Siemens consultancy to help SEA companies chart Industry 4.0 transformation

Source: Siemens. From left: Lim Kok Kiang, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Assistant Managing Director, Dr Michael Witter, Ambassador of the Federal Republic Germany to Singapore, S Iswaran, Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry), Joe Kaeser, Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer, Dr Armin Bruck, Chief Executive Officer of Lead Country Singapore, Siemens and Raimund Klein, Executive Vice President, Digital Factory and Process Industries and Drives, Siemens.

• Siemens us the first technology player to offer technical consultancy to support manufacturers to structure and manage the digitalisation of their facilities 
• Targets to help manufacturers become faster, more efficient, and more flexible 
• Consultancy will cover the Southeast Asian markets 

Siemens has launched its Digital Factory Manufacturing Design Consultancy in Singapore. A first for Siemens AG, the consultancy aims to assist manufacturing companies to assess the current state of their facilities, and thereafter structure a meaningful Industry 4.0 transformation roadmap to digitalise their factories.

With applications such as next-level automation, predictive maintenance and remote monitoring, digitalisation can help manufacturers improve their quality, productivity, flexibility, efficiency, throughput time and time-to-market. The consultancy will cover Singapore and the other Southeast Asian markets, which are also facing increasing challenges to remain competitive. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), this consultancy plugs a critical capability gap in the market, as while manufacturers, especially in markets like Singapore, are keen to digitalise their factories to remain competitive, many lack the knowledge and expertise of the smaller steps they can take to do so.

As the first player in the controls and automation industry globally to offer such technical consultancy services to help companies achieve their Industry 4.0 vision, the Digital Factory Manufacturing Design Consultancy possesses both the technical expertise and product portfolio to propose effective technology improvements to help customers not only optimise their manufacturing processes, but also digitalise their assets and machineries to enable analytics to better manage operations on a facility-wide level. 

“Siemens’ decision to establish its first manufacturing consultancy business here is testament to the importance of Singapore's manufacturing sector to the global supply chain. By helping producers to develop digitalisation roadmaps, the Digital Factory Manufacturing Design Consultancy will be an important partner to promote the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies in Singapore,” said Yeoh Keat Chuan, Managing Director of EDB.

“As a world leader in automation and Industry 4.0, Siemens is able to provide our customers with the initial seed for transformation into a digital factory. We are able to draw on our expertise and strong portfolio in electrification, automation and digitalisation, and I am confident that with our help, our consulting customers will become practical showcases for other manufacturing setups in the region,” said Dr Armin Bruck, Chief Executive Officer of Lead Country Singapore, Siemens, which covers Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.