- Industry
analyst firm recognizes Siemens for clear strategy, broad portfolio and
successful commitment to industrial metaverse
- Siemens
manager Virginie Maillard elected to the Metaverse Standards Forum’s board of
directors
Siemens is
the leading international provider in the growing industrial metaverse market,
according to the latest PAC RADAR from PAC, the renowned market research
company specializing in business software, IT services and digital
transformation. This rating is based on three aspects: a clear strategy, an
existing portfolio and the progress Siemens is making in this area.
- Siemens to enable attendees at IoT Solutions World Congress to experience benefits of latest IoT technologies in 27 practical reference cases
- Siemens Advanta CEO Aymeric Sarrazin to hold keynote on how disruption paves the way for a lean, green, digital industry
Siemens is bringing its latest IoT breakthroughs
to the IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona: helping businesses to
simplify and accelerate their digital transformation and transition to greater
sustainability at scale, the focused technology company will show a total 27
practical reference cases. At the same time, the company is empowering its
customers to achieve their desired business outcomes – including sustainable growth,
increased efficiency and faster time-to-market by combining the real and the
digital worlds unlike any other. Visitors to the Siemens booth (D467, Hall 4,
Fira Convetion Center) at IOTSWC will have the opportunity to see how this
transformative process is developing and then experiment with new capabilities.
- 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.
- Corporate real estate management now also for external customers
- Renting, development and consulting in focus
- Intelligent real estate in close cooperation with other Siemens units
Siemens Real Estate (SRE) has been managing Siemens' real estate portfolio for more than 20 years and, as a versatile and future-oriented corporate real estate manager, has repeatedly adapted to the challenges of the market. Effective immediately, SRE will make the expertise it has acquired available to external clients for the first time. Companies that do not yet have their own professional real estate management will thus have access to SRE's knowledge and experience in the three product groups of consulting, renting and real estate and location development.
- Innovation
campus for attracting high-tech companies
- Hydrogen
research laboratory with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
- Investments
to total around €30 million, roughly 100 new jobs
Siemens, the
Free State of Saxony and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft signed a memorandum of
understanding today in Görlitz, Germany, to strengthen this location over the
long term and support the structural transformation of Germany’s Lusatia region.
Plans call for establishing an innovation campus and a startup accelerator on the
site of Siemens’ plant in Görlitz. The aim is to encourage other technology and
industrial companies as well as startups and research institutes to establish
operations in this region. The focus of activity will be on digitalization,
automation, energy technology and innovative material and production
technologies.
- Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in virtual format due to corona pandemic
- Siemens bids farewell to Joe Kaeser after more than 40 years at the company
- Total shareholder return more than doubled since Kaeser took office in 2013
- Roland Busch new President and CEO of Siemens AG
- Jim Hagemann Snabe to stand for reelection for another four years and again assume Supervisory Board chairmanship
- Grazia Vittadini (Airbus) and Kasper Rørsted (adidas) nominated for election to Supervisory Board
The successful term of
office of long-serving President and CEO Joe Kaeser (63) will end today at
the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Siemens AG. As long planned, leadership of
the Munich-based technology company will be transferred from Kaeser to his
successor, Roland Busch (56) – a step that will mark the successful completion
of Siemens’ leadership succession process. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the
shareholders’ meeting is being held exclusively in a virtual format, in which
neither shareholders nor their proxies will be present in person.
- Agreement signed: Rolls-Royce to acquire eAircraft
- Sale to accelerate development of sustainable air transport
- Rolls-Royce intends to become the leading supplier of electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems for aircraft
- Siemens will continue to support the transition to electric aviation with its digital solutions portfolio
- Closing expected in late 2019
Siemens and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement today at the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (France) for the sale of Siemens' eAircraft unit. Through its Vision 2020+ company strategy, Siemens intends to sharpen its portfolio's focus. For this reason, the company's business with electric and hybrid-electric systems for aircraft will have substantially better growth perspectives with new owners closely connected to the aerospace industry. Closing is subject to the usual conditions and is expected to take place in late 2019. The partners have agreed not to disclose the financial details of the transaction.
- 1,700 young people begin apprenticeship or work-study programs
- A further 600 apprentices from external partners
- International training program in Berlin again with 31 new participants
- Europeans@Siemens renamed International Tech Apprenticeship@Siemens (ITA@S)
Around 2,300 young people have begun vocational training this year at Siemens in Germany alone. About 1,700 are being trained for professional careers at the company, while a further 600 are from external partners. As in previous years, around 80 percent will focus on technical fields and IT. Siemens offers apprenticeships in electronics, mechatronics, machining and specialized informatics, for example. Roughly 40 percent of the training positions are in work-study programs, whose participants can earn a bachelor's degree (bachelor of engineering or science) or complete a fully integrated work-study program at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in addition to the usual German Chamber of Industry and Commerce degree.
- Researchers from seven countries recognized for outstanding research
achievements and technologies
- Inventors come from all age groups and
all three Siemens companies
- Capacity for innovation remains high:
23 inventions per workday
- Investments of €4.9 billion in research
and development planned for fiscal 2021
For the 26th time, Siemens has recognized employees as Inventors of the Year to honor their outstanding research achievements. The 22 awardees from the three companies Siemens AG, Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers are from China, Germany, France, India, Israel, Spain and the U.S. Individual researchers as well as diverse research and development teams that work internationally were honored with the award.
- Siemens makes strong commitment for shaping the future of Germany as a location for industry
- Investment in the future of work in connection with manufacturing, researching, learning, and residential living in the new "Siemensstadt 2.0"
- Biggest single investment in the history of Siemens in Berlin
A commitment to Berlin and Germany: at the time-honored Siemens industrial estate in Berlin's Spandau district, Siemens AG plans to make its biggest single investment ever in the company's history in Berlin. In the coming years, up to €600 million are to be invested in a new world of working and living: Siemensstadt ("Siemens City") 2.0. This project, which covers an area of 70 hectares, aims to transform this large industrial area into a modern, urban district of the future for a diverse range of purposes. A further goal is to strengthen selected key technologies and innovation fields in collaboration with the scientific and business communities. To make this possible, this section of Berlin is to become home to centers of research and expertise, to start-up incubators and to research and scientific institutes as well as their partner companies.