- Booth slogan "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise"
- Digitalization enhances flexibility, speed, efficiency and quality
- Innovations in power distribution, automation and drive technology as well as industrial software
- MindSphere extended to include partnerships, apps and interfaces
At the Hannover Messe 2017, Siemens will be demonstrating how industrial companies of all sizes can benefit from the digital transformation. The central focus of the 3,500-square meter booth in Hall 9 will be on the company's further extended portfolio for the achievement of end-to-end digitalization, known as the "Digital Enterprise". An array of examples from practice will allow visitors to experience applications and innovations demonstrating the competitive benefits to be gained by merging the real and the virtual worlds. These include greater flexibility, efficiency and quality as well as a reduced time-to-market. The examples on show range from smart energy management systems through customized food and pharmaceutical production to industrial-scale additive manufacturing based on innovative automation and drive technology. Siemens is also driving forward the expansion of its cloud-based, open IoT operating system MindSphere with the addition of new partnerships, interfaces and apps.
- Next step in further improvement of competitive position
- Setup of standalone company under Siemens umbrella
Siemens is giving its mechanical drives unit (Mechanical Drives, MD) a new setup that will enable the business to operate more efficiently and flexibly in implementing its growth plans in a competitive environment. MD's market, which is dominated by medium-sized companies, is currently characterized by weak growth, increasing competition from the Asian region and overcapacities, with correspondingly high price pressure. To achieve greater room to maneuver and intensify its business-specific orientation, the unit is to be managed in the future as a separate company under the Siemens umbrella.
- 165,000 Siemens employees own company shares, up 12,000 from last year
- 49 percent of all eligible employees are also shareholders
- Siemens distributes €56 million in shares to employee shareholders
Of Siemens' 351,000 employees worldwide, nearly one in two is also a company shareholder. The number of employees holding Siemens shares increased eight percent to 165,000, compared to 153,000 in the previous year. This year, more than 131,000 employees – or 39 percent of all eligible employees – took part in Siemens' Share Matching Program, a very high figure compared to similar global share programs. Particularly noteworthy was the positive trend in North America and Asia: Participation in the U.S. alone increased by around 18 percent and even climbed by roughly 32 percent in China.
- Annual Shareholders' Meeting ratifies acts of Managing and Supervisory Boards by large majorities
Shareholders at Siemens' Annual Shareholders' Meeting have approved distribution of a dividend of €3.60 per share for fiscal 2016 as recommended by the Managing and Supervisory Boards. This dividend is ten cents more than for fiscal 2015. The Annual Shareholders' Meeting also ratified the acts of the members of the Managing and Supervisory Boards for fiscal 2016. The proposals on these and the other agenda items were approved by large majorities.
- Siemens ensures continuity and long-term succession planning for Supervisory Board
- International leader with industry expertise to strengthen Siemens' key future-oriented field of software and digitalization
The Nominating Committee of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG has recommended Jim Hagemann Snabe for the office of Supervisory Board Chairman. Siemens' Supervisory Board unanimously endorsed this recommendation at its meeting on Tuesday. The regular elections to Siemens' Supervisory Board will take place at the company's Annual Shareholders' Meeting on January 31, 2018. Mr. Snabe is to be elected Chairman at the Supervisory Board's constitutive meeting immediately thereafter.
- Free "fill ups" at up to 100 Siemens locations in Germany to begin in 2017
- Charging stations to supply green electricity and be internationally linked
Beginning in 2017, Siemens employees at as many as 100 of the company's locations in Germany can "fill up" their electric vehicles free of charge. This will apply not only to all-electric vehicles but also to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. For this service, Siemens will use its existing network of charging stations, which it is expanding with normal and high-speed charging stations.
- Software, digital services and platforms as growth drivers
- MindSphere cloud-based, open operating system rolled out companywide
- Cooperation with IBM: IBM Watson Analytics to be integrated into MindSphere
- R&D investments rise to over €5 billion
Siemens wants to further strengthen its position as a digital company and achieve double-digit growth in software, digital services and cloud platforms every year through 2020. In fiscal 2016, Siemens generated revenue of more than €1 billion with digital services and around €3.3 billion with software solutions, an increase year-over-year of around 12 percent, which is considerably above annual market growth of some eight percent.
- Extra 330LE electric plane sets world record
- New climb performance record: altitude of 3,000 meters in just 4 min 22 sec
- World air sports federation FAI confirms world record
On Friday, November 25, 2016, the Extra 330LE aerobatic aircraft powered by a drive system from Siemens set a new world record for time to climb. At the Dinslaken Schwarze Heide airfield in Germany, the electric-powered plane reached an altitude of 3,000 meters in just four minutes and 22 seconds – a climb velocity of 11.5 meters per second. The time set by pilot Walter Extra was 1 minute 10 seconds faster than the previous world record set by U.S. pilot William M. Yates in 2013. The world air sports federation, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), has officially recognized the record flight in the category "Electric-powered planes less than 1,000 kilograms."