- Siemens ranks as No. 1 German
company, and No. 6 overall, in European Patent Office’s patent rankings
- Twenty-one inventions per working day
in fiscal 2022
- Number of patent applications from
Siemens remains steady despite external challenges
- Growth areas contribute to Siemens
Xcelerator and provide solutions for digital transformation
Siemens filed precisely 1,735 patent applications with the European Patent Office in 2022 – more than any other company in Germany. This figure puts Siemens in sixth place in the patent-application rankings. The inventors who work at Siemens lay the foundation for progress and generate long-term benefits for customers and society.
- More than 200 candidates from six continents
- Conducting competition prize includes position of Assistant Conductor to Sir Mark Elder CH CBE, the Hallé Orchestra's Music Director, and directorship of the Hallé Youth Orchestra
- Final was held as a public event for the first time in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in the UK
Euan Shields from the U.S. has won the Siemens Hallé
International Conductors Competition 2023. The 24-year-old emerging conductor demonstrated
his talent to the seven-strong jury at yesterday’s final held at the
Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, United Kingdom. At the three-day competition, Shields
came out on top among a pool of more than 200 conductors from six continents.
The international conducting competition sponsored by Siemens and the Hallé
Orchestra took place for the first time in 2020 and was held for the second
time in March 2023.
- Project on Terceira handed over to Portuguese energy company EDA – Electricidade dos Açores
- Software from Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and 15 MW battery storage boost share of renewables, improve flexibility and resilience of power grid
- Expected annual CO2 savings of more than 3,600 tons
Siemens Smart Infrastructure,
in partnership with Fluence, a market leader in energy storage established in
2018 by Siemens and AES, has successfully
completed and handed over a sustainable energy project on the Azores island of
Terceira to the Portuguese
energy provider EDA – Electricidade dos Açores. The project combines software
that forecasts energy consumption and production with
a powerful battery-based energy storage system, allowing for greater and more reliable
integration of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar into the power
grid. This combination is expected to reduce CO2
emissions by more than 3,600 tons per year.
The Spectrum Power Microgrid Management System (MGMS)
software implemented for EDA is part of the
Siemens Xcelerator portfolio which supports the digital transformation of power
utilities worldwide.
- Siemens invests 30 million euros in its switchgear plant in Frankfurt-Fechenheim
- Construction of intelligent high-speed warehouse, expansion of the production area and investments in machines and production lines
- Expansion of the fluorine gas-free, gas-insulated product portfolio
- 200 new jobs and additional investment in employee training program
Siemens is
investing 30 million euros to expand its switchgear plant in Frankfurt-Fechenheim.
A smart, fully automated high-speed warehouse and a 1,200 square-meter
extension to an existing hall are being built on the 160,000 square-meter site.
For years, the plant has been experiencing steady growth in incoming orders and
is working at its capacity limit. The additional
production area will support a third assembly line for switchgear, boosting the
site and creating new jobs in the region. Sustainability is an essential
consideration: The plant is expanding its production of environmentally
friendly medium-voltage switchgear, and the two new buildings will have roofs
with photovoltaic systems. At today’s groundbreaking ceremony, Martin Betzmann,
Site Manager of the Frankfurt-Fechenheim switchgear plant, Stephanie Wüst,
member of the city council and Head of Economic Affairs of the city of
Frankfurt am Main, Stephan May, CEO of Electrification & Automation at
Siemens AG, and Steffen Rümmler, Head of the German Business at Siemens Real
Estate, symbolically opened the construction site.
- Connect Box, part of Siemens Xcelerator, connects, monitors and operates small to medium-sized buildings
- Easy integration of wireless and wired devices into existing building automation systems, building management systems (BMS) or cloud applications
- Increases building operations efficiency, reduces energy consumption and meets regulatory requirements for sustainable and healthy buildings
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched
Connect Box, an open and easy-to-use IoT solution designed to manage small to
medium-sized buildings. The latest addition to the Siemens Xcelerator
portfolio, Connect Box is a user-friendly approach for monitoring building performance,
with the potential to optimize energy efficiency by up to 30 percent and to substantially
improve indoor air quality in small to medium sized buildings such as schools, retail
shops, apartments or small offices. Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business
platform that enables customers to accelerate their digital transformation
easier, faster and at scale.
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End-to-end
portfolio of low- to high-voltage motors, geared motors, medium-voltage
converters and motor spindles
- Operational
headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, with around 14,000 employees worldwide and
revenue of approximately €3 billion
- Effective
July 1, 2023, Innomotics will operate in Germany as a legally separate,
wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG. The global carve-out is on track; to
be largely completed by October 1, 2023
- Innomotics’
management team will comprise Michael Reichle (CEO), Christoph Salentin (CFO)
and Hermann Kleinod (CTO)
A new, leading
motors and large drives company will be called Innomotics. Under this name,
Siemens is combining its business activities in the areas of low- to
high-voltage motors, geared motors, medium-voltage converters and motor
spindles. The portfolio includes an innovative solutions and digitalization
portfolio and a broad range of service offerings. The related businesses were
previously assigned to the units Large Drives Applications and Digital
Industries and to the legally separate Siemens companies Sykatec and Weiss
Spindeltechnologie.
- Siemens exhibition at ISH 2023 introduces IoT-based smart building solutions which marks a major shift for sustainable operations
- Addressing simple small buildings as well as complex campuses
ISH 2023, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany),
March 13 – 17, hall 10.2, booth C55
- Siemens Swinburne Energy Transition Hub aims to create the most advanced future energy grid laboratory of its kind in Australia accessible to students and industry
- 5.2 million AUD (3.4 million EUR) to be invested into Hub, set to open in late 2023
- Hub to leverage digital twin of Australia’s energy grid with Siemens software such as PSS E, PSS Sincal, Spectrum Power and Deop X
- Joint project between industry and research to accelerate path to net zero
Siemens
and Swinburne University of Technology have agreed to set up the most advanced
future Energy Transition Hub of its kind in Australia in at the University’s Hawthorn campus
in Melbourne. Featuring
some of the most advanced digital energy technology from Siemens and the
technical, R&D and teaching expertise of Swinburne, the $5.2 million Hub
aims to build a future energy grid laboratory accessible to students and
industry. When fully operational, the Hub will also offer researchers and
industry the opportunity to work on solutions for greener, more efficient
future energy systems using Siemens Xcelerator, a new open digital business
platform and marketplace.
- First digital bond on a public blockchain in accordance with Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (eWpG)
- Siemens is a pioneer in the ongoing digital transformation of capital and securities markets
- The bond has a volume of €60 million and maturity of one year
- Bond sold directly to investors
- Classic payment via bank account
Siemens is one of the first
companies in Germany to issue a digital bond, in accordance with Germany’s
Electronic Securities Act (Gesetz über elektronische Wertpapiere, eWpG).
Worth 60 million, it has a maturity of one year and is underpinned by a public
blockchain. Issuing the bond on a blockchain offers a number of benefits
compared to previous processes. For instance, it makes paper-based global
certificates and central clearing unnecessary. What’s more, the bond can be
sold directly to investors without needing a bank to function as an
intermediary.
- Shareholders approve dividend
proposal of €4.25 per share
- Large majority at Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting ratifies the acts of the Managing and Supervisory Boards
- Annual Shareholders’ Meeting elects
three new Supervisory Board members to join the oversight body and reelects
four members
At the Siemens AG Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held today, the
shareholders decided by a large majority of 99.75 percent to approve the Managing
and Supervisory Boards’ proposal that a dividend of €4.25 per share entitled to
a dividend be distributed for fiscal 2022. As a result, the dividend has been raised
by €0.25 compared to the prior year, and Siemens has continued to pursue
its progressive dividend policy in an impressive manner. In addition, with a
large majority of the votes, the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting ratified the acts
of the members of the Managing and Supervisory Boards for fiscal 2022. The number
of people following the virtual Annual Shareholders’ Meeting peaked at more
than 4,500. About 147 questions were asked at the event.