On the first day of Hannover Messe, April 25, Klaus Helmrich welcomed you to the yearly Siemens press conference. As member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Klaus Helmrich is responsible for the Divisions Digital Factory as well as Process Industries and Drives. The press conference took place at 6:30 PM, in room 1 of the fair's Convention Center.
- New research from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) identifies six key challenges facing manufacturers in the process of moving to an Industry 4.0 model
- Entitled Practical Pathways to Industry 4.0, the report finds that digital skills and access to finance for digital transformation are the top two challenges to a successful transition
- Without access to appropriate and sustainable third-party finance, manufacturers face a challenge to make the digital transformation needed to remain competitive
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has released a new research paper which investigates the key challenges facing manufacturers across the globe, as they move to implement Industry 4.0. A digitalized, automated, Industry 4.0 world offers the ability to digitally link people, machinery and systems. For manufacturers, this provides a number of benefits such as improved efficiency, pre-emptive maintenance to improve up-time and closer collaboration as a result of digital data flows.
From July 4 to 6, 2017, all the paper industry met in Frankfurt am Main at the Zellcheming-Expo, Europe's leading trade fair for the pulp and paper industry and its suppliers. Under the banner "Discover the value of the Digital Enterprise - with Sipaper", Siemens showcased its latest applications and solutions from the Sipaper portfolio at booth D50 in Hall 4.1.
- Diverse suite of financial solutions provide necessary capital to expand growing energy storage sector
- Granting customers access to a combination of proven, bankable energy storage solutions with tailored financing
- Leasing and project finance options for qualified projects using Fluence's industry-leading trio of energy storage platforms
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) and Fluence, a Siemens and AES company, announce a comprehensive financing program to support customers in their investments in energy storage solutions. The new financing program will offer customers leasing and project finance options for qualified projects using Fluence's industry-leading trio of energy storage platforms. Fluence's combination of unmatched energy storage experience, proven technical solutions, and the availability of tailored financial solutions will further drive down the total system costs of energy storage and accelerate the growth of this dynamic segment of the power market, estimated by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) to be a $100 billion market opportunity by 2030.
- From February 5-9, Siemens will present concrete solutions for ways that companies and investors can shape the digital future.
- Digitalization opens up huge potential for small and mid-sized companies in the manufacturing industry – with productivity gains of up to 10 percent.
- In the energy and infrastructure markets, efficiency gains are used to attain a large degree of sustainability.
- These efforts will require extensive investments, which are made easier with innovative financing solutions like pay-per-outcome financing, software financing and project financing.
During the opening session of Siemens Finance Week in the Siemens Technology and Application Center in Erlangen, about 60 decision-makers from small- and medium-sized enterprises learned about the potential of digitalization and ways that new, customer-centric business models can be introduced with the help of financing solutions. The Company Barometer prepared by the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry shows that 68 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany see opportunities for new digital business models. The optimization potential is enormous: In the manufacturing industry alone, according to the results of a Siemens Financial Services white paper, productivity can be boosted by up to 10 percent through continued digitalization. Figures from the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicate that this would amount to business volume of approx. €650 billion globally and €60 billion in Germany.
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has released new research examining how global manufacturers are using innovative finance to seize market opportunities through digitalization and automation. Conducted among manufacturing finance managers in 13 countries, the study found that manufacturers across the world are reporting a need to invest in new-generation technology in order to meet four key sector challenges.These are: to increase production capacity and flexibility to meet changing demand and drive sales; to improve client service quality while reducing production costs; to improve competitive positioning through improved product quality and broader product range and to optimize efficiency, cost control and manufacturing agility through automation and digitalization.
From 14 to 17 September 2017, representatives from the worlds of politics and industry met at the New Mobility World to shape the future of mobility across industries. The event took place within the context of the IAA 2017. Under the banner "Shaping future mobility systems – from understanding to optimizing," Siemens exhibited at Booth 39 in Hall 3.1 with an array of current applications and solutions surrounding the topics of charging technology for electric vehicles and intelligent communication systems linking vehicles and infrastructure. Siemens offers a wide range of products and solutions that help shape the future of mobility already today.
- Siemens outlines innovative ways and approaches to boost large-scale capital in infrastructure financing
- Convergence of disruptive technology and public-private partnerships identified as key drivers of narrowing Asia's infrastructure gap
- The way forward lies in analyzing completed projects, establishing stable risk-sharing and making procurement more transparent
Increasing the bankability of developments is a key factor to narrowing Asia's infrastructure gap, according to speakers at the "Drivers of Infrastructure Investment in the Asian Market" symposium organized by Siemens Financial Services (SFS) yesterday.