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• Green Stay Initiative (GSI) is first global standard to enable more sustainable business-travel lodging and meetings
• Beginning in 2023, Siemens to select its preferred supplier hotels according to GSI sustainability criteria
• Open-source tool available for also enabling other companies to reduce their carbon footprint

Siemens will be the first global company to introduce a mandatory Green Stay Initiative (GSI) policy and request that hotels provide data about their environmental impact. Together with the international service company HRS, Siemens developed global, traceable, and standardized criteria by which the carbon footprint of each individual hotel can be tracked and compared with others. So far, there has not been a global standard for using traceable criteria to compare hotel sustainability. 

• 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.

• Companies intend to jointly deliver managed services, leveraging the breadth of Siemens’ and partner solutions to manage e-Truck fleets, energy, charging infrastructure and facilities
• Data-driven, turnkey management of critical assets to enable scaling to robust fleet operations for Volta Trucks customers

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver and scale eMobility charging infrastructure to simplify the transition to fleet electrification. 

• 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.

• Cooperation in the industry and infrastructure market segments
• Optimized solution for switchgear manufacturers and electrical planners
• Siemens to join the Eplan Partner Network as a strategic partner

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Eplan have signed a strategic partnership to strengthen collaboration in the area of software solutions for the industry and infrastructure market segments. As part of this agreement, Siemens’ Electrical Products business unit will join the Eplan Partner Network as a strategic partner. The objective is to coordinate the products of both companies in a more targeted manner in order to offer optimized solutions for switchgear manufacturers and electrical planners. Sebastian Seitz, CEO of Eplan, and Andreas Matthé, CEO of Electrical Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, signed the agreement to this effect on September 26, 2022. 

• 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.

• Updated Desigo CC V6 connects to Building X, Siemens' cloud-based open platform and AI-enabled suite of applications
• Enhanced cybersecurity with extended support to IEC 62443-3-3 SL2
• New Flex Client features improve user experience
• Fulfils BACnet B-XAWS profile for cross-domain advanced workstation and BACnet Secure Connect

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has unveiled the latest version of Desigo CC, its integrated building management platform for the digitalization of buildings of any size. With the software update, Desigo CC V6 offers native cloud connectivity, an improved user experience and is among the first building management platforms worldwide to fulfill the BACnet B-XAWS profile for cross-domain advanced workstation and BACnet Secure Connect.

• New Fire Safety Digital Services enable businesses to move from reactive to proactive fire safety
• First-in-market cloud-based portfolio goes beyond compliance, for total protection through intelligent safety
• Combines on-site and above-site services for automatic data capture, analysis and disturbance-free testing

Siemens has launched Fire Safety Digital Services, a first-in-market portfolio of digital and managed services which connects fire safety systems to the cloud, enabling businesses to move from a reactive, compliance-led approach to total protection through intelligent safety. By embracing digital services in operation, event-handling and maintenance, customers can improve hazard identification and prevention, make better risk-control decisions, protect business continuity, and provide a safe environment for people and assets. 

• 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.