Collaboration to drive digital enterprise forward through a Process Industries Academy
The Siemens Divisions Process Industries and Drives (PD) and Digital Factory (DF) are working together with Bentley Systems and the Bentley Institute to drive digital enterprise forward through the founding of a Process Industries Academy.
Academies are situated in Karlsruhe, Germany (Siemens Process Automation World), Houston, Texas/USA (Bentley’s Digital Advancement Academy) and Shanghai, China (Siemens Process Industry Centre for Excellence) to support the global process industry. With the aim of sharing best practice for plant engineering and operations, the first event will be held during the second part of the year at the Karlsruhe location.
“The Process Industries Academy offers industry experts an ideal setting to exchange their experience on improving business processes from both a practical and technically innovative perspective,” explained Alan Lamont, vice president Digital Advancement Academies at Bentley. “This allows teams to receive targeted training and to gain the knowledge required to be more productive and therefore to achieve the best results. As part of the training, participants will gain a better understanding of their role and function within plant engineering and operation. Real life examples of ‘going digital’ will demonstrate the most important elements of a digital approach for efficient and economical operation of plants in the process industry and will show how this can drive forward investment projects and the business of lending.”
Eckard Eberle, CEO of the Process Automation (PD PA) Business Unit and head of the Siemens booth at the Achema trade fair, commented: “Our vision for the Process Industries Academy is to support plant operators, decision makers and project managers through the digital transformation in order to encourage collaboration between their teams, the business processes and technology and to match these to each other so that the result is maximum efficiency in plant operation.”
An insight into how Bentley and Siemens are optimizing plant engineering and operation using new cloud-based technologies was recently revealed in a white paper from ARC Advisory Group. Based on experience and know-how from the leading experts in the field, the Process Industries Academy will provide training which will use practical examples to illustrate the significant elements of digitalization for more efficient planning and development as well as the successful operation of plants. Participants will experience how the development of a clear digital strategy improves collaboration, communication and coordination between the individual project teams and generates an ideal environment for optimizing the generation of information and digital workflows.