- Eighty percent of Siemens employees worldwide now hold shares in the company
- Siemens distributes around €400 million to employees below management – mostly in the form of free shares
- Record number of employees participate in the company's success
Eighty percent of all Siemens employees worldwide are now also Siemens shareholders. In total, around 300,000 of the company's 377,000 employees worldwide hold Siemens shares. The company had aimed to have about 200,000 employee shareholders by 2020. This target has now already been exceeded by a clear margin. In January 2018, the number of employees holding shares in the company was still just 186,000.
At Siemens, Inclusion is a holistic mindset. Not only do we want to set an example of accessibility, we want to pave the way for inclusion in other companies. We have learned – you cannot prescribe inclusion in the interplay between man, environment and activity. You need to live accessibility and inclusion in the day to day. Our employees demonstrate how to overcome the “hurdles in the head” every single day – and we support them.
- Inclusion as an integral part of the corporate culture and diversity strategy
- New inclusion agreement: digitalization opening up new possibilities for integrating individuals with disabilities
Siemens has won Germany's Inclusion Prize in the Company category for its activities to foster the inclusion of disabled employees. The prize was presented in Berlin, at a ceremony attended by German Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil. Awarded by the German Federal Employment Agency, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, Germany's Charter of Diversity and the German Business Forum, the Inclusion Prize for Business is awarded to honor exemplary inclusion practices.
- This year's motto: "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!"
- The time has come to implement Industrie 4.0: focus on industry-specific solutions
- MindSphere – the cloud-based, open IoT operating system: rigorous expansion with new partners and further solutions
Siemens is presenting its continuously enhanced Digital Enterprise portfolio for Industrie 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution. "We created the technical prerequisites for this transformation with our range of consistent solutions. By implementing Digital Enterprise solutions, users and customers can now tap into the full potential of Industrie 4.0," said Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, at the press conference for Hannover Messe on April 23. On 3,500 square meters of exhibition space in Hall 9 at Booth D35, Siemens is using the motto "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!" to show how companies of any size can use the Digital Enterprise portfolio in various industries to secure real competitive advantages. "With our Digital Enterprise offerings, our customers are already achieving greater flexibility, shorter times to market, higher efficiency and better quality – and they're accomplishing this during ongoing operations. Our customers are thus attesting to the benefits and added value that the Siemens Digital Enterprise offers for the discrete manufacturing and process industries," said Helmrich.
- Memorandum of Understanding addresses shortcomings in Brazilian infrastructure and competitiveness
- Siemens plans to triple its investments in Brazil to €1 billion over the next five years
- Digitalization is creating new global business models and opportunities for Brazil
- Potential catalyst for a new cycle of sustainable growth, equivalent to 3.1 percent of GDP with up to 1.2 million new jobs
Siemens has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) in São Paulo. Initiatives outlined in the agreement have the potential to unleash a new cycle of sustainable growth in Brazil over the next five years. During this period, Siemens plans to triple its investments in the country to up to €1 billion, focusing on initiatives relating to electrification, automation and digitalization as a means of promoting social and economic development.
- Latest funding round backed with US$30 million
- Siemens Integrity Initiative promotes projects seeking to prevent and combat corruption and fraud
The Siemens Integrity Initiative promotes projects around the world that seek to combat corruption and fraud, supporting educational and training programs as well as Collective Action, which is building alliances against corruption in a joint effort between business and institutions to establish clean markets and ensure fair competition. The selection process favors projects that have a direct impact on the private sector and strengthen compliance standards and legal systems.
- Joint development of Munich Airport's digital future
- Siemens is using its IoT operating system MindSphere as a platform for new digital applications
Siemens and Munich Airport have forged a strategic partnership for digitalization in order to work on the airport's digital future together with further partners. Over the coming years, the partners want to use data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence to improve, for instance, the energy efficiency of airport buildings and the logistics for the baggage handling system. Plans also call for using these capabilities to make the time that passengers spend at the facility more pleasant. To meet these goals, Siemens is becoming a developmental partner for LabCampus, the major project for the airport's digital future. For the digital technologies, Siemens is using MindSphere, its open, cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things.
- Second place in the European Patent Office's application rankings for 2017
- About 19 percent more applications filed in Europe than in the prior year
- 7,450 inventions worldwide in fiscal 2017 – 34 inventions per day
Siemens – followed by Robert Bosch and BASF – submitted more European patent applications than any other German company in fiscal 2017. In addition, among companies worldwide that filed European patent applications in 2017, Siemens advanced from sixth to second place, after the Chinese company Huawei, which was ranked No. 1 for the first time. In 2017, Siemens filed patent applications in Europe for 2,220 inventions – about 19 percent more than in the previous year, representing a greater increase than was achieved by any other company among the top ten. The European Patent Office (EPO) published the latest statistics today in Brussels.
- Award presented by the German Zentrum Ideenmanagement interest group
- More than 160,000 suggestions last fiscal year
- Measurable benefits of over €300 million companywide
Siemens was awarded top honors for its idea management program at the German congress of the Zentrum Ideenmanagement ("Idea Management Center"), which took place in Fulda over the last two days. Within the framework of "3i ideas – initiatives – innovations," as the Siemens idea management program has been called since 1997, the ideas, initiatives and innovations of Siemens employees continue to contribute to the company's success today. Under the program, Siemens employees submitted more than 160,000 suggestions – or an average of more than 400 a day – in fiscal 2017. Nearly 125,000 of these ideas were ultimately implemented, bringing Siemens benefits last year totaling over €300 million – more than ever before.