Siemens increase its global cybersecurity
offering with the official inauguration of the Critical Infrastructure Defense
Center (CIDC) in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The center is the first
facility of its kind in the Siemens realm dedicated to Critical Infrastructure
Protection (CIP) focused on Operations Technology (OT). Services provided by
the center will range from advisory to managed and research services, with a
mission to secure the advancement of a decarbonizing digital world. The team of
cyber experts based in Fredericton will support cyber and physical security
needs of Canada as well as projects in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
- Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services is central to
Sierra Space’s plans for its next-generation digital engineering platform.
- Dream Chaser® spaceplane, the world’s only winged commercial spaceplane is being designed, engineered, built and tested using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio.
- LIFE™ habitat to provide commercial habitation and science platform to be developed in a Digital Twin approach.
Siemens Digital Industries Software today
announced that Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company at the
forefront of creating and building the future of space transportation and
infrastructure for Low Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization, has implemented
Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services as the foundation of its
next-generation digital engineering program. The company is implementing
Xcelerator to establish a fully digital environment from engineering to
manufacturing through sustainment, which will help realize goals to develop the
future of space transportation, commercial space destination and
infrastructure, and create enabling technologies that will build a vibrant,
growing and accessible commercial space economy.
- Distribution grid operator Distributie Energie Oltenia orders grid control software, paving the way to a smarter grid
- Software increases grid efficiency, improves power quality
- Digital technology supports transition to low-carbon economy
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has been chosen by distribution grid
operator Distributie
Energie Oltenian (DEO) in Romania to supply its latest Advanced Distribution Management
Software (ADMS) to a control center in Craiova, a town about 200 km West of Bucharest. The
order paves the way for the distribution system operator to operate a smarter
grid and make advancements in its digital transformation journey. The ADMS is
expected to become operational by end of 2023.
- More than €9 million in immediate humanitarian aid for emergency-response organizations
- Uncomplicated assistance for impacted Siemens employees to match homes for refugees and in-kind donations
- Siemens Warsaw location being converted to a refugee center for 150 people
- Additional €3 million grants in-kind of technical portfolio and infrastructure service
Siemens AG
is focused on a number of humanitarian measures to support its Ukrainian
employees and their families as well as among refugees from the war zone, having
launched relief campaign in early March. Through the charitable Siemens Caring
Hands organization, the company and Siemens Healthineers each donated an initial
emergency €1 million to the German Red Cross. The two Siemens companies
have promised to match every euro received from employee donations, meaning the
sum raised is now more than €9 million.
- The industry-first sustainable charging solution enables quick installation at scale and easy expansion and maintenance to help meet growing demand for EV charging infrastructure
Siemens
Smart Infrastructure in the U.S. today unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging
concept structure designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging
applications at scale. The new VersiCharge XL concept (UL standard) was created
to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and
efficiently by using a modular, scalable design made in partnership with Nexii
Building Solutions using their proprietary, sustainable building material with
low carbon footprint in the U.S. The solution, which resembles a modern-day
fueling station, was developed in late 2021, and then installed in only three
days at Siemens’ research and development hub for Electrical Products and
eMobility solutions in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, USA.
- Siemens and Desert Technologies launch joint venture Capton Energy to develop and invest in solar and smart infrastructure in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
- Capton Energy aims to invest in projects of 1GW in aggregate and boost the supply of clean, stable and affordable power in under-served markets
Siemens and Desert Technologies have
launched a joint venture to develop and invest in solar and smart infrastructure in Africa,
the Middle East and Asia, as
announced today at Expo 2020 Dubai. The venture, Capton Energy – which aims to build
up a portfolio of investments in projects with an aggregate capacity of more
than 1 gigawatts (GW) – will support projects providing clean, reliable, and affordable energy in areas that need it most.
Cooperation on condition-based and predictive maintenance is extended to the end of 2024 and now also includes 130 Vectron locomotives
- Digital Trust Forum and Charter of Trust to merge
- Bosch and Deutsche Post DHL
Group join Charter of Trust
- Associated Partner Forum further
growing with CyberNB,
Cyber Peace Institute, Cyber Readiness Institute and Global Cyber Alliance
The Charter of Trust (CoT) and the Digital
Trust Forum (DTF) are to join forces and merge under the Charter of Trust
banner to form a joint initiative for greater cybersecurity and digital trust. With
this the Charter of Trust also intends to devote more attention to the topic of
trustworthy artificial intelligence in the future.
The CoT was launched at the Munich Security
Conference in February 2018 by Siemens and eight partners from the industrial
sector. The DTF was formed in Berlin in May 2019 as an initiative of Bosch.
With that Bosch will also join the CoT. The world’s leading logistics company
Deutsche Post DHL Group has decided to join the cybersecurity initiative in
addition, bringing the number of Charter of Trust members up to 17 four years
after it was first signed.