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• Increasing customer benefits through deeper component integration
• Boosting more compact designs through miniaturization

The next generation of power converter requires a higher integration of semiconductors in order to reduce costs, increase reliability and miniaturize product design. Siemens is further driving digitalization by integrating new technologies and topologies in modular building blocks for innovative products in the power converter business.

• Highest power density on the market
• Increased torque and speed range as well as expanded bore capacity
• Temperature-resistant down to -50 degrees Celsius
• Certification according to API and ATEX

At the Hannover Messe 2017, Siemens will present an additional series in the range of torsionally rigid all-steel disc couplings: the new N-ARPEX coupling with improved performance characteristics. An optimized disc pack and a revised component design facilitate the transmission of higher torques and speeds as well as a higher bore capacity with standard hubs. All-steel couplings can be used in all applications that require reliable torque transmission in set-ups with shaft displacement.

• Press conference ahead of the Hannover Messe on March 14 in Karlsruhe
• Press conference at the Hannover Messe with member of the Managing Board Klaus Helmrich on April 24
• Trade fair presentation under the banner "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise"
• "MindSphere-Lounge" draws visitors into the Cloud

At an international press conference, due to be held ahead of the Hannover Messe 2017 on March 14 in Karlsruhe, Siemens will be offering a preview of its trade fair presentation and the company's latest solutions. Providing an insight into the company's planned business and technological orientation and into the latest product innovations being unveiled at this year's Hannover Messe will be the CEOs of the Digital Factory and Process Industries and Drives, Dr. Jan Mrosik and Dr. Jürgen Brandes, as well as Dr. Beatrix Natter, CEO of the Transformers Business Unit for Energy Management. In keeping with its theme for this year's fair, "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise", Siemens will be showing ways in which companies of different sizes and in different industries can benefit from digitalization – through a shorter time-to-market, greater flexibility, and improved efficiency and quality.

• All antitrust approvals obtained
• Closing of the merger expected early April

The merger of Siemens' Wind Power business and Gamesa has today received unconditional clearance from the European competition authorities. Antitrust approvals have now been obtained in all required jurisdictions, and all the conditions precedent for the merger have been satisfied. Subject to pending closing actions, Siemens and Gamesa expect to close the merger early April, after the registration of the merged entity in the Vizcaya Companies Register.

• Siemens Bank receives approval to operate as a merchant bank in Singapore
• Siemens becomes first industrial company to support its growth strategy in Asian and Australian markets with a local bank branch in Singapore
• Focus on project and structured finance lending business mainly in the business-to-business and business–to-government segments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) grants approval for Siemens Bank GmbH Singapore Branch to operate as a merchant bank in Singapore. The new branch will cover financing activities for the Asia-Australia region. In addition to its main pillar, the loan and guarantee business, the branch will also provide selected finance advisory services for the Siemens group companies in Asia-Australia.

As part of the DynaGridCenter research project co-funded by the German BMWi (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), Siemens and its research and scientific partners have opened a dynamic grid control center at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, that is the first of its kind in the world. The project involved setting up an IT link between the grid control center and a grid model at Magdeburg University. The grid model sends its measurement data to the grid control center in Ilmenau, where it's analyzed in real time. The analysis results are then used to control the Magdeburg model dynamically, with Ilmenau acting as a grid center of the future. The object of the DynaGridCenter project is to research the next generation of grid control centers and station control technology. The new control centers are designed to help manage the increasingly dynamic grids over the long term and to maintain grid stability.

Following the integration of 3D printing as part of its digital services portfolio, Siemens has achieved an industry breakthrough with the first successful commercial installation and continuing safe operation of a 3D-printed part in a nuclear power plant. Because of the stringent safety and reliability requirements in the nuclear sector, achieving this qualification is a significant accomplishment.

• Digital service to ensure nearly 99% availability of the 82 RRX trains
• Predictive service and maintenance for over 32 years
• Test operations as of mid-2018 in 70,000 square meters of depot property

Today the cornerstone was laid in Dortmund-Eving, Germany, for the service and maintenance depot being built for the Rhine-Ruhr-Express (RRX) trains. Test operations at the depot are scheduled to begin in mid-2018. In the future, all 82 RRX trains will be serviced and maintained here for a period of 32 years. Siemens will create 75 jobs for the depot and is investing a mid-double-digit-million euro sum in the facility.

• New Simotion Motion Control functions for higher winding quality, machine speed and process reliability
• Prismatic winding compensates for path length differences on non-circular winding bodies
• Learning Error Compensation (LECo) compensates for cyclic disturbance variables in the process

Siemens has expanded its Simotion Motion Control solutions for converting machines to include prismatic winding and Learning Error Compensation (LECo). Prismatic winding compensates for path length differences on non-circular winding bodies. The advantages are higher winding quality, machine speed and process reliability. The new self-learning LECo function compensates for periodic disturbance variables in the process, and quickly restores the process and product quality. Deviations, such as position errors of a process axis triggered by mechanical shock, are already largely compensated for after just one cycle. The new Simotion applications are used, for example, in the manufacture of battery electrodes as well as in the processing of corrugated cardboard or material webs.