- Siemens report "Cities in the Driving Seat" encourages cities to anticipate and tackle upcoming changes to their infrastructures early
- Report urges urban areas to use connected and autonomous vehicles to refocus urban environments on citizens rather than cars
- Connecting autonomous vehicles to intelligent transport infrastructures can maximize their benefit
- Greatest benefit from autonomous vehicles will emerge from capacity to provide "first and last mile" trips and help city government provide new transport services
The advent of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) has the potential to cause major and disruptive changes to cities worldwide, a report launched by Siemens indicates. The report "Cities in the Driving Seat" stresses the need for cities to plan early and tackle the issue in a wider context of mobility transformations. Launched today at the World Cities Summit in Singapore the study explores the interdependencies between urban development, public transportation policies, power supply, pollution and the increasing share of CAV in city traffic. Lack of mid-term planning and delayed investments in infrastructure could create negative social, economic and environmental effects, the authors from Siemens' Global Center of Competence Cities argue.
The Hannover Messe will be opening its doors once again at the beginning of April this year to welcome trade visitors from around the world. It is our great pleasure to invite you to the International Siemens Press Conference held in advance of the show: At this press conference CEOs will give you an insight into technological developments and innovations which Siemens will be presenting at Hanover for the manufacturing and process industries at the Hannover Messe. This includes the integration of future technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge computing or additive manufacturing as well as digital solutions for energy supply, and the future of process automation.
- 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.
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- Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting to be held in virtual format
- Siemens AG to spin off 55 percent of Siemens Energy to shareholders
- One Siemens Energy share for every two Siemens shares
- Siemens Energy to start with S&P Global investment-grade rating of “BBB”
- Initial listing of new shares planned for September 28, 2020
Siemens shareholders will vote on the spin-off of Siemens AG’s energy business at an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting today. Due to the restrictions imposed on public events by the coronavirus crisis, the shareholders’ meeting will be held in a virtual-only format – that is, without the shareholders or their proxies being present in person. To ensure complete transparency, a livestream atwww.siemens.com/agm-servicewill provide shareholders and their proxies with audio and video coverage of the entire event via the Internet. Siemens shareholders had until July 7, 2020, to submit questions electronically. The proposal to approve the Spin-off and Transfer Agreement that Siemens AG and Siemens Energy AG concluded on May 22, 2020, is the only item on the meeting agenda.
Digitalization is changing our world – and the world of industry – in tangible ways. The digital transformation is creating new competitive advantages and business models in many companies in the manufacturing and process industry. Machine builders and plant engineers can also take advantage of this development and make it usable for their customers. For digital enterprises systems and processes can be comprehensively and uniformly optimized throughout the entire lifecycle of products and plants. At the SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg, Germany, from November 28 to 30, 2017 – which took place this year under the motto "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise" – Siemens presented in hall 11 specific examples of applications to show how this can be done.
Around 10.400 young men and women worldwide – thereof around 7,300 in Germany – are currently enrolled in training or two-track programs at Siemens, making the industrial company one of the largest most innovative private providers of such programs in the world. Due to the great success of the German model, Siemens is increasingly offering two-track training, which combines theory and practice, to young people in countries outside Germany, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South Africa, India and the UK. These programs offer instruction in a wide range of commercial and, above all, technical fields. Courses are constantly being updated in a targeted fashion to prepare young people for the challenges of the future.Since the training year 2017, Siemens has integrated relevant digitalization topics, such as data analytics, software development and data security, in the company's curricula for all its apprenticeship and work-study programs. Didactic and methodological teaching approaches were also revised to accommodate the digital transformation of the programs’ training content and of the occupational subject matter.“Occupational training is foundational for our company’s future. One clear focus of our training program is on the responsible use of digital technologies, which are bringing enormous change to the working world and to society. For years now, we’ve been continuously adapting our training programs to new requirements, to digital content and to agile teaching methods in order to keep pace with these changes. In this way, we can ensure that our trainees are well prepared for the future,” said Thomas Leubner, who heads the company’s Learning and Education department.The success of the training system is also shown by the International Tech Apprenticeship@Siemens (ITA@S) program, which was established in 2012, back then under the name Europeans@Siemens. Young people are being sent to Berlin by the Siemens Regional Companies in their respective countries for dual educational training. In the past few years, however, an increasing number of participants have come from countries outside Europe. Consequently, the program now has a new name: ITA@S.Since the start of the vocational training in Berlin in 1891 more than 165,000 people have undergone training with Siemens in Germany alone.Siemens is also blazing new trails when it comes to recruiting trainees. In its “MINTfluencer” social-media campaign, short video clips star Siemens trainees as influencers. The campaign name is a word play on “MINT,” which is the German equivalent of science, technology, education and mathematics (STEM).
- This year's motto: "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!"
- The time has come to implement Industrie 4.0: focus on industry-specific solutions
- MindSphere – the cloud-based, open IoT operating system: rigorous expansion with new partners and further solutions
Siemens is presenting its continuously enhanced Digital Enterprise portfolio for Industrie 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution. "We created the technical prerequisites for this transformation with our range of consistent solutions. By implementing Digital Enterprise solutions, users and customers can now tap into the full potential of Industrie 4.0," said Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, at the press conference for Hannover Messe on April 23. On 3,500 square meters of exhibition space in Hall 9 at Booth D35, Siemens is using the motto "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!" to show how companies of any size can use the Digital Enterprise portfolio in various industries to secure real competitive advantages. "With our Digital Enterprise offerings, our customers are already achieving greater flexibility, shorter times to market, higher efficiency and better quality – and they're accomplishing this during ongoing operations. Our customers are thus attesting to the benefits and added value that the Siemens Digital Enterprise offers for the discrete manufacturing and process industries," said Helmrich.
Siemens and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement on June 18, 2019 at the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (France) for the sale of Siemens' eAircraft unit. Closing is subject to the usual conditions and is expected to take place in late 2019.