- First vehicles are expected to arrive in late 2018
- Currently 128 Siemens' light rail vehicles are operating in San Diego
- San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) is Siemens' largest U.S. light rail vehicle customer
Siemens has received an order for 45 new S70 light rail vehicles (LRVs) from the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The new vehicles will allow service enhancements on existing rail lines and provide the necessary LRVs to operate the 11-mile extension of the UC San Diego Blue Line that is now under construction. This order will bring the total number of vehicles supplied to MTS to 244, making MTS the largest U.S. light rail customer for Siemens. The S70s will be built at the Siemens rail manufacturing hub in Sacramento, California. The first vehicles are expected to arrive in late 2018.
- Ananth joins Siemens from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Silicon Valley
- Many years of experience in the venture capital industry
Lakshmikanth "Lak" Ananth (43) has been appointed to head Siemens' new next47 startup unit, effective November 15, 2016. An India-born U.S. citizen, Ananth joins Siemens from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the venture capital program at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he spent the past two years building HPE's investment and partnership program. He was previously responsible, among other things, for business strategy and corporate development at HPE and for the acquisition of early-stage technology companies. Ananth has also worked in the venture capital and corporate development at Cisco.
The Velaro D is the fourth generation of high-speed trains that Siemens has developed on the basis of the Velaro platform. Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) classifies the train as the new Series 407 ICE 3 (predecessors: Series 403 and Series 406 ICE 3). In December 2013, Germany's Federal Railway Authority (EBA) approved the trains' operation – also in multiple-unit or so-called double-traction mode – on the Deutsche Bahn rail network. Passenger operation started on December 21, 2013.
Authorization for operation in single-traction mode in France was granted in April 2015. Since June 2015 the trains have been travelling to Paris in regular passenger operation. In addition to Germany and France, the Velaro D is also intended for cross-border operation in Belgium.
Since 2007, trains based on the Velaro platform have operated with high reliability for more than one billion kilometers in China, Russia, Spain and Turkey – equal to roughly 25,000 times around the globe.
- Mobility Data Services Center monitors fleet of Series 407 ICE 3 trains
- Digitalization ensures reliable prediction of vehicle behavior
- Service and maintenance activities can be systematically planned
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Siemens are launching a pilot application for the predictive servicing and maintenance of the high-speed Velaro D (Series 407 ICE 3) trains. Impending faults and malfunctions as well as the sources of these problems will be identified at an early point by means of digitalized data analysis, and recommendations for vehicle maintenance then derived from this data. Downtimes can thus be avoided and the fleet's overall availability increased, resulting in more cost-efficient vehicle operations. The project is currently planned for a term of twelve months.
- Line 1 of Ecuador's capital Quito
- Metro line operates at an altitude of 2,800 meters
- Passenger service in summer 2019
Siemens has been commissioned by the Acciona-Odebrecht construction consortium to electrify the entire Metro Line 1 in Ecuador's capital of Quito. Line 1 will substantially improve daily commuting in the city, since it will provide direct routes from north (El Labrador) and south (Quitumbe) of the city into the downtown area and historical city center. The new metro route will considerably reduce commute time to these destinations. The line is scheduled to begin passenger service in summer 2019.
Hermann O. Franz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG from 1993 to 1998 and longtime member of the company's Managing Board, died on October 7, 2016 at the age of 87.
- Satellite-based prioritization system for the Icelandic capital
- Green lights for public transport and emergency vehicles
- More punctual buses, greater road traffic safety, and less CO2 pollution
Siemens is supplying the satellite-based prioritization system Sitraffic Stream to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik. The system ensures that traffic lights automatically turn green for emergency and urban public transport vehicles at road intersections. The City of Reykjavik and the Icelandic Road and Coastal administration (Vegagerd rikisins) are sharing the system, which has initially been installed at six selected intersections in the center of the capital in cooperation with the local sales partner Smith & Norland.
- Current CIO Norbert Kleinjohann to retire
- Siemens IT supports the company's digital transformation
Effective October 1, 2016, Helmuth Ludwig (54) will serve as Siemens' new Chief Information Officer (CIO), thus assuming responsibility for global IT at the company. He succeeds Norbert Kleinjohann (62), who is retiring. Ludwig was previously Chief Digital Officer of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Unit at Siemens' Digital Factory Division.
- Light rail vehicles (LRVs) type S70 for Sound Transit's expanding system
- Serving the Greater Seattle and Central Puget Sound area
- Operator Sound Transit will nearly triple their fleet
Siemens has been awarded a contract to provide 122 new S70 light rail vehicles (LRVs) for Sound Transit, the regional transit system serving the Seattle and Central Puget Sound area in the US state of Washington. The order, the largest single contract in Sound Transit's history, will nearly triple the system's current fleet from today's 62 cars to 184. The S70s light rail vehicles will be built at the Siemens rail manufacturing hub in Sacramento, California. The fleet is expected to begin testing in 2019.
The Supervisory Board of Siemens AG and Managing Board member Siegfried Russwurm have mutually agreed that the company's contract with Russwurm, which will expire at the end of March 2017, will not be renewed. Russwurm has been a member of the Managing Board since January 2008 and, in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Technology Officer, was the partner on the Managing Board for the separately managed Healthcare business. In addition, he was responsible for the Middle East and CIS regions.