Siemens Building Technologies News

Data isn’t just the driver for project planning and design. The Eplan Data Portal offers users access to high-quality product catalogues from a continually growing pool of renowned component manufacturers.  The portal has now passed the mark of more than two-million sets of static device data from around five hundred manufacturers! By using integrated configurators, users have far more than four million data sets at their fingertips.  It’s a nearly limitless and ever-incr...

With the SIRIUS 3RC7 intelligent link module, Siemens now offers a quick and easy way to gain complete data transparency down to the field level. The plug-and-play expansion module combines information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) with minimal installation and commissioning effort. This means that the data available at the load feeders can be used efficiently. SIRIUS modular system SIRIUS 3RC7 is part of the SIRIUS modular system, the vast portfolio for industrial controls...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has expanded its Siemens Xcelerator partner ecosystem with the addition of the AI-driven field service and asset management suite from IFS, the world’s pioneering provider of industrial AI and enterprise software for companies that manage complex assets, operations, and service-focused activities. SaaS solution The powerful SaaS solution includes AI-enabled asset monitoring and a scheduling and optimisation engine that enables increased resource utilisation a...

During the 2024 General Assembly of Euralarm in Prague, the members chose Peter Mita as the new President of Euralarm. He succeeds Jon Könz who was President for the past three years. Peter Mita is the Southern Europe Commercial leader of Honeywell Fire.  ​2024 General Assembly The 2024 General Assembly was held in Prague where the outgoing President praised among others the work that was done in information sharing, supporting members with regulatory expertise, and guiding stan...

Airport Show is all set for a smooth take-off for its 23rd edition on May 14 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) with key stakeholders utilising the annual exhibition dedicated to the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) to explore and embrace new technologies and innovative products to handle the fast rebounding air passengers and cargo traffic. Airport passenger expectations The participants will also have their focus and attention on products and services designed t...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has expanded its Siemens Xcelerator partner ecosystem to include the TESSA® APM suite of transformer and switchgear condition monitoring and management applications from Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen. This addition marks a significant advancement in providing comprehensive solutions for grid management, empowering utilities with unparalleled visibility and condition monitoring of their asset fleets. Siemens Xcelerator portfolio Switchgear and transformer monitori...

At Hannover Messe 2024, Siemens presents the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) product for engineering in an industrial environment. Siemens Industrial Copilot The Siemens Industrial Copilot, the generative AI-powered assistant, is seamlessly connected to the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal. This will enable engineering teams to find the right help topic and to generate a basic visualisation and code faster for programmable logic controllers (PLC). As a result, they wil...

The industrial sector is in need of digital transformation toward greater sustainability and resilience. Value creation and actions for the planet must be brought into balance. Companies need to do more with fewer resources. At Hannover Messe, Siemens will show how proven, cutting-edge technology and strong partnerships enable industries to become both more sustainable and more competitive. Visitors at Booth D53 in Hall 9 will experience showcases featuring core technologies for digital and sust...

In a collaborative move with the W3C Consortium, Siemens and Microsoft have announced their commitment to converge the Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) with the Thing Description standard from the international standards organisation, W3C. Customers are offered consistent modeling experiences by unifying both languages, mitigating fragmentation in an evolving IoT landscape. With customers typically deploying a mix of vendors in their infrastructure leading to lock-in and high integration...

Arcules, the pioneering provider of unified, intelligent cloud-based video surveillance solutions, is set to showcase its innovations in partnerships, artificial intelligence, and cloud solutions at this week’s ISC West. The company will highlight its commitment to the continuous success of its integrators, concentrating on a cohesive sales and consulting strategy to offer immediate and long-term benefits to end users through cloud services and video and business intelligence. Modern sec...

Thailand’s pioneering fair for security and fire safety for commercial and industrial premises, announced at the press conference at Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok that the 2024 edition will return to the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, from 30 October – 1 November 2024.  Over 80 key local industry players were in attendance, and key stakeholders discussed the industry development and upcoming market trends with the audience. Conference attend...

Invixium, a global pioneer in biometric access control and workforce management solutions, announces its participation at ISC West 2024. At the show, Invixium will exhibit its full line of NDAA-compliant, made-in-Canada, modern, and rugged biometric solutions that are specifically designed to thrive in the most unclean, hazardous, extreme, and harsh working conditions prevalent in the industrial and critical infrastructure sectors. Addressing security challenges As an integrated biometric sol...

Siemens announced that it will deepen its collaboration with NVIDIA to help build the industrial metaverse. Siemens is bringing immersive visualisation powered by new NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs to the Siemens Xcelerator platform, driving increased use of AI-driven digital twin technology. At the NVIDIA GTC, Siemens and NVIDIA demonstrated how generative AI can revolutionise the visualisation of complex data, making photorealism possible, and showcased how sustainable shipbuilder HD Hyundai can...

Siemens and Enlighted, a pioneering property technology company owned by Siemens, announced a strategic partnership with Zumtobel Group, a global lighting solutions provider, to advance the adoption of smart building technologies including intelligent IoT lighting, setting new standards for efficiency and sustainability in building operations worldwide. At the core of the partnership lies the technical integration of Enlighted's industry-pioneering smart sensors into Zumtobel Group's lighting p...

Siemens is releasing a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) functionality into its predictive maintenance solution – Senseye Predictive Maintenance. This advance makes predictive maintenance more conversational and intuitive.  Through this new release of Senseye Predictive Maintenance with generative AI functionality, Siemens will make human-machine interactions and predictive maintenance faster and more efficient by enhancing proven machine learning capabilities with generati...

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the new Teamcentre® SLM app on Salesforce AppExchange. Developed by Siemens in collaboration with Salesforce, the app connects product engineering and product service operations by bringing together the Teamcentre Service Lifecycle Management solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software with Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud.  Service-centric business models This new app enables manufacture...

HEINEKEN, the world's most international brewer, has selected Siemens as a partner for its global Net Zero Production roadmap. It is part of HEINEKEN’s ambitions to reach net zero in Scopes 1 and 2 across all production sites by 2030. Decarbonisation programme Siemens and HEINEKEN will work together on a long-term decarbonisation programme, which will see Siemens implementing solutions and services from its Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, to reduce energy usage at more than 15 HEINEKEN be...

Siemens unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s pioneering technology gathering. Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators to thrive using its open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator. Author's quote “We envision the i...

Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Advanced generative AI technology Domain experts in fields such as engineering and manufacturing, as well as logistics, insurance, or banking will be able to create new and upgrade existing applications with the most advanced generative AI technology. To make this possible, Siemens is...

Enlighted, a pioneering property technology company owned by Siemens, has announced the expanded use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its Location Services solution, and the addition of two new partners to the Enlighted AI partner ecosystem. Location Services Enlighted’s Location Services - a Real-Time Location System tracks the location and movement of assets and badges in buildings, using existing Enlighted intelligent lighting infrastructures. With the introduction of AI machine-le...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s smart buildings portfolio, designed to help building owners create healthy, comfortable, and sustainable buildings, whether greenfield or retrofits has been recognised by WiredScore’s Accredited Solutions.  The accreditation for smart solution providers is granted by WiredScore, a US-based company that sets a global standard for technology in the built world through certification and education. Building X One of the Accredited Solutions is Build...

Siemens AG has signed an agreement to acquire Heliox, a Netherlands-based technology pioneer in fast charging solutions, serving e-Bus and e-Truck fleets and passenger vehicles. The acquisition will complement Siemens’ existing eMobility charging portfolio, adding products and solutions for DC fast charging focused on eBus and eTruck fleets. Digitalisation and software potential Heliox’s portfolio will also extend Siemens’ market reach, primarily in Europe and North America,...

Siemens is rigorously executing its announced €2 billion investment strategy. Of this amount, the company plans to invest around €1 billion in Germany, thereby boosting the country’s innovative strength. In the presence of German Chancellor - Olaf Scholz, the technology company announced the establishment of its new Technology Campus in Erlangen, Germany, with investments of around €500 million in the expansion of development and manufacturing capacities. As a result, Siem...

Industry analyst firm - Verdantix has ranked Siemens Smart Infrastructure as one of the pioneer providers for security software in smart buildings. Their recently published ‘Green Quadrant: Integrated Smart Building Security Software 2023’ report analyses and evaluates ten companies that are shaping the market. Verdantix noted that Siemens solutions offer highly advanced unified security management capabilities. The assessed Siemens software is part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open d...

Intrinsic, an Alphabet company, and Siemens have teamed up to explore integrations and interfaces between Intrinsic’s robotics software, which is designed for easy use of AI-based capabilities, and Siemens Digital Industries with their open and interoperable portfolio for automating and operating industrial production.  Intrinsic has a world-class team of robotics and AI experts with a strong footprint in advanced perception, machine learning and reinforcement learning. Siemens&rsqu...

Siemens provided automation and building technology to the recently opened Bustanica vertical farm in Dubai, the world’s largest of its kind. The US$ 40 million facility is owned by Emirates Crop One, a joint venture between Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world’s largest catering operations serving more than 100 airlines, and Crop One Holdings Inc., an industry pioneer in technology-driven indoor vertical farming.   Technology from the Siemens Xcelerator portf...

Strained supply chains, geopolitical uncertainties, skilled-labour shortages and climate change are increasing the pressure to digitalise and automate value chains – always with the aim of becoming faster, more adaptable and more resilient.  For this reason, Siemens will use ‘Accelerate Transformation’ as its motto for Hannover Messe 2023, where it will be showcasing how new offerings from its open, digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, enable customers’ di...

Siemens will be presenting a complete virtual programmable logic controller (PLC) for the first time at Hannover Messe 2023. The Simatic S7-1500V expands the existing Simatic portfolio and meets special market requirements such as virtual hosting of PLC computing. In the future, that means the range will include both hardware controllers and the virtual PLC.  Simatic S7-1500V The new Simatic S7-1500V is part of Industrial Operations X. This is a continuously growing, interoperable portfo...

Siemens and Microsoft are harnessing the collaborative power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help industrial companies drive innovation and efficiency across the design, engineering, manufacturing, and operational lifecycle of products.  Generative AI To enhance cross-functional collaboration, the companies are integrating Siemens’ Teamcenter® software for product lifecycle management (PLM) with Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams and the language models...

The University of York has appointed Siemens to design and deliver a solar array located at the University’s new Institute for Safe Autonomy (ISA) as part of a £1.5 million research project. Funded through the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF), the project will enhance the Institute’s research capabilities to develop and use AI and robotic systems to inspect and maintain solar arrays. The 193 kWp solar farm will create a ‘living lab’ to give insight...