World Monitor Mag, Digitalisation WM_June 2019 web | Page 20

EXPERT OPINION
Digital transformation
Digitalisation is a significant component of any industry and according to
expert opinion, in the coming decades it will become a key area of development
for all markets. We talked about digital technologies implementation with the
president and CEO of Siemens Central Asia, Audris Barcevicius.
It is impossible to imagine a modern company
without innovation technologies. Digitalisation
involves all fields of economy and will become
the trend for the coming decades in industry,
energy, infrastructure and healthcare.
Audris Barcevicius,
EUROBAK Chairman,
President and CEO,
Siemens Central Asia
Аудрис Барцявичюс,
Председатель ЕВРОБАК,
Президент «Сименс»
в Центральной Азии
Even today billions of mechanisms create huge
amount of data, linking the real and virtual
worlds. There is permanent data gathering,
monitoring, automatization and optimization of
all possible processes that in turn require more
and more smart systems, which development is
noticeable simplified by advanced algorithms,
powerful computers and cloud drives. According
to expert forecasts, the volume of world data
will increase more than four times to 2025.
Never had there been such paces for the whole
human history; this implies both good prospects
and strong challenges, and even today it is
necessary to bargain for them. Given the global
trend of digital transformation it is essential
to estimate the reel needs of customers for
innovative technologies. Siemens’ Vision 2020+
strategy is designed to beat back the challenges
of Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Digitalisation has substantial potential in quick-
changing fields where increased flexibility and
efficient resource and power utilization are
required; first of all, this is production.
In this context, the company creates a large
energy company with business volume of
30 billion euros and over 80,000 employees.
Due to structural changes, the Gas and
Power (GP) Operating Company will be spun
off and comprise the company’s oil and
gas, conventional power generation, power
transmission and related services businesses.
GP is to be given complete independence in
business decision making that will allow creating
a powerful pure play in the energy sector with
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a unique, integrated setup – an enterprise that
encompasses the entire scope of the energy
market like no other company.
Today, it is practically impossible to gain
technology breakthrough without reliable
and acknowledged digital technologies, since
exactly digitalisation provides real competitive
advantages. That is why Siemens with its
Digital Enterprise portfolio intends to expand
activity for production digitalisation and to
offer new solutions.
So, as part of the upcoming Expo 2020
Dubai, Siemens as the premier partner for
Infrastructure Digitalisation will provide state of
the art technology, including the IoT operating
system MindSphere. The main idea of the
exhibition is a city of the future, where we bring
the different elements together – from Building
Technologies, from Energy Management,
and other parts – and we link these to make
it dynamic and futuristic. This is the Smart
Infrastructure that Siemens will present at Expo
2020.
For Siemens, this project is only one example
of digitalising infrastructure across the
Middle East: regional landmarks such as the
Dubai International Airport, Dubai Opera and
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque all
use our technology. Furthermore, a growing
number of cities around the world are
approaching smart transformation through a
series of infrastructure projects. For example,
electric buses in Shandong province, fuel-
efficient micro-vehicles that clean dust
particles on the streets of Barcelona, smart
LED traffic lights that reduce power use in
Freiburg, pilot eHighway projects in Germany
and Sweden.