The Siemens Education Cooperation Summit 2023 was successfully held recently in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. With the theme of “Deepening Cooperation and Building Ecology”, this forum aims to explore the deep integration of education and industry, further promote the training of digital talents, jointly explore the new future of intelligent manufacturing transformation, create an integrated ecosystem of production, university and research, and build a broader cooperation platform for training digital talents.
On August 14, Siemens Innovation and Talent Development invited industry leaders and education experts and scholars to gather at Lanzhou University of Technology to focus on industrial transformation and talent needs under the background of digital transformation, and jointly research and create the future of digital talent training. The organizer Siemens (China) Co., LTD. Digital Industry Group, the organizing committee of “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge, the organizer Lanzhou University of Technology, hundreds of domestic college leaders and outstanding teachers representatives, as well as Siemens education cooperation ecological partners and other guests attended the forum.
In the keynote report session of the conference forum, Mr. Yang Dahan, senior vice president of Digital Industry Group and general manager of Customer Service Department of Siemens (China) Co., LTD., clarified the significance and value of digital talents for China’s intelligent manufacturing in the new era on the theme of “Digital talents Building the future of China’s intelligent manufacturing”. Mr. Chen Wei, Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering of Lanzhou University of Technology, delivered a welcome speech and expressed his welcome and thanks to the guests on behalf of Lanzhou University of Technology. Yuan Na, general manager of Siemens Innovation and Talent Development, delivered a speech on “Siemens Education Cooperation fully supports the cultivation of intelligent manufacturing talents”, and jointly launched the establishment ceremony of the Siemens Future Industrial Talent Expert Committee with the guests, and awarded the cooperation certificate to the first group of experts.
At the same time, experts from Siemens and ecological partners based on the current situation of digital industry development, focusing on how to train talents, how to train, and who to train three dimensions, respectively, on the “intelligent manufacturing engineering talent certification”, “intelligent manufacturing core curriculum construction” and “Siemens intelligent manufacturing field teacher training and practice” three topics.
In the sub-forum activities, Siemens technical experts shared cutting-edge technologies around three major themes: industrial edge ecology, digital twin and virtual manufacturing, IT technology and OT technology integration.
In the school-enterprise cooperation project, Siemens released three open cooperation topics, including “Teacher research and development ability Improvement Project”, “West Society” online course development and “Application of innovative teaching methods in practical courses”. At the same time, it jointly planned and released the golden author cultivation plan with China Machine Press and launched the recruitment activity of “China Machine Press – Siemens” digital talent series.
In addition, the management of the Siemens Education Cooperation team held high-level VIP talks with key partner universities from Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces to reach a consensus on future in-depth cooperation plans between the two sides.