Globalization and competitiveness
Globalized logistics and business activities are bringing the regions of the world closer and closer together. While this development is providing companies with new opportunities in rapidly growing markets, it’s also increasing competitive pressures. At the same time, the innovation cycle is accelerating relentlessly. To succeed in the face of global competition, companies must master tremendous challenges.
And this is where Siemens comes in. As the world market leader in industrial applications, we’re providing more and more customers with products and solutions that are continuously refined and tailored to meet their individual needs. For example, our water treatment systems are enhancing the quality of life for large numbers of people. No other company can match our end-to-end product and service offerings, process expertise and value-creating solutions. Our automation systems are facilitating and accelerating industrial processes, and our building and security technologies are optimizing and streamlining production and working conditions. In addition, we’re providing mobility solutions and networking transport systems all around the world.
Our products and solutions for rapidly growing markets
We develop products and solutions which help companies meet major challenges as global competitors. Here are some examples:
Total Building Solutions
To meet today’s high standards of efficiency, comfort, security, reliability and flexibility, buildings require applications from a wide array of technologies – from building automation, fire protection and security to lighting and low-voltage power distribution. As an expert in all these areas, we ensure the reliable operation of office blocks, complex production facilities, hospitals, airports and buildings for the life sciences industry. Comprising the infrastructure needed to network, monitor and control all of a building’s systems, our Total Building Solutions offer certified packages of products and systems that fulfill all the requirements of advanced building technology. To contain fires and facilitate building evacuation, for example, fire safety systems are directly linked to climate and door control systems. To maximize security, lighting is connected to alarm systems. And to conserve energy, lamps are automatically switched off and heating systems turned down in unoccupied rooms
The SPPA-T3000 control system
Our SPPA-T3000 power plant automation system is one of the world’s most advanced control platforms. This fourth-generation system enhances the cost efficiency of power plants by continuously monitoring up to 100,000 process inputs and outputs. Functions like machine protection and thermodynamic plant monitoring as well as simulators for training plant employees can be completely integrated into the automation system. This seamless integration not only guarantees a uniform user interface for the various applications but also cuts operator costs for hardware, maintenance and employee training. With its new range of functions, our SPPA-T3000 control system offers intelligent, cost-efficient solutions for all types of power plants.
Electronic health records
Electronic health records enable clinicians to collect and optimally administer disease and treatment information. With a patient’s consent, treating physicians can access an individual’s complete medical history, allergy data, prescribed medications, clinical images, lab results and much more – clearly an advantage when it comes to enhancing diagnostic accuracy.
Klinikum Chemnitz, one of Germany’s largest hospitals, shows how the system actually works. This facility is one of the country’s first in which a teleradiology service has been linked to an electronic health record. Patients’ demographic and administrative data can now be transferred from external sources and made available in the electronic health record. This means, for example, that an accident victim admitted to an area hospital that is networked with Klinikum Chemnitz can be diagnosed on the basis of computed tomography images without a specialist being physically present. The patient’s image data is relayed electronically to the hospital, where to a specialist on duty then provides the diagnosis – a prime example of how electronic health records can help cut costs while enhancing the quality of care.
Efficient energy management
With energy costs rising, competitive pressures intensifying and climate awareness increasing, concepts for energy-optimized equipment and systems are sparking greater interest than ever before. Today, the focus is not only on procurement costs but on a product’s entire lifecycle costs, including operating outlays, energy consumption and resource use. Cutting costs by as much as 70 percent, our energy-saving motors and frequency convertors for variable-speed operation are pillars of efficient energy management. Using our SinaSave software tool, customers can easily calculate how quickly their investments in energy-saving motors and converters will pay for themselves.
Totally Integrated Automation
Our Totally Integrated Automation platform provides a homogeneous environment for implementing customized automation and drive solutions in every type of industry. Mechanical and systems engineers, systems integrators and end customers alike benefit from the end-to-end harmonization of all production components, products and systems. Optimized processes cut lifecycle costs while enhancing production operations. Already during the development phase, we ensure that all products and systems are seamlessly integrated – optimizing interaction across generations and protecting customers’ earlier investments.
Product lifecycle management
In an age of fast-paced technological change and growing demand for customized products, industrial equipment and systems must be adapted to current market needs more quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively than ever before. Throughout the entire product development process, speed is a key competitive advantage. In today’s increasingly complex competitive landscape, conventional development and production processes are reaching their limits. That’s where the digital factory is breaking new ground with the simulation of production scenarios – all the way from product conception to the recycling phase. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the preferred approach for transforming fledgling ideas into successful products. Our industrial software translates this concept into proven solutions that are open, scalable and flexible. Using our PLM software, manufacturers can simulate production steps and operational states, without the need for costly real-world prototypes. In the field of mechanical engineering, for example, we offer PLM solutions that span the entire process chain – from computer-aided design and manufacturing to the construction of entire virtual machines. The advantages: time-to-market is accelerated considerably, while end customers benefit from improved product quality and productivity.