- Ferraro to take on this role, effective
December 1, 2019, in addition to her position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at
Siemens Digital Industries
- In this role, she will report to Deputy
CEO and future Labor Director Roland Busch
Maria
Ferraro (46), Chief Financial Officer at Digital Industries, will become the
new Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) of Siemens AG, effective December 1, 2019. In
her capacity as CDO, she will be succeeding Janina Kugel, whose contract will
expire at the end of January 2020. Ferraro will take on the new position in addition
to her leadership role as CFO at the Digital Industries Operating Company. As
Chief Diversity Officer, she will report directly to Deputy CEO Roland Busch, who
will be succeeding Janina Kugel as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and
Labor Director, effective December 1, 2019.
- Efficient and future-proof maintenance with Predictive Services for Drive Systems
- New Mindsphere Predictive Service Assistance app provides digital support for the service portfolio, while also offering transparency and streamlined ordering processes
- Predictive Services for Drive Systems for increased productivity and reduced downtimes for machines and plants
With Predictive Services for Drive Systems, Siemens presents a standardized extension to the local service agreement at this year’s SPS. This is based on the new Mindsphere Predictive Service Assistance app. It makes maintenance more efficient for Sinamics drive systems and/or Simotics motors in the low voltage range.
- First soft starter series with integrated Safe Torque Off function
- Enhanced protection when shutting down electric motors
- High functional density saves space and decreases cost
Siemens Smart Infrastructure expanded its soft starters portfolio for motors, with the launch of Sirius 3RW55 Failsafe and Sirius 3RW50. Soft starters ensure electrical motors used in industry and infrastructure are protected during startup and ramp-down. The Sirius 3RW55 Failsafe soft starters are the first to feature the integrated Safe Torque Off (STO) function. As specified in safety standards, the protection function for electrical drive systems ensures that torque-generating energy stops acting when motors are turned off, preventing an unwanted restart. Control panel manufacturers no longer require using separate individual components to have this function, which reduces the time and effort for wiring and maintenance works and saves space in the control cabinet. In addition, the switching time of the integrated solution is significantly shorter than for conventional, electromechanical components.
T-Systems and Siemens today announced a partnership to offer new end-to-end solutions that combine their respective capabilities in Information Technology (IT), Telecommunications (TC) and Operational Technology (OT). The joint solutions will cover enterprise business applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Manufacturing Engineering Systems (MES), with TC solutions helping to enable real-time interaction and collaboration and OT solutions covering shop floor-based driving engineering, production or operation processes. The new solutions can help companies leverage a full range of technologies, which have the potential to reinvent German industry, including Cloud, 5G and Edge Computing.
A key milestone on the way to independence: Siemens Energy presented its new management team to its employees today. In addition to an Executive Board, the company will have an expanded international management team, the Group Management Committee. Once Siemens Energy becomes a legally separate entity, this team will be instrumental in implementing the company’s strategic approach. “Announcing the management team is a further critical step on the way to becoming an independent company and an energy pure play. It will enable Siemens Energy to further develop its management system and then focus fully on the requirements of its customers and markets,” said Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG.
- Helmuth Ludwig to leave the company at his own request
- Siemens’
IT organization to support Vision 2020+ execution
At the
beginning of 2020, Hanna Hennig (50) will become the new Chief Information
Officer (CIO) at Siemens. In this capacity, she will be responsible for the
company’s global IT organization and will report directly to Roland Busch, Deputy
CEO of Siemens. Hennig is currently still CIO at Osram Licht AG in Munich. She will
succeed Helmuth Ludwig (57), who will leave the company at his own request and
by mutual agreement at the end of December 2019. Ludwig has been working at
Siemens for about 30 years in a variety of roles inside and outside Germany. In
the future, he will be dedicating more time to teaching at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas (USA), where he has been an adjunct professor for international
corporate strategy for the past six years.
- Siemens further expands its digitalization portfolio for industry
- Technology basis is the Docker IT standard
- Siemens Industrial Edge ecosystem enables easy and flexible use of Edge apps
Siemens is planning the acquisition of Edge technology from the US company Pixeom. With this action, Siemens is strengthening its Industrial Edge portfolio by adding software components for Edge runtime and for device management. Siemens Industrial Edge provides an ecosystem, which enables the flexible provision and use of apps. This means for example that appropriate apps can analyze data locally at the machine and send relevant data to the higher-level Industrial Edge Management System for global analytics. With this acquisition, Siemens is driving forward the expansion of its Digital Enterprise portfolio and the integration of cutting-edge technologies for the digital transformation of industry.
- Eight desalination plants with process automation, drive technology, process instrumentation and communication technology
- Total capacity of 240,000 cubic meters per day
- Order volume is a double-digit million Euro figure
Siemens has received a follow-up order from the A3C consortium (Rawafid Industrial, Advanced Water Technology, SETE and Al Fatah) to equip eight seawater desalination plants in Saudi Arabia with electrical equipment. The new plants for seawater desalination using the principle of reverse osmosis are spread along the West coast of Saudi Arabia. The total capacity of the plants will be 240,000 cubic meters per day, with a power consumption of just three kilowatts per cubic meter of produced water, which is below the usual value and will provide significant energy savings. The scope of supply from Siemens includes hardware and software engineering, power distribution, PCS7 automation, medium and low voltage converters, Industrial Ethernet communication technology and process instrumentation for eight reverse osmosis plants, plus plant commissioning. The project will follow a tight schedule, with commissioning planned from autumn 2019.
- Business to be officially renamed as
of April 2020
- Employees’ favorite selected
At an internal management conference, Siemens today announced the name of the new energy company that it is creating. The business, which combines the worlds of conventional and renewable energy and is to become an independent company in the future, is to be called Siemens Energy. The new name will officially take effect once the energy business becomes a separate legal entity, which is expected to happen in April 2020. Siemens Energy is to be spun off as a publicly listed company by September 2020. Its offerings will address a significant portion of the value chain across the oil and gas, power generation, and power transmission segments, including the related service activities. On a pro-forma basis, Siemens Energy generates about €27 billion in revenue and has some 88,000 employees worldwide as well as an order backlog of €70 billion. Today, 20 percent of the world’s energy supply is already based on Siemens technology.