The Smart Factory @ Wichita (a Deloitte Experience Center) is a 60,000 square foot sustainable space located on Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus. The Smart Factory includes a fully operational production line and experiential labs for developing and exploring smart factory innovative capabilities.
A founding member of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, Siemens developed the eXplore Live space in a 3,000 square-foot dedicated space and has worked with Deloitte and other ecosystem partners to offer hands-on learning opportunities with immense value for companies looking to modernize, reshore, localize, or regionalize their operations in North America. Learn more
Siemens works with Deloitte and the ecosystem to showcase technologies from its Xcelerator portfolio that help enable manufacturers to quickly adopt state-of-the-art Industry 4.0 technologies to drive new business models, and boost quality, productivity, and sustainability. Xcelerator is Siemens’ integrated portfolio of software, services, and the low-code development platform that, together with Siemens’ automation, smart infrastructure, and industrial hardware, ties the Smart Factory ecosystem together.
“Siemens is known for global innovation and for continually bringing to market new solutions that help manufacturers become more agile in the face of disruption,” said Stephen Laaper, principal and Smart Factory leader at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Siemens brings our Smart Factory @ Wichita clients access to advanced simulation and digital thread capabilities as well as the latest hardware and software solutions to accelerate digital transformation and solve complex challenges. They are also making significant contributions to the facility itself with smart lighting and other sustainability control systems. This collaboration around The Smart Factory @ Wichita builds on Deloitte and Siemens’ decade-long relationship to take manufacturing into the future.”
To learn more about eXplore Live and how it is bringing the power of digital transformation through the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to companies of all sizes at The Smart Factory @ Wichita, visit Siemens and Deloitte Pave The Way For Xcelerated Reshoring - Thought Leadership.