Siemens Digital Industries Software held the Simcenter Technology Conference (STC) at the Westin Josun Seoul Parnas on the 21st, the company announced on the 22nd.
The event marked the first official technology conference following the integration of Siemens and Altair, showcasing an integrated engineering portfolio spanning simulation, testing, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) to domestic customers and industry stakeholders.
This year's STC drew officials from major Korean manufacturing and engineering companies, as well as representatives from academia and research institutions, who shared industry-specific engineering innovation cases and digital transformation strategies.
The keynote session opened with a speech by Oh Byung-joon, Country Manager of Siemens Digital Industries Software Korea. Sam Mahalingam, Senior Vice President and Head of Simulation at Siemens Digital Industries Software, then delivered a keynote titled "The Market-defining Convergence: Scaling Physics and Industrial AI," presenting how industrial AI and physics-based simulation are reshaping the future of engineering. HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering also gave a presentation on "Model-Based Integrated Ship Design and Production Consistency," sharing real-world digital engineering applications in the shipbuilding and heavy industries sector.
The event also featured track sessions on topics such as industrial AI, simulation-driven design, advanced simulation, multiphysics, and Test & Executable Digital Twin. Participants reviewed real-world engineering applications across various industries and discussed the latest technology trends and utilization strategies through technical consultations and networking sessions with Siemens experts. In particular, various cases were introduced demonstrating how the integrated Siemens and Altair portfolio addresses complex research and development (R&D) challenges and accelerates product development.
"The integration of Siemens and Altair has expanded our scale and capabilities, opening new business growth opportunities for both existing Siemens customers and Altair customers to explore solutions that combine each other's strengths," Country Manager Oh Byung-joon said. "For Korean manufacturing to continuously strengthen its global competitiveness, it must rapidly adopt new technologies such as physics AI, while moving beyond individual silos of design, analysis, and production to digitalize and connect the entire lifecycle from materials, parts, equipment, processes to factories."
"With today's integration of Siemens and Altair, we are now able to provide our customers with the tools they need to model complexity across multiple domains," Mahalingam said. "We are also reducing the time required for validation, enabling customers to explore far more design possibilities, make more confident decisions, and effectively move forward faster."
Siemens plans to continue expanding its technology integration to build a future-oriented industrial ecosystem and support companies in establishing more flexible innovation frameworks and data-driven decision-making environments. The company also plans to strengthen collaborative ecosystems across industries to continuously support the digital transformation and advancement of the manufacturing sector.
