The Supervisory Board of Siemens AG intends to propose to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting the appointment of Ernst & Young GmbH, Stuttgart, to serve as independent auditors for fiscal 2019. This is the result of an intensive dialogue between the Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Managing Board of Siemens AG as well as of an extensive tender process pursuant to relevant European statutory provisions. In the view of the aforementioned governing bodies and committee, Ernst & Young presented the most attractive offer in the tender process.
At its meeting yesterday, the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG approved the company's new Vision 2020+ strategy and reassigned responsibilities within Siemens' Managing Board.
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• More entrepreneurial freedom at individual businesses for accelerated growth: Revenue and margin targets raised
• New growth field: “Internet of Things (IoT) Integration Services”
• New company structure: Three “Operating Companies” – “Gas and Power”, “Smart Infrastructure” and “Digital Industries” – and the “Strategic Companies” Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Gamesa and the planned company Siemens Alstom
• Targeted expansion of digitalization business: Acquisition of mendix
Siemens is setting the course for long-term value creation through accelerated growth and stronger profitability with a simplified and leaner company structure. The main aim of the Vision 2020+ company strategy is to give Siemens' individual businesses significantly more entrepreneurial freedom under the strong Siemens brand in order to sharpen their focus on their respective markets.
• Siemens to acquire mendix, a leader in low-code application development, for €0.6 billion
• Closing of transaction expected in first quarter of fiscal year 2019
• Acquisition to accelerate adoption of MindSphere by ecosystem growth and 10x faster application development
Siemens has signed an agreement today to acquire mendix, a pioneer and leader in cloud native low code application development. Under the agreement, Siemens will pay in cash €0.6 billion to acquire the company.
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• Siemens' lightning information service detected about 443,000 lightning strikes in Germany in 2017 – 11,000 more than in 2016
• Germany's “capital of lightning” was Mainz, followed by Wiesbaden and Berlin
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen was the German district struck most often by lightning, lowest rates were in the city of Pirmasens
• At the European level, Slovenia leads the ranking
Garmisch-Partenkirchen District in Upper Bavaria was the German region with the most lightning activity in 2017. Siemens' lightning information service BLIDS (which stands for Blitz-Informationsdienst von Siemens) registered 3.51 lightning strikes per square kilometer in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2017.
• Integration of OMAT Ltd.'s products into the Siemens software portfolio for the Digital Enterprise enables easier handling and a significant advancement of existing OMAT products
• Take-over of technologically leading process control software solutions strengthens the Siemens machine tool control software portfolio
• Software solutions for adaptive spindle feed control, enhanced tool life cycles and spindle vibration analysis
Siemens Digital Factory plans to take over products of OMAT Ltd., a supplier of software solutions for adaptive spindle feed control, improvement of tool life cycles and vibration analysis of spindles for the use with CNC controls. The software solutions offered by OMAT focus on optimizing the spindle feed during machine operation.
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• Enough power to meet the electricity needs of up to 40 million people
• Plants add up to 14.4 GW capacity to Egypt's national grid
• Helping the country save over $1 billion annually on fuel costs
In collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Siemens and its consortium partners, Orascom Construction and Elsewedy Electric, announced today the completion of the Egypt Megaproject in record time. The parties celebrated the combined cycle commissioning and the start of operations at the Beni Suef, Burullus and New Capital power plants. The stations will add a total of 14.4 gigawatts (GW) of power generation capacity to Egypt's national grid, enough power to supply up to 40 million people with reliable electricity.
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Siemens has won the contract to supply systems to its customer Trung Nam Group in Vietnam and put the country's largest solar farm into operation. The farm is the first solar project for Siemens in South-East Asia, and has a module capacity of 258 megawatts peak (MWp). The deliverables include inverters, power- and distribution transformers, gas-insulated medium-voltage switchgear, circuit-breakers, and a monitoring and control system. All transformers are to be delivered as Sensformer with digital interface.