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60,000 customers now
benefit daily from more space, greater comfort and more security cameras – new
483/484 series ensures reliable service
With immediate
effect, DB is completely converting the S8 line to its newest generation of
trains. The modern trains with their distinctive flat front are already
reliably operating on three of Berlin’s S-Bahn lines. As of today, around
60,000 passengers using the S8 will also benefit from better information, more
security cameras, and additional space for wheelchair users, strollers and
bicycles. Rather than operating with four cars, the new trains have six. In
addition, the S8 line has been extended from Birkenwerder to Wildau via Zeuthen
during peak traffic periods. Together with the S46, the two lines now ensure
environmentally friendly connections to the nearby Studentenstadt.
Using less resources and emitting less CO2, but also being profitable -
this is what Siemens is out to do for its customers at speed and scale with its
digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator. Digital business is one of
Siemens’ key growth drivers today. The ecosystem of Siemens Xcelerator and with
it its curated portfolio is ever expanding.
- Open, digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator based on comprehensive, curated portfolio of software, services and connected hardware keeps expanding
- Volta Trucks and Siemens partner to accelerate commercial fleet electrification
- Automotive Cells Company (ACC) and Siemens partner to optimize battery cell production
- Siemens is confident to exceed 10 percent revenue growth in its digital businesses, in fiscal 2022
- Digital Twins are building blocks of the emerging industrial metaverse
Together
with its partners and customers, Siemens is driving the digital transformation
of economies through its open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator,
launched on June 29, 2022. The platform consists of a comprehensive, curated
portfolio; a powerful ecosystem of partners and a marketplace for customers,
partners and developers and strives to make digitalization easier, faster and
at scale. Today, Siemens announced two new partnerships related to the Siemens
Xcelerator platform.
- Founded as a courtyard workshop in Berlin on October 1, 1847
- Around four million people employed worldwide to date since 1847
- Current global market leader in automation, electrification, digitalization and transportation
- Celebration in Berlin with German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz
On October
12, 1847, Siemens started operations as a small factory workshop with ten
employees manufacturing pointer telegraphs, in a courtyard tucked away behind a
building on Schoeneberger Strasse in Berlin. Now, 175 years later, Siemens has more
than 300,000 employees around the world and, with around €62 billion in annual
revenue, is one of the world’s largest technology powerhouses. On
October 1, 1847, 11 days before operations began, Werner von Siemens and
precision mechanic Johann Georg Halske had completed the company’s official
founding. Today, October 12, 2022, Siemens is marking its 175th birthday with a
celebratory event at the Schaltwerk factory in the Siemensstadt section of
Berlin. German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, together with numerous guests
from the realms of politics, business and academia will join the anniversary event.
With the work
inaugurated today, the Rail Service Center of Novara, Italy is a candidate to
be one of the thirteen world centers of excellence managed by Siemens Mobility
for the maintenance of rolling stock - passenger trains, high-speed trains,
locomotives, subways - and the second in Europe for locomotive maintenance
after the Allach factory site in Germany.
- CBTC
signaling system and GoA4 operation to be implemented across a 22.8 km route, at
23 stations, and on 25 trains
- GoA4
functionality will allow for full automated driverless train operations
- The automated
signaling system will provide greater availability, enhanced operations, and
better passenger experience
Siemens Mobility, along with consortium partners ST
Engineering and Stadler, have been awarded an Electrical and Mechanical (E&M)
turnkey contract to deliver the Yellow Line for Kaohsiung Metro. Siemens
Mobility will provide its state-of-the-art CBTC signaling technology with GoA4
functionality, which will allow for full automated train operations (ATO). Furthermore,
Siemens Mobility will deliver its highly reliable and precise Airlink radio
communication system which will facilitate the communication of wayside and
onboard signaling equipment, that will be installed on the new trains.
Twelve Siemens
Mobility trams have been in service in Ulm since 2018. A further six vehicles
have been reordered and the first Avenio M will be put on the rails this week -
around 10 months ahead of the announced delivery date.
- Hannes Apitzsch to retire; business to be handed over effective October 1, 2022
- Eckard Eberle – formerly CEO of Process Automation Business Unit at Siemens Digital Industries – has extensive track record inside and outside Germany
- Eberle will focus on developing the business strategically and operationally creating additional value for Siemens Group
Eckard
Eberle (57) will be appointed as the new CEO of Siemens Global Business
Services (GBS) with effect from October 1, 2022. He will report directly to
Judith Wiese, member of the Siemens AG Managing Board and Chief People and
Sustainability Officer (CPSO). GBS designs, develops and operates efficient and
innovative business services for Siemens AG, Siemens Healthineers AG, Siemens
Energy AG and other companies. Eckard Eberle succeeds Hannes Apitzsch (64), who
has led GBS since 2019 as CEO and is entering retirement after more than 40
years at the company. Hannes Apitzsch will continue to support Siemens in an
advisory capacity until December 31, 2022.
- Siemens and partners launch safe.trAIn
research project
- Practicable linking of AI processes with
requirements and approval procedures in railway environments
- AI-based methodologies for driverless
regional trains
- Safe.trAIn to support standardization
activities in AI and rail transportation
In a project that will run until the end of 2024, Siemens
and 16 partners will facilitate advances in the driverless operation of
regional trains with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Within the “safe.trAIn”
project, which the German government is subsidizing, there is a budget of €23 million
available for this task. Solutions for meeting the requirements in this highly
regulated and standardized environment have the potential to substantially boost
the efficiency and sustainability of regional railway transportation.
Siemens Mobility is supplying 21 Vectron Dual Mode locomotives to Deutsche Bahn. This is the first deployment of the Vectron Dual Mode in passenger transport. The locomotives are intended for trips to Sylt in the north and Oberstdorf in the south of Germany.