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Press Release03 August 2021Siemens AGMunich
Siemens drives digital transformation at its Virtual Smart Mining Forum
The Smart Mining Forum,
supported by key industry leaders, including Sietse
van der Woude, Head of Modernisation & Safety and Sustainable development,
Minerals Council of South Africa), Andrew Lane: Leader: Deloitte Africa and Ian Gebbie, Vice
President, Electrical Control & Instrument Engineering, DRA.
The Smart Mining Forum
is supported by key industry leaders, including Sietse
van der Woude, Head of Modernisation & Safety and Sustainable development,
Minerals Council of South Africa), Andrew Lane: Leader: Deloitte Africa and Ian Gebbie, Vice
President, Electrical Control & Instrument Engineering, DRA.
The forum will bring
together the mining community, industry experts, decision-makers, thought
leaders, technology providers, consumers, users, engineers and designers to
discuss topics affecting the mining industry and they will explore ways in
which technology can drive effective change in the sector.
“Covid-19
has prevented the industry from having progressive conversations about how to
move the mining sector forward. This 3-day event is an opportunity for us to
bring the mining community together to reignite the dialogue and share
knowledge to help us sustainably transform the future of mining in Africa,”
says Tim Walwyn - Head of Mineral Solutions, Siemens Southern and Eastern
Africa. As a partner to African
mines, our electrification, automation & digitalization portfolio offers a
combination of deep understanding of the mining industry with state-of-the-art
technologies.”
This virtual event
provides an interactive platform in which attendees have an opportunity to explore
the Siemens virtual showroom, demonstrating the company’s end-to-end mining
expertise, observe current and future industry trends, explore cutting-edge technologies,
and participate in interactive sessions with our local and international
technical experts and thought leaders, who will cover key topics across the
digital mining value chain. During the forum, Siemens will also launch its
SIDRIVEIQ, industrial IoT monitoring solution for drive systems.
Sabine Dall’Omo, Siemens
CEO for Southern and Eastern Africa says “Our main objective with this event
was to initiate a forum for knowledge transfer to the industry and raise awareness
of the opportunities created by technology. We’re excited to bring this
collaborative forum, where we can showcase the latest technological innovations
for the industry and explore their effects on the African mining landscape.”
Siemens has invited
various South African universities and will introduce them to Mendix, a low-code
rapid application development platform. Mendix is a high productivity application
development platform that enables users to build and continuously improve
mobile and web applications at scale. The Mendix Platform is designed to
accelerate enterprise app delivery across the entire application development
lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and operations.
During the forum, Siemens
will launch a hackathon using the Mendix platform. The company will demonstrate
the platform to the universities. The universities will use Mendix to create an
app to build a mining use-case. Later this year, Siemens will host a
competition to determine the winning university based on their use-case.
As part of the company’s commitment to Enterprise and
Supplier Development, Siemens will also provide ten industrious Small Medium
and Micro Enterprises (SMME’s) that deliver solutions and services to the
mining industry a chance to showcase their companies and expertise in a
separate virtual showroom.
“Our
goal with the Enterprise and Supplier Development portion of this event is to
explore innovative offerings developed by local enterprises and bring their
ideas and solutions closer to potential clients, who could possibly assist to
further develop these offerings into value-adding products, applications and
services for the industry. We wanted to make these businesses visible to
industry leaders.” Rita Nkuhlu, Siemens Executive Director.
The
participating SMME’s will obtain SITRAIN access, an online, flexible, continuous, and
personalized digital learning platform for industry that’s available
anytime, anywhere, and can be used on any device, such as via a
mobile app. Its modular structure divides the content into easy-to-follow
“learning nuggets” and includes checkpoints to monitor achievements.
“The future of mining and
the transformation of the mining industry depends highly on staying abreast of
advancing technology and industry trends. It also depends on the sustainable
development of new enterprises, collaborations, and ongoing conversations among
relevant stakeholders in the public and private sector and educational
institutions. Now is the time to contribute to small business growth, promote
job creation and develop critical job skills required for the transformation in
the mining industry”. ends Sabine.
For this press release
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. 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 customers and society. 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 the 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.
In fiscal 2020, which ended on September 30, 2020, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €57.1 billion and net income of €4.2 billion. As of September 30, 2020, the company had around 293,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.
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