Siemens in India announced the expansion of its Industry 4.0 offerings with the launch of four MindSphere Application Centers across the country. The centers will be located in Pune, Noida and Gurgaon (two). Siemens is the first company worldwide to set up 20 of these centers for digital customer applications in 17 countries. Each of the centers spans multiple locations in different countries and specializes in a particular industry in which Siemens is active.

At these centers, around 900 software developers, data specialists and engineers work together with Siemens customers to develop digital innovations for data analysis and machine learning. These new solutions are being developed on MindSphere, Siemens' open, cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT). In the four MindSphere Application Centers in India, Siemens experts will work together with Siemens customers to co-create solutions, which will be part of over 100 digital projects that will transform the entire value chain, and deliver productivity, flexibility, speed and quality in the customer's operations.

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