become the main force in the stage of digital transformation. The mission of Siemens Xcelerator is to empower Chinese enterprises of different industries and sizes to accelerate digital transformation and scale implementation, and to bring convenient, flexible and open digital platform experience to our customers.

Siemens released a number of new products at the expo. Industrial Operations X, the future-oriented enhanced automation product portfolio, officially landed at the Expo, and exists in a richer and more complete way as a subset of Siemens Xcelerator through technology (IT) enabled Operations (OT), helping enterprises achieve highly autonomous industrial production.

While the automation community is still discussing how to break through the automation silos, Siemens has come up with a new TIA concept to achieve a unified control strategy across both factory automation and process automation. A unified database, a unified communication network protocol, and a unified programming configuration environment comprise the core values behind TIA.

Joerg Westerholt, senior vice president and general manager of Factory Automation at Siemens Digital Industries, said: "In the next-generation TIA environment, Industrial Operations X can easily integrate IT and OT, enabling cost savings and efficiency gains on the actual production site. With new technology solutions combined with AI algorithms and the industrial edge, the product yield can be increased from 90 percent to 99 percent."

The concept of green sustainable development always runs through the whole process of manufacturing, and is a long-term proposition for the manufacturing industry to achieve high-quality development. Wang Haibin believes that through the ESG report, we can see the pursuit and ability of enterprises in sustainable development. At present, dozens of Siemens factories around the world are actively developing carbon reduction strategies, while calling on hundreds of suppliers to join the ranks of carbon reduction. At the Expo, Siemens officially awarded the first "Zero Carbon Pioneer Award", which is not only to encourage the low-carbon transformation of fellow travellers, but also to inject acceleration into the industrial chain towards a sustainable future.

Dr. Xiao Song, Executive Vice President of Siemens Worldwide and chairman, president and CEO of Siemens China, said, "As a pioneer, practitioner and enabler of sustainable development, Siemens continues to promote the implementation of the 'Zero Carbon Pioneer Plan', and build a green industrial system with partners from all walks of life with the 'two-wheel drive' of digitalization and low-carbon."

Facing the future, the exhibition area of Siemens Expo presents strategic forward-looking technologies, innovative solutions and open ecology to help accelerate the high-quality and sustainable development of China's manufacturing industry.

Li Lei, Senior Vice President of Digital Industry Group and General Manager of Motion Control Division of Siemens (China) Co., LTD., mentioned: Siemens has released two new products, SINAMICS S200 PN series servo drive system and Siemens SINAMICS G220 high-performance inverter. The replacement of new products is platform-oriented, both in terms of hardware computing speed and software compatibility, have a leap forward, with strong flexibility and openness. It can look ten years into the future and beyond.

The vigorous development of digital technology is subverting traditional production methods, and industrial AI is being integrated to develop in depth. As the only exhibit from a foreign company, Siemens' predictive analytics system SiePA won the Grand Prize at the 2023 China International Industry Fair. The system integrates industrial artificial intelligence and industrial big data analysis technology, and has built-in industry knowledge and experience, which can truly realize the industrial AI landing of "industrial knowledge blessing".

"Under the dual challenges of economic recovery and climate change, scientific and technological innovation is becoming the core driving force to stimulate new industrial growth in China." As Wang Haibin said, based on the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform, Siemens is constantly exploring the unlimited potential of innovative technologies with digital power, and penetrating into the core scenarios of industrial production, releasing the value of connectivity, helping manufacturing companies achieve the rapid response and sustainable development required for digital transformation, and winning the future of high-quality development.