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Day 1 Highlights: 2019 Plant Simulation Americas User Conference
We are a few minutes before show time. The curtains slide to darken the room.
9:00AM sharp. The large silver door slowly swings to a close.
‘Welcome, and Welcome Back!’ the slide projects.
Stephanie Aldrete’s hard work promoting the event in all social media channels pays off. I am delighted to see new faces, representing long time customers joining us for the first time, new customers, and old friends, who joined us for our first ever Americas Plant Simulation Americas Users Conference last year.
What a Power House!
So here I was again. My smiling face not able to hide the happiness, excitement, and joy in my heart. In front of me some of the best operators of Plant Simulation in the region, if not the world. To my right, our local magicians, Ryan Diehl, Ray Ahmad, and Doug Hoch, and to my left …, to my left, no other than our one and only Plant Simulation Product Manager, Georg Piepenbrock.
Accordingly, the 2019 Plant Simulation Americas User Conference team took careful consideration constructing the Agenda, aiming to give back, showing our appreciation for the time and money each one of our attendees invested to be here. These Users could have achieved many other tasks and goals in those two days yet chose to join us.
Thank you!
Users did I say? We at Siemens call them Users. Well … they use the software. To their colleagues and organizations, they are top notch professionals matched with Plant Simulation and other Digital tools that multiply the value they bring. This was evident by the presentations shared. More on that later.
Back to the Agenda, we were fortunate to have a participant from last year approach us, asking how he can contribute to this year’s Conference.
Note: for privacy and confidentiality reasons, we will not share names of non-Siemens employees, and will only lightly touch on their presentations. Some exceptions apply. Presenters are encouraged to write their own blog sharing their important work. If accompanied by a release form non-Siemens presentations are posted on our Community site.
Last year’s conference participants gave us some great ideas. With that inspiration we honed the 2019 Agenda to reflect the suggestions. The added sessions complemented well our guiding principles:
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Attendees want to hear from their counterparts, we should seek user presentations
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When Siemens presents, it should add value to already power operators
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It is all about the discussions, idea exchange, debates, as well as open questions, requests, and feedback to Siemens helping guide our next releases.
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Can we already get to the Agenda? What about the rest of the event? Can you tell us a bit more? Should we consider participating next year?
So, let me tell you about it all.
The event opened with, what other message than: Digitalization. Digitalization and the Digital Enterprise is what we do here at Siemens. But it had a place. It was not simply an infomercial to captive audience. As in last year, we proposed to our participants that their profession and skill set – Simulation – let me take it back – building the Digital Twin (that’s better), is central to what we hear everywhere in today’s world: Digitalization, the Digital Enterprise and Industry 4.0. Our participants can, and do, play a central role in that journey.
The short session articulated two messages:
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It is no longer just about the application itself, but also about its adjacent Digital environment: this message was aligned with the one of the great suggestions we had from our last year participant.
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The Digital Twin of Performance and how Plant Simulation can be part of it: IIoT and MindSphere presentation
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The Production environment and how Plant Simulation can be part of it: MES or the Time Machine with Alexa presentation
In 2018’s Conference we shared slides and movies showing how the simulation, no, the Digital Twin, plays a central role in those adjacent technologies. This year we allocated sessions to these topics in the context of Plant Simulation.
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The information backbone, and how Plant Simulation can be part of it: Line Designer live demo session
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