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- Siemens to replace four floating power generation barges in the Upper Bay of New York City
- SeaFloat turnkey solution will provide reliable peaking power for New York City's renewable ambitions
- Boost power generating efficiency by nearly 50 percent
- 20-year long-term service agreement signed
Astoria Generating Company and Siemens signed a contract for
the turnkey construction of two SeaFloat power barges to be equipped with eight
Siemens SGT-A65 gas turbines. The barges will replace four existing power
barges located at Gowanus Generating Station in the Upper Bay of Brooklyn, New
York City, resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. Siemens will
preinstall the high-efficiency power generating facilities on two newly
constructed floating barges with a generation capacity of about 300 megawatts
(MW) each. Retrofitting the station with SGT-A65 gas turbines and generators
will improve the plants' power generating efficiency by nearly 50 percent while
significantly reducing potential emissions of pollutants like carbon dioxide
and monoxide – all while using the existing gas infrastructure.
- VinFast completed its automotive production within only 21 months
- Siemens' Digital Enterprise portfolio ensures VinFast's high manufacturing efficiency and product quality
- VinFast uses Xcelerator portfolio of software and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA)
VinFast, Vietnam's first volume car
manufacturer, has successfully produced its first cars ahead of schedule using
Siemens' portfolio of integrated software and hardware. By deploying its
portfolio, Siemens helped VinFast achieve its automotive production timeline for
building the factory, car design and start of the production in only 21 months,
well ahead of an already ambitious schedule. This is half of the average time
to build such a manufacturing plant. The VinFast plant in Hai Phong went live
in June 2019 and has a total design capacity of 250,000 cars per year. The first vehicles have been E-Scooters, compact
cars, sedans, and SUVs. These will be followed by battery electric passenger
cars as well as electric buses.
- Xcelerator unites core Siemens Digital Industries software portfolio with Mendix multi-experience application development platform to power digital transformation and make it possible for anybody to easily build, integrate and extend existing data and systems
- Enables rapid innovation and validation of products during design, manufacturing and use through creation of an accurate digital twin
- To reflect its broad portfolio of industry leading industrial software, Siemens PLM Software becomes Siemens Digital Industries Software
Siemens today announced Xcelerator – an integrated portfolio of software, services and application development platform that can be personalized and adapted to fit customer and industry-specific needs to help companies of all sizes become digital enterprises. Xcelerator combines the full portfolio of Siemens' software for design, engineering and manufacturing with an expanded Mendix low-code, multi-experience application development platform. The Mendix platform now includes cloud and app services for digital engineering and Internet of Things (IoT) powered by MindSphere® the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, in addition to Mendix's market-leading unified low-code and no-code development environments. Unique to Xcelerator, this platform drives digital transformation by enabling anyone in the ecosystem, including citizen developers and engineers to easily build, integrate and extend their existing data and systems. The company also announced that Siemens PLM Software has become Siemens Digital Industries Software, a change intended to reflect the growth in the company's ecosystem and portfolio of solutions, applications, tools and services that are driving digital transformation at organizations across the globe.
- Turnkey construction and operation and maintenance for 20 years
- Order worth about €450 million
- 40 percent equity participation during project development phase
Siemens will build a new combined cycle power plant as a turnkey project in Landivisiau in western France. The company will also operate and maintain the plant for a period of 20 years. With an installed capacity of 446 megawatts, the power plant will help to reliably cover Brittany's growing demand for electricity. The order volume is approximately €450 million. Siemens Financial Services (SFS), the financing arm of Siemens, held an equity stake in the project, ensuring stability during the entire development phase.
- Individual monitoring of the load cells of the scale
- Seamless communication through connection to Simatic
- Maximum accuracy through connection to Siwarex WP weighing electronics
With Siwarex DB, Siemens is launching a digital junction box for weighing applications with robust field housing in IP66 protection on the market. It can be integrated easily into Simatic environments. The Siwarex DB extends the Siemens weighing technology portfolio and through its seamless networking ensures that individual analog load cells can now be acquired and evaluated more comprehensively than ever before. They can be used both for the targeted monitoring of weighing processes and for extended diagnostics. Any error messages are displayed centrally on the Simatic controller and the HMI.
- Around 2,100 apprentices
and university students in work-study programs at 20 Siemens locations are
starting their professional lives
- International training
program includes 31 participants from 14 countries
- Training program focuses on
digital transformation process
- Training as an important
foundation for lifelong learning
Around 2,100
young people in Germany alone are beginning their occupational training with
Siemens today. At 20 locations in Germany, Siemens will be training about 1,500
people for its own needs as well as another 600 participants for external
partner companies. In Berlin, 31 young people from 14 countries are
taking part in the International Tech Apprenticeship@Siemens (ITA@S) program, including
apprentices from Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. The ITA@S apprentices have
been sent to Berlin by their local Siemens Regional Companies for training as
electronics technicians for industrial engineering or as mechatronics technicians.
In total, 111 young people from outside Germany are completing training as part
of the ITA@S program.
- Optimized for operating temperature of -40 to +75 degrees Celsius
- Addressing new and growing cybersecurity challenges
- New cybersecurity partners make their security applications available to Siemens customers
Siemens has expanded the Ruggedcom Multi-Service Platform product family of utility-grade communication devices by introducing a new, more powerful version of the Ruggedcom APE (Application Processing Engine) – an industrial application hosting platform designed for running third party software applications in harsh, mission-critical environments.
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- Smartron locomotive can now also be ordered for Bulgaria and Romania
- First orders from E-P Rail and PIMK
- Authorization already received for first locomotive in Bulgaria
Siemens Mobility is now also offering its Smartron locomotive in Bulgaria and Romania. The locomotive is available exclusively in a standard preconfigured version, which ensures cost-efficient operation and high reliability for customers. E-P Rail has already ordered four Smartron locomotives for Romania, and PIMK in Bulgaria a total of three. Authorization for placing on the market for the first Smartron in Bulgaria has already been received.
- Agricultural
machinery company to use software solutions from Siemens including product
lifecycle management (PLM) to expand technological leadership
Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that Maschinenfabrik Bernard
Krone GmbH & Co. KG, a leading agricultural machinery company based
in Germany, has selected the Siemens Digital Innovation Platform to help
establish its digitalization strategy. Using solutions including the Teamcenter
® portfolio and NX™ software, Krone will launch a new
digitalization program that will support processes over the entire product
lifecycle as well as collaborative work between departments by leveraging the
broad, integrated solutions that are part of the Siemens Digital Innovation
Platform.
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has ordered a total of 189 Desiro ML regional trains from Siemens. The trains will operate under the name "Cityjet".
The trains will be produced at the Siemens Mobility plants in Krefeld, Germany, and Graz, Austria, and final assembly will take place at ÖBB's Technical Services factory in Jedlersdorf, Austria.
Two design alternatives of the Desiro ML are built: the urban train design for large metropolitan areas such as Vienna and the regional train design. The ÖBB cityjet also offers a variable, low-floor seating arrangement as well as spacious entrance and intercar gangway areas, an attractive, innovative design and maximum riding comfort, and barrier-free entrance to all 550-mm station platforms in Austria.
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and Siemens Mobility are jointly investing in the future of passenger transport and are developing an electro-hybrid battery drive for trains. Operating as a battery-powered train, the Cityjet eco is an alternative for non-electrified rail lines primarily served at present with diesel-powered passenger trains. Battery operation can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50 percent compared to diesels. Following extensive testing of the prototype train, it is expected to first be used in passenger service in the second half of 2019.
On August 26, the joint project reached its next milestone: The battery driven EMU got the homologation and is starting passenger service beginning of September 2019, bringing more sustainability to non-electrified tracks in Austria.