- At €57.1 billion, revenue at prior-year level; orders decline slightly to €60.0 billion
- At €7.6 billion, adjusted EBITA for Industrial Businesses only slightly below prior-year level; adjusted EBITA margin of 14.3 percent (FY 2019: 14.4 percent) stable at a high level
- Net income of €4.2 billion (FY 2019: €5.6 billion)
- Free cash flow up substantially to €6.4 billion (FY 2019: €5.8 billion); highest level in past ten years
- Vision 2020+ execution successfully driven
- Total dividend of €3.50 per share (FY 2019: €3.90)
- Outlook: Siemens expects moderate rise in net income for FY 2021 despite significant burdens from currency translation effects
In extremely difficult economic times, Siemens AG delivered a strong financial performance in fiscal 2020 (ended September 30), while successfully driving the Group’s historic transformation. Despite the major challenges worldwide caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Siemens successfully completed its fiscal year with a strong fourth quarter. In appreciation of their outstanding performance during the crisis, Siemens is paying about €200 million in bonuses to its employees worldwide. Shareholders are also to participate in the company’s business success and financial strength. For this reason, the Managing Board and Supervisory Board are proposing to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting a dividend of €3.00 plus an additional €0.50, for a total of €3.50 per share. Adjusted by ten percent to take account of the market value of the Siemens Energy spin-off, this amount is at the same level as the prior-year dividend of €3.90.
Additive manufacturing has the potential to become a new key technology. For example it opens up new attractive prospects in the manufacture of gas turbines. This is why Siemens has been investing in this innovative technology right from its inception, and is now driving the industrialization and commercialization of these processes. Additive Manufacturing is a process that builds parts layer-by-layer from sliced CAD models to form solid objects. This enables highly precise solutions to be formed from powdered high-performance materials. Siemens is a pioneer in Additive Manufacturing and already uses the technology for rapid prototyping. Furthermore the company is now developing solutions ready for series-production for manufacturing gas turbine burner nozzles and repairing burner heads. Just recently Siemens achieved yet another breakthrough: the first gas turbine blades ever to be produced using Additive Manufacturing have successfully finished performance testing under full-load conditions.
The European Commission has announced today its decision to prohibit the proposed combination of the Siemens and Alstom mobility businesses. As a result of this prohibition, the merger will not proceed.
On the first day of the Hannover Messe, April 24, Klaus Helmrich welcomed you to the annual Siemens Press Conference. As member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Klaus Helmrich is responsible for the Digital Factory as well as Process Industries and Drives Divisions. The Press Conference took place at 6:30 PM in the Trade Fair's Convention Center, Room 1 A/B. Mr Helmrich talked about current digitalization trends in the manufacturing and process industries under the heading "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise".
- Siemens Caring Hands makes tablets available to all local THW
sections through the THW Foundation
- Devices are also to be equipped with cloud-based apps based on Siemens’
Mendix software
- Civil defense and disaster control teams are to use tablets and
software to respond to emergencies in a faster and more targeted manner
- Project is part of the COVID-19 relief fund set up by Siemens and is
a key element of THW Foundation’s PROGRESSUS initiative
Siemens Caring Hands e.V. is making a
long-term contribution to fighting the pandemic and is supporting the task
forces of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in driving
digital transformation with the help of the THW Foundation. This will simplify
THW’s work as a system-relevant organization in times of crisis. In total,
Siemens Caring Hands is donating 668 tablets to THW Foundation, which in turn
is making it possible to use these devices at all 668 local THW sections.
Siemens Caring Hands is not only bearing the hardware costs, but is also making
Siemens experts available as advisors to help put the devices into operation –
for example, by helping with data protection issues and by equipping the
tablets with additional cloud-based apps. These apps are being programmed for
this specific purpose by Mendix, a Business Unit of Siemens Digital Industries
and a global leader in no-code/low-code applications. To develop the apps, a
multi-phase process has been established that enables THW to plan the low-code
applications on its own according to its specific needs and to then develop the
apps with the aid of a hackathon that Siemens will be holding at the end of
April.
- Booth slogan "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise"
- Digitalization enhances flexibility, speed, efficiency and quality
- Innovations in power distribution, automation and drive technology as well as industrial software
- MindSphere extended to include partnerships, apps and interfaces
At the Hannover Messe 2017, Siemens will be demonstrating how industrial companies of all sizes can benefit from the digital transformation. The central focus of the 3,500-square meter booth in Hall 9 will be on the company's further extended portfolio for the achievement of end-to-end digitalization, known as the "Digital Enterprise". An array of examples from practice will allow visitors to experience applications and innovations demonstrating the competitive benefits to be gained by merging the real and the virtual worlds. These include greater flexibility, efficiency and quality as well as a reduced time-to-market. The examples on show range from smart energy management systems through customized food and pharmaceutical production to industrial-scale additive manufacturing based on innovative automation and drive technology. Siemens is also driving forward the expansion of its cloud-based, open IoT operating system MindSphere with the addition of new partnerships, interfaces and apps.
- Software, technologies, digital services and cloud platform exhibited at Innovation Day USA to help customers embrace digitalization
- MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, will play an important role to power double-digit growth in digital businesses
- 30% increase in R&D spending for U.S. since fiscal 2014
Every day, billions of connected devices and machines bridge the real and virtual worlds, changing the way people live, travel, build and work. Today, at Siemens' U.S. Research and Development (R&D) hub, Siemens showcased innovative technologies that are helping industries from manufacturing to energy management to transportation embrace the power of data in a digital and connected world. Global and U.S. executives and technology experts demonstrated via virtual and interactive presentations how emerging trends and technologies like blockchain-based microgrids, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, digital infrastructure, and MindSphere – the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens are changing lives for the better.
- Building Technologies to acquire leading provider of smart IoT systems in buildings
- Expansion of smart building technology with digital sensory system – advanced lighting control application as core element
- Enhancing building performance by gathering multiple streams of data to improve transparency and efficiency
- Transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2018
Siemens Building Technologies Division is acquiring Enlighted Inc., a leading provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) systems in buildings, headquartered in the Silicon Valley. The company is a successful player in the smart building industry, bringing an advanced digital sensory system to market. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details. Closing is expected in the third quarter of 2018. Enlighted will be managed as an independent legal entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Industry, Inc.
- Siemens’ lightning information
service recorded about 399,000 lightning strikes in Germany – 21 percent more
than in 2019
- City of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony was
Germany’s 2020 “lightning capital”
- Germany’s lowest lightning densities
measured in Coburg, Bamberg and Mainz
- Hamburg was the German state with
the most lightning activity in 2020; Munich topped list of state capitals
- June 13 was the day in 2020 with the
most lightning strikes in Germany – over 89,000
- At the European level, Trieste and the
surrounding areas top the ranking in Siemens’ 2020 lightning atlas
The city of
Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony was Germany’s “lightning capital” in 2020. Siemens’
lightning information service BLIDS (which stands for Blitz-Informationsdienst
von Siemens) detected just under 5.8 lightning strikes per square kilometer there
in 2020. The towns of Kempten in the Allgäu region and Miesbach in the region
of Upper Bavaria took second and third places with 5.1 and 4.7 ground flashes
per square kilometer, respectively. BLIDS recorded the lowest lightning density
in the Bavarian cities of Coburg and Bamberg, where considerably fewer than 0.1
lightning strikes per square kilometer were recorded in each case. Mainz, which
is the capital city of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was also at the bottom
of the list, recording just under 0.1 lightning discharges per square kilometer.
With a lightning density of just under 2.3, Munich led the country’s list of
state capitals, followed by Hamburg (1.9). With this figure, the Hanseatic City
of Hamburg, which has the status of a federal state, also recorded the highest
lightning density among the German states. The state with the highest number of
ground flashes detected in 2020 was Bavaria, which accounted for a quarter of
all strikes measured. Overall, at 399,000 strikes, BLIDS recorded another
increase in lightning activity in Germany, up around 21 percent compared to 2019.