Siemens goes gaming to teach end users about plant maintenance

Siemens has develped an online game called Plantville to showcase its industrial and infrastructure products. The game simulates the experience of being a plant manager. Players are faced with the challenge of maintaining the operation of their plant while trying to improve the productivity, efficiency, sustainability and overall health of their facility. Players can choose a bottling plant, a vitamin plant or a plant that builds trains.

Says Siemens, “Throughout the game, players will be able to interact with Pete the Plant Manager, whose plant has just won the ‘Plant of the Year’ award. Pete shares his best practices throughout the game to help players achieve outstanding results in plant performance. He will use webisodes, the Plantville Cafe, Puzzlers, and Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts to dialogue with gamers and provide hints to playing the game.”