Recently, Siemens Digital Industrial Software “2022 Greater China Realize LIVE User Conference” was successfully held online. During this period, Siemens Low Code together with customers and partners brought a wonderful keynote speech, sharing the experience and challenges of Siemens low code platform promotion in the Chinese market, and focusing on the strategic value of enterprise low code platform in digital implementation.

In 2021, Siemens will introduce the world’s leading low-code software rapid development platform to the Chinese market, bringing new momentum to the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises, and creating prerequisites for enterprises that are looking for new production methods, transformation directions and business models. In just over a year, Siemens Low Code has built a complete team in China, including local research and development and technical support, excellent pre-sales solutions and sales teams, independent customer success team, independent Chinese after-sales service team. It also includes experience covering 30+ industries and segments such as aviation and defense, automotive transportation, financial services, public utilities, FMCG retail, process manufacturing, etc., and 50 implementation partners across the country, forming a new force for Siemens to expand its business in China with low code and help Chinese enterprises in digital transformation. In addition, Siemens low code also established the only common low code platform Chinese community and maintain the highest level of activity in the country, 99% of the problems can be solved in the community, which has become Siemens low code continuously optimize technology, products, solutions according to market feedback, and work together with partners and customers all the way to overcome the difficulties of the “outpost”.

Since entering the Chinese market for more than a year, Siemens Low Code has also explored a “three-step” advancement strategy that is highly adapted to the local market environment, that is, low code social, personalized and intelligent. Social emphasizes the extension of low code from individual IT practices to collective language and technical code words, thereby truly reshaping the overall IT behavior pattern for enterprise organizations; Personalized focus on the original foundation of the industry enterprise technology stack, regardless of the core system differences of the organization, Siemens low code can achieve effective connection and integration; Intelligence is a high-level overview of the artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted development process, covering performance tuning, page rendering, and logical orchestration, giving developers forward-looking architectural ideas.

Not only that, Siemens Low Code also launched the “2022 talent training and teaching cooperation plan”, one is to promote Siemens low code university courses through a number of partner colleges distributed across the country, systematically train 1,000 students who master low code technology, realize the integration of production and education, and release more market potential; Secondly, through the Siemens Low Code Campus Innovation Competition, from July to October this year, we called on 200+ students to participate in the competition and drove 500+ students to participate in low code learning. Students with theoretical knowledge and practical experience of new technologies can exert their new skills in employment, which not only provides entry-level talents for ecological enterprises, but also provides a strong driving force for social digital technology innovation.

At the same time, with the “one-stop” low code platform, Siemens low code has created a development ecosystem that seamlessly integrates various innovative technologies, including AI, with itself as the core, which not only helps customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and other regions to innovate digital functions or applications, but also in just one year. It has become the driving force for many domestic enterprises in different industries to absorb ecological “nutrition” and transform to high-level digital. Among them, SAIC passenger Cars, Yanfeng Intelligent security, Suzhou Natzhi and Zhongshan Xianbang are industry representatives.

Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd. is the largest listed automobile company in the domestic market, and SAIC Passenger Cars is one of the largest self-owned brand manufacturers in the domestic market. In the process of long-term information development, SAIC has built large traditional IT systems, including ERP, PLM platform, and successfully realized the systematization of the company’s core business. Under the tide of the Internet, if SAIC passenger cars want to achieve a comprehensive digital transformation, it must positively embrace the collision brought by Internet thinking, whether it is to solve unexpected problems or meet new needs, the efficiency of system construction and delivery needs to be greatly improved. Under such circumstances, SAIC Passenger Car chooses to gradually introduce Siemens low-code platform, integrate into the existing IT development system, and complete the launch of intelligent factory lean human resource management system, ME working time system, missing vehicle management system, QMS and other systems. In the end, Siemens low code, with its data-driven business value, user experience-centric, and deep and rich integration capabilities, further accelerated the development iteration process of SAIC passenger Cars, and helped SAIC continue to try to innovate and break through on the new track.

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In the upstream of the automotive industry supply chain, Siemens low code is the only way for enterprises to roll out their digital strategy. Yanfeng Automotive Intelligent Safety System Co., Ltd. focuses on the design, development and manufacturing of automotive safety systems and products, including airbag modules, seat belts, steering wheels and vehicle safety system integration. Yanfeng intelligent security practice information construction for many years, the core system is complete, but there are problems of independence and separation between the systems, the need to simplify business processes, digital transformation. With the help of Siemens low code, Yanfeng Intelligent Security has developed MQ problem quality tracking system, supply chain risk forecasting system, freight analysis system and production line equipment operation history system four sets of applications, successfully solved the problem of cross-department, cross-system collaboration, while saving the overall development time cost 25%, saving development labor cost 50%. Today, Siemens low code has been included in the strategic layout of Yanfeng intelligent security business development, and will explore more applications in the logistics, inventory, equipment management and intelligent manufacturing sectors in the future, to help it restructure the development of business logic, optimize personnel collaboration and change the delivery model, and become the world’s leading security system supplier.

In the new energy and low-carbon industries, Siemens low code has also won favor. Suzhou Natzhitiandi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading company providing modular and commercial “AI+ New energy and carbon” asset management and operation services for the new energy industry. In order to meet the large number of information needs of customers in the field of new energy and dual carbon, Suzhou NatZ has launched carbon management and new energy power station management solutions based on Siemens low code. In Suzhou Naji view, Siemens low code is the global enterprise low code leader, is fundamentally reshaping the way digital enterprises build applications, and visual application development, improve business and IT collaboration, can build Web and mobile applications, etc., are the core advantages of Siemens low code to attract Suzhou Naji. Through the Siemens low code platform, Suzhou Naji has built a carbon asset management system for the world’s largest cement group in two months, helping customers achieve unified data access, unified management, unified carbon emissions accounting, and unified system development, opening up a road of technological innovation for customers to practice low-carbon development.

In the pursuit of fashion and rapid iteration of the apparel manufacturing industry, Siemens low code is also useful. Zhongshan Xianbon Garment Factory is an old Hong Kong-owned garment manufacturer. With the joint help of Siemens Low Code and its partner Nengko Technology Co., LTD., we developed a light product life cycle management (PLM) solution based on low code platform, smoothly interconnecting with the original ERP system, building the whole process electronic form for the product delivery, and improving the customer service ability. It can quickly respond to customer needs, screen high-quality customer groups, and achieve the goals of enterprise process supervision, data analysis, and intelligent decision-making. In the future, Zhongshan Xianbon will also rely on Siemens low code, gradually improve the PLM system and further expand and build the MES system through continuous digital upgrading, so as to promote the collaborative innovation of the whole business chain with digital technology.

In addition, in the field of AI innovation technology and the financial insurance industry, Siemens low code has also been recognized by customers: Shenzhen Jiulu Data Technology Co., LTD., which is engaged in providing cross-border e-commerce artificial intelligence operation products, has developed its own SaaS products with the help of Siemens low-code modeling, page development, microflow, API interface, permissions and other functional modules to provide users with the product SaaS side of Jiulu e-commerce operation AI decision-making services. For example, Ruitai Life Insurance Co., LTD., which faces consumer customers in the insurance industry, has realized fast claims settlement through Siemens low code, and plans to build various mobile applications with Siemens low code in the future to connect many business systems and provide the best customer experience for each terminal.

Wang Jiong, general manager of Siemens Mendix China, said: “From a macro point of view, high-quality development is the main theme of China’s current manufacturing industry, represented by thousands of industries, low-carbon environmental protection is also the rigid demand for the development of energy, automotive, FMCG and other manufacturing industries, and digital transformation can help enterprises improve the efficiency of production and operation and the speed of response to the market, while solving the needs of carbon reduction and energy saving.” From a micro point of view, the most important contradiction of enterprise digital transformation comes from the fact that the functions provided by the core system are too “standardized” and the market’s “customized” needs emerge in an endless stream, and low code can help enterprises meet the requirements of business customization, and help customers achieve rapid and high-quality development of “sensitive” business needs. Siemens Low Code is precisely to seize this major contradiction, with the leading low code technology development and a complete China team, as well as the distribution of experienced implementation partners across the country, in less than two years to win the recognition of domestic customers in multiple industries, and it is just beginning.”