- Austria's largest electrical equipment warehouse reduces its annual energy consumption by 15 percent
- Cloud application makes consumption transparent and reveals savings potential
- MindSphere energy-saving app for energy optimization
The Austrian electrical wholesaler Rexel Austria has placed an order with Siemens to deliver a cloud-based energy monitoring system that will be deployed in its logistics center in Weisskirchen. The system is expected to reduce annual energy consumption by up to 15 percent, an amount equal to the annual consumption of 40 single-family households. The scope of supply includes 66 communication-capable 7KM PAC 1500 and 7KM PAC 4200 power measuring devices, powermanager energy monitoring software, and connection to MindSphere, the IoT (Internet of Things) operating system from Siemens. A separate app, which is programmed by Siemens developers in Austria in close collaboration with Rexel, analyzes current power consumption values and makes the savings potential visible only to Rexel. Siemens is not given access to the data. In this way, Siemens is helping Rexel efficiently control power usage while also developing a new business model: Rexel is planning to use this technology at another site belonging to the company and, in the future, sell the energy saving solution to other SMEs in all industries.
- Technical prerequisites for Industrie 4.0 fulfilled
- Personalized medicine is driving digitalization of the pharmaceutical industry
- IoT solutions as a growth driver
The digital transformation of the industrial sector is in full swing: with its Digital Enterprise portfolio, Siemens has fulfilled the technical prerequisites for implementing Industrie 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As a result, companies of any size or industry can immediately begin using "digital twins" across the entire value chain in order to increase their competitiveness over the long term. "With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, our customers are now already achieving improvements in flexibility, time-to-market, efficiency and quality," said Eckard Eberle, CEO of Siemens' Process Automation Business Unit, at a press event in Vienna, Austria. "With these capabilities, they can successfully tackle some of the challenges that the process industries are currently facing. The growing importance of personalized medicine, for instance, is strengthening demand within the pharmaceutical industry for digital technologies that enable continuous, paperless production in smaller batches all the way down to a lot size of one."
- Building Technologies to acquire leading provider of smart IoT systems in buildings
- Expansion of smart building technology with digital sensory system – advanced lighting control application as core element
- Enhancing building performance by gathering multiple streams of data to improve transparency and efficiency
- Transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2018
Siemens Building Technologies Division is acquiring Enlighted Inc., a leading provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) systems in buildings, headquartered in the Silicon Valley. The company is a successful player in the smart building industry, bringing an advanced digital sensory system to market. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details. Closing is expected in the third quarter of 2018. Enlighted will be managed as an independent legal entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Industry, Inc.
- Booth slogan: "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!"
- User-oriented Digital Enterprise solutions for manufacturing sharpen competitive edge of end users and machine builders
- Wide-ranging practically-oriented exhibits and models visualize digital progress along the entire value chain
Siemens will be exhibiting at the automatica 2018 with an array of integrated and user-oriented Digital Enterprise solutions designed to sharpen the competitive edge of both end users and machine builders. Exhibiting under the banner "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!", Siemens will be focusing on ways in which industrial enterprises of all sizes can benefit from the digital transformation – along the entire value chain from product design and production planning through the engineering process to new services. With product variants changing at an ever faster pace, today's machines have to offer not only greater flexibility but also a higher degree of automation through the use of handling and assembly systems – a process supported by integrating robotics into production machinery. At the same time, automated engineering and the simulation of machines and product lines are enabling an ever shorter time to market.
- Expansion of Siemens offering with open software framework for building automation and IoT
- California-based J2 Innovations to be managed as independent legal entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens
- International expansion of J2 Innovations beyond North America
Siemens is acquiring J2 Innovations (J2), a leading software framework provider for building automation and IoT, headquartered near Los Angeles, California. The company has been a successful player in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) software business for 10 years, building a strong reputation in the US and internationally with its FIN (Fluid INtegration) Framework technology. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details. The transaction is expected to close by the end of May 2018.
- Leaders from Cisco, Dell Technologies, Total and TÜV SÜD AG Sign Charter of Trust
- 6th Annual National Infrastructure Week Kicks-Off with Advocacy and Events
- Cybersecurity Community Gathers for Thought Leadership on the "Future of Cybersecurity - Risk and Resiliency Across Critical Infrastructure"
The Charter of Trust members include a "who's who" of global brands, all well-known as best in-class – the largest, the most admired, the most sustainable, the best places to work, the most recognized, and now, all are being lauded as companies dedicated to using digitalization as a path for securing the future. Siemens, and the 11 Charter of Trust members, today welcomed Cisco, Dell Technologies, Total and TÜV SÜD AG to its global cybersecurity initiative during National Infrastructure Week in Washington, D.C.
Siemens stands for understanding and openness and opposes every form of discrimination, social exclusion, hate and nationalism. Siemens' Managing Board, Senior Management, Central Works Council and entire workforce as well as the IG Metall metalworkers' union stand together against every form of populism and racism. Regardless of where in the world it originates or who is behind it – discrimination stands in stark contrast to our company's values. We have operations in more than 200 countries around the world, and employees from about 170 different nations work at our company. Respect, tolerance and diversity are a matter of course for us, and they form the foundation for our company values. The action that we take together aims to create value and improve quality of life for all – without any form of social exclusion due to national origin, religion, appearance or sexual orientation. Racism can raise its ugly head anywhere: in kindergartens and schools, among the general public, in our free time or at the workplace. For this reason, we should and must take an effective stand against discrimination and for our values – day in and day out.
Siemens has been engaged by BKW Group to install a cloud-based meter data management system for power consumption data. Swiss law now requires the installation of smart electricity meters. As a result the volume of data that BKW is required to process will increase more than 40,000-fold. The cloud-based Siemens system, EnergyIP makes it possible to record and analyze these huge data volumes automatically. Siemens, working with Omnetric Group, the technology services company they founded with Accenture, will implement, integrate and operate the Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.
- All eleven members of Siemens Alstom's future Board of Directors proposed
- Six independent members, including two designated by Siemens
- Almost 50 percent are women
At its meeting today, Alstom's Board of Directors approved the proposal to the upcoming Annual Shareholder Meeting to appoint all members of the future Board of Directors of the combined entity Siemens Alstom. As previously announced, the Board will comprise eleven members.