- Siemens’ lightning information service detected about 329,000 lightning strikes in Germany in 2019 – down 26 percent on 2018
- Germany’s “lightning capital” in 2019 was the city of Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate
- The fewest strikes were recorded in three Bavarian cities: Hof, Bayreuth and Schweinfurt
- Bavaria was the German state with the most lightning activity in 2019, Potsdam was the leader among state capitals
- The most lightning strikes in 2019 were recorded on June 12
- At European level, Trieste and surrounding area tops the ranking in Siemens’ 2019 lightning atlas
The city of Speyer in the state of Rheinland-Palatinate was Germany’s “lightning capital” in 2019. Siemens’ lightning information service BLIDS (which stands for Blitz-Informationsdienst von Siemens) detected just under 3.1 lightning strikes per square kilometer in Speyer in 2019. The cities of Rostock on the Baltic coast and Lübeck in the state of Schleswig-Holstein took second and third places with 2.6 and 2.5 ground flashes per square kilometer, respectively. Germany’s lowest density of lightning strikes was recorded in the Bavarian cities of Hof and Bayreuth, where considerably fewer than 0.1 lightning strikes per square kilometer were recorded. The Bavarian city of Schweinfurt, which was No. 1 in Siemens’ 2018 lightning atlas, was also at the bottom of the list, recording 0.1 lightning strikes per square kilometer in 2019. With lightning striking just under 2.3 times per square kilometer, Potsdam led the country’s list of state capitals in 2019, followed by the neighboring city of Berlin (rounded off: 2.2). Berlin is also the German state registering the highest lightning density, while Bavaria recorded the highest number of measured ground flashes in 2019. Overall, at 329,000, BLIDS recorded its lowest number of lightning strikes, around 26 percent fewer than in 2018.
- Together, Industry
leaders Siemens and SAP will deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across
product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management.
- Partnership leverages expertise and technology of both companies to provide
a true digital thread that helps enterprises eliminate process and information siloes,
drives digitalization and delivers a comprehensive solution for the 4th
industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).
- SAP will offer Siemens Teamcenter
software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product
data management.
- Siemens will offer SAP® Intelligent
Asset Management solutions and SAP Project and Portfolio Management applications
to maximize business value for customers over the entire product and service lifecycle and enable new collaborative processes between manufacturers and
operators.
Siemens and SAP today
announced a new partnership that will leverage their industry expertise and bring
together their complementary software solutions for product lifecycle, supply
chain and asset management so their customers can deliver new innovation and collaborative
business models that will accelerate industry transformation globally. Through
this agreement, both SAP and Siemens will be able to complement and integrate
their respective offerings in order to offer customers the first truly integrated
and enhanced solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain,
service and asset management. This will enable customers to form a true digital
thread integrating all virtual models and simulations of a product or asset with
real-time business information, feedback and performance data over the entire
lifecycle.
- Researchers from seven countries recognized for outstanding research
achievements and technologies
- Inventors come from all age groups and
all three Siemens companies
- Capacity for innovation remains high:
23 inventions per workday
- Investments of €4.9 billion in research
and development planned for fiscal 2021
For the 26th time, Siemens has recognized employees as Inventors of the Year to honor their outstanding research achievements. The 22 awardees from the three companies Siemens AG, Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers are from China, Germany, France, India, Israel, Spain and the U.S. Individual researchers as well as diverse research and development teams that work internationally were honored with the award.
- FIA and Siemens extend partnership to provide the ‘FIA Mobility Advocate’— a unique software and hardware toolkit — for FIA Mobility Member Clubs to strengthen advocacy of future transport solutions
As an
“Official Supplier of Urban Mobility Advocacy Solutions” for the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body of world motor sport and
the federation of the world's leading motoring organisations, Siemens plans to
develop a toolkit of software solutions for FIA Member Clubs to help them
provide an evidence-based approach to advocate for the implementation of mobility
policies and strategies. The ‘FIA Mobility Advocate’ combines modeling for
mobility, autonomous vehicles, and the environment, with enhanced analysis
outputs to help meet current future mobility goals.
- Sitrans CC240 IOT gateway provides standardized access to the lifecycle data of HART® devices
- Reduced service effort thanks to faster identification and removal of measuring and parameterization errors without additional parameterization tools
- Compatible with all OPC UA client applications
- Direct connection to Siemens MindSphere
- Numerous possible applications for on and off-premise solutions
Siemens presents the Sitrans CloudConnect 240: a new IOT gateway for the process industry. It provides a second data channel, completely independent of the control system, which is used to transmit data from any HART®-based field devices to the IT world.
- Grazia Vittadini from Airbus and
Kasper Rørsted from Adidas are being proposed to Siemens’ shareholders as new Supervisory
Board members
- Jim Hagemann Snabe to be nominated
again as candidate for Supervisory Board chair
- Proposals underscore importance of
diversity, sustainability and digitalization for Siemens’ Supervisory Board
- Election to be for a four-year term
in each case
Siemens is
proposing two candidates for election as new Supervisory Board members by its
shareholders at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on February 3, 2021:
Grazia Vittadini (51), Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive
Committee at Airbus, and Kasper Rørsted (58), CEO of Adidas AG.
- Siemens and Merck announce project partnership
- Cooperation will drive forward modular production (Plug&Produce) based on the MTP and POL standard
- Quick adaptation to process requirements with little effort
- A one stop solution with hardware and software components from Siemens
Siemens and science and technology company Merck will work together in future at Merck's headquarters in Darmstadt to develop a technical backbone for the modular production of the future. The aim is to create a production line that flexibly combines various individual process modules and to use Module Type Package (MTP) and Process Orchestration Layer (POL) technology to drastically reduce engineering effort. At the same time, it should be possible to adapt quickly to process requirements. With its integrated product range covering all production levels (field to MES), Siemens is able to provide all the necessary hardware and software components from its own product portfolio.
- Early detection of anomalies in the drivetrain with the support of artificial intelligence
- Trend Prediction for optimized maintenance efficiency
- Higher productivity and reduced machine and system downtime
Siemens has supplemented the Mindsphere application Predictive Service Assistance with an AI-based module. The new Artificial Intelligence module identifies concrete fault patterns in motors at an early stage, such as misalignment or a defective bearing. The application thus helps users to reduce downtimes and further improve spare parts and maintenance processes. The new Artificial Intelligence module for motors uses a neural network to solve what was previously implemented using a defined KPI limit value. This enables the module to detect anomalies even before the defined limit value and provides clear indications of the type and severity of faults and their development. As soon as the application detects signs of an error, it warns the user and generates a due date that indicates when the error should ideally be corrected and what corrective action is recommended to prevent an unplanned downtime. Predictive Service Assistance with the new AI-based Artificial Intelligence module is offered as part of a Predictive Service Assessment. The package includes a customized configuration service that ensures that the Mindsphere application with the new AI-based module runs optimally according to the customer's requirements.
- Declared intermediate target for CO2 reduction achieved
- Sustainability index embedded into Managing Board compensation system
- Innovative digital ESG tool provides basis for comprehensive review of
sustainability risks in customers’ business operations
- Top ratings in Dow Jones Sustainability Index, in particular for innovation,
environment and cybersecurity
Siemens has
achieved its declared intermediate target for carbon reduction. The company has reduced the carbon footprint
of its own value chain by more than half (54%) since 2014. Siemens has thus exceeded
– by four percentage points – its goal of halving its global carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions by
2020. Including Siemens Energy, the company has reduced its carbon emissions by
around 1.2 million tons of CO2 compared to its 2014 levels. Four
levers are being used to reduce carbon emissions: expanding the energy
efficiency program, using distributed energy systems, purchasing green power, and
reducing emissions in the vehicle fleet. Siemens intends to achieve climate
neutrality in its business operations by 2030. The company has recently published these details and other up-to-date information
on sustainability.
- Industrial Edge V1.0 comprising the Edge Management system, edge apps, and edge devices with container-based runtime
- Edge Management system provides central management for edge devices and apps over the entire lifecycle
- Apps that increase productivity can be integrated into industrial environments quickly, with little effort and minimal risk
Siemens is
expanding its offer for industrial IoT solutions, adding to its Industrial Edge
portfolio a central and company-wide scalable infrastructure for managing
connected edge devices and apps. With the new Industrial Edge Management
system, users can remotely monitor the status of every connected device and
remotely install edge apps and software functions on distributed edge devices.
In combination with existing hardware and software products, this Industrial
Edge V1.0 open platform provides users with a ready-to-use and seamless
solution for data processing on the production level with integrated device and
app lifecycle management.