We released our second quarter results for fiscal 2021 on May 7, 2021. The conference call for journalists and the analyst was broadcasted live.
- Strong and profitable growth companywide
- Adjusted EBITA margin rose to 15.1 percent (Q2 2020: 12.1 percent), Adjusted EBITA Industrial Businesses soared 31 percent to €2.1 billion
- Revenue increased sharply to €14.7 billion (Q2 2020: €13.8 billion), with orders strong at €15.9 billion (Q2 2020: €14.7 billion)
- Net income more than tripled to €2.4 billion (Q2 2020: €697 million)
- Successful portfolio management: one-time gain of about €0.9 billion on sale of Flender GmbH
- Excellent free cash flow of €1.2 billion (Q2 2020: €134 million)
- Guidance for 2021 raised again – expected net income of €5.7 billion to €6.2 billion, excluding effects in connection with the acquisition of Varian Medical Systems Inc.
With an excellent second quarter, Siemens AG followed on seamlessly from its successful start to the fiscal year. Despite a persistently challenging macroeconomic environment, influenced among other things by the COVID-19 pandemic, and negative currency translation effects, development across all company business areas continued to be positive. In line with these results, Siemens is again raising its guidance for fiscal 2021 and now expects companywide revenue growth of 9 percent to 11 percent on a comparable basis (previous forecast: mid- to high-single-digit growth) and net income of between €5.7 billion and €6.2 billion (previous forecast: €5.0 billion to €5.5 billion).
- Dr. Dirk Didascalou to become new Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Digital Industries, effective September 1, 2021
- Dr. Didascalou joins Siemens AG from Amazon Web Services and has a strong track record in areas such as R&D, IoT, cloud and mobile computing
Effective September 1, 2021, Dr. Dirk
Didascalou will become Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Siemens Digital
Industries (DI).
- #HeartBeatFinal: For the last FC
Bayern Munich game of the 2020/21 season, we’re asking fans to measure their
heart rate during the match
- #WeKickCorona: Every measured
heartbeat will support social services
- #FCBayernPulse: This data project
from Siemens and FC Bayern Munich calculates match intensity based on heart
rates and various match data
The #HeartBeatFinal
Bundesliga match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Augsburg on May 22, 2021 is all
about a good cause – and about the heartbeat of Bayern fans. They will be measuring
their heart rates during the game for #FCBayernPulse, a joint data project from
Siemens and FC Bayern Munich. Siemens will donate
1 euro cent per measured
heartbeat to #WeKickCorona: The initiative was founded by Bayern professionals
Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka to help social institutions that are in
financial difficulties due to the Corona pandemic.
- Kraus to succeed Martina Maier, who is leaving the company at her
own request
Effective May 1, Annette Kraus (45) will be
the new Chief Compliance Officer at Siemens AG and will head the company’s
global Compliance Organization. She succeeds Martina Maier (54), who is leaving
the company at her own request for personal reasons.
- The new cooperation aims to enable the scaled deployment of AI-based solutions for industrial manufacturing.
- Google Cloud and Siemens simplify the deployment of artificial
intelligence to the shopfloor, empowering employees and improving overall
quality.
Google Cloud and Siemens, an innovation and technology leader
in industrial automation and software, today announced a new cooperation to
optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends
to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine
learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions to help
manufacturers innovate for the future.
- Plug & play solution comprising Simatic ET 200SP TM ECC PL ST and TM ECC CCS calibration kit for convenient charge controller calibration
- Reduced engineering effort and simplified commissioning of DC fast charging systems for electric vehicles
- Stable charging process and up to 50 percent less servicing required to remedy charging interruptions
Siemens offers charging system suppliers a new plug & play solution, which for the first time enables calibration of the Powerline signal level in line with CCS (Combined Charging System) CharIN Association Implementation Guidelines for the conductive charging of electric vehicles. The solution comprises the Simatic ET 200SP TM ECC PL ST charge controller and the TM ECC CCS calibration kit. When calibrating the signal quality of a DC CCS charge controller using the Siemens solution, there is no need for a spectrum analyzer, which makes the process quicker and easier. Manufacturers of charging stations can also save engineering effort as well as time and costs during commissioning and can reduce servicing to remedy charging interruptions by up to 50 percent. Engineering is in the TIA (Totally Integrated Automation) Portal.
Shifting freight transport to rail has its limitations. Therefore, a share of this transport will need to be carried out by trucks that combine reliable service with minimum environmental impact. The eHighway system is twice as efficient as conventional internal combustion engines. This Siemens Mobility innovation supplies trucks with power from an overhead contact line. This reduces local air pollution and contributes significantly to the decarbonization of the transport sector.
- „Infinite opportunities from infinite data“ is this year's trade fair motto
- Leveraging the full potential of data from merging the virtual and physical worlds
- "Digitalization knows no end"
- Expansion of the portfolio for edge computing in industry
Under the motto "Infinite opportunities from infinite data", Siemens is demonstrating at the "Digital Enterprise Virtual Experience" at Hannover Messe 2021 how the merging of the physical and virtual worlds enables industrial enterprises to act flexibly and sustainably, as they are facing huge challenges: The Covid 19 pandemic has changed markets and requirements almost overnight. Added to this are the growing individualization and the urgent need for more sustainability. This can only be mastered with the help of digitalization and automation. Siemens brings together the data generated in this process in a continuous cycle between the virtual and physical worlds. This enables companies to better understand and use data. Traditional silos between previously separate industrial domains are breaking down and new opportunities for sustainable and flexible production are being created. This enables employees in industrial enterprises to make appropriate decisions based on data or, for example, to react a lot faster to changes such as suddenly increased resource consumption.