About Industry UK


Juergen Maier, Sector managing Director UK - Industry

Integrated technologies, vertical market expertise and services for greater productivity, energy efficiency and flexibility

The Industry Sector is one of the world’s leading suppliers of innovative, environmentally friendly products and solutions for industry customers. Solid market expertise, technology-based services and software for industrial processes are the levers we use to increase our customers’ productivity, efficiency and flexibility.

We consistently rely on integrated technologies and, thanks to our bundled portfolio, we can respond more quickly and flexibly to our customers wishes. With our globally unmatched offering of automation technology, industrial control and drive technology as well as industrial software, we equip manufacturing enterprises with what they need over their entire value chain – from product design and development to production, sales and service. Our industry customers also profit from our comprehensive offering of services tailored for their market and their needs.

Siemens Industry is able to cut the time needed for the market launch of many products in half with software and automation technology while also significantly reducing energy or wastewater costs for manufacturing companies. In this way we increase our customers‘ competitive strength and make an important contribution to environmental protection at the same time with our energy-efficient products and solutions.

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Efficient energy management

Energy costs in industry can be reduced significantly with energy efficient products and systems.

Efficient energy management

With energy costs rising, competitive pressures intensifying and climate awareness increasing, concepts for energy-optimized equipment and systems are sparking greater interest than ever before. Today, the focus is not only on procurement costs but on a product's entire lifecycle costs, including operating outlays, energy consumption and resource use. Cutting costs by as much as 70 percent, our energy-saving motors and frequency convertors for variable-speed operation are pillars of efficient energy management. Using our SinaSave software tool, customers can easily calculate how quickly their investments in energy-saving motors and converters will pay for themselves.

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Total Building Solutions

Networked systems offer the best way to guarantee security, energy conservation and comfort in buildings.

Total Building Solutions

To meet today's high standards of efficiency, comfort, security, reliability and flexibility, buildings require applications from a wide array of technologies from building automation, fire protection and security to lighting and low-voltage power distribution. As an expert in all these areas, we ensure the reliable operation of office blocks, complex production facilities, hospitals, airports and buildings for the life sciences industry.

Comprising the infrastructure needed to network, monitor and control all of a building's systems, our Total Building Solutions offer certified packages of products and systems that fulfill all the requirements of advanced building technology. To contain fires and facilitate building evacuation, for example, fire protection systems are directly linked to climate and door control systems. To maximize security, lighting is connected to alarm systems. And to conserve energy, lamps are automatically switched off and heating systems turned down in unoccupied rooms.

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Product Lifecycle Management

In the digital factory, product lifecycle management enables production and operations to be simulated.

Product lifecycle management

In an age of fast-paced technological change and growing demand for customised products, industrial equipment and systems must be adapted to current market needs more quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively than ever before.

Throughout the entire product development process, speed is a key competitive advantage. In today's increasingly complex environment, conventional development and production processes are reaching their limits. That's where the digital factory is breaking new ground with the simulation of production scenarios all the way from product conception to the recycling phase.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the preferred approach for transforming fledgling ideas into successful products.

Our industrial software translates this concept into proven solutions that are open, scalable and flexible. Using our PLM software, manufacturers can simulate production steps and operational states, without the need for costly real-world prototypes. Our Teamcenter, NX, Solid Edge, Tecnomatix, PLM Components and Velocity Series product suites offer capabilities that span the product lifecycle, from design inception to manufacture and support.

The advantages: time-to-market is accelerated considerably, while end customers benefit from improved product quality and productivity and help turn more of our customers’ ideas into successful products.

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Humanity’s most vital resource

In membrane filtration systems, the wastewater flows through thousands of fibers that are no thicker than a human hair.

Humanity's most vital resource

The need for adequate, high-quality, economical and ecofriendly supplies of drinking and process water is posing increasingly complex challenges for both communities and industrial enterprises. Offering customers a dependable, wide-ranging and sustainable supply of everything from individual products to complete, integrated systems, we boast the world's most extensive portfolio of cost-effective and reliable water and wastewater treatment technologies, including conventional and membrane filtration systems, membrane bioreactors, sludge and biological treatment equipment, disinfection technologies and much more.

In California's Orange County Water District, for example, water that was previously discharged into the ocean is now being recovered and reused locally. A MEMCOR® submerged membrane filtration system from Siemens removes suspended matter, bacteria and pollutants from the secondary wastewater. An impressive 284 million liters of reclaimed water are now being delivered to California households, industry and agriculture every day. What's more, the water quality in the groundwater basin is higher than ever before.

In Singapore, space is just as scare and valuable as water. Coupling high energy efficiency with minimal space requirements, the MEMCOR® membrane filtration system we installed in the Kranji District is ideal for converting wastewater into drinking water on the densely-populated island.

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Ecofriendly mass transit

Starting in 2010, the Airval will set new standards of efficiency and comfort at airports.

Ecofriendly mass transit

When it comes to a city's attractiveness, competitiveness and quality of life, mobility is a major factor. That's why transportation networks are one of the most important infrastructure systems that cities provide. And modern mass transit plays a key role in urban mobility. Our comprehensive portfolio in this area encompasses everything from streetcar systems, regional trains and subways to fully automated driverless trains like the Véhicule Automatique Léger (VAL).

In June 2009, we introduced the new Airval airport shuttle, a fully automated rail system that consumes less energy and produces less dust and noise than previous models. We also developed and manufactured Oslo's new metro system, with its exemplary ecofriendly features. The metro's vehicles consume 30 percent less energy than their predecessors. In Vienna, our ultra-low-floor technology, which minimizes vehicle entry height, facilitates boarding for streetcar passengers. And in Denver, Colorado, our customer-oriented mass transit concepts are also proving highly successful: in fiscal 2009, the city ordered 55 additional light-rail vehicles from Siemens.

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