- Detailed digitalization roadmap including schedule, technology recommendations and return-on-investment data
- By implementing the roadmap, Steklarna Hrastnik aims to improve its productivity, quality and efficiency
The digital transformation in the glass industry is in full swing. The Digital Enterprise portfolio from Siemens encompasses integrated hardware, software and services for enterprises of all sizes, and allows companies across the glass industry to leverage the benefits of Industrie 4.0 already today. As part of a joint digitalization consulting project, Siemens and Steklarna Hrastnik collaborated to create a detailed strategy for the glass manufacturer’s digital transformation over the next five years.
- Fulcrum's municipal solid waste-to-fuels plant will contribute to a sustainable future
Abengoa, a Spanish engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, recently selected Siemens to supply a compressor train for Fulcrum BioEnergy's Sierra BioFuels Plant that will use gasification technology to produce low-carbon fuels from municipal solid waste. The plant will be located in Storey County outside of Reno Nevada and is expected to produce approximately 11 million gallons of biofuel per year that will be used by the aviation industry.
- Agreement to cooperate with Ministry of Electricity of Iraq to add 11 gigawatts of power generation capacity in four years
- Roadmap proposes cost savings in billions of USD and generating additional electricity 24/7 for 23 million people
- Plan envisions creating tens of thousands of jobs
- Focuses on energy infrastructure, education, anti-corruption and financing
Siemens and the Ministry of Electricity of the Republic of Iraq have entered a milestone agreement to seek the implementation of the company's roadmap for repowering Iraq. Signed by Qasim Al-Fahdawi, Minister of Electricity, and Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will examine a series of short, medium and long-term plans to meet the reconstruction goals of Iraq and support the country's economic development.
- Padam is a fast-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) provider for on-demand transport
- Padam closes an investment round with strategic investment of Siemens Mobility
- Enhances Siemens Mobility's intelligent infrastructure portfolio for intermodal mobility
- The transaction was executed in October 2018
- Padam remains a standalone, founder-led company
Siemens Mobility and Padam, headquartered in Paris, France and a fast-growing turnkey AI-powered technology provider that operates on-demand transport (microtransit) services, are launching a partnership to enhance demand responsive transportation options and improve passenger experience. The investment will enhance Siemens Mobility's intelligent infrastructure portfolio that is focused on intermodal transportation, offering public transportation operators a first/last mile transportation solution that optimizes vehicle utilization at lower costs. Siemens has made a significant investment in Padam. Both companies have agreed to maintain confidentiality regarding financial details of the deal. Padam's white-label platform, Padam Live, is a software platform that is rebranded by public transportation operators to integrate microtransit services. It offers cities worldwide an advanced management system.
- Miguel Ángel López to take on new role as of December 1, 2018
- Rosa García García to leave Siemens by mutual agreement
- López also to succeed García in chairing SGRE's Board of Directors
In a broader change of responsibilities in Spain, Siemens announced today that Miguel Ángel López, currently Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), will succeed Rosa García García at the top of Siemens S.A. in Madrid. After having successfully carried Siemens Spain forward for the past seven years, García (53) has, in agreement with Siemens, decided to pursue opportunities outside the company. She will facilitate a proper hand-over to her successor on December 1, 2018, and serve in an advisory capacity until the end of the year.
- Combines Bentley's advanced asset performance software capabilities and Siemens' complementary power generation expertise
- Delivers enhanced equipment availability, reliability, and cost efficiency
Siemens and Bentley Systems have announced a joint technology and service solution, consisting of their complementary offerings, to speed up the digitalization of power plants and provide intelligent analytics with a range of innovative offerings and managed services solutions. The new service, to be hosted on Siemens' cloud-based open IoT operating system, MindSphere, will combine Bentley's advanced asset performance software capabilities with Siemens' complementary technology and service expertise to empower power plant owners to take full advantage of digitalization, which helps improve maintenance operations and planning.
- Solution enables up-to-date, as-operated digital twins − synchronizing the real plant and its engineering representations − for more efficient process plant operations
- Integration of different kinds of data sources to create holistic digital context for aligned digital components
Siemens and Bentley Systems announced today the introduction of PlantSight, resulting from development together based on their highly complementary software portfolios. PlantSight is a digital solution to benefit customers through more efficient plant operations. PlantSight enables as-operated and up-to-date digital twins which synchronize with both physical reality and engineering data, creating a holistic digital context for consistently understood digital components across disparate data sources, for any operating plant. Plant operators benefit from high trustworthiness and quality of information for continuous operational readiness and more reliability.
- Integrated Digital Enterprise portfolio for machine and plant builders as well as end customers
- Concrete digitalization use cases from chemical, pharmaceutical, aerospace, battery, food and beverage industries
- Siemens backs future technologies such as artificial intelligence and edge computing
- New features for MindSphere from visualization to data analysis
At the "SPS IPC Drives" 2018, Siemens will be presenting a range of sector-specific solutions and future technologies to enable the digital transformation of today's discrete and process industries. The central focus of the over 4,000 square meter Siemens booth will be on new products, solutions and services from the company's Digital Enterprise portfolio designed to enable the merger between the physical and digital worlds. The solutions on show will allow not only machine and plant builders but also end customers of any size – working in areas as diverse as the chemical, aerospace, battery, food and beverage industries – to boost the flexibility, efficiency, quality, security and speed of their operations. To get to grips with the rising complexity of production processes and leverage the many associated benefits, Siemens is continuously expanding and strengthening its portfolio with the integration of groundbreaking future technologies, from artificial intelligence to edge computing.
- Siemens' Sitraffic ESCoS roadside unit set to become a new industry standard for V2X technology
Siemens Mobility, Inc. is pleased to announce it has received OmniAir Certification for its Sitraffic ESCoS roadside unit (RSU), the first roadside unit to receive OmniAir's commercial, connected vehicle certification. Siemens' RSU is one of the few RSUs today that meet U.S. Department of Transportation FHWA specification version 4.1. Now with OmniAir's certification, this roadside unit is well-positioned to become the established standard and a key component for V2X device communications today.
- Order for 18 7-car trainsets and 50 power cars
- Delivery to begin in summer 2021
- Power car principle provides maximum flexibility
New trains for growing number of long-distance passengers: Deutsche Bahn (DB) is expanding its fleet and has ordered an additional eighteen 7-car ICE 4 trainsets and 50 more power cars from Siemens Mobility. With these new power cars, 50 ICE 4 trainsets, previously ordered in a 12-car configuration, can be extended to 13 cars. This flexible configuration is made possible by the train’s innovative traction drive technology and its completely new train control system. Delivery of the ordered 7-car trainsets is expected to begin in the summer of 2023. Delivery of the 13-car trainsets will begin after delivery of the 50 12-car trains is completed in 2021. The order has a total value of around €610 million. Bombardier Transportation will supply approximately one-third of the order.