- Siemens technology and capital is aiding 80 Acres Farms and its technology subsidary, Infinite Acres, in expansion to meet global food supply demands
- Siemens hardware and software solutions provide key technologies for 80 Acres' farm facilities and operations via Infinite Acres' Loop platform
Siemens announced its collaboration with 80 Acres Farms, a leader in the
indoor farming industry. With five production farms in southwestern Ohio, a new
farm in Florence, Kentucky, a future farm in Covington, Georgia, and R&D
facilities in Arkansas and the Netherlands, 80 Acres Farms specializes in
growing the next generation of food — food grown in eco-friendly indoor farms
closer to consumers’ tables.
- Michael Reichle is the new CEO of Siemens Large Drives Applications and will become CEO of the newly formed integrated motors and large drives champion later this year.
- The previous CEO, Hermann Kleinod, will remain an integral part of the global LDA management team.
- Christoph Salentin continues to serve as CFO of LDA.
Effective
January 1, 2023, Michael Reichle has been appointed CEO of Siemens Portfolio
Company Large Drives Applications (LDA). He succeeds Hermann Kleinod, who will
remain an integral part of the global LDA management team. As CEO, Reichle
assumes all areas of responsibility of his predecessor.
- More than
€12 million for aid projects and humanitarian organizations to date
- Siemens
continues to match all employee donations to Siemens Caring Hands e.V.
- More than 60
aid projects implemented by different organizations
- Focus on support
for improving access to medical care
- Further
support for maintaining and rebuilding critical infrastructure
The war in
Ukraine continues to force people to flee the affected areas. Low winter
temperatures are exacerbating the precarious situation of the people living
there. To provide further help to those affected, Siemens AG and Siemens
Healthineers AG are extending their aid campaign and will continue to match
every euro donated by their employees to Siemens Caring Hands e.V. Through this
charitable organization, the two companies have collected more than €12 million
in donations so far since the outbreak of the war. These donations have already
enabled various organizations to implement more than 60 aid projects. The projects
have ranged from supplying food and medicine to providing clothing and
temporary refugee accommodation for Siemens employees and their families, and for
anyone in need in Ukraine.
- Turnkey
contract to integrate the delivery and commissioning of fully automated,
driverless metro trains, digital
rail infrastructure including signalling, electrification, telecoms, platform
screen doors and depot
- Providing
latest digital products and platforms, optimizing
operations throughout the network for the trains, rail infrastructure and
subsystems
- 15-year
maintenance contract, first time usage of digital asset management applications
by Railigent X in Australia
Siemens Mobility is the system integrator and
reliable partner for on time delivery of the city-shaping project Sydney Metro
– Western Sydney Airport, the new metro railway line that will service between
St Marys, the new Western Sydney International Airport and the
Western Sydney Aerotropolis. The company has been awarded
a contract to deliver 12 automated, driverless 3-car metro trains, a purpose built
depot, the digital rail infrastructure including signalling, electrification, telecoms
and platform screen doors as well as system integration, testing and
commissioning. The company will also complete a 15-year maintenance contract.
Siemens Mobility is delivering the turnkey project as a member of the Parklife
Metro consortium with its partners Webuild, RATP Dev, Siemens Financial
Services and Plenary Group, all with strong international experience in
delivering infrastructure projects. The Siemens Mobility portion of the contract is 900 million Euro.
- Siemens plant in Zug wins this year’s Factory of the Year award in the resilience category
- Recognition of resilient production and supply chain, and sustainable use of resources
The Siemens Smart Infrastructure plant in Zug, Switzerland, has been
named
Factory of the Year 2022 in the category Excellence in Supply
Chain Resilience. The award recognizes the plant’s supply chain resilience and
preventive risk management, which were found to be outstanding measured against
other plants in Europe. Organized by international management consultancy
Kearney, the Factory of the Year industry competition is considered one of the
most prestigious in Europe.
- Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli uses Siemens Xcelerator as a Service to accelerate development of the ultimate AC75 America’s Cup yacht
- Cloud-based collaboration is used to manage increased design complexity and improve manufacturing repeatability, in and out of season
- The team leverage the power of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, running thousands of simulations per day to explore new designs
Siemens Digital Industries Software
announced today that the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli America's Cup team is using the
Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services to design, simulate and
optimize its racing yacht for the forthcoming America’s Cup challenge (37th
America’s Cup).
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli America's Cup Team relies on Siemens Xcelerator Portfolio
- 18 Siemens inventions per workday in
fiscal 2022
- Inventions range from bionic metro
systems to empathetic chatbots
- €5.6 billion invested in research
and development
Every year, Siemens recognizes its outstanding researchers and
developers as Inventors of the Year in five categories: Newcomers, Open
Innovation, Outstanding Invention, Lifetime Achievement, and Design and User
Experience. These prize-winning inventors are continuing a Siemens tradition
that began 175 years ago. Their inventions benefit both society and the economy
by enabling people to travel more sustainably, by making industry smarter and
more efficient or by improving therapeutic methods. Sixteen Inventors of the
Year for 2022 were honored today. They hail from Germany, Hong Kong, India,
Canada, Lebanon, Austria, Poland and Scotland. Details on the prize-winning inventions
and the people behind them are available at: www.siemens.com/inventors.
- Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be held
in virtual format on February 9, 2023
- Dr. Regina E. Dugan (Wellcome Leap
Inc.), Keryn Lee James (former CEO of the ERM Group, and expert for
sustainability) and Martina Merz (thyssenkrupp AG) nominated for election to
Supervisory Board
- Reelection of four other Supervisory
Board members proposed:
Dr. Werner Brandt (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of RWE AG),
Benoît Potier (Chairman of the Board of Directors of ĽAir Liquide S.A.),
Dr. Nathalie von Siemens (member of supervisory boards) and
Matthias Zachert (Chairman of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG)
- Michael Diekmann, Dr. Norbert Reithofer
and Baroness Nemat Shafik to leave Supervisory Board
- Supervisory Board and Managing Board propose increasing dividend to €4.25,
up from €4.00 in prior
year
Siemens AG
today published the notice for its next ordinary Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
on February 9, 2023. The Managing Board of Siemens AG has decided, with
Supervisory Board approval, that the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will again be
held as a virtual event. In addition, the Supervisory Board has proposed the election
of three new members. Approval from the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting for all of
the Supervisory Board’s election proposals would mean that, in the future, half
of the ten shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board would be female.
As part of its sustainability commitments, the company will, for the first
time, offset the carbon emissions caused by sending nearly a million
invitations.