- Safer and more efficient: Catania Airport is updated with integrated building automation by Siemens
- More reliable and accurate fire detection using Sinteso connected to the Desigo CC building management software
- Cloud-based Navigator software to optimize energy consumption
With almost ten million passengers in 2018, Catania Airport is continuing to grow, solidifying its number one position in southern Italy. This makes the hub an increasingly important strategic part of the Mediterranean aviation network. As a result, however, it faces greater security and energy efficiency challenges. This is the context in which the Sicilian airport made the decision to entrust Siemens with its integrated building automation project, intended to increase security levels and monitor overall energy consumption at the hub.
Bombardier Transportation, a subcontractor for the ICE 4 project, has determined within the framework of its quality management that individual welds on ICE 4 railcar bodies were not carried out as prescribed. This deviation is not safety relevant.
- Stimulating two senses through acoustic (EN 54-3) and optical (EN 54-23) alarm devices
- Voice messages can be emitted in two languages for faster evacuation
- High alarming reliability thanks to daily disturbance-free tests
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched new ceiling- and wall-mounted alarm devices. The expanded portfolio includes both acoustic and optical alarm devices in accordance with European Standards EN 54-3 / EN 54-23 and EN 54-17. One highlight of the expanded portfolio are the voice sounders with built-in voice messages because they improve the reaction time to alarms.
- 1.3-gigawatt turnkey combined cycle power plant
- Long-term service program and operation & maintenance (O&M) services included
- Largest LNG-to-power development in Latin America
- Total project volume of €1 billion
Siemens has secured an order for the turnkey construction of a new combined cycle power plant for the integrated LNG-to-Power project GNA 1 of Gás Natural Açu in the Port of Açu in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Siemens is providing an equity investment and owns one-third of the project company Gás Natural Açu (GNA) together with Brazil logistics company Prumo Logística S.A. and BP. In addition, Siemens signed a long-term service agreement and will operate and maintain the plant to help ensure reliability, availability and operational performance. The order is the first application for the highly efficient and proven Siemens H-class gas turbine in Brazil. With a capacity of approximately 1.3 gigawatts (GW), the power plant will provide affordable and clean energy for Brazil. Total project volume for GNA 1 is approximately €1 billion (R$4.5 billion).
- Features signaling, communication and electrification technology
- Mass transit critical to the city's urban development
- With 65 kilometers of Blue line track, capacity is up to 30,000 passengers per hour
The latest expansion of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) Blue Line signifies the city's commitment to modernizing mass rapid transit and features Siemens Mobility's signaling and electrification technology. As one of the world's largest metropolitan areas, India's National Capital Region of Delhi has grown from 6.2 million residents in 1981 to approximately 25 million residents in 2018. With more than 2 million riders per day, the network is expanding rapidly. From just 87 kilometers in 2010 to 375 kilometers today, the network continues to grow. The latest expansion adds 6.6 kms for a total of 65 kms. The signaling, electrification and automatic train control systems on this portion of the line ensure optimum headway between two consecutive trains on the same line during peak hours, resulting in capacity of up to 30,000 riders per hour on one line.
- SensgearTM technology launch for digital connectivity of switchgear products
- New Sensformer® advanced with applications based on digital twin simulation of transformers
- Portfolio extension comes with comprehensive data analytics for added transparency, enhanced productivity, and advanced intelligence
Siemens is introducing Sensgear, its new digital switchgear portfolio, and the Sensformer advanced at this year's Hannover Messe. With the combination of the already well-established digitally connected transformer, the Sensformer, and the new Sensgear technology, all substation transmission assets are now fully connective, allowing operators to check their status via online applications in real time. Gas-insulated switchgear, circuit breakers, surge arresters, disconnectors, instrument transformers, and coil products will henceforth be equipped with Sensgear technology. All devices are connected via a smart and robust Internet of Things (IoT) gateway that securely transmits the required information to a cloud-based storage and visualization platform. All Sensgear products provide additional transparency with GPS and local weather information as well as product-specific measurement data that includes gas density, liquid temperature, gas leakage, and switching position.
- Improving engineering and production processes
Siemens is intensifying its cooperation with the EDAG Group as a leading global independent engineering company for the automotive industry, in order to further promote industrial applications of additive manufacturing (AM) and to make engineering and production processes more efficient. Based on many years of successful project-specific collaboration in factory and production planning, in the field of engineering the innovative "NextGenerationSpaceframe 2.0" project will be presented at the Hannover Messe from April 1 to 5, 2019 at the Siemens booth (Hall 9, Booth D35) as the clear result of this successful cooperation.
- Services support first use of Siemens H-class turbine in an aluminum smelting facility globally
- Siemens' first long-term service agreement in the UAE for an H-class turbine
- Power services will ensure reliable operations for stable power production
Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the world's largest 'premium aluminum' producer, and Siemens announced the first power services agreement for an H-class gas turbine in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). With the new 20-year service agreement, Siemens will provide maintenance and repairs as well as onsite personnel support for the gas turbine and its generator at the planned over 600-megawatt (MW) combined cycle project feeding EGA's Jebel Ali power plant in Dubai.
- Simatic PCS 7 Plant Automation Accelerator V3.0 plant and automation engineering software closes the gap between plant engineering and the process control system
- More powerful, more open version
- Increased system openness based on GSDML and NE150 standards
- Seamless engineering through the integration of various Simatic components
Siemens has extended its engineering software for planners and automation engineers, Simatic PCS 7 Plant Automation Accelerator 3.0 (PAA), to include new functions for even more flexible and integrated automation engineering. With this latest software version, Simatic PCS 7 automation projects can be configured even more easily and efficiently. With Version 3, the PAA software closes the gap between plant engineering and the process control system. The entire plant structure including measuring point data can be generated easily and synchronized between the systems. Automation engineers are supported in all phases from tender preparation (such as bills of material), automatically generated process control data from electrical engineering in the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 process control system (including controlled mass data engineering), to as-is documentation of the process automation.
Klaus Patzak (53) is returning to Siemens AG as Managing Partner of its Portfolio Companies (POC), effective April 1, 2019. The finance and transformation expert was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Bilfinger SE, having previously been Chief Financial Officer of Osram Licht AG. For several years, Patzak served, among other things, as head of Finance and Controlling at Siemens AG. In his new role, he will report directly to Roland Busch, Chief Operating Officer of Siemens AG.