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• First digital twin in petrochemical industry in Indonesia – for Chandra Asri
• Transforms analog plant data into automated digital twin framework
• One integrated platform for digital management of all plant asset documentation and data
• Provides control and transparency of plant asset information, increasing performance

Siemens and Bentley Systems will develop the first petrochemical digital twin in Indonesia for Chandra Asri, the country’s largest integrated petrochemical complex. With over 27 year footprint, the latter is set to double its capacity in the next five years to tap into the robust domestic and regional economic growth.

• Mobile working two to three days a week as worldwide standard
• Managing Board approves new model for working independently of fixed locations
• Model based on transformation of leadership and corporate culture
• Siemens among first large companies to adjust working models permanently

Siemens will establish mobile working as a core component of its “new normal” and will make it a permanent standard, both during the global pandemic and beyond. The company’s Managing Board has now approved implementation of a corresponding model. The aim is to enable employees worldwide to work on a mobile basis for an average of two or three days a week, whenever reasonable and feasible. The coronavirus crisis and social distancing measures have shown that working independently of a fixed location offers many advantages and is possible on a much wider scale than originally thought. Worldwide surveys of Siemens’ employees confirmed their desire for greater flexibility and for personalized solutions when it comes to deciding where they work.

• Siemens Industrial Edge closes the gap between local and cloud computing and enables high-frequency data exchange at field level
• Edge apps for intelligent data analysis and increased productivity
• Industrial Edge includes a backend, Edge devices and Edge apps in Edge Management

With Siemens Industrial Edge, Siemens offers a digitalization solution that adds machine-level data processing to automation devices, by taking the intelligence of Edge computing and thus, sophisticated analytics securely to manufacturing level. Siemens Industrial Edge offers users the opportunity to execute a wide range of intelligent analytics applications. Cloud connectivity is used in conjunction with Edge applications in an integrated hardware and software ecosystem for automation components.

• Acquisition expands Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, enhancing current integrated circuit design offerings with pioneering place and route software
• Avatar technology strengthens Siemens’ leadership in Design to Silicon with place and route for advanced node design

Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Santa Clara, CA-based Avatar Integrated Systems Inc., a leading developer of place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. Avatar helps engineers optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) for complex chips with fewer resources. Siemens plans to add Avatar’s technology to the Xcelerator portfolio as part of Mentor’s IC suite of software, capitalizing on the growing segment of place and route. Avatar will be integrated with existing market-leading products from Mentor, a Siemens Business, including the Calibre® platform , Tessent™ software , and Catapult™ HLS software , to help customers develop solutions that address today's and tomorrow's design implementation challenges.

• New plant intelligence options for the control and monitoring of recipe-controlled processes
• Easy orchestration of production sequences with “WinCC Unified Line Coordination” (LCS)
• Quick changes to processes in recipe and sequence-based production with “WinCC Unified Sequence” (SES)

Siemens is expanding its offer for the Simatic WinCC Unified visualization system to include two new plant intelligence options: Line Coordination (LCS) and Sequence (SES) enable the fast orchestration and adaptation of production sequences for the control and monitoring of recipe-controlled processes, such as those used in the food and beverages industry. With these new software options, users can flexibly design production sequences, monitor different plant sections and therefore utilize the capacity of individual production machines better and more evenly, increasing both effectiveness and economic efficiency. For both SES and LCS, Siemens supplies automation modules and the corresponding controls for the visualization, which can be engineered in the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal engineering framework. Production sequences can be parameterized with the corresponding modules, which eliminates programming effort and reduces engineering effort. The two new plant intelligence options can be combined to meet the relevant requirements.

• Top flexibility thanks to automated guided vehicles (AGVs) 
• Conveyor technology solutions enable space-optimized construction 
• All conveyor technology components were installed within a record time of 4.5 months only 

Within a record time of 4.5 months, Siemens has installed all conveyor technology components for the final assembly of the first fully electric Porsche, the "Taycan". As a result, the time from installation to production of the first vehicle was halved compared to similar projects. As, due to several building restrictions, the final assembly production line had to be built up vertically, a manufacturing concept has been developed in which each level is used for production purposes. The Taycan facility at the parent plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen was put into operation in September last year.

• Together, Industry leaders Siemens and SAP will deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management. 
• Partnership leverages expertise and technology of both companies to provide a true digital thread that helps enterprises eliminate process and information siloes, drives digitalization and delivers a comprehensive solution for the 4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).
• SAP will offer Siemens Teamcenter software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product data management. 
• Siemens will offer SAP® Intelligent Asset Management solutions and SAP Project and Portfolio Management applications to maximize business value for customers over the entire product and service lifecycle and enable new collaborative processes between manufacturers and operators. 

Siemens and SAP today announced a new partnership that will leverage their industry expertise and bring together their complementary software solutions for product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management so their customers can deliver new innovation and collaborative business models that will accelerate industry transformation globally. Through this agreement, both SAP and Siemens will be able to complement and integrate their respective offerings in order to offer customers the first truly integrated and enhanced solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain, service and asset management. This will enable customers to form a true digital thread integrating all virtual models and simulations of a product or asset with real-time business information, feedback and performance data over the entire lifecycle.

• Siemens supports Hexr in the mass customization of additively manufactured bicycle helmets
• Digital Enterprise portfolio offers integrated software and automation solutions for additive manufacturing
• Additive Manufacturing Network – an online order-to-delivery collaboration platform for the industrial additive manufacturing community, helps streamline the AM production process

Bicycle helmets made to measure and in an affordable framework for everyone - what was unthinkable a few years ago is now becoming reality thanks to digitalization and additive manufacturing. The head is simply scanned with a smartphone app and the process for the custom-made helmet is initiated. Siemens, together with EOS, has supported this vision of the bicycle helmet manufacturer Hexr. Siemens' Digital Enterprise portfolio consists of software and automation solutions that optimize process steps along the entire value chain of additive manufacturing. This holistic approach is unique in the field of the industrialization of additive manufacturing. With the help of end-to-end solutions, Siemens has created the digital twin of an industrialized additive manufacturing factory, helping to optimize the design and streamline the production processes for customized bicycle helmets even before production begins. By combining simulation, design optimization and a high degree of automation in production, the costs per part could be predicted and significantly reduced, allowing Hexr to scale the scan-to-print application to mass production.

• Responsible for Human Resources and Global Business Services, effective October 1, 2020
• More than two decades of international experience in all HR functions and in supporting strategic change processes

The Supervisory Board of Siemens AG has appointed Judith Wiese (49) a member of Siemens’ Managing Board, effective October 1, 2020. Ms. Wiese will serve as the company’s Chief Human Resources Officer and the Labor Director of Siemens AG. In addition, she is to head Global Business Services (GBS), which provides Siemens units and external customers with a variety of company services such as personnel and employee services, invoicing and payment processing, and event management.