MAC Saudi Arabia

The MindSphere Application Center in Riyadh. Your digital future starts here.

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Digitalization

What is digitalization?

Digitalization is the key lever that will enable companies to remain competitive into the future. This applies both to smaller operations and to major companies that are active around the world. Increasingly shorter innovation cycles mean that industrial enterprises constantly need to shorten their development and production times. This requires seamless integration of data along the value chain, from the idea of a product to the real product to service. Making use of the opportunities provided by digitalization to respond faster and more flexibly to customer requirements will provide an advantage on the market. So that means the best time to enter the digital era is right now.

What is MindSphere?

In short, MindSphere is an open software platform developed by Siemens for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). MindSphere stores operational data and makes it accessible through digital applications “MindApps” to allow customers to make decisions based on valuable factual information. The system is used in applications such as automated production and fleet management. Assets can be securely connected to MindSphere with sensors that collect and transfer relevant machine and plant data. Examples include real-time telemetric data from moving assets like cars, time series data and geographical data, which can be used for predictive maintenance or to develop new analytical tools.

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In Saudi Arabia, for Saudi Arabia

Locally based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia the MindSphere Application Center "MAC" is a vibrant community of skilled people who co-create customized solutions with Saudi Arabian public and private stakeholders. MAC Saudi Arabia is the first facility in the Kingdom to offer a living laboratory for R&D and demonstrations of new smart technologies and services. Our local business owners, data scientists, solutions architects and artificial intelligence (AI) specialists help our customers develop new business models, co-create digital solutions and software applications. Our domains include energy, namely Oil and Gas, electricity and renewables, smart infrastructure, smart agriculture, and energy efficiency.  

Connect, report, monitor, analyze, optimize and orchestrate your assets and operations for maximum results

 

The MAC Toolbox is a suite of data analytics services offered by MAC Saudi Arabia to our customers, to help them on their journeys toward becoming digital enterprises and organizations. Our customers are domain experts. Siemens complements them with digital experts. Our core objective is the business success of our customers. We invite government entities, investment funds, industry, the private sector, universities and training center to work collaboratively with us.

MAC Toolbox

Connecting

When your workers have the right tools and insights, their performance is maximized. MindSphere connects people with digitalized work processes, enabling reliable, repeatable process execution and improved compliance with standard operating procedures. From order management and execution to every stage of a product lifecycle, you can drive greater consistency and do it right the first time while reducing man-hours, rework and costs.

 

This is the first tool in our MAC toolbox.

MAC Toolbox

Reporting

Reporting, sometimes also known as dashboarding, is used to present the actual status of a technical or a commercial process on a front-end device such as a smart phone, tablet, computer or a big screen. Reporting is a tool used to track and monitor the health of an organization or technical process by graphically reporting on KPIs, business metrics, and analytics.

 

This is the second tool in our MAC toolbox.

MAC Toolbox

Monitoring

Monitoring applies pre-configured rules, bound to a system's component or activity operation, that are used to check system status. If the supervised signal exceeds predefined limits, a warning or an alarm is raised and routed to a person, or observed on a console, for an appropriate response.

 

This is the third tool in our MAC toolbox.

MAC Toolbox

Analyzing

Analyzing data across organizations and industries can produce surprisingly quick returns on investment by avoiding or even predicting equipment failures before they happen. With data analytics, organizations can improve productivity greatly e.g. by eliminating forced outages respectively increase up time.

 

This is the fourth tool in our MAC toolbox.

MAC Toolbox

Optimizing

To compete in an increasingly challenging environment, customers need to find new ways to optimize asset performance to maximize value. Optimization is the appropriate way of applying digital technology to improve existing operating processes, manufacturing, infrastructure and business models. MAC can leverage data to increase the availability of assets, optimize maintenance intervals and improve performance and increase energy efficiency.

 

This is the fifth tool in our MAC toolbox.

MAC Toolbox

Orchestrating

Orchestration is the central intelligence that guides and drives digital end-to-end processes, much like the conductor in an orchestra. Orchestration is the culmination of the digitalization process, bringing seamless integration of existing and new solutions to your organization. Thus, the digital enterprise will become reality.

 

This is the final tool in our MAC toolbox.

At the MindSphere Lounge, the focus is on you

The MindSphere Lounge is an exciting collaborative space in Riyadh, staffed by skilled people, that facilitates the co-creation of customized digital applications. It is a holistic environment designed to spark your imagination, inspire creativity and ingenuity, and brainstorm fresh ideas to address your unique challenges. Our software engineers, system architects, and data analysts bring your ideas to life.

Start co-creating your digital future today with MAC

Co-creation is a process in which our experts work with you to co-design digital solutions using the MAC toolbox. The theory behind co-creation is that the customer knows his or her business best. You have pain points, room for improvement and individual demands. By understanding your requirements, we work together, one step at a time, to co-create your digital transformation.

Digital Future

Your digital future starts with MAC Saudi Arabia

Domains

Smart Infrastructure

Combining physical infrastructure with digital infrastructure, smart infrastructure provides improved information flow to enable better decision-making, faster and cheaper. Harnessing the data generated by trains, power systems, buildings, buses, and roads will unlock the potential of fully digitized, electrified, information-enabled, smart infrastructure. This enables us to get more out of our assets, by increasing efficiency and improving services. Doing so will be key to meeting Saudi Arabia’s sustainable development challenges.

 

 

 

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is the bedrock upon which all our customized solutions are built. Our stringent security features safeguard the transfer of sensitive industrial data, and encrypted communications protect connectivity from your devices to MindSphere. The Siemens Charter of Trust Global Cybersecurity Initiative makes the digital world more secure. It protects the data of individuals and companies; prevents damage to people, companies, and infrastructures; and creates a reliable foundation for instilling trust in a networked, digital world.

 

 

Energy - Oil & Gas

The Oil & Gas industry has started realizing the benefits of digital transformation, helping them make operations more reliable and safer. At MAC Saudi Arabia, we provide visibility into up/mid and downstream operations, and put that data in the hands of key personnel, enabling them to respond to critical issues quickly and effectively. Combining data in this form creates new insights to help companies optimize productivity, improve efficiency, and increase performance.

 

 

Electricity, Renewables and Energy Efficiency

The Kingdom is moving towards renewable energy, as it reduces its dependency on oil. Energy efficiency is seen as a key stepping stone towards a sustainable economy. At MAC Saudi Arabia, we work with public and private stakeholders to identify cost-effective and environmentally sustainable solutions that integrate energy efficiency and renewable energy. We co-design customized solutions with customers in the commercial, industrial and Smart City projects.

 

 

Smart Agriculture

MAC Saudi Arabia’s vision is consistent with the Kingdom's vision to modernize agriculture and mitigate the effects of agricultural production on the country’s water reserves. Through the application of Siemens' proprietary technology for improving food production and waste management, we help customers build sustainable businesses through the Smart Food Initiative. The Smart Food Initiative focuses on collaborations with educational and government institutions to achieve sustainable, affordable, and healthy food for everyone in the future.

 

 

 

Software as a Service

Data-driven business decisions can be the critical difference between success or failure for your entire organization. The convergence of software, data and connected devices brings unprecedented opportunities to customers like real-time operations optimization and prescriptive analytics. Software has far reaching implications for the Kingdom. At MAC Saudi Arabia, we use state-of-the-art software services, machine learning and data science to harness your data to explore exciting new opportunities for co-creation and app development.

 

 

 

Contact us for more information

The MindSphere Application Center in Saudi Arabia

Siemens Ltd. Saudi Arabia

Business Gate, Building C-1

Airport Road, Qurtubah District

P.O. Box 9510, Riyadh 11423

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Email: inquiries@siemens.com

Siemens Saudi Arabia

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