SIEMENS AG

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'Siemens AG' (, , ) is one of the world's largest companies and Europe's largest engineering firm. Siemens has six major business divisions: Communication and Information; Automation and Control; Power; Transportation; Medical; and Lighting. Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Siemens AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since March 12, 2001. Worldwide, Siemens and its subsidiaries employ 480,000 people in 190 countries and reported global sales of €87.325 billion in fiscal year 2006.

Contents
History
World War II Era
Post-war
Chief Executives
Corporate affairs
Management
Key business areas and subsidiary companies
Some of Siemens' recently acquired companies
Major clients
Products
Competition
See also
References
Further reading
External links

History


Siemens was founded by Werner von Siemens on October 1, 1847, based on the telegraph he had invented that used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. The company – then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske – opened its first workshop on October 12.
In 1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe; 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. In 1850 the founder's younger brother, Sir William Siemens (born Carl Wilhelm Siemens), started to represent the company in London. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl von Siemens, opened in St Petersburg.
In 1881, a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In 1890, the founder retired and left the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm. Siemens & Halske (S&H) was incorporated in 1897.
In 1919, S&H and two other companies jointly formed the Osram lightbulb company. A Japanese subsidiary was established in 1923.
During the 1920s and 1930s, S&H started to manufacture radios, television sets, and electron microscopes.
World War II Era

Before World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, like most big companies in Germany at the time, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around famous extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the extermination camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.[2] The crematorium ovens at Buchenwald bear the Siemens label.
Post-war

In the 1950s and from their new base in Bavaria, S&H started to manufacture computers, semiconductor devices, laundry machines, and pacemakers. Siemens AG was incorporated in 1966. The company's first digital telephone exchange was produced in 1980. In 1988 Siemens and GEC acquired the UK defense and technology company Plessey. Plessey's holdings were split, and Siemens took over the avionics, radar and traffic control businesses — as Siemens Plessey.
In 1991, Siemens acquired Nixdorf Computer AG and renamed it Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG. In 1997 Siemens introduced the first GSM cellular phone with colour display. Also in 1997 Siemens agreed to sell the defence arm of Siemens Plessey to British Aerospace (BAe) and a UK government agency, the Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA). BAe and DASA acquired the British and German divisions of the operation respectively.
In 1999, Siemens' semiconductor operations were spun off into a new company known as Infineon Technologies. Also, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG formed part of Fujitsu Siemens Computers AG in that year. The retail banking technology group became Wincor Nixdorf.
In February 2003, Siemens reopened its office in Kabul.[3]
In 2004, Siemens took over the mantle of official Formula One timekeeper, replacing TAG Heuer.
In November, 2005, Siemens signed a 12 year agreement with the Walt Disney Company to sponsor attractions in its Florida and California parks.
In 2006, Siemens announced the purchase of Bayer Diagnostics, which was incorporated into the Medical Solutions Diagnostics division officially on 1 January2007.
In March 2007 a Siemens board member was temporarily arrested and accused of illegally financing a business-friendly labour association which competes against the union IG Metall. He has been released on bail. Offices of the labour union and of Siemens have been searched. Siemens denies any wrongdoing. Board member arrested in new blow for Siemens
In April 2007, the Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Carrier Services divisions of Siemens merged with Nokia’s Network Business Group in a 50/50 joint venture, creating a fixed and mobile network company called Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia delayed the merger[4] due to bribery investigations[5] against Siemens.
Through an American sub-organisation known as the Siemens Foundation, Siemens also devotes funds to rewarding students and AP teachers. One of its main programs is the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in maths, science, and technology, which annually grants scholarships up to US$100,000 to both individual and team entrants. According to the foundation website, Siemens awards a total of nearly US$2 million in scholarship money every year.
Chief Executives



Werner von Siemens (1847-1890)

Wilhelm von Siemens (1890-1919)

Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1919-1941)

Hermann von Siemens (1941-1956)

Ernst von Siemens (1956-1968)

Gerd Tacke (1968-1971)

Bernhard Plettner (1971-1981)

Karlheinz Kaske (1981-1992)

Heinrich von Pierer (1992-2005)

Klaus Kleinfeld (2005-2007)

Peter Löscher (2007)

Corporate affairs


Management

Peter Löscher (formerly of Merck) is the current president and the CEO as of July 1, 2007.[6]. He succeeded Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld after the scandal charges of bribery against Siemens.
Gerhard Cromme is the current chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG. He succeeded Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer on 4/26/2007.
Key business areas and subsidiary companies

Siemens AG's six key business areas are:

★ Communication and Information (Siemens COM and SBS)

★ Automation and Control (Automation & Drives, Industrial Solutions & Services and Siemens Building Technologies)

★ Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (PG and PTD)

★ Transportation and Automotive (Siemens Transportation Systems + Siemens VDO Global Website)

★ Medical (Siemens Medical Solutions)

★ Lighting (Osram, Osram Sylvania)
The company is also active in:


★ Financing (Siemens Financial Services) (SFS)

★ Real Estate (SRE)

★ Home Appliances (BSH)

★ Water Technologies (SWT)

★ Computers (Fujitsu Siemens Computers)

★ Business Services (Siemens IT Solutions and Services, in the past called Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co. OHG)

★ Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC), a domotics company from the previous Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Division. Based in Munich.

Some of Siemens' recently acquired companies



Atecs Mannesmann AG (2001) including Mannesmann Dematic, Mannemann Sachs, Mannesmann VDO Automotive, Mannesmann Demag Krauss-Maffei

Danfoss Flow Division (2003)

Bonus Energy (2004) — now Siemens Wind Power A/S

IndX Software (2004)

Chrysler Group’s Huntsville Electronics Corporation (2004)

USFilter Corporation (2004) — now Siemens Water Technologies Corp.

Woodlands Technology (2004)

Photo-Scan (2004)

DASAN (South Korea - 2004)

Alstom Industrial Turbine Business (2005)

Jet Turbine Services (2005)

Transmitton (2005) — now Siemens Transportation Systems UK

Shaw Power (2005)

Chantry Networks (2005)

Myrio (USA/Canada - 2005)

CTI Molecular Imaging (2005)

Evoline (2005)

VA Tech Group (Austria - 2005)

Power Technologies International (2005) — now Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution, Inc.

★ AN Windenergie GmbH (2005) — now Siemens Wind Power GmbH

Bayer AG -Diagnostic branch (2006)

Controlotron, USA (2004)

Diagnostic Products Corp. (2006) — now Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics

Bewator AB (Sweden - 2005) Security

Vai Ingdesi Automation (Argentine - 2007) Industrial Automation

Kadon Electro Mechanical Services Ltd. (2006)— now TurboCare Canada Ltd.

UGS Corp. (2007)

Major clients



KCR

Novartis

Edmonton Transit System

Calgary Transit

Deutsche Bahn AG ( German rail transport company)

METRORail (Houston, Texas)

Sacramento Regional Transit District

Regional Transportation District TheRide (Denver, Colorado)

LACMTA (Los Angeles County, California)

Pittsburgh Light Rail

San Diego Trolley

MAX Light Rail (Portland, Oregon)

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch railways) (The Netherlands)

Port of Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Balkim Muh. Elk. Ltd. Sti.

BBC

Products




★ Industrial Instrumentation (Sensors and Controls)

★ Telecommunication Service Platform, the TSP 7000

Combino, ULF, and Avanto trams

★ Siemens-Duwag U2 LRV

★ ER20 locomotive - MTR

★ LHB/Siemens M1/M2/M3 Metro Mar. Pair

★ Siemens-Adtranz LRV

★ Duewag/Siemens 1435 mm Combino Low Flr LRV

★ MX3000 Metro car for Oslo (SGP Wien works)

★ S4000 metro

★ Schindler/Siemens ABB Be 4/8 Low Floor LRV

★ Metro 5001

★ SWBSiemensr NGT 6D LRV

★ Eurosprinter locomotive

Desiro, ICE, and Transrapid trains

★ Gigaset, Home entertainment products, including Gigaset M740 AV, a set-top box to receive TDT and integrate it in a domestic network (using WLAN or cable), i.e. for home streaming media.

Hicom Trading E

Hicom 300

HiPath

★ HiQ 8000 Softswitch

★ MSR32R

EWSD telephone exchanges

★ SPX 2000 small digital telephone exchange (rural)

★ Siemens Gigaset cordless telephones

Siemens Mobile Phones - divested to BenQ in 2005

★ Siemens SPPA-T2000 Control System (formerly Teleperm XP)

★ Siemens SPPA-T3000 Control System (For Electrical Power Generation Control)

★ SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Automation System for Process and Hybrid industries

★ Radio and core products for 2G and 3G Mobile Networks (GSM, UMTS, ...)

★ Gas & Steam Turbines

★ Industrial programmable controls (including Simatic PLC, and Logo! microcontrollers)

★ The Siemens Servo life support ventilator line

★ MAGNETOM(TM) Espree

★ SOMATOM(R) Definition CT

★ SOMATOM(R) Sensation CT

★ SOMATOM(R) Emotion CT

★ AXIOM Artis

★ AXIOM Sensis

★ E.Cam Signature Series Gamma Camera

★ Symbia TruePoint SPECT-CT

★ Biograph TruePoint PET.CT

★ Magnetom C!, a low field open MRI

★ Magnetom Avanto, a Tim system MRI

★ Magnetom Espree, a Tim system, open bore MRI

★ Magnetom Trio, A Tim System, ultra high field MRI

★ Windturbines, 1.3 MW, 2.3 MW, 3.6 MW

★ Sinorix(TM)

★ Sistore(TM)

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★ The Siemens MOMO Siemens (train)

Competition


Main competitors of Siemens are:


ABB

Alcatel-Lucent

Alstom

Automated Logic

Bombardier

Cisco Systems

Computrols

Eaton

Ericsson

General Electric

Honeywell

Johnson Controls

Lantronix

Nortel

Philips

Reliable Controls

Rockwell Automation

Samsung

Schneider Electric

See also



List of assets owned by Siemens

Siemens Limited

Simatic S5 PLC

Siemens mobile

References



★ Greider, William (1997). ''One World, Ready or Not''. Penguin Press. ISBN 0-7139-9211-5.
; Footnotes
1. Siemens – Global network of innovation
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4. Associated Press quoted by Forbes: ''Nokia-Siemens Venture to Start in April'', March 152007
5. International Herald Tribune: ''Bribery trial deepens Siemens woes'', March 132007
6. http://www.cnbc.com/id/19498968

Further reading



★ Weiher, Siegfried von /Herbert Goetzeler (1984). ''The Siemens Company, Its Historical Role in the Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980'', 2nd ed. Berlin and Munich.

★ Feldenkirchen, Wilfried (2000). ''Siemens, From Workshop to Global Player'', Munich.

★ Feldenkirchen, Wilfried / Eberhard Posner (2005): ''The Siemens Entrepreneurs'', Continuity and Change, 1847-2005, Ten Portraits, Munich.

External links




Official website

Siemens Official History Web Site

Siemens USA official website

Siemens Foundation

Official Osram (USA) Site

Official USFilter Site

Siemens Medical Solutions USA

Siemens Intelligent Transportation Systems (USA)

Yahoo! - Siemens AG Company Profile

Siemens Process Safety

Siemens SEO

Siemens VDO Automotive

Siemens Company Profile and News Archive


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