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Siemens
Ingenuity for Life
Overview
HQ Location
Germany
Year Founded
1847
Company Type
Public
Revenue
> $10b
Employees
> 50,000
Website
Stock Ticker
ETR: SIE
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Company Description
Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe. With their positioning along the electrification value chain, Siemens has the knowhow that extends from power generation to power transmission, power distribution and smart grid to the efficient application of electrical energy. Featured Subsidiaries/ Business Units: - Digital Factory - Siemens Technology to Business (TTB)
IoT Solutions
In the near future, billions of pieces of equipment will be connected to one another and massive amounts of data will pouring in. Advanced algorithms, high-powered computing, better connectivity and cloud storage all facilitate the emergence of smart systems. Knowing how to leverage the respective opportunities, however, requires a unique set of skills. Siemens has the engineering, domain and digital know-how to generate performance improvements across the entire value chain, from design to production and operations to maintenance. Digital simulation technology accelerates the plant design, the installation and commissioning as well as the entire product design and production planning process. Multiple components in systems and plants can be intelligently networked to communicate with each other and exchange real-time data. Machine Learning makes complex systems more efficient without human intervention. The intelligent analysis of operational data helps identify patterns and predict potential downtimes. Minimum downtimes boost reliability thanks to lifecycle services.
Key Customers
ARUP Laboratories, Digital Realty, University of Michigan, HP, Polar Electro, Electrolux, ROJ Electronics Srl, Tokamak Energy, Grissom High School, Zipline, Bye Aerospace.
Subsidiary
IoT Snapshot
Siemens is a provider of Industrial IoT platform as a service (paas), analytics and modeling, functional applications, cybersecurity and privacy, networks and connectivity, processors and edge intelligence, sensors, and automation and control technologies, and also active in the aerospace, automotive, battery, buildings, cement, chemicals, consumer goods, education, electrical grids, electronics, equipment and machinery, finance and insurance, food and beverage, glass, healthcare and hospitals, marine and shipping, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, railway and metro, retail, transportation, and utilities industries.
Technologies
Networks & Connectivity
Cellular
Ethernet
Gateways
Network Management & Analysis Software
Routers & Bridges
Wireless Local Area Network
Analytics & Modeling
Predictive Analytics
Process Analytics
Digital Twin / Simulation
Machine Learning
Automation & Control
Automation & Process Control Systems
Distributed Control Systems
Electric Drives & Control
Human Machine Interface (HMI)
Use Cases
Functional Areas
Industries
Services
Technology Stack
Siemens’s Technology Stack maps Siemens’s participation in the platform as a service (paas), analytics and modeling, functional applications, cybersecurity and privacy, networks and connectivity, processors and edge intelligence, sensors, and automation and control IoT Technology stack.
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Devices Layer
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Edge Layer
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Cloud Layer
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Application Layer
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Supporting Technologies
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Case Studies.
Case Study
Automation of the Oguz-Gabala-Baku water pipeline, Azerbaijan
The Oguz-Gabala-Baku water pipeline project dates back to plans from the 1970’s. Baku’s growth was historically driven by the booming oil industry and required the import of drinking water from outside of the city. Before the construction of the pipeline, some 60 percent of the city’s households received water for only a few hours daily. After completion of the project, 75 percent of the two million Baku residents are now served around the clock with potable water, based on World Health Organization (WHO) standards. The 262-kilometer pipeline requires no pumping station, but uses the altitude differences between the Caucasian mountains and the capital to supply 432,000 m³/d to the Ceyranbatan water reservoir. To the people of Baku, the pipeline is “the most important project not only in 2010, but of the last 20 years.”
Case Study
Battery manufacturer Industrial Digital Twin
For optimum control of product quality, Banner relies on a high production depth. Its 560 production employees produce nearly all the components in¬-house that they need to make finished batteries on Banner’s six assembly lines. This includes the plastic parts for the battery cases as well as the paste-filled lead oxide grids. Their production involves two to five¬ days rest in maturing chambers to create optimum current absorption and storage capacity. Banner’s ongoing success was accompanied by a continuous, organic growth of the production facilities, adding or extending hall after hall until the complex filled the site that had seemed ever so spacious when the company moved here from a smaller place in 1959. These developments led to a heterogeneous production environment. “This confronts us with significant challenges, particularly concerning intra¬logistics issues, such as scheduling for the maturing chambers,” says Franz Dorninger, technical director at Banner. “We contemplated various ways to overcome this problem, including relocating to new premises.”
Case Study
Integral Plant Maintenance
Mercedes-Benz and his partner GAZ chose Siemens to be its maintenance partner at a new engine plant in Yaroslavl, Russia. The new plant offers a capacity to manufacture diesel engines for the Russian market, for locally produced Sprinter Classic. In addition to engines for the local market, the Yaroslavl plant will also produce spare parts. Mercedes-Benz Russia and his partner needed a service partner in order to ensure the operation of these lines in a maintenance partnership arrangement. The challenges included coordinating the entire maintenance management operation, in particular inspections, corrective and predictive maintenance activities, and the optimizing spare parts management. Siemens developed a customized maintenance solution that includes all electronic and mechanical maintenance activities (Integral Plant Maintenance).
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