Siemens Baoding Industrial Internet of Things Convergence Application Capability Center (hereinafter referred to as “Baoding Capability Center”) officially opened today. The center, jointly built by Siemens (China) Co., LTD. Aiwenda Division and Baoding Lianchi High-tech Zone and Shenbao Development, integrates technology verification, demonstration and practical training, aiming to empower local enterprises to upgrade and transform digitally and train local digital talents.

MVME147 What are the highlights of Baoding Ability Center?

The Baoding Capability Center has landed the innovative research and development achievements of the local team of Siemens Research Institute in China – future-oriented graphical IT/OT integration development kit Workflow Canvas™, and its first demonstration line has been completed in the Baoding capability Center. The Baoding Capability Center is the first demonstration and work center for this tool. Workflow Canvas™ can strengthen the technical level of local industrial system integration solutions and technical service providers, improve their work efficiency in providing digital transformation, transformation and upgrading for enterprises, accelerate the development and upgrading of local manufacturing industry, and help enterprises refine and accumulate domain knowledge to maximize the value of digital transformation.

Relying on the center, Siemens Aiwendar Business unit will collaborate with Siemens MVME147 China Research Institute and other relevant business groups to empower local manufacturing enterprises to transform and upgrade through the continuous introduction of technology, services and ecological resources in the field of digitalization. Baoding Capability Center will also make use of Siemens’ successful technology innovation practice, gather digital ecological partners through various activities, competitions, summits, etc., and form a digital ecosystem with Baoding as the center and radiating the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

After the opening ceremony, the first business delegation composed of more than 30 corporate guests visited the Baoding Capacity Center and participated in the Baoding Capacity Center’s first phase of manufacturing enterprise digitalization lecture hall. Siemens held in-depth discussions with business representatives on how to build competitiveness under digital transformation, Siemens best practices and typical solutions.

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After operation, training and competitions have been launched

MVME147 The wonderful activities of Baoding Ability Center after entering the operation period are also steadily advancing. From March 2 to 3, Baoding Ability Center will welcome the first group of visitors composed of university teachers, and participate in the “easy drawing teacher” qualification training. Siemens Aiwendar Business Division and Siemens Research Institute in China jointly launched teacher training for universities and higher vocational colleges across the country on the Smart Tree Learning platform. More than 20 teachers from more than 10 universities will come to Baoding Competence Center to participate in a special training to deepen their understanding of Workflow Canvas™ and improve their scientific research and innovation ability. Teachers who have completed the training and passed the test will also receive Siemens’ official certificate of professional Cartographer qualification and dual teacher certificate.

In addition, at the end of March, Baoding Competency Center will hold the Siemens MVME147 Hackathon and Baoding Shenzhen Park Science and Technology Innovation Competition with the theme of “Digital at your fingertips”, where more than 100 technology enthusiasts will gather in Baoding to brainstorm with Workflow Canvas™ as a co-creation tool. The competition attracted the attention of many enterprises and university students in Baoding and its surrounding areas. At present, the registration work is over, and the players of each team are preparing for the competition under the leadership of technical experts.