- 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.
At Siemens, Inclusion is a holistic mindset. Not only do we want to set an example of accessibility, we want to pave the way for inclusion in other companies. We have learned – you cannot prescribe inclusion in the interplay between man, environment and activity. You need to live accessibility and inclusion in the day to day. Our employees demonstrate how to overcome the “hurdles in the head” every single day – and we support them.
Siemens supplied four bays of the 8VM1 gas-insulated SF6-free high-voltage switchgear (GIS) – which has a capacity of 72.5 kilovolts (kV) – to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. The systems were deployed in the Nissum Bredning Vind wind farm in Denmark. The switchgear protect the wind turbines from overloads and short circuits and thereby ensure an uninterruptible power supply. The metal-encapsulated 8VM1 from the blue GIS portfolio was developed specifically for use in offshore wind turbines. They work with the proven vacuum circuit-breaker technology and with clean air as the insulating medium instead of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). The wind farm operators, Nissum Bredning Vindmøllelaug and Jysk Energ, are relying on a new cable and turbine concept at a voltage of 66 kV to connect the four seven-megawatt (MW) wind turbines from Siemens to the grid. Compared with the usual 33-kV grid connection, this new concept increases transmission capacity and lowers the cost of laying cables. The wind farm has been supplying electricity since March.
- Sensformer™ will make relevant data available in real-time
- Enable customers to take full advantage of digitalization
- Benefit from Siemens expertise in IoT and cybersecurity
Siemens has launched the world's first comprehensive digital transformer portfolio at Hannover Messe, Germany. The new Sensformer™ merges physics and information and ensures digital intelligence for transformers regardless of their product class, size and rating. As transformers are placed at critical nodes of the power grid, they are perfect sensors for grid conditions containing full information on energy flow. Sensformer™ provides the easy step-in to digitalization for all customers, turning the "voltage regulators" into an info-hub. The data will allow for conclusions on the status of the assets as well as the power grid and thus allow for enhanced flexibility and optimized operation of the entire grid. While currently available solutions are imposing additional hurdles in terms of cost and complexity to customers, Sensformer™ will already be equipped per default with easy-to-use digital intelligence. The basic functionalities of Sensformer™ (incl. hardware, software and cloud access) are kept simple for ease of use. The Sensformer™ also holds the advantage of offering highest stability by limiting physical measurements to the bare minimum as well as avoiding unnecessary IT equipment at site. Siemens will shift its complete transformer portfolio to Sensformer™ starting June 2018.
- Inclusion as an integral part of the corporate culture and diversity strategy
- New inclusion agreement: digitalization opening up new possibilities for integrating individuals with disabilities
Siemens has won Germany's Inclusion Prize in the Company category for its activities to foster the inclusion of disabled employees. The prize was presented in Berlin, at a ceremony attended by German Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil. Awarded by the German Federal Employment Agency, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, Germany's Charter of Diversity and the German Business Forum, the Inclusion Prize for Business is awarded to honor exemplary inclusion practices.