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• The global charitable organization Siemens Caring Hands will provide $250,000 to Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative to secure prostheses for victims in Ukraine
• Siemens software is used for the personalized development and 3D printing of prostheses, enabling delivery directly to victims in the Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has produced numerous amputation victims. In total, more than 10,000 prostheses are needed in the country. To help those affected who have lost one or more limbs, Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative (UTGI) has launched a fundraising initiative in partnership with Singularity Group to deliver 100 of its personalized TrueLimb prostheses to Ukraine. Siemens Caring Hands is contributing to the initiative through an initial $250,000 donation, which will cover the costs for 25 victims.

• 65 Vectron AC and Vectron MS locomotives called from existing framework agreement
• Delivery includes locomotives with a top speed of 230 km/h
• Milestone reached: 1,500 Vectrons sold

Akiem, the leasing rolling stock specialist company for rail vehicles, has ordered 65 Vectron AC and Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility. The order was placed as part of a framework agreement for the purchase of locomotives that was signed in December 2021. The first locomotives from this call are to be delivered in mid-2024. Akiem previously ordered 20 Vectron locomotives from Siemens Mobility last December.

• Cooperation draws on Siemens’ portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software and digital services – the open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator
• New initiative builds on long-standing software partnership of both companies

Siemens, a leading supplier in the field of automation and industrial software, cooperates with Nissan to build production lines for the new all-electric crossover Nissan Ariya at the company’s plant in Tochigi, Japan. Both companies build on their long-standing cooperation. Nissan had already been using the Siemens Digital Industries software portfolio to optimize design and production. End-to-end digital threads enable Nissan to connect a wide variety of sources of information across product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms. 

• New leadership appointments effective October 1, 2022
• Jenny Bofinger, currently head of Sustainability, will join the board of the newly formed International Sustainability Standards Board

Siemens AG today announced new leadership appointments in its Sustainability and Investor Relations departments, effective October 1. Eva Riesenhuber (49), currently head of Investor Relations, will assume the role of global head of Sustainability and Eva Scherer (38), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Rail Infrastructure and Software Business Units at Siemens Mobility, is appointed head of Investor Relations.

• Delivery of 14 Vectron MS multisystem locomotives
• MRCE fleet includes 147 Vectron locomotives

Mitsui Rail Capital Europe (MRCE), a full-service locomotive leasing company, has ordered 14 Vectron MS multisystem locomotives from Siemens Mobility on the basis of an existing contract. With this order, MRCE will have a fleet of 147 Vectrons. MRCE plans to use the locomotives in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and the Netherlands. 

• Siemens represented in the Green Innovation Zone and the Digital Hub at the ACHEMA trade fair
• Focus on chemical recycling and hydrogen
• Siemens Xcelerator and the entire Siemens portfolio support sustainability management along the production chain

Sustainability is the leading theme of this year's world's flagship trade fair for the process industry, ACHEMA, in Frankfurt. In the Green Innovation Zone and the Digital Hub at the fair, Siemens will show how industrial companies can efficiently combine digitalization and sustainability. "As one of the main CO2 emitters, the process industry is under particular pressure to produce in a climate-friendly way," says Eckard Eberle, CEO Process Automation at Siemens. "Holistic and effective sustainability management can only work if industrial companies consistently focus on digitalization and automation." In more than 20 lectures and best-practice presentations, Siemens will illustrate how companies can use digitalization and automation and make their products, plants, and processes more sustainable. 

• Siemens Xcelerator includes selected portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software, and digital offerings as well as a marketplace
• Offerings for the machine tool industry part of Siemens Xcelerator
• Software applications for cloud, edge, and own servers with numerous innovations for the machine tool
• First partner applications based on Industrial Edge for Machine Tools, the open ecosystem for IoT

Under the motto "Accelerate digitalization for a sustainable tomorrow", Siemens will be demonstrating at this year's AMB how the enormous potential for optimizing machine tools can be utilized thanks to the continuous analysis of production data. With the open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator, IoT-enabled hardware and software, the company demonstrates how the real world can be connected to the digital world. Such a portfolio accelerates the digital transformation and enables flexible and sustainable action both in the construction of machines and in their application.