Our organization as a reflection of current market opportunities
To systematically tap business potential on both new and traditional markets, we’ve organized our activities as of October 1, 2011 into four Sectors: Energy, Healthcare, Industry, and Infrastructure & Cities.
Siemens Energy
Our Energy Sector is a world-leading supplier of a wide array of products, solutions and services in the field of energy technology. In the drive to create a sustainable energy system, electrical power will play a key role in the more efficient use of fossil resources and renewable energies. As electricity consumption grows, so does the system’s complexity. The energy chain is rapidly becoming a power matrix. Our innovative and efficient products are enabling customers to succeed in an increasingly complex technological and economic environment – particularly in the areas of power generation, power transmission and oil and gas production. We’re the world’s only manufacturer with knowhow, products and key components for the entire power matrix.
Our Energy Sector’s innovative products maximize efficiency and flexibility and will be a major factor in shaping the new age of electricity. Fossil fuels will continue to play a dominant role in the future energy mix, which is why we’re working hard to refine these technologies, paving the way for their continued, long-term use. At the same time, we’re further boosting the cost-effectiveness of renewables in order to ensure that they attain equal economic importance in the energy mix. Power grids, too, will be vitally important in the new age of electricity. The biggest challenge here will be to better manage fluctuating power supplies from renewable energy sources. Transmission networks that can efficiently transport large amounts of electricity across vast distances to centers of consumption will increasingly be the order of the day. A dense cross-border network will make it possible to compensate for supply fluctuations from renewables and engage in international electricity trading.
In the future, Siemens Energy will address the rapidly changing global energy markets – particularly in high-growth regions – while focusing on technologies that maximize customer and environmental benefit. With some 82,000 employees, the Sector comprises six divisions: Energy Service, Fossil Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Power Transmission, Solar & Hydro, and Wind Power.
Siemens Healthcare
Our Healthcare Sector is a major single-source supplier of technology to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, healthcare IT and hearing instruments. The Sector offers products and solutions for the entire healthcare continuum – from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care. By improving clinical workflows and tailoring them to a variety of clinical conditions, we’re making healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective. Our latest innovations show just how closely we’ve geared our products and solutions to this strategy. For example, our Dimension EXL 200 system, which integrates clinical chemistry and immunoassay testing, was developed specifically for medical laboratories with low test volumes.
In addition, our economical imaging and therapy systems, such as the Multix Select DR digital X-ray system,* are providing cost-effective access to digital radiography.
And last but not least, we’ve made a major breakthrough in medical imaging with our new Biograph mMR – the world’s first whole-body scanner to fully integrate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) in one system.
Siemens Healthcare has some 51,000 employees working to provide innovative products and solutions in the four Divisions Clinical Products, Customer Solutions, Diagnostics, and Imaging & Therapy Systems.
Siemens Industry
With the establishment of our fourth Sector, Infrastructure & Cities, we’ve reorganized our Industry Sector to intensify our focus on industrial customers. We’re now strengthening our segment-specific business and service activities while further expanding our leading role in industrial software. In-depth industry expertise, technology-based services, and software for industrial processes are the levers we’re using to boost our customers’ productivity, efficiency and flexibility – while driving the future growth of our industry business.
As of October 1, 2011, we’ve reoriented our activities and bundled our offerings to exploit all our opportunities in the service business and in high-growth markets like car manufacturing, mechanical engineering and chemicals.
In the manufacturing and processing industries alone, our addressable market volume worldwide is expected to far exceed €200 billion by 2016. Average market growth in this period is projected to be around 5% a year. To offset rising energy costs and meet stricter environmental requirements, companies in these industries want to steadily improve their productivity and efficiency – in the area of energy consumption, in particular. Other challenges include ever-shorter development times, greater product complexity and a related, substantial increase in data volumes in the development process. It’s here that our segment-specific expertise comes in. Our innovative products and solutions are enabling us to substantially reduce our customers’ time-to-market through software applications and automation technology while cutting manufacturers’ energy and wastewater costs considerably.
With about 103,000 employees, Siemens Industry comprises the Divisions Customer Services, Drive Technologies, and Industry Automation. To meet the special requirements of the plant construction business, the Metals Technologies Business Unit has been directly assigned to Sector management.
Siemens Infrastructure & Cities
Our newly established Infrastructure & Cities Sector offers sustainable technologies – such as integrated mobility solutions, rail vehicles, building and security systems, power distribution equipment, smart grid applications, and low- and medium-voltage products – for urban centers and other infrastructure markets.
Particularly for investments in infrastructure solutions, customers are looking for innovative, energy-efficient and, above all, reliable solutions. And we’re virtually unparalleled as a provider of such solutions worldwide – in developing, emerging and industrialized countries alike.
Combining existing knowhow from our Industry and Energy Sectors and gearing it to the specific requirements of infrastructure markets and cities, we’re extremely well positioned to be a major player in an addressable market of €300 billion.
Worldwide, we want to focus more intensely on customers and markets, which is why we’re blazing new trails in sales, research and development. Centers of competence, in which we bundle our expertise in urban infrastructure, are making important contributions here. A first center is now being built in London, with two more under construction in Asia and the U.S. At these centers, Siemens experts will work on providing new answers for today’s cities, creating products and solutions tailored to the needs of urban planners and city administrators. Even in times of tight public budgets, solutions like our energy-saving performance contracting are helping communities cut costs and minimize their environmental footprint, while our toll systems are generating new sources of income and reducing congestion on city streets.
We maintain direct contact with urban decision-makers via a network of City Account Managers. Cooperating closely with all relevant business units, these experts assemble tailored products and solutions for our customers. They also contribute their knowhow to the further development of our urban portfolio. Our reports on London, Singapore and São Paulo illustrate how we’re putting this approach into practice.
For major infrastructure customers, we have segment-specific sales structures that enable us to combine, develop and adapt our Sector’s offerings to customer needs. Just as our City Account Managers serve customers in the area of urban planning and development, our Key Account Managers provide professional support for infrastructure customers – including airport and port operators, rail companies, data centers and providers of logistics and postal services. By offering a comprehensive range of integrated products, solutions and services tailored to their particular needs, we’re tapping new business potential – for our customers and ourselves.
With around 87,000 employees worldwide, our new Infrastructure & Cities Sector comprises the Divisions Building Technologies, Low and Medium Voltage, Mobility and Logistics, Rail Systems, and Smart Grid.
* The Multix Select DR is not commercially available in all countries. For regulatory reasons, its future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens organization for further details.