- Framework agreement for restructuring at Power and Gas (PG) and Process Industries and Drives (PD)
- Cost reduction targets retained, job cuts unavoidable
- At the same time, a future pact for shaping the structural transformation
- Siemens establishes future fund for further qualification of employees
Following intensive exploratory talks, Siemens has reached an agreement with its Central Works Council and the IG Metall labor union regarding a future pact for the digital transformation. The pact defines the framework for the restructuring measures currently required at the Power and Gas Division (PG) and the Process Industries and Drives Division (PD) and is thus the basis for the negotiations that are now beginning regarding a reconciliation of interests and a social plan.
- Siemens to deliver 20 Vectron MS and five Vectron DC
- Delivery beginning at the end of 2018
- MRCE Vectron fleet growing to 136 locomotives
Mitsui Rail Capital Europe (MRCE), a full-service locomotive leasing company, has ordered a further 25 Vectron locomotives from Siemens. Ten of these units will be multisystem Vectron locomotives, used for operating across Europe from the Netherlands to Southeast Europe, and will be delivered at the end of 2018. Ten further Vectron MS locomotives are planned for service on the Rhine-Alps Corridor, and will be delivered in the second half of 2019. Five additional units will be equipped as direct-current locomotives (Vectron DC) and are to operate exclusively in Italy. Delivery of these five is planned beginning in March 2019.
- In the future, Legal and Compliance will be assigned to President and CEO Joe Kaeser
- Andreas Christian Hoffmann will become new General Counsel and head of the Legal and Compliance Department, effective January 1, 2014
Peter Solmssen will resign from the Managing Board of Siemens AG by mutual agreement, effective December 31, 2013. A member of the Managing Board since October 2007, Solmssen has served as General Counsel and head of the Legal and Compliance Department. In the future, the Managing Board area Legal and Compliance will be assigned to President and CEO Joe Kaeser. Andreas Christian Hoffmann will be the new General Counsel and head of the Legal and Compliance Department. He will report directly to the President and CEO.
- Real-time, intelligent management of both cooling production and distribution in data centers
- Improved offering for thermal optimization, saving up to 50 percent of total cooling costs
- Strategic partnership with data center solution provider Vigilent
The Siemens Building Technologies Division is expanding its existing Thermal Optimization offering set for data centers to intelligently ensure both highly efficient cooling production and cooling distribution throughout the entire facility. To improve the way cooling is distributed throughout data center "white space," Siemens is integrating Vigilent's artificial intelligence-based dynamic cooling management solution into its data center portfolio. Siemens will leverage Vigilent's real-time data analysis capabilities to dynamically match cooling to IT load in server rooms. In addition, Siemens strengthened its strategic partnership with Vigilent by becoming a minority shareholder.
A clean, reliable power supply is critical for offshore oil and gas assets. Siemens is now applying its extensive electrification experience in the marine industry to offshore oil and gas, with a focus on reducing emissions and risk in particularly unforgiving operational environments. The company's advanced lithium-ion battery-based solution, known as BlueVault™, is suited for both all-electric and hybrid energy-storage applications. BlueVault energy storage solutions are designed to help ensure continuity of power and to minimize carbon dioxide emissions, with an end goal of a low-emissions platform. The battery is designed to maximize life, performance and safety.
Siemens has received an order from Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma (CEPA) to equip the international airport it operates in El Salvador with electrical systems. The airport is scheduled to be significantly enlarged and modernized by 2032. The order covers the supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of high-voltage, medium-voltage, and low-voltage technology for the safe and reliable supply of power to the new terminals. Siemens will carry out the order, which is worth €3.5 million, in a consortium with a local construction company.
Siemens Corporation today announced that Barbara Humpton has been appointed CEO for the United States, effective June 1, 2018. Humpton (57) is currently CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. (SGT), a Federally-compliant U.S. organization structured to help address national imperatives in energy, infrastructure, automation and marine platforms.
Siemens has received an order from Inter Pipeline Ltd ("Inter Pipeline") to provide long-term service for two SGT-800 gas turbine generator sets in Canada. The units are scheduled for operation at the Central Utilities Block (CUB), part of the company's Heartland Petrochemical Complex currently under construction in Alberta's Industrial Heartland near Fort Saskatchewan.
- Eighty percent of Siemens employees worldwide now hold shares in the company
- Siemens distributes around €400 million to employees below management – mostly in the form of free shares
- Record number of employees participate in the company's success
Eighty percent of all Siemens employees worldwide are now also Siemens shareholders. In total, around 300,000 of the company's 377,000 employees worldwide hold Siemens shares. The company had aimed to have about 200,000 employee shareholders by 2020. This target has now already been exceeded by a clear margin. In January 2018, the number of employees holding shares in the company was still just 186,000.