Siemens Holds “Siemens SCADA/IPC Days 2018” Event Unveiling New Products and Emerging Communications
Siemens Factory Automation gathered its team, Solution Partners and End User community for four days of learning and fun.
Siemens SCADA/IPC Days 2018 was carried out from February 19 to 22, 2018, at the Riverwalk Westin in San Antonio, Texas, where approximately 130 people gathered for four days of product presentations, emerging technology discussions and a market trend outlook at the Siemens Factory Automation SCADA/IPC Days 2018.
Members of the Siemens management, sales and support team joined their Solution Partners and a diverse assortment of end user companies from various market segments to review new product offerings in the IPC segment of the Siemens portfolio, plus a number of new platforms in the SCADA segment. The event was hosted by the product marketing teams for Factory Automation, based in Norcross, Georgia.
Attendees to the event had the chance to be present at several conferences where Siemens management and technical leaders addressed key topic such as digital factory strategy and the company’s forward-thinking move to Digitalization, the current theme for the Siemens marketing message across its entire industrial platform.
Key speakers were Kevin Lewis, Russell Barnes, Thorsten Julich, Bernd Raithel, Michael Steigberger, Bernd Staufer and Tom Elswick. The primary message takeaway for the group was that Digitalization will hallmark the factory of the future and SCADA will be the “digital doorway for data” in that rapid evolutionary process, as it impacts all industries, both discrete and process.
There were also presentations on cloud computing and edge computing, the constituent elements of the Digitalization trend, comprising both hardware and software elements. This discussion led directly into the program’s introduction of various new thin client IPC product offerings and the latest version of SIMATIC WinCC SCADA systems.
Other important topic, addressed on day three, was a review of new IPC products and emerging technologies on the horizon from Siemens, which was extensively discussed by speakers.
Finally, day four offered direct consultation from the Siemens product specialists gathered at the event, including the Solutions Partners.
Those interested in becoming a WinCC Specialist were offered the opportunity to take their certification test during the event.
For more information, please visit www.siemens.com.
