Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability, and internationality for more than 170 years. In 2019, Suzhou’s Siemens Digitilization Experience Center became the company’s first AI Lab outside Germany. With the lab as a platform, Siemens is able to establish a global innovation network. Leveraging advanced technologies and best practices, Siemens provides Chinese customers with leading and practicable industrial AI solutions. Active around the world, the company focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, and on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Siemens brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit their customers and society as a whole. Through Mobility, a leading supplier of intelligent mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is helping to shape the world market for passenger and freight services. Via its majority stake in publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is also a world-leading supplier of medical technology and digital health services. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power that has been listed on the stock exchange since September 28, 2020.
Siemens develops the most promising products and solutions in China, for customers within China and around the world. The company creates technology with purpose and focuses on digital innovations, combining the global R&D systems and extensive network of innovation centers with local business needs. Siemens develops their technology to fulfill both the needs of local customers and breathe fresh life into the transformation and upgrade of China’s industries.
In May 2017, Siemens announced the commercial release of its Cyber Security Operation Center service as part of its Cyber Defense Center (CDC) in Suzhou. Based on the “defense in depth” concept, the center provides industrial security services and solutions that take situational awareness to their core, safeguarding the digital transformation of enterprises. Siemens is the first international industrial company in China to have organization, infrastructure, and portfolios certified with local security law and regulations.
INFOSCI 102 Computation and Problem Solving: Students were exposed to the real world of big data and computation through a visit to a large corporation and branch of a world powerhouse. With connections to Berlin and Munich, the Suzhou Siemens Center provides students with a glimpse at how computation is connected to problem solving on a global servicing scale.
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Suzhou Siemens Digitalization Experience Center
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INFOSCI 102
Big Data, Computation
