- 137th ICE 4 christened “Spree” at the Berlin Central Station
- Fleet expansion continues: DB will take delivery of a new ICE every three weeks on average this year
(Berlin, March 19, 2024) With the delivery of
the 137th train, the ICE 4 fleet of Deutsche Bahn (DB) is now
complete. The punctually delivered train was christened “Spree” in Berlin
today. Richard Lutz, CEO of DB, Volker Wissing, Federal
Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Manja Schreiner, Senator for
Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment in Berlin, Michael
Peterson, DB Member of the Management Board for Long Distance Passenger
Transport, and Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG, took part in the official
naming ceremony at the Berlin Central Station. The 7-car ICE 4 was christened
with water from the Spree River in Berlin. Manufacturer Siemens Mobility has delivered 137 ICE 4 trains in three
different variants since 2016 – totaling over 1,500 cars with around 105,000
seats. Today’s ceremony marked the completion of the largest procurement
program in DB’s history.
- Siemens
Mobility to replace its current rail infrastructure site in Chippenham, Wiltshire
with a state-of-the-art factory, digital engineering, and R&D facility.
- The
new factory is expected to be operational by 2026, strategically positioned to
meet the growing demand in rail technology.
- Approx.
800 local manufacturing, research, engineering, and support staff will
transition to the new site.
Siemens Mobility is investing
€115 million to establish a cutting-edge rail infrastructure manufacturing,
digital engineering and research & development (R&D) center in
Chippenham, UK. This investment highlights the commitment to innovation,
sustainability, excellence, and meeting the growing demand for rail
infrastructure in Britain and worldwide. The new facility, set to replace the
existing factory in 2026, will be vital for Siemens Mobility's future projects in rail technology, providing
an efficient site to build the next generation of conventional and digital rail
signaling and control systems for Britain. The transition, including the
transfer of all local staff, totaling approximately 800, will not cause any interruption
in production.
- Siemens and Enlighted announce ecosystem partnership with Zumtobel Group, a global lighting solutions provider
- Enlighted’s state-of-the-art smart sensor technology to be integrated into Zumtobel Group’s premium lighting products, for an attractive IoT lighting bundle for customers
- Advantages of the partnership include: effective prefabricated solutions, efficient wireless deployment, smart adaptable technology, and enhanced insights
Siemens and Enlighted, a leading property technology
company owned by Siemens, announce a strategic partnership with Zumtobel Group,
a global lighting solutions provider, to advance the adoption of smart building
technologies including intelligent IoT lighting, setting new standards for
efficiency and sustainability in building operations worldwide.
- Siemens highlights key opportunities to drive sustainable impact at scale and speed across multiple industries with new products and partnership agreements
- Showcase identifies the critical role of technology in enabling more sustainable infrastructure
- Display includes latest additions to Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform to accelerate digital transformation and value creation
At Light + Building 2024, Siemens
Smart Infrastructure will shine a spotlight on the innovative products, software and services, as
well as the collaborations needed to drive true sustainability impact for
customers and societies.
- Innovative Veloce CS architecture unifies hardware emulation, enterprise prototyping and software prototyping to accelerate verification and validation cycles by 10x and helps to reduce total cost of ownership by up to 5x
- The Veloce CS software is reusable across all platforms, helping to eliminate new learning requirements and accelerating full system workload execution and debug times by 10x
- Innovative, modular and scalable interconnectable blade footprint eliminates fixed-size chassis, delivering hardware-assisted tools for all size designs – from small to very large
Siemens Digital Industries Software launched
today the Veloce™ CS hardware-assisted verification and validation system. In a
first for the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry, Veloce CS incorporates
hardware emulation, enterprise prototyping and software prototyping and is built
on two highly advanced integrated circuits (ICs) – Siemens’ new, purpose-built Crystal accelerator chip for
emulation and the AMD Versal™ Premium VP1902 FPGA adaptive SoC (System-on-a-chip)
for enterprise and software prototyping.
- Siemens Mobility founds subsidiary Smart Train
Lease GmbH
- Innovative rental model for Mireo Smart trains offers
fast and flexible adjustment of fleet capacity
- State-of-the-art battery, hydrogen, and
electric multiple-unit trains including maintenance
Siemens Mobility has
founded the subsidiary Smart Train Lease GmbH to enable customers to flexibly
supplement their fleets with rented state-of-the-art battery, hydrogen, and
electric multiple-unit trains. The Mireo Smart trains from Siemens Mobility are
available at short notice, approved for operation, and meet all required
standards for modern regional passenger transport. By providing preconfigured
trains and additional services such as maintenance, this new offer provides an
economical alternative for quickly and flexibly expanding fleets. It also
enables customers to easily test innovative and sustainable rail technologies. Smart
Train Lease GmbH is initially offering this rental model in Germany and plans
to expand it throughout Europe in the medium term.
- Enhancing proven machine learning capabilities with generative AI creates a robust, comprehensive predictive maintenance solution that leverages the strengths of both.
- Using a conversational user interface, manufacturers can take proactive actions easily, saving both time and resources.
- New generative AI functionality in Senseye Predictive Maintenance makes predictive maintenance conversational.
Siemens is releasing a new generative
artificial intelligence (AI) functionality into its predictive maintenance
solution – Senseye Predictive Maintenance. This advance makes predictive
maintenance more conversational and intuitive. Through this new release of
Senseye Predictive Maintenance with generative AI functionality, Siemens will
make human-machine interactions and predictive maintenance faster and more
efficient by enhancing proven machine learning capabilities with generative AI.
- Leading electric two-wheel scooter brand expands adoption of software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to help reduce design iterations, cycle times and explore the future of sustainable electric mobility solutions for the Indian market
- Expanded adoption of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions from Siemens Xcelerator now includes product engineering, virtual simulation and physical test for all existing and new vehicle platforms
Siemens Digital
Industries Software announced today that Ather Energy, one of India’s
foremost electric motorcycle brands, has expanded its adoption of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of
industry software to help the company reduce its design and engineering cycle
time, improve product
quality and achieve faster time to market.
- Decarbonization program targets significant energy savings and 50 percent CO2 reduction at over 15 HEINEKEN breweries and malt houses worldwide by 2025
- Supports HEINEKEN’s global Net Zero Production roadmap, which aims to reach net zero in Scope 1 and 2 by 2030 and net zero across the full value chain by 2040
- Five-year performance and monitoring service contract from Siemens to ensure ongoing project optimization
- Scalable solution designed using an energy digital twin will optimize heating and cooling requirements in production and packaging processes
HEINEKEN, the world's most international
brewer, has selected Siemens as a partner for its global Net Zero Production roadmap,
as part of HEINEKEN’s ambitions to reach net zero in Scopes 1 and 2 across all
production sites by 2030.*
- Siemens and Salesforce are collaborating to help manufacturers increase service efficiency and create new revenue streams
- Teamcenter Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) app connects Siemens’ leading Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud and Service Cloud, enabling integrated, cross discipline collaboration that drive digital transformation
- The new AI-based SaaS integration helps manufacturers build feedback loops between service execution and product development, enabling continuous innovation
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today the new
Teamcenter® SLM app onSalesforce AppExchange. Developed by Siemens in collaboration with
Salesforce, the app connects product engineering and product service operations
by bringing together the Teamcenter Service Lifecycle Management solution from
the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software withSalesforce Manufacturing CloudandSalesforce Service Cloud. This new app enables manufacturers to adopt more
service-centric business models, improve the customer experience and increase
service revenue.