adidas and Siemens today announced their intention to collaborate in the digital production of sporting goods. As part of a joint research and development program, the partners will be working to drive forward the digitalization of the adidas SPEEDFACTORY to ultimately develop capabilities for fast, transparent and individualized production.
- Expansion of Siemens' offerings with industry-specific software for the mobility sector – rigorous implementation of digitalization strategy
- HaCon to be managed as separate legal entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens AG in the Mobility Division
- Transaction still subject to approval by antitrust authorities, with closing planned for first half of calendar 2017
Siemens is planning to acquire HaCon, a company headquartered in Hanover, Germany. The two parties have agreed not to disclose financial details. Pending the approval of antitrust authorities, the deal is expected to be concluded in the first half of calendar year 2017.
- First Daughter learns about two-track training in Germany as follow-up to White House forum
- Siemens training around 12,000 young people worldwide
- 655,000 employees upskilling in e-learning modules
- Total investment of more than 500 million euro a year in training and continuing education
During her trip to Germany, Ivanka Trump, First Daughter and Assistant to the U.S. President Donald Trump, visited Siemens' training center in Berlin. Accompanied by Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, she talked to trainees and teachers at the facility to find out more about Germany's two-track training system. Ivanka Trump's visit to Berlin followed a roundtable on vocational education and workforce development that she hosted with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House in March. At the event, Joe Kaeser, who was among the participants, made several commitments to President Trump regarding U.S. workforce development, including for example leading an industry effort to significantly expand apprenticeship programs in the United States.
3i is the Siemens-wide program that promotes, implements and rewards employee ideas and initiatives. What is a good 3i idea? It is one that identifies "what" should be improved, outlines "how" something can be improved and explains "why" the idea's implementation will be a real improvement for our customers, employees and/or Siemens itself.
- City Air Management captures pollution data in real time and forecasts emissions up to five days in advance
- Solution simulates effectiveness of measures for improving air quality
- Siemens and Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City plan to jointly deploy and enhance this software solution as world's first implementation
A new software solution is helping cities remedy the growing problem of air pollution and the associated lack of compliance with emission-control thresholds. Siemens presented City Air Management (CyAM) at the World Cities Summit in Singapore. CyAM is a cloud-based software suite with a dashboard that displays real-time information on the air quality detected by sensors across a city and predicts values for the upcoming three to five days. These air-quality forecasts are prepared with the aid of algorithms that tap into an artificial neural network and draw on historical and current data on air quality as well as weather and traffic patterns. Mayors and other decision-makers can then use this data and a combination of potential solution measures to derive concrete recommendations for action and define measures that help reduce concentrations of nitrogen oxides and atmospheric particulate matter.
Siemens held its Annual Shareholders' Meeting at the Olympia Hall in Munich on February 1, 2017. The topics of the Siemens Annual Shareholders' Meeting are available here. Please find below the opening and the speeches of Dr. Gerhard Cromme, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and Joe Kaeser, CEO, press pictures of the event and a best-of-video of the press conference and Annual Shareholder's Meeting.
- Extra 330LE electric plane – powered by a Siemens motor – sets another world record
- Top speed above 340 km/h in straight flight
- World's first aerotow with an electric plane
On Thursday, March 23, 2017, the Extra 330LE aerobatic plane, powered by a propulsion system from Siemens, set two new speed records. At the Dinslaken Schwarze Heide airfield in Germany, the electric aircraft reached a top speed of around 337.50 kilometers per hour (km/h) over a distance of three kilometers. The speed achieved by pilot Walter Extra was 13.48 km/h faster than the previous record, which had been set by U.S. pilot William M. Yates in 2013. The World Air Sports Federation (FAI) officially recognized the record flight in the category "Electric airplanes with a take-off weight less than 1,000 kilograms." The Extra also set a new FAI world record in the category "above 1,000 kilograms": in a slightly modified configuration with an overall weight exceeding one metric ton, test pilot Walter Kampsmann flew the electrically powered plane at a speed of 342.86 km/h.
- Technical milestone: maiden flight of an electric aircraft with a 260-kilowatt power output
- Siemens motor powers Extra 330LE aerobatic airplane in near silence
- Technology to be integrated into development of hybrid-electric aircraft in cooperation with Airbus
Siemens researchers have developed a new type of electric motor that, with a weight of just 50 kilograms, delivers a continuous output of about 260 kilowatts – five times more than comparable drive systems. This record-setting propulsion system successfully completed its first public flight today at Schwarze Heide Airport near Dinslaken, Germany, where it – almost silently – powered an Extra 330LE aerobatic airplane. The new drive system had already made its maiden flight on June 24th 2016. This advance means that hybrid-electric aircraft with four or more seats will now be possible.
From 14 to 17 September 2017, representatives from the worlds of politics and industry met at the New Mobility World to shape the future of mobility across industries. The event took place within the context of the IAA 2017. Under the banner "Shaping future mobility systems – from understanding to optimizing," Siemens exhibited at Booth 39 in Hall 3.1 with an array of current applications and solutions surrounding the topics of charging technology for electric vehicles and intelligent communication systems linking vehicles and infrastructure. Siemens offers a wide range of products and solutions that help shape the future of mobility already today.
The Supervisory Board of Siemens AG and Managing Board member Siegfried Russwurm have mutually agreed that the company's contract with Russwurm, which will expire at the end of March 2017, will not be renewed. Russwurm has been a member of the Managing Board since January 2008 and, in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Technology Officer, was the partner on the Managing Board for the separately managed Healthcare business. In addition, he was responsible for the Middle East and CIS regions.