Siemens Mobility
Siemens Mobility, also known as Siemens Transportation Systems is a separately-managed company of Siemens, arising from a corporate restructuring effective 1 August 2018. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens Mobility has four core business units: Mobility Management, dedicated to rail technology and intelligent traffic systems, Railway Electrification, Rolling Stock, and Customer Services.[3]
Private[1] | |
Industry | Transportation:
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Founder | Werner Von Siemens |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Global |
Key people | CEO:
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Services | |
Revenue | €8.8 billion (Financial year 2018)[3] |
Number of employees | 34,200 (2017)[3] |
Parent | Siemens |
Divisions |
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Website | www |
History
Innovations, such as the world's first electric train in 1879, when Siemens & Halske unveiled a train in which power was supplied through the rails, and the world's first electric tram in 1881, with the implementation of 2.5-kilometer-long electric tramway located in Berlin, built at the company's own expense, cemented the use of electric power in transportation systems.
In the following years, inventions such as the first electric trolleybus, mine locomotives, and the first underground railway in continental Europe (in Budapest), set the path from trams and subways to today's high-speed trains.[4]
Siemens, alongside ThyssenKrupp and Transrapid International, was as part of the German consortium that built the Shanghai Maglev, inaugurated in 2002 by the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, and the Chinese premier, Zhu Rongji.[5] It was the world's first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train, which holds the title of the fastest commercial service, travelling up to 430 km/h.[6]
On November 2012, Siemens acquired Invensys Rail for 1.7 billion pounds sterling.[7]
On July 2017, Siemens confirmed it had taken over Hannover-based software company HaCon, to be managed as a separate legal entity. The financial details were not disclosed.[8]
On September 2017, Siemens announced a proposal to merge its transportation division with Alstom, with the objective of creating "a new European champion in the rail industry".[9] The combined rail business, was to be named Siemens Alstom and headquartered in Paris, would have had $18 billion U.S. in revenue and employed 62,300 people in more than 60 countries.[10] Seen as a measure to counter the rise of China's CRRC with support from both the French and German governments.[11] In February 2019, the European Commission refused permission for the merger to proceed.[12]
During Innotrans in September 2018, Siemens Mobility unveiled the world first driverless tram in Berlin, the result of a joint research and development project with ViP Verkehrsbetriebe Potsdam, on a six-kilometre section of the tram network in Potsdam, Germany. At the same time, the Data Capture Unit (DCU)[13] was introduced. It is the world's first EBA-certified unidirectional gateway safety assessment, that enables 100% secure connectivity[14] of new and existing safety critical systems, up to Safety integrity level (SIL) 4,[15] to provide data analytics and other cloud hosted digital services.[16]
Key Locations
City | Country | Image | Business Unit | Products | Refs |
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Braunschweig | Germany | Mobility Management | Cenelec Rail Technology & IT / OT Security | [17] | |
Berlin | Germany | Mobility Management | |||
Sacramento, California | United States | Rolling Stock | Locomotives: Sprinter and Charger Light rail vehicles |
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Krefeld | Germany | Rolling Stock | Locomotives: Velaro Trams: Avenio and Combino |
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Louisville, Kentucky | United States | Mobility Management | AREMA Rail Technology | [17] | |
Poole | United Kingdom | Mobility Management | Rail Technology & Communication equipment | [17][20] | |
Madrid | Spain | Mobility Management | Rail Technology | ||
Melbourne | Australia | Mobility Management | |||
Erlangen | Germany | Rail Electrification
Customer Services |
Digital Services, Electrification AC & DC components | ||
New York | United States | Mobility Management
Customer Services |
Rail technology
Digital Services |
Products
Digital Services
- Data Capture Unit (DCU) - Secure connectivity[14]
- Railigent (CS) - Data Analytics[21]
- Rail Mall (CS) - Spare parts eCommerce
- Intermodal solutions (IMS) - Passenger Apps (planning & eTickets)
Locomotives
- Vectron
- Asiarunner
- Eurorunner
- EuroSprinter
- E40 AG-V1 (E40AC) electric locomotive
- Korail Class 8200
- NSB Di6
- NSB Di8
- Siemens Sprinter electric locomotive
- Siemens Charger diesel-electric locomotive
- SNCB Class 77
- VSFT G 322
- ICx
- ÖBB Class 4011
- ÖBB Class 4020
- IC4
- Velaro EMU
- Eurostar e320
- TCDD HT80000
- Venturio EMU
- Mireo EMU
- Desiro EMU/DMU
- Desiro Double Deck
- Siemens Nexas
- British Rail Class 332
- British Rail Class 333
- British Rail Class 700
- British Rail Class 707
- British Rail Class 717
Passenger coaches
- Viaggio Classic
- Viaggio Twin - double deck coach
- Viaggio Light
- Viaggio Comfort
- Venture
Light Rail/Trams
- Combino Supra tram
- Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
- Siemens S200
- Siemens SD-400 and SD-460
- Siemens SD660 light rail
- S70/S200 light rail
- Ultra Low Floor tram
- D-class Melbourne tram
- Siemens-Duewag U2
People Mover
- VAL series - acquired from Matra
- VAL 208 - used by CDGVAL, Rennes Metro, U Line, Turin Metro
- VAL 206 - used by Orlyval Airport metro, Toulouse Metro
- AIRVAL - used by Suvarnabhumi Airport
Metro/Subway
- C651
- Siemens Modular Metro
- Inspiro Metro
- Tren Urbano - customized train set similar to MBTA Red Line cars
- Blue Line (MBTA) Series 0700 (#5 East Boston) - customized train set
- New Tube for London
MAGLEV TRAINS
- SMT TRANSRAPID(Shanghai MAGLEV Train/Transrapid
See also
Competitors:
- Bombardier Transportation
- Alstom Transport
- Hitachi Rail
- Hyundai Rotem
- CRRC Corporation
- GE Transportation Systems
- CAF
- Talgo
- Stadler Rail
References
- "IG Metall dialog on Siemens Mobility GmbH".
- "Peter and Soussan to head Siemens Mobility Division".
- N, N. "Siemens Company Presentation" (PDF). Press - Siemens Global Website. Siemens AG. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- "Siemens Mobility is on-track".
- "China claims train blue riband with Maglev".
- "China Maglev".
- "Siemens acquuires Invensys Rail" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2013.
- "Siemens acquuires Hacon".
- "Siemens and Alstom join forces to create a European Champion in Mobility". Siemens. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- Briginshaw, David (1 November 2017). "Will the Siemens Alstom merger live up to expectations?". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- Chassany, Anne-Sylvaine (26 September 2017). "France backs Alstom-Siemens train deal". Financial Times. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- "Mergers: Commission prohibits Siemens' proposed acquisition of Alstom".
- "Siemens at Innotras 2018 digital solutions".
- "Hardware enforced Cybersecurity".
- "Siemens Data Capture Unit enables digital services".
- "Innotras 2018 highlights".
- "Siemens Mobility Management: Rethinking Rail & Road. Expand. Optimize. Integrate" (PDF). Siemens Mobility. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Siemens Moving California Fact Sheet" (PDF) (Press release). Siemens Mobility. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Siemens Mobility Plant Krefeld-Uerdingen" (PDF). Siemens Mobility. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- Slade, Darren (6 September 2016). "Pictures: 50 years of Siemens in Poole (it's where the bar code was invented)". Daily Echo. Bournemouth. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Siemens Data Analytics services".
- Hardware enforced Cybersecurity
- Monitoring safety-critical railway networks using unidirectional gateways - Data Capture unit
- The application of Smart Data Services in interlocking systems - Data Capture Unit
- Innovative freight solutions on automated rail operations - Siemens Mobility Freight & Products