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More than 1,300
apprentices and university students in work-study programs begin careers at
Siemens locations across Germany in 2022
- Focus on personalized
skill development
- Training program
for digital-transformation qualifications expanded again
- Siemens invests
€160 million a year in training programs
This year, as
in 2021, more than 1,300 apprentices and university students in work-study
programs will begin their work lives at Siemens locations across Germany. These
traineeships include 800 positions at Siemens AG, 190 at Siemens Mobility,
and 130 at Siemens Healthineers. In addition, 200 trainees from the company’s external
partners are also beginning training programs offered by Siemens Professional
Education. More than half of the overall number of traineeships are in work-study
programs for university students. Siemens has one of the private sector’s
largest and most innovative job training programs worldwide
and invests €160 million a year in this area.
- Cooperation draws on Siemens’ portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software and digital services – the open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator
- New initiative builds on long-standing software partnership of both companies
Siemens, a leading supplier in the field of automation and industrial
software, cooperates with Nissan to build production lines for the new
all-electric crossover Nissan Ariya at the company’s plant in Tochigi, Japan. Both
companies build on their long-standing cooperation. Nissan had already been
using the Siemens Digital Industries software portfolio to optimize design and
production. End-to-end digital threads enable Nissan to connect a wide variety
of sources of information across product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms.
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New
leadership appointments effective October 1, 2022
- Jenny
Bofinger, currently head of Sustainability, will join the board of the newly
formed International Sustainability Standards Board
Siemens AG
today announced new leadership appointments in its Sustainability and Investor Relations
departments, effective October 1. Eva Riesenhuber (49), currently head of Investor
Relations, will assume the role of global head of Sustainability and Eva
Scherer (38), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Rail
Infrastructure and Software Business Units at Siemens Mobility, is appointed
head of Investor Relations.
- Siemens represented in the Green Innovation Zone and the Digital Hub at the ACHEMA trade fair
- Focus on chemical recycling and hydrogen
- Siemens Xcelerator and the entire Siemens portfolio support sustainability management along the production chain
Sustainability is the leading theme of this year's world's flagship trade fair for the process industry, ACHEMA, in Frankfurt. In the Green Innovation Zone and the Digital Hub at the fair, Siemens will show how industrial companies can efficiently combine digitalization and sustainability. "As one of the main CO2 emitters, the process industry is under particular pressure to produce in a climate-friendly way," says Eckard Eberle, CEO Process Automation at Siemens. "Holistic and effective sustainability management can only work if industrial companies consistently focus on digitalization and automation." In more than 20 lectures and best-practice presentations, Siemens will illustrate how companies can use digitalization and automation and make their products, plants, and processes more sustainable.
- Siemens Xcelerator includes selected portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software, and digital offerings as well as a marketplace
- Offerings for the machine tool industry part of Siemens Xcelerator
- Software applications for cloud, edge, and own servers with numerous innovations for the machine tool
- First partner applications based on Industrial Edge for Machine Tools, the open ecosystem for IoT
Under the motto
"Accelerate digitalization for a sustainable tomorrow", Siemens will
be demonstrating at this year's AMB how the enormous potential for optimizing
machine tools can be utilized thanks to the continuous analysis of production
data. With the open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator, IoT-enabled
hardware and software, the company demonstrates how the real world can be
connected to the digital world. Such a portfolio accelerates the digital
transformation and enables flexible and sustainable action both in the
construction of machines and in their application.
- Audit Committee recommends proposing to 2024 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting that PwC be elected independent auditors for fiscal 2024
- Comprehensive tendering process in accordance with current European legal norms
- Audit contract with PwC can be extended by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting annually only through fiscal 2033
The Audit Committee
of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG has decided to recommend that the
Supervisory Board propose to the shareholders at the Annual Shareholders’
Meeting in 2024 the election of PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH,
Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, as independent auditors of Siemens’ financial
statements for fiscal 2024 (start: October 1, 2023). This recommendation is the
result of intensive discussions between the Supervisory Board, the Audit
Committee and the Managing Board of Siemens AG and of a comprehensive tendering
process in accordance with current European legal norms.
- Orders climbed to €22.0 billion (Q3 2021: €20.5 billion), with substantial growth at Digital Industries and Smart Infrastructure
- Since start of fiscal year, orders grew 20 percent on a comparable basis to €67.2 billion (Q1-Q3 2021: €52.3 billion)
- In Q3, revenue increased by 4 percent on a comparable basis to €17.9 billion (Q3 2021: €16.1 billion)
- Profit Industrial Business surged 27 percent to €2.9 billion (Q3 2021: €2.3 billion)
- Net loss of €1.5 billion (Q3 2021: net income of €1.5 billion) impacted by €2.7 billion impairment of stake in Siemens Energy
- Outstanding Free cash flow at Group level of €2.3 billion
- Outlook adjusted only due to impairment of Siemens Energy stake
Siemens made
significant progress as a focused technology company in the third quarter
(ended June 30, 2022). The company leveraged growth opportunities in
many key markets despite a continuing complex macroeconomic environment influenced
by economic sanctions on Russia, high inflation and effects associated with the
coronavirus pandemic. In addition, Siemens continued to avoid larger
disruptions due to supply chain risks associated with electronics components,
raw materials and logistics.
- Smart Infrastructure completes acquisition of Brightly, a leader in
cloud-based asset and maintenance management software
- Acquisition puts Siemens in pole position to address fast-growing software
market for buildings and built infrastructure
Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI), the frontrunner in digital buildings, has
completed the acquisition of Brightly Software, a leading U.S.-based software-as-a-service
(SaaS) provider of asset and maintenance management solutions. The acquisition elevates
SI to a leading position in the software market for buildings and built
infrastructure. It adds Brightly’s well-established cloud-based capabilities across
key sectors – education, public infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing –
to Siemens’ digital and software know-how in buildings. Brightly’s addition to
the Siemens portfolio accelerates the build-up of SI’s SaaS business, enabling
the companies to deliver superior performance and sustainability for built
infrastructure.
- Siemens supports Skeleton as technology partner in the expansion and extension of the production of supercapacitor cells
- Skeleton plans new supercapacitors factory in Markranstädt, Leipzig, start of production is expected in 2024
- Joint development of a fully automated production line for new factory
- Digitalization of the entire value chain
Skeleton Technologies and
Siemens have agreed on a far-reaching technology partnership for the
development, planning and implementation of a fully automated, digital manufacturing
technology for the production of supercapacitors in Germany. The production
line is to be used in a new Skeleton factory in Markranstädt, Leipzig and will
help to reduce production costs by around 90 percent within the five-year
project. The collaboration aims to achieve the digitization of Skeleton's
entire value chain – from supercapacitor cell design to production and services
– and expand to the production of next-generation supercapacitors. Siemens
supports this with its comprehensive Digital Enterprise portfolio as well as
domain know-how in the area of industrial battery cell production. Furthermore,
it is planned to further expand the business relations between the two
companies.