- 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.
- Viking Link ensures increased security of supply and integration of renewable energy
- Siemens to deliver both HVDC converter stations
Siemens has been awarded a contract to deliver two converter stations for the first high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between Great Britain and Denmark. Viking Link will enable the exchange of electricity up to 1,400 megawatts (MW) to provide increased power-supply reliability and security to consumers in both countries. By allowing transmission to flow in both directions, Viking Link will support the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid. The interconnector is being jointly developed by National Grid Ventures (Great Britain) and Energinet (Denmark) via National Grid Viking Link Ltd. and Energinet Eltransmission A/S. Viking Link is scheduled to begin commercial operation at the end of 2023.
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.
Wiener Linien commissioned Siemens at the end of 2017 with the delivery of 34 fully automated metro trains. The contract also includes the maintenance of the trains for a period of 24 years and an option for an additional eleven trains. The "X cars" will be operated fully automated on the new U5 line in Vienna beginning in 2024. The trains can also operate semi-automated or manually on previously existing lines. Delivery of the trains is scheduled to begin in mid-2020 and to be completed by 2030. The trains will be manufactured at the Siemens factory in Vienna.
- 34 six-car Type X metro trainsets, suitable for
fully automatic operation and operation with driver
- Deliveries to begin in mid-2020 with a pre-series
train
- 24-year maintenance contract ensures
sustainable value creation over the entire lifecycle
The first painted car
body for the new Vienna metro was presented today together with the public
transport operator Wiener Linien at the Siemens Mobility plant in the Austrian
capital. The trains are the city's third metro generation supplied by Siemens and
are named "X cars." The first pre-series train is scheduled to be
delivered in mid-2020. A total of 34 six-car trainsets are to be built. Wiener
Linien also secured an option for an additional eleven trains. The trains are
designed for fully automatic operation as well as operation with a driver.
Plans call for them to be used fully automatically on the city's new Line U5,
which is currently under construction, and with drivers on Wiener Linien's
Lines U1 to U4.