- New LRV’s will operate on Mid-Coast Trolley
Extension
- Completes the system’s transition to a fully
low-floor fleet
San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract for 25 S700 Low-floor Light Rail Vehicles. These cars will operate the entire 53-mile double-tracked MTS light rail network, including on the 11-mile Mid-Coast Trolley extension, which is scheduled to open in 2021. It will extend San Diego's current Blue Line from the heart of downtown north to University of California San Diego and University Town Center. They will replace Siemens Mobility's high-floor SD100 LRVs which were manufactured in the 1990s. This purchase and subsequent purchases will make San Diego's fleet fully low-floor and accessible. Delivery of the new LRVs is expected in 2021.
- Oregon’s largest regional transit provider
- S700 light rail vehicle will replace city’s Type 1
fleet
- Digitalization increases vehicles’ value sustainably
over their lifecycle
- Contract includes options for up to 60 additional
vehicles
Siemens Mobility won the latest Light Rail Vehicle
(LRV) contract from Portland's TriMet, Oregon's largest regional transit
provider. This order will replace TriMet's original 26 Type-1 vehicles, from
another manufacturer, with Siemens Mobility's new S700, a low-floor
state-of-the-art vehicle jointly developed by TriMet and Siemens Mobility. The
contract includes options for up to 60 additional LRVs, which would accommodate
additional vehicles needed for further service expansions such as the MAX Red Line
Extension to Fair Complex, and the Southwest Corridor. With the completion of this new purchase, TriMet's
LRV fleet will be a fully Siemens Mobility fleet - with the first delivery
expected in 2021.
- Mazda
realizes electrical and electronic design productivity and innovation using the
Capital model-based generative design flow
- Capital
seamlessly integrates data across multi-discipline domains, including
electrical and mechanical, for unified vehicle design collaboration
Siemens today announced that
Mazda Motor Corporation has adopted the Capital™ electrical design software suite from Mentor, a Siemens
business, to help maximize innovation in the design of next-generation
automotive electrical systems. Recognized worldwide for its successful launch of
innumerable innovative technologies,
Mazda uses Capital for model-based generative design for the electrical and
electronic systems of the entire vehicle platform. The Capital automated generative
design flow helps Mazda automotive design teams manage design complexity and
changes across the entire vehicle platform, minimizing errors and reducing
costs.
- Comprehensive concept for the development of the energy sector of
Nigeria
- Goal is to secure reliable and affordable electricity supply
- Scope includes rehabilitation, upgrades and expansion of
transmission and distribution networks and power generation
Siemens and the Federal Government of Nigeria signed an implementation
agreement for the Nigeria Electrification Roadmap. The goal of the Roadmap is
to resolve existing challenges in the power sector and expand the capacity for
the future power needs of the country. The document was signed by Joe Kaeser,
President and CEO of Siemens AG, Onyeche Tifase, CEO of Siemens Limited and Alex
Okoh, Director General/CEO of Bureau of Public Enterprises in Abuja in the
presence of Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria.
- Siemens’ lightning information
service detected about 446,000 strokes of lightning in Germany in 2018 – 3,000
more than in 2017
- Germany’s “lightning capital” was
Schweinfurt, which also headed the list in 2014
- The fewest strikes in Kiel, Potsdam,
Schwerin and the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- Saarland the German state with the
most lightning activity in 2018, Saarbrücken the leader among state capitals
- The most lightning strikes in 2018
on June 1
- At European level, Croatia tops the ranking
in Siemens’ 2018 lightning atlas
The Lower
Franconian city of Schweinfurt was Germany’s “lightning capital” in 2018,
succeeding the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which topped
the list in 2017. Siemens’ lightning information service BLIDS (which stands
for
Blitz-Informationsdienst von Siemens) detected 5.0 lightning strikes
per square kilometer in Schweinfurt in 2018. The districts of
Rheinisch-Bergisch in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Weilheim-Schongau
in Upper Bavaria took second and third places with 4.0 and 3.7 ground flashes
per square kilometer, respectively. Germany’s lowest concentration of lightning
strikes was in the cities of Kiel, Potsdam and Schwerin and in the Lüchow-Dannenberg
district (0.2). With lightning striking 3.0 times per square kilometer,
Saarbrücken led the country’s list of state capitals in 2018. Saarland was the
state registering the most lightning strikes detected per square kilometer,
while Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was the state with the fewest. Overall, at 446,000,
BLIDS again registered a comparatively low level of atmospheric discharges in
Germany – although 2017’s level and 2016’s record low level of some 432,000 strikes
were exceeded by 3.2 percent.
- Korea is the fourth country to establish the IoT community MindSphere World
- In collaboration with other three organizations in Germany, Italy and South East Asia-Pacific to get the benefits from the international exchange
- Community to drive development of IoT ecosystem based on MindSphere and activate data-driven business paradigm in the fourth industrial revolution era
MindSphere World Korea, an association of users, developers, universities and researchers of the cloud-based open IoT operating system MindSphere was founded on June. Through activities in various fields, MindSphere World Korea is designed to create synergies among members by exchanging technical demands, developing market models and establish IoT platforms and ecosystems based on MindSphere. The association also aims to activate data-driven businesses that utilize advanced ICT technologies in the industrial environment.
- Order for 20 Vectron MS locomotives including full service
- Deployment by SBB Cargo International on the Rhine-Alpine Corridor
- Option for 20 additional locomotives
Switzerland's SBB Cargo International AG has ordered 20 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility in cooperation with SüdLeasing GmbH. The locomotives will be leased by SBB Cargo International to SüdLeasing through a long-term leasing plan with a flexible term. In addition, SBB Cargo International has acquired an option for 20 additional locomotives from Siemens Mobility.
- Manufacturers, operator and Federal Railway Authority agree on reworking concept
- Deutsche Bahn to begin immediately with acceptance and placing in service
- Reworking will be carried out during ongoing operation as part of the warranty of Bombardier Transportation
Deutsche Bahn will resume acceptance of further ICE 4 trains with immediate effect. Siemens Mobility and Bombardier Transportation have reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) on a reworking and testing concept for welds that were occasionally not executed in the specified quality on ICE 4 body shells. Since these deviations do not preclude safe operation, the affected cars can be used in passenger service. As a result of this agreement, five ICE 4 trains will be accepted by DB in the coming days and enter service. At that point, the customer will have 30 ICE 4 trains available. Subsequently, DB will continue receiving ICE 4 trains as planned and immediately place them in service.
- Innovation
campus for attracting high-tech companies
- Hydrogen
research laboratory with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
- Investments
to total around €30 million, roughly 100 new jobs
Siemens, the
Free State of Saxony and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft signed a memorandum of
understanding today in Görlitz, Germany, to strengthen this location over the
long term and support the structural transformation of Germany’s Lusatia region.
Plans call for establishing an innovation campus and a startup accelerator on the
site of Siemens’ plant in Görlitz. The aim is to encourage other technology and
industrial companies as well as startups and research institutes to establish
operations in this region. The focus of activity will be on digitalization,
automation, energy technology and innovative material and production
technologies.