- 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.
On the first day of the Hannover Messe, April 1, 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 Industries Operating Company. The Press Conference took place at 6:30 PM in the Trade Fair's Convention Center, Room 1 A/B.Mr. Helmrich talked about the latest developments of digitalization and the next step towards the digital transformation in the manufacturing and process industries under the theme "Digital Enterprise – Thinking industry further!".
Under the motto "Future – it's my creation." Siemens teamed up for the third time with the Stiftung Jugend forscht to host Germany's best-known youth competition. The company previously hosted the nationwide event in 1976 and 1997. This year's competition, the fifty-second, took place in Erlangen, Germany, on May 25-28, 2017. The final winners were selected by a jury from among the 200 winners of statewide contests and presented with their awards on May 28 by the German Minister of Education and Research.
- 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.
On September 26, 2017 Siemens and Alstom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combine Siemens' mobility business, including its rail traction drives business, with Alstom. The transaction brings together two innovative players of the railway market with unique customer value and operational potential. The two businesses are largely complementary in terms of activities and geographies. Siemens will receive newly issued shares in the combined company representing 50 percent of Alstom's share capital on a fully diluted basis.On February 6, 2019 the European Commission has announced 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. Siemens and Alstom regret that the remedies they offered, including recent improvements, have been considered insufficient by the EU Commission.
- Joint development of Munich Airport's digital future
- Siemens is using its IoT operating system MindSphere as a platform for new digital applications
Siemens and Munich Airport have forged a strategic partnership for digitalization in order to work on the airport's digital future together with further partners. Over the coming years, the partners want to use data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence to improve, for instance, the energy efficiency of airport buildings and the logistics for the baggage handling system. Plans also call for using these capabilities to make the time that passengers spend at the facility more pleasant. To meet these goals, Siemens is becoming a developmental partner for LabCampus, the major project for the airport's digital future. For the digital technologies, Siemens is using MindSphere, its open, cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things.
- Framework agreement for restructuring at Power and Gas (PG) and Process Industries and Drives (PD)
- Cost reduction targets retained, job cuts unavoidable
- At the same time, a future pact for shaping the structural transformation
- Siemens establishes future fund for further qualification of employees
Following intensive exploratory talks, Siemens has reached an agreement with its Central Works Council and the IG Metall labor union regarding a future pact for the digital transformation. The pact defines the framework for the restructuring measures currently required at the Power and Gas Division (PG) and the Process Industries and Drives Division (PD) and is thus the basis for the negotiations that are now beginning regarding a reconciliation of interests and a social plan.