Siemens has opened a fully refurbished ‘Digital Experience Centre’ designed to show its industrial customers how they can successfully embrace digital technologies.
Located at the company’s Manchester base, the demonstration centre showcases fully operational examples of transformative digital technologies that can enable industrial users to enhance productivity, support flexible manufacturing objectives, optimise performance and even open up new business models.
Visitors can see for themselves the merging of virtual and physical worlds, with demonstrations of ‘digital twin’ simulation technology that can save manufacturers cost and resources when it comes to design and engineering processes.
Other open-interface technologies such as augmented reality, 3-D modelling and virtual reality, which offer integration with Siemens’ industrial applications, including Mindsphere (Siemens’ open Internet of Things operating systems for the cloud), are all on display.
Mindsphere showcases how simple, secure and encrypted connections from machine to machine are possible to help transform IoT data to deliver productive business results and offer opportunities for product and business model innovation.
James Cottle, Siemens team leader, said: “Our new Digital Experience Centre provides a practical illustration of the technological possibilities available to industrial users who wish to start their digitalisation journeys.
"We are already hosting many visitors — from a variety of industrial sectors — who are keen to see for themselves how existing and emerging digital technologies can help them tackle the challenges they face around performance optimisation, productivity and future-proofing their operations.”
For further details of the Siemens Digital Experience Centre, visit the Web site (
www.siemens.com/uk/en/home/company/topic-areas/future-of-manufacturing/get-in-touch.html).