Siemens AG and Perceptive Engineering Ltd announce a partnership which offers Perceptive's PharmaMV and Siemens Simatic Sipat software products closely integrated to provide a versatile solution for advanced control and optimization applications in both continuous and batch pharmaceutical manufacturing. The interest to have APC integrated into a PAT platform is growing significantly within the Life Sciences Industry. Thus, the goal of this collaboration is to offer the Pharmaceutical Industry the integrated combination of technologies that have - independently from each other - established a proven track record in the past decade.
- New research from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) identifies six key challenges facing manufacturers in the process of moving to an Industry 4.0 model
- Entitled Practical Pathways to Industry 4.0, the report finds that digital skills and access to finance for digital transformation are the top two challenges to a successful transition
- Without access to appropriate and sustainable third-party finance, manufacturers face a challenge to make the digital transformation needed to remain competitive
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has released a new research paper which investigates the key challenges facing manufacturers across the globe, as they move to implement Industry 4.0. A digitalized, automated, Industry 4.0 world offers the ability to digitally link people, machinery and systems. For manufacturers, this provides a number of benefits such as improved efficiency, pre-emptive maintenance to improve up-time and closer collaboration as a result of digital data flows.
- Distributed Simatic automation controllers for standard and fail-safe applications up to Performance Level e
- Compact devices with functions of a PC-based software controller, visualization, Windows applications and central I/Os
- World's only software controller with fail-safe, PC-based control which is operated independently of the operating system
Siemens is extending its Simatic automation controller series for PC-based applications. The distributed automation controllers now include the new, more powerful Simatic ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC 2 – for standard and fail-safe applications up to Performance Level e. The new Open Controller, which is particularly suitable for series machine building, combines the functions of a PC-based software controller with visualization, Windows applications and central I/Os (inputs/outputs) in a single compact device The new, fail-safe CPU1516pro-2 PN for the Simatic ET 200pro Distributed Controller also performs standard and fail-safe automation tasks up to Performance Level e in a single device.
- The German energy provider SWW Wunsiedel and Siemens open the "House of Future Energy"
- Siestorage, currently the biggest battery storage system in Bavaria, Germany, launches with a capacity of 8.4 megawatts
- A technology partnership for the WUNsiedler Weg concept
- SWW is the first public utility company on the MindSphere IoT platform
SWW Wunsiedel GmbH and Siemens are working together as technology partners on innovative ways to shape the decentralized power supply of the future. Their first project is the Siestorage battery storage system, which is expected to stabilize the local power grid with a capacity of 8.4 megawatts. As part of the partnership, SWW Managing Director Marco Krasser, State Secretary Franz Josef Pschierer, and Siemens CTO Roland Busch opened the "House of Future Energy" in Wunsiedel, Germany. This permanent exhibition provides information about the "WUNsiedler Weg Energie 2.0" climate protection concept as well as the technologies and business models that can be used to implement the energy transition cost-effectively.
- From February 5-9, Siemens will present concrete solutions for ways that companies and investors can shape the digital future.
- Digitalization opens up huge potential for small and mid-sized companies in the manufacturing industry – with productivity gains of up to 10 percent.
- In the energy and infrastructure markets, efficiency gains are used to attain a large degree of sustainability.
- These efforts will require extensive investments, which are made easier with innovative financing solutions like pay-per-outcome financing, software financing and project financing.
During the opening session of Siemens Finance Week in the Siemens Technology and Application Center in Erlangen, about 60 decision-makers from small- and medium-sized enterprises learned about the potential of digitalization and ways that new, customer-centric business models can be introduced with the help of financing solutions. The Company Barometer prepared by the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry shows that 68 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany see opportunities for new digital business models. The optimization potential is enormous: In the manufacturing industry alone, according to the results of a Siemens Financial Services white paper, productivity can be boosted by up to 10 percent through continued digitalization. Figures from the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicate that this would amount to business volume of approx. €650 billion globally and €60 billion in Germany.
- Shareholders ratify acts of Managing and Supervisory Boards by large majorities
- Dividend proposal of €3.70 per share accepted
Jim Hagemann Snabe is the new Supervisory Board Chairman of Siemens AG. At today's constituent meeting of the new Supervisory Board, the 52-year-old software expert was elected to succeed Gerhard Cromme. Gerhard Cromme's term of office as Chairman and member of the Supervisory Board expired at the conclusion of the 2018 Annual Shareholders' Meeting. A member of the Supervisory Board since 2003, he had been its Chairman since 2007.
- Bremer Straßenbahn AG exercises option in 2017 contract
- Siemens builds a total of 77 trams
- Delivery of the additional trams begins in 2021
The German operator Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered an additional ten Avenio trams from Siemens, exercising an option in a contract signed in June 2017, when BSAG ordered 67 Avenio trams. Including the new order, the Hanseatic city’s fleet of Siemens trams will grow to a total of 77. Delivery of the newly ordered trams will begin in 2021.
- Orders rose 14% to €22.5 billion and revenue was up 3% at €19.8 €billion, including strong growth contributions from Mobility and Digital Factory and new business particularly resulting from the merger of Siemens' wind power business with Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A.
- Book-to-bill ratio rose to reach 1.13, the highest ratio since booking of large Egypt orders in Q2 FY 2016
- On a comparable basis, excluding currency translation and portfolio effects, orders increased 7% and revenue grew 1%
- Industrial business profit at €2.2 billion, down 14% due mainly to a sharp decline in Power and Gas which more than offset excellent performance in the short-cycle businesses and Mobility; current quarter impacted by negative currency effects while Q1 FY 2017 benefited from a portfolio gain; Industrial business profit margin at 11.0%
- Net income rose 12% to €2.2 billion; the current period included a largely tax-free gain from the sale of shares in OSRAM Licht AG and benefited from sharply lower income tax expenses due mainly to the revaluation of future tax positions following U.S. tax reform; basic earnings per share (EPS) increased to €2.68 from €2.41 in Q1 FY 2017
"The first quarter underlines the strength of our company. We take advantage of the growth momentum of the global economic upturn and set benchmarks in industrial digitalization. We clearly understand our opportunities and we know what we have to do."