Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S)
I&S leverages Siemens products, systems and process technologies to design, develop, modernize, operate and maintain plants and facilities for customers in the metallurgy, oil and gas, water processing, road transport and infrastructure logistics industries.
Our technologies are helping protect the environment. For example, we’ve developed a process for producing pig iron that consumes fewer resources and is more economical than conventional blast furnace methods. By dispensing with coke production, the sintering of fine ores and pelletizing, our innovative Finex technology cuts raw material consumption, energy requirements and CO2 emissions by up to 30 percent. In the area of transportation, we’ve installed monitoring equipment for London’s congestion charge scheme, a plan to reduce traffic volumes in the English metropolis by levying fees on motorists entering the city. To date, the scheme has reduced traffic flow 15 percent and delays due to traffic jams 30 percent, cutting CO2 emissions by 150,000 tons a year. Systems, products and solutions that minimize environmental impact and improve resource utilization in industrial processes and infrastructure applications already account for one-fifth of our total revenue. Standardization – which is part and parcel of the process of developing new solutions – is promoting the rapid deployment of resource-saving process solutions all around the world.
In Cracow, Poland, we’ve built Europe’s most advanced hot rolling mill on a turnkey basis for the Arcelor Mittal Group.
To increase market penetration, we’ve bundled our mining and steel activities in the Metal Technologies Division, which is headquartered in Linz, Austria. We’ve also transferred the headquarters of our Oil and Gas Division to Oslo, Norway, where we maintain a global center of innovation and competence for offshore systems construction.
To standardize solutions and leverage synergies, we combined our Airport Logistics and Postal Automation divisions in a new Infrastructure Logistics Division on October 1, 2007.
New systems business, the growing demand for modernization worldwide and support services for plants throughout their entire lifecycles will be our primary growth drivers in the future. We´re expanding our process offerings by developing standard solutions that span a variety of different industries.