NEWS
Siemens offers $120M
PLM software to
Egyptian universities
Siemens announced its largest ever
software grant in Egypt. The $120
million industrial digitalisation software
grant will be used to support training,
education and higher degrees of
research in Cairo, Ain Shams and
Alexandria, the largest amongst the
Egyptian universities.
The grant was announced at a
signing ceremony hosted by Siemens, in
partnership with the three universities,
and in the attendance of Joe Kaeser,
President and CEO of Siemens AG, as
well as other business leaders and
academia experts.
Siemens’ product lifecycle
management software tools are used
in everything from Ben Ainslie Racing in
the America’s Cup, Firewire surfboard
design, Red Bull Racing F1 and even the
Mars Rover. Siemens PLM Software
solutions include digital product
development, digital manufacturing and
product data management.
At the three universities, the PLM
software will be an integral component
of the engineering programs. Over
35,000 Egyptian students will use the
software for their Computer-Integrated
Manufacturing, Robotics, Industrial
Design, Work Design, Ergonomics,
Material Science and Materials Processing
courses and projects. Additionally, it
will enable them to create digital twins,
simulated versions, of their final products
as a more efficient alternative to creating
a physical prototype.
This grant is part of the company’s
ongoing support for education
initiatives in Egypt to develop the next
generation of innovators. Just recently,
the company announced joining forces
with Germany’s Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development
to establish and operate a joint technical
training centre in Ain Sokhna and
modernise Ameriya technical institute.
Etisalat to implement Nuage Networks
SD-WAN solution
Nokia announced that Etisalat has chosen
the Nuage Networks, Virtualised Network
Services, VNS SD-WAN solution, as a
key element in its cloud transformation
programme. Nuage Networks VNS enables
Etisalat to provide automated, dynamic,
programmable and more efficient services
to its enterprise customers. It will enable
self-service ordering and configuration of
services, as well as the ability to manage
and control them based on the individual
requirements of the enterprise.
As enterprises embrace cloud services,
Etisalat is transforming its digital services
infrastructure to support them. Realising
the potential and benefit of cloud-based and
software-defined technologies, Etisalat had
launched a corporate-wide programme to
cloudify the network, dubbed Sahaab. The
programme aims to harmonise hardware-
centric telecom services with software-
centric cloud services across the corporation.
The Nuage Networks VNS solution will
provide enterprise branch service using
x86-based CPEs. Transport agnostic, it offers
fast, secure deployment of cloud-based
WAN services with intelligent traffic steering,
full application visibility and end-to-end
security. Enterprises benefit from the auto-
provisioned plug n play services with quick
and simple move, add and change requests.
The Nuage Networks VNS is a new wide
area network service that offers customers
the flexibility to adapt their network
services as needed to suit ever-changing
business environments. Paired with
Virtual Networks Orchestration VNO, an
orchestration layer for service abstraction,
Etisalat will be able to simplify, easily
manage and enhance time to market of new
functions and connectivity models for its
SD-WAN enterprise customers.
Schneider Electric and Oman’s Ministry of Oil
and Gas draw attention to digital innovation
His Excellency Salim Nasser Said Al-Aufi, the
Undersecretary of Oman’s Ministry of Oil
and Gas experiences innovations at Schneider
Electric’s Innovation Hub on Wheels.
Schneider Electric, a vendor in digital
transformation of energy management and
automation, with His Excellency Salim Nasser
Said Al-Aufi, the Undersecretary of Oman’s
Ministry of Oil and Gas, hailed digitisation
as the engine of energy innovation, on the
side lines of the recent Oman Oil and Gas
Exhibition and Conference. Oman’s energy
firms are under increasing pressure to adjust
to the new normal of lower oil prices, bring
innovations to market faster, and ensure
safety and cybersecurity. By breaking down
silos and sharing data digitally, energy firms
can enable digital oilfields to enhance energy
efficiency, safety, reliability, and innovation.
Showing the strong digital oilfield
opportunity, 73% of upstream oil and gas
companies worldwide expect to become
fully digital by 2022, according to a recent
report by Accenture.
In Oman, Schneider Electric is exchanging
best practices from 20 of the world’s largest
oil and gas companies running solutions on
the EcoStruxure architecture. Energy firms
are developing digital oilfields by joining
together Internet of Things innovations
across sensor data, mobility, cloud,
analytics, and security. Event attendees
are experiencing the latest EcoStruxure
solutions, including Asset Advisor for
electrical distribution, Profit Advisor for
optimising operations, and RefineryWise for
refinery operations excellence.
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