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– Sear Company’s factory in King Abdullah Economic City uses Siemens Digital Industries technologies with the aim of enhancing automation and comprehensive digitization of its first factory in the Kingdom.
– Siemens provides an intensive training program for more than 100 SER engineers.
Sir, the first electric vehicle brand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is entering into new sourcing agreements with manufacturing line builders, and announced its agreement with Siemens to advance the automation of systems within the electric vehicle manufacturing facility in King Abdullah Economic City. This cooperation aims to support the development of the automotive industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and enhance the economic growth of the Kingdom in general, as SIR seeks to contribute regarding 8 billion US dollars to the gross domestic product of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by 2034.
The main element of the agreements aims to integrate Siemens Digital Industries solutions to ensure simplification of digitalization and automation within electric vehicle manufacturing processes. The agreement includes a commitment to exchange knowledge, as Siemens will provide an intensive training program for a large number of engineers, approximately one hundred engineers. This initiative will work to develop local content, develop local expertise, and provide them with advanced technologies from Siemens, as well as supporting and developing competencies capable of achieving innovation in the automotive sector.
After signing the agreement, Jim DeLuca, CEO of Sear, said: “Cooperation with Siemens is an important step towards achieving Sear’s vision to make the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the forefront of the global electric vehicle industry.” He added: “At Sir, we seek to apply the latest digital industries technologies in the electric car manufacturing sector, which will make our factory more productive and efficient, and this enables us to achieve the ambitious goal of launching a range of electric cars in the coming years.”
The Siemens concept of “Integrated Automation” revolves around implementing and enabling digitalization solutions for the factory business, and will play an important role in controlling and directing all aspects of production. The manufacturing facility will also spread the Siemens automation process across manufacturing lines and production departments. However, SIMATIC controllers will later enable SER to comprehensively automate factory operations such as robots, production lines and transportation, including safety functions and procedures.
For his part, Engineer Fawaz Al-Shammari, Senior Vice President at Siemens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Head of the Digital Industries Sector, announced his great confidence in the future of the electric car manufacturing sector in the Kingdom, which is led by Sir. He said: “We at Siemens are committed to raising the level of the car manufacturing sector in the Kingdom.” Saudi Arabia through transferring and applying the latest technologies and solutions for digital industries. Commenting on the issue of training engineers, Al-Shammari said: “Our dedication and continued contribution to achieving sustainable growth for the Kingdom is clear through the localization of technologies and the development of national talents and competencies through our training initiatives in many sectors and the transfer of expertise in order to enhance local content and support localization programs and development of national industries.”
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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology leader, focused on the industrial, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare sectors. The company operates around the world by innovating and introducing purposeful and real-value technology for the benefit of its customers, and works to provide smart factory solutions with high resource efficiency and digitization for both manufacturing processes, flexible supply chains, smart building infrastructure, distributed energy systems, and the most comfortable approved transportation solutions. On the cleanest world, in addition to advanced health care. By combining the real and virtual worlds, Siemens enables its customers to manage and implement transformation in their industries and markets and thus achieve digital transformation for the benefit of billions of people every day. Owing to its majority ownership of the publicly traded Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is considered one of the world’s leading providers of digital healthcare technology solutions. In addition, Siemens owns a non-controlling interest in Siemens Energy, a global leader in power generation and transmission solutions.
During the 2022 fiscal year ending on September 30, 2022, the company’s total revenues reached 72 billion euros, while its net income reached 4.4 billion euros. By the end of September 2022, the number of Siemens employees reached approximately 311,000 employees worldwide. More information regarding the company is available on the websitewww.siemens.com.
About “Sir” Company
Sir is the first Saudi brand to manufacture electric cars in the Kingdom. It is a joint project between the Public Investment Fund and Foxconn that was launched in November 2022. It aims to empower the electric car industry sector in line with the Kingdom’s goals of diversifying sources of economic income and reducing carbon emissions. Preserving the environment to promote sustainable development. Sair Company’s work focuses on designing, manufacturing, and supplying electric sedans and SUVs with advanced technical systems from Foxconn and BMW, at its factory located in King Abdullah Economic City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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