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• Siemens is expanding its ecosystem and is for the first time offering its partners’ solutions specifically designed for additive manufacturing on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace
• Castor, EOS, and AMbitious are the first partner offerings that complement the Siemens solutions; they’re appropriate for users entering the field of additive manufacturing
• Accelerate the industrialization of AM with Siemens Xcelerator and easy-to-use, interoperable, and end-to-end ecosystem solutions

Over the last few years, Siemens has successfully built an ecosystem that encompasses numerous partnerships along the entire value chain for the industrialization of additive manufacturing. This includes more than 110 machine manufacturing companies that produce the highest-quality components based on Siemens automation as well as leading producers offering integrated software solutions.

• New hardware and software available for Siemens' Industrial Edge ecosystem
• Industrial Edge Management System now cloud-based As-a-Service
• Low code for Industrial Edge: Simplifying edge app programming with Mendix on Edge
• Market launch at this year's SPS trade show in Nuremberg as part of Siemens Xcelerator

Industrial companies are increasingly relying on what’s known as edge computing in their production. It allows them to capture and process data where it’s generated: at the field level in the plant. At this year's SPS trade show in Nuremberg, the technology company Siemens is expanding its range of products and services for Industrial Edge at all levels. This will allow users to connect their information technology (IT) even better with the operational level (OT). Industrial Edge is also part of the portfolio of the Siemens Xcelerator open and flexible business platform.

• East Rail Line Cross-Harbour Extension equipped with new signaling system officially opens for revenue service
• 46 km East Rail Line now connects Chinese Mainland border, New Territories, Kowloon to Central Business Districts on Hong Kong Island
• Automatic train control system on the whole East Rail Line enhances operational efficiency

The East Rail Line Cross-Harbour Extension in Hong Kong successfully commenced passenger service on May 15, 2022, with Siemens Mobility’s Communications-Based Train Control system (CBTC). This completes the automation of the 46 km long East Rail Line connecting the Chinese Mainland border to the central business areas on Hong Kong Island and becomes the fourth railway line crossing Victoria Harbour. The Siemens Mobility digitalized signaling system helps provide passengers with the ability to reach the commercial, convention and financial hubs in the Wan Chai North and Admiralty areas in a faster, safer, and more seamless way.

• Digital Transformation Consulting CNC for the development of an individual digitalization strategy
• Connection between the production network and higher-level networks even for third-party controllers through Brownfield Connectivity Services

At EMO 2019 in Hanover, Siemens is presenting the latest services for the digitalization of machine tools. With its "Digital Transformation Awareness & Consulting CNC", Siemens offers a consulting service for the development of an individual digitalization strategy. In addition to workshops for the identification of action areas and development of the digitalization strategy, target group-specific training sessions provide more in-depth knowledge and promote wider acceptance of the digital transformation. With Brownfield Connectivity Services, Siemens is also offering additional services: using a gateway, users can connect both Sinumerik CNCs and controllers and automation solutions from third-party providers to higher-level networks. Digital Transformation Awareness & Consulting CNC and Brownfield Connectivity Services are part of Digital Motion Control Services, which enable Siemens to support its customers on the path toward digitalization.

• Extreme weather conditions necessitate an increased level of resilience and robustness in the North American electrical grid to ensure a more stable and reliable power supply
• Siemens strengthens its electrification portfolio with the addition of padmount and submersible switchgear

Siemens has announced its agreement to acquire California-based Trayer Engineering Corporation (Trayer), a leader in the design and manufacturing of medium voltage secondary distribution switchgear suitable for outdoor and below ground applications. 

• The inventions focus on artificial intelligence and sustainability
• €6.2 billion invested in research and development
• 5,383 Siemens inventions in fiscal 2023, amounting to around 24 inventions per workday

Each year, Siemens presents the Inventors of the Year award to outstanding inventors in six categories: Newcomers, Open Innovation, Outstanding Invention, Lifetime Achievement, Design and User Experience and the recently added PhD Award. In addition to helping explain artificial intelligence (AI), the prize-winning inventions also make power grids more sustainable, railcar axles more stable and charging stations for electric vehicles more universal. The 2023 award will be presented today to twelve Inventors of the Year from the U.S., the UK, China, India, Kazakhstan and Germany. You can find all award-winning inventions and the people behind them at:www.siemens.com/inventors.

• Hamburger Hochbahn and Siemens Mobility are building the train control system of tomorrow for Hamburg’s U2 and U4 lines
• Significant increase in capacity: trains will be able to run at 100-second intervals 

Between now and 2030, a state-of-the-art digital train control system from Siemens Mobility will be installed as an upgrade to the conventional train control system used by operator Hamburger Hochbahn (HOCHBAHN) on its U2 and U4 subway lines. The new technology, known as CBTC (communication-based train control), will allow trains to run at shorter intervals of only 100 seconds, which will put significantly more trains on the track in the future, thereby increasing capacity. In addition, CBTC also improves punctuality, reliability, and energy consumption.

• Expansion of existing partnership with transit operator Metrolinx
• Increasing system availability and reliability for Toronto’s passenger railway system 

Siemens Mobility has been chosen by Metrolinx, the regional public transit operator for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, to handle their track, signal, and right-of-way maintenance for the Central Region of Toronto's passenger railway infrastructure system. This partnership builds upon Siemens Mobility's existing maintenance services in the West Region and signal and communications services at the Metrolinx Network Operations Center. 

• Unused field data becomes accessible to IT systems with Field Data Enablement (FDE) – without interrupting production or influencing the control system
• No additional sensors or programming are required
• Available as a software and/or hardware solution

In the age of digitalization, data is the new gold. With its new Field Data Enablement Portfolio, Siemens is now making unused field data accessible to IT and thus making manufacturing companies more efficient and future-proof. In many production plants, there’s still lots of hidden potential for optimization at the field level, for example in automating machines and systems. Currently only about 20 percent of the total volume of data is used. Until now, data has been provided to IT systems by the controller, which sends data from the shop floor to edge or cloud systems. This means data that’s not available in the controller remains unavailable to IT, such as information about commissioning. Field Data Enablement now enables the convergence of IT and OT data with no need to reprogram the controller. This makes OT data accessible to IT systems that would otherwise remain unused or could only be accessed with great time and effort and with disruptions in running production plants.