Chinese Universities
The technologies leaving CT China’s research laboratory must, first and foremost, be “S.M.A.R.T.” – Simple, Maintenance-friendly, Affordable, Reliable, and Timely to market. In order to perfectly align their projects with these criteria, Siemens experts seek out synergies, which they can often find at prestigious Chinese universities. One such institution is Tongji University in Shanghai, which is one of two Siemens Center of Knowledge Interchange (CKI) universities in China and has comprehensive expertise in traffic technology. CT researchers in China are benefiting from this expertise in a project designed to gather traffic data. Here, researchers from the Information & Communications Cluster are focusing their mobile communications expertise on analyzing how individual mobile phone signals can be filtered out of the jumble of signals carried on today’s airwaves. Specialists at Tongji University are currently working on finding a way to correlate the locations of the signals as accurately as possible with the road network. Their goal is to extract the exact movements of mobile phone users (anonymously, of course). Tongji and Siemens are highly satisfied with the initial test results.
The second CKI institution, Tsinghua University, is also one of Siemens’ most important innovation partners in China. A Siemens-Tsinghua CKI project on superalloys and LCF (Low Cycle Fatigue) modeling has progressed successfully and achieved very satisfying results. The experimental data and the models developed in the project will be used for the reliability design and safe maintenance of key components of gas turbine products.
Siemens Gas Turbine Engineering initiated and sponsored the project. As key research partners, experts from the Ceramic Materials & Devices (CER) global technology field have been involved in the project together with the Gas Turbines Business Unit.
Collaborating professors at Tsinghua are from the Department of Engineering Mechanics and the Department of Material Science &Engineering. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) assisted Siemens Corporate Technology in China with a project called the Telecommunication Security Evaluation Platform. Specifically, it developed and tested a number of IT security tools, such as a Java software protection system, a Web security analysis system, and a security management system. With the support of BUPT, the Telecommunication Security Evaluation Platform has been delivered to China Mobile Communications Corporation, China’s largest telecommunications carrier, to detect and analyze vulnerabilities in typical telecommunication protocols and applications as well as minimizing the security risks involved.