User pain points: The growing demand for digital transformation in business units, the lack of talent and resources leads to IT development that cannot meet and keep up with the speed of business development in a timely manner.
Solution: The use of Siemens low code, no IT background of business personnel to independently develop personalized application system, complementary with the IT department’s advantages, but to achieve faster online application system.
Implementation effect: Launched 8 application systems in less than one year, saving 40% of the overall efficiency compared with traditional IT development; The new application system saves the business department more than 500 hours of manual processes and saves more than 90,000 yuan per year.
Lack of resources,

How to meet digital transformation needs

Siemens Sensors & Communications Co., LTD. (SSCL), located in Qixianling, Dalian High-tech Industrial Park, was established on October 17, 2006, and is wholly owned by Siemens (China) Co., LTD. The whole factory covers an area of about 40,000 square meters, and the construction area is about 18,000 square meters. SSCL is the 15th factory of Siemens Industrial Automation & Drive Technologies in China and the second factory of the Sensors & Communications Division in China. The range, specifications, performance, quality and technical standards of the products will be synchronized with those of Siemens plants in Germany, France, Canada and Denmark. SSCL’s main business focuses on manufacturing industrial process instruments and instruments, and the service center provides on-site service support such as integration, installation, commissioning and maintenance. The combined repair center is responsible for the after-sales service of the products.

As a high-tech enterprise in the field of manufacturing, in order to ensure that product performance and technical standards always maintain international standards, the digital transformation of production management is a very important premise and foundation. However, as a traditional manufacturing enterprise, the understanding of digitalization is insufficient, and the blind launch of digitalization projects often meets strong resistance. Like it or not, the tide of digital transformation is driving SSCL forward.

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Sun Haiyan, IT manager of SSCL factory, is deeply touched by this: “The concept of digital transformation is not perfect enough, and the understanding of all departments is not unified; In the process of advancing digital transformation, there is a lack of digital transformation talent, and digital talent should exist not only in the technology department, but also in the business department, otherwise it is difficult to communicate effectively.”

With the continuous improvement of the modernization level of SSCL factory, the production capacity is increasing day by day, and the old management mode based on labor gradually shows the weakness in efficiency and efficiency, and the application scenarios of factory management requiring digital improvement are everywhere. For example, the previous R&D laboratory equipment records did not have a ledger, equipment management was difficult, easy to lose, needed to spend a lot of time for inventory, resulting in a waste of manual time, and could not control the maintenance and calibration cycle of equipment, equipment availability and accuracy decreased, affecting production efficiency. For example, previously there were no statistics on spare parts, such as frequency of use, inventory warnings, etc. It is not easy to find the spare parts information. When the spare parts are in or out of the warehouse, a lot of relevant information needs to be written manually. It is easy to write unclear and incorrect, and the spare parts information cannot be accurately recorded in detail.

When such a clear non-standardized demand scenario appears, there needs to be customized applications to solve the problem, and traditional software development, from demand to communication, to research and development, testing, and finally landing, the entire development process not only needs professional IT team support, but also needs high time costs, communication costs, it is difficult to meet the urgent needs of enterprises for digital transformation. How can you respond quickly and agile to develop appropriate applications to meet these individual management needs?

Good things to share,

Siemens Low code to help application development out of trouble

At the internal sharing activity organized by the IT department of Siemens, Sun Haiyan and her team heard the brother factory share: with the advancement of the digitization of the factory, the needs of the business department are more and more, in the case of limited IT resources, how to meet the needs of the business department, fast delivery is a common problem. Sun Haiyan found that was exactly the problem she faced. Through the sharing of others, she learned that the low-code platform is one of the best choices at present, allowing non-IT personnel of the business department to use the low-code platform to quickly implement the system according to their own business needs, which not only meets the needs of the business department, but also reduces the burden of the IT department, so that IT personnel can focus more on the IT professional field, design and unify the IT architecture. Develop IT specifications, plan IT blueprints, research and implement new technologies, and lead the digitization process of factories.

After a series of evaluations, Zhang Chengru, project manager of low code Enablement, felt that adopting the mode of Siemens low code solution to assist customized Java development, the business department that proposed the need to participate in independent development, and the IT department to cooperate with the necessary technical support and assistance, not only mobilized the self-service flexibility of the business department, but also saved the time and energy of the IT department. In order to be able to focus on more technical areas, which works very well.

Under this cooperative development mode, SSCL factory actively empowers various business departments and independently develops their own personalized business applications:

The Infrastructure Management Department developed a visitor management system and a parts management system;
R&d department developed laboratory equipment management system;
Logistics department to develop supplier procurement approval process;
The production department developed the approval process of SAP master data change and the overtime management system for blue-collar employees;
The Purchasing department developed the supplier master data management system and tool management system.
Through the development of this series of applications, the urgent requirements of the business department for digital transformation are effectively solved. For example, with the laboratory equipment management system, all the equipment has its own management ledger, which can clearly record and manage the entire life cycle of the equipment. There are corresponding control points at the key nodes of the equipment, and the relevant personnel are reminded by email to deal with it, and the status of the equipment is monitored at all times, which improves the availability and accuracy of the equipment and ensures the safety of assets. The online spare parts management system has established a complete spare parts management process. By scanning the two-dimensional code of spare parts, it can complete the entry and exit of spare parts more effectively, and automatically generate the entry and exit records of spare parts. When the inventory is close to the minimum value, an alarm dialog box will appear, and the pie chart can be used to analyze the use frequency of spare parts.