- Siemens to provide turnkey solution and long-term services to SSE
- World's first deployment of the innovative 50Hz Siemens HL-class gas turbine
Siemens and the Scottish energy company SSE plc have announced they will collaborate to build the highly efficient gas-fired power station Keadby 2 in Lincolnshire. Siemens will provide a full turnkey solution for the power plant, which will include the world's first deployment of the 50Hertz version of its SGT-9000HL gas turbine. SSE will invest £350 million in the construction of the new power station which will have a total capacity of 840 megawatts (MW) and 63 percent efficiency. Also included is a 15-year long-term service contract, the first long-term program (LTP) for an HL-class gas turbine in Europe. Siemens will utilize its advanced digital service solutions, including remote monitoring and diagnostics, to help maintain the availability, reliability and optimal performance of the power plant.
- Sirius 3RQ2: New series of coupling relays for universal application reduces model diversity with wide-range input from 24 to 240 volt AC/DC
- High-grade industrial enclosure with user-friendly connection simplifies handling, installation, servicing and wiring
- Typical applications include galvanic isolation, signal amplification and voltage conversion as well as overvoltage and EMC protection
Sirius 3RQ2 from Siemens is a new range of coupling relays with truly universal application scope. With their minimal mounting depth of 90 millimeters and wide-range power supply from 24 to 240 volts AC/DC, these relays are available in variants with between one and three changeover contacts. The Sirius 3RQ2 coupling relays are replacing the 3RS18 series, but with a drastically reduced number of variants due to the availability of a wide-range input. Use of the same terminal assignment and minimization of the variant options makes changeover to the new Sirius 3RQ2 coupling relay series both fast and simple to implement. The new relays are also designed for optimum coordination with Simatic S7 controllers and Sirius contactors. Typical applications include galvanic isolation, signal amplification and voltage conversion, for instance from 24 V DC to 230 V AC, as well as overvoltage and EMC protection for control systems. The Sirius 3RQ2 variants with hard gold-plated contacts for switching currents in the lower milliampere ranges are particularly suited for PLC inputs and outputs.
- French Ministry for the Economy and Finance gives green light
- France's financial markets regulator grants Siemens exemption
The planned combination of Siemens' mobility business, including its rail traction drive business, with Alstom has reached the next milestones. In connection with the transaction, the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance (MINEFI) has granted Siemens foreign investment clearance. The Ministry can restrict or prohibit foreign investments in specified industries in France.
- Industrial Ethernet switches with special functions for the process industry
- S2 communication and network redundancy, R1 in all Profinet network topologies
- Changes to configurations during operation
- Flexible, reliable networking of process automation devices
Siemens brings new versions of Industrial Ethernet switches onto the market. The firmware functions (Profinet S2 device, H-Sync and configuration in Run/CiR/H-CiR) in interaction with the Simatic PCS 7 process control system make the new products suitable for the flexible, reliable and high-performance networking of process automation devices. They support system-wide diagnostics, configuration changes and plant expansions during operations as well as the construction of redundant networks to improve reliability.
- Siemens to offer Northvolt its Digital Enterprise portfolio that enables the digitization of the entire value chain – from the design of the battery cell to production and services
- Siemens will support the technology partnership through an investment of EUR 10 million
- After production start, Northvolt will become a preferred supplier for lithium-ion batteries for Siemens
Siemens and Northvolt today announced a partnership for the development of best-in-class technology to produce high-quality, green lithium-ion batteries. The partnership, which will be supported by Siemens through an investment of EUR 10 million, also includes the supply of lithium-ion batteries.
- Juan Ignacio Diaz appointed new CEO of Siemens Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean, effective June 1
Siemens Mexico today announced that Juan Ignacio Diaz will serve as the new CEO of Siemens Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean. He succeeds Louise Goeser who has left the company. Diaz was previously Country CEO of Siemens Chile and lead for its Mobility division.
- Austria's largest electrical equipment warehouse reduces its annual energy consumption by 15 percent
- Cloud application makes consumption transparent and reveals savings potential
- MindSphere energy-saving app for energy optimization
The Austrian electrical wholesaler Rexel Austria has placed an order with Siemens to deliver a cloud-based energy monitoring system that will be deployed in its logistics center in Weisskirchen. The system is expected to reduce annual energy consumption by up to 15 percent, an amount equal to the annual consumption of 40 single-family households. The scope of supply includes 66 communication-capable 7KM PAC 1500 and 7KM PAC 4200 power measuring devices, powermanager energy monitoring software, and connection to MindSphere, the IoT (Internet of Things) operating system from Siemens. A separate app, which is programmed by Siemens developers in Austria in close collaboration with Rexel, analyzes current power consumption values and makes the savings potential visible only to Rexel. Siemens is not given access to the data. In this way, Siemens is helping Rexel efficiently control power usage while also developing a new business model: Rexel is planning to use this technology at another site belonging to the company and, in the future, sell the energy saving solution to other SMEs in all industries.
- Technical prerequisites for Industrie 4.0 fulfilled
- Personalized medicine is driving digitalization of the pharmaceutical industry
- IoT solutions as a growth driver
The digital transformation of the industrial sector is in full swing: with its Digital Enterprise portfolio, Siemens has fulfilled the technical prerequisites for implementing Industrie 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As a result, companies of any size or industry can immediately begin using "digital twins" across the entire value chain in order to increase their competitiveness over the long term. "With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, our customers are now already achieving improvements in flexibility, time-to-market, efficiency and quality," said Eckard Eberle, CEO of Siemens' Process Automation Business Unit, at a press event in Vienna, Austria. "With these capabilities, they can successfully tackle some of the challenges that the process industries are currently facing. The growing importance of personalized medicine, for instance, is strengthening demand within the pharmaceutical industry for digital technologies that enable continuous, paperless production in smaller batches all the way down to a lot size of one."
- Building Technologies to acquire leading provider of smart IoT systems in buildings
- Expansion of smart building technology with digital sensory system – advanced lighting control application as core element
- Enhancing building performance by gathering multiple streams of data to improve transparency and efficiency
- Transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2018
Siemens Building Technologies Division is acquiring Enlighted Inc., a leading provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) systems in buildings, headquartered in the Silicon Valley. The company is a successful player in the smart building industry, bringing an advanced digital sensory system to market. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details. Closing is expected in the third quarter of 2018. Enlighted will be managed as an independent legal entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Industry, Inc.
- Booth slogan: "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!"
- User-oriented Digital Enterprise solutions for manufacturing sharpen competitive edge of end users and machine builders
- Wide-ranging practically-oriented exhibits and models visualize digital progress along the entire value chain
Siemens will be exhibiting at the automatica 2018 with an array of integrated and user-oriented Digital Enterprise solutions designed to sharpen the competitive edge of both end users and machine builders. Exhibiting under the banner "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!", Siemens will be focusing on ways in which industrial enterprises of all sizes can benefit from the digital transformation – along the entire value chain from product design and production planning through the engineering process to new services. With product variants changing at an ever faster pace, today's machines have to offer not only greater flexibility but also a higher degree of automation through the use of handling and assembly systems – a process supported by integrating robotics into production machinery. At the same time, automated engineering and the simulation of machines and product lines are enabling an ever shorter time to market.