Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate headquartered in Munich, and it's one of the largest industrial manufacturing companies in Europe. Founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske, Siemens has grown to become a global powerhouse in various sectors. Here are some key aspects of the company:
Core Business Areas
Energy
- Power Generation: Siemens is involved in producing and distributing electricity through various means including fossil fuels, wind power, and combined cycle turbines.
- Renewable Energy: The company has a significant focus on renewable energy solutions, such as wind turbines and solar technologies.
Industry
- Automation and Digitalization: Siemens is a leader in industrial automation and digitalization technologies, offering solutions that enhance manufacturing efficiency and productivity.
- Industrial Machinery and Equipment: This includes offerings in drive technology, power distribution, and software solutions.
Healthcare
- Medical Equipment: Siemens Healthineers is a crucial subsidiary, specializing in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and advanced therapies.
- Healthcare IT: The company provides digital health services and platforms that integrate data across the healthcare continuum to improve patient outcomes.
Infrastructure & Cities
- Building Technologies: Siemens offers building automation and control systems, fire safety, and security solutions.
- Mobility Solutions: The company is a major player in the transportation sector, providing rail vehicles, rail automation, and intelligent traffic systems.
Innovations and Technologies
Siemens has been at the forefront of innovation in multiple fields:
- Internet of Things (IoT): Siemens' MindSphere, a cloud-based IoT operating system, allows businesses to harness data from factories and equipment.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: The company integrates AI and ML to optimize its offerings across industries.
- Sustainable Technologies: Siemens invests heavily in technologies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability.
Financials and Market Presence
- Global Footprint: Siemens operates in over 200 countries and has a diverse range of products and services.
- Revenue: The company's annual revenue runs into billions of Euros, reflecting its extensive market reach and diverse portfolio.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Siemens is deeply committed to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The company aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 and has various initiatives promoting societal growth, environmental protection, and educational development.
Leadership and Governance
- Management Board: The company is overseen by a management board and a supervisory board to ensure ethical governance and strategic direction.
- CEO: As of my last update, Roland Busch is the CEO, driving the company's vision towards digital transformation and sustainability.
Recent Developments
- Digital Transformation: Siemens continues to focus on digital transformation with significant investments in software and digital services.
- Mergers and Acquisitions: The company has been involved in various M&A activities to strengthen its market position in key areas.
Challenges
- Market Competition: Siemens faces stiff competition from other global giants like General Electric, ABB, and Schneider Electric.
- Regulatory and Geopolitical Risks: Being a global entity, it has to navigate complex regulatory landscapes and geopolitical challenges.
In summary, Siemens AG is a multifaceted company with a long history of innovation and leadership across various industrial sectors. Its ongoing focus on digitalization and sustainability continues to keep it at the forefront of technological and industrial advancements.
Marine, Industrial, Power Generation, Mining
- Phone: 678-654-8264
- Web: www.sea.siemens.com/us/industry_solutions/marine/pages/marine-home.aspx?HTTPS=REDIR
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Siemens News
Hydrogen-Hybrid Research Vessel Earns AIP
Glosten was awarded an Approval in Principle (AIP) by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the design of UC San Diego’s new hydrogen-hybrid Coastal-Class Research Vessel (CCRV). The CCRV will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and feature a propulsion system that uses hydrogen fuel cells for zero-emissions operation.Glosten and the project’s electrical integrator, Siemens Energy (SE), completed the preliminary design for the CCRV in March 2024.
Siemens and NVIDIA to Build Industrial Metaverse
Siemens is bringing immersive visualization powered by new NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs to the Siemens Xcelerator platform, driving increased use of AI-driven digital twin technology and creating an industrial metaverse.“We will revolutionize how products and experiences are designed, manufactured and serviced. On the path to the industrial metaverse, this next generation of industrial software enables customers to experience products as they would in the real world: in context…
Future Ships: Picture Perfect
Big data, advanced computers and AI are allowing vessel designers to prepare models that leave essentially nothing to chance.“Lastly, it may be of considerable importance to form from the draught a block model of the vessel from which a still more accurate judgment may be formed of the fitness and beauty of the body. And should any defect be discovered, farther alterations must still be made, till the draught and the model are perfectly approved of.
Achieving Digital Transformation in the Marine Industry
Like so many other industries in transportation, the marine industry is being challenged on multiple fronts—from a shortage of manpower and emerging digital technologies to sustainability requirements. In the face of these growing pressures, ship designers increasingly rely on digital transformation to stay competitive and deliver higher-quality products. Digital transformation offers many solutions across a ship’s lifecycle…
Port of Hamburg Building New Shore Power Facilities
To achieve the goals of its clean air plan and reach an important milestone towards climate neutrality in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the city’s legislature has commissioned Hamburg Port Authority – HPA to supervise planning and construction of shore-based power facilities at the Burchardkai, Tollerort and Eurogate container terminals, as well as Steinwerder and HafenCity cruise terminals.In expanding shore power supply…
ABS Nautical Systems, Siemens Energy Marine Partner
Fleet management software provider ABS Nautical Systems (ABS NS) and Siemens Energy Marine, a provider of energy technology, have joined forces to automate data capture and enhance compliance…
The Shipping Industry Embraces Battery Power
The past decade has seen tight restrictions on emissions from vessels, notably with a 2015 move to a .10% sulfur maximum in Emission Control Areas (ECA) in North America and in northern Europe. As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) now shapes shipping’s decarbonization future, shipowners are looking at transitions away from fossil fuels. Among the myriad of alternatives are lithium ion batteries and some early forays into hydrogen fuel cells.To date…
Eastern Lays Keel for Weeks Marine's New Hopper Dredge
Eastern Shipbuilding Group conducted the keel laying for the new trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) it is building for Weeks Marine.This new U.S. flag dredge R.B. Weeks, ordered by Weeks Marine in April, is be constructed at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla., for scheduled delivery in early 2023. Steel cutting commenced on August 19.R.B. Weeks is the second TSHD Eastern is building for the Cranford…
Cox Powertrain Leverages the Power of Digitalization
It is not something that pops to mind often: the massive, market-changing advantages of a high-powered, fuel-efficient, cleaner V8 diesel outboard engine. Then, you aren’t a salmon farmer with aquaculture farms in the Norwegian fjords or an islander in the Maldives who drives a Zodiac to work. But, if you are Joel Reid, these are just some of the many things on your mind.Joel Reid is the Global Sales Director of Cox Powertrain a British start-up based in Shoreham-by-Sea, close to Brighton, UK.
Hybrid drives: Siemens sends in the machines
Encouraged by the success of a hybrid drives program, Siemens is going all out in Norway to automate production of that core marine energy storage enabler, the lithium battery. Offshore service vessel charterers, rig owners, ferry operators and ship owners are the target market. Trondheim’s technical university and a recent history of hosting battery makers and system integrators has made it launchpad…
JGC Containers Ready for Moray East OWF
UK engineering company JGC Engineering and Technical Serviceshas, on behalf of Siemens, completed the construction of high voltage equipment containers for the Moray…
Maritime Autonomy: The Reality
While merriam-webster.com is succinct in its definition of ‘autonomous’, ask 10 people in the maritime sector what ‘autonomous’ vessel means to them and the responses vary widely. Achieving autonomous, unmanned operations is not high, today, on the agenda of many (if any) shipowners. What does command their attention? Building ships that are increasingly ‘smart,’ with integrated, connected systems that take on additional decision-making processes while helping to reduce crew size (and cost)…
New Rig Designed for Heavy Dockside Lifts
Below-the-hook equipment manufacturer Modulift and Siemens Heat Transfer Technology B.V. combined forces to design a special rig for lifting modules that weighed nearly 200t apiece. Modulift sent two rigs for on- and off-load in Korea and Thailand respectively—a total of 16 no. 34t capacity MOD 34 beams in addition to slings, shackles, tie-plates and other rigging gear.The two vertical Benson-type…
Siemens Gamesa Gets DNV GL Type Certificate for Wind Turbine
DNV GL has awarded Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy with the Type Certificate for its eight megawatt (8 MW) offshore wind turbine SWT-8.0-154. Fully compliant to…
Siemens to Build Wärtsilä Marine Gear Boxes
Wärtsilä and Flender (Siemens AG, Mechanical Drives) have reached an agreement that will transfer the assembly and testing of Wärtsilä's marine gear box portfolio to the Siemens Mechanical Drives facilities in Voerde, Germany. In announcing the deal, Wärtsilä said the new arrangement takes advantage of synergies with processes developed at the Siemens plant to secure the quality and delivery punctuality of the gear boxes, thus providing greater customer value.
Seacat to Support Siemens Gamesa at Galloper
Seacat Services, and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (Siemens Gamesa), have signed a two-year charter deal to support early Operations & Maintenance (O&M) activity at the 336MW Galloper Wind Farm. Seacat Services is an offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator and Siemens Gamesa is a global offshore wind manufacturer and service provider. Having secured the 56-turbine supply deal for the multi-million pound project…
Siemens Bags Electric Ferry Propulsion Contract
Siemens said it has secured a contract to supply propulsion systems for two new The all-electric battery ferries to be operated by Fjord1 on the E39 Anda-Lote route on the west coast of Norway. Both vessels will have a cargo capacity of 120 cars, 12 trailers and 349 passengers. Operation on the 2.4 kilometer-long route will start in January 2018. With this contract, the first four battery-driven ferries in the world will run on technology developed and manufactured by Siemens, the company noted.
Kongsberg, Siemens Partnership to Deliver VFD
SMM 2016, Hamburg, 8 September 2016, Hall B6 Stand 104 – Kongsberg Maritime and Siemens have signed a partnership agreement based on delivery of components on Variable…
MAN Commissions Siemens to Supply Two-speed Gearbox for Vessel
Siemens provides with an order from MAN out its expertise in the construction of switchable special gears. Flender two-speed transmission are individual, switchable…
Siemens Supplies Propulsion for Saga Cruises Newbuild
Siemens announced it has been awarded a contract to equip the first new build cruise liner for the British based operator Saga Cruises under contract to Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The awarded package includes a SISHIP eSiPOD propulsion system as well as a power and distribution plant. This new cruise ship to be delivered in the summer of 2019 will be 236 meters long and 31.2 meters wide with a gross tonnage (GT) of 56,850 and will offer capacity of 999 passengers.
