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SiemensSiemens was established in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and begun its existence as Telegraphenbauanstalt von Siemens & Halske in a small workshop making telegraph equipment and warning bells for trains. From day one, Siemens were growing and growing with every new invention.
In 1866, Werner von Siemens produced a electric generator powered by electromagnets, this leads to escalators, street laps, electric railways, and more to be invented.
In 1892, its founding member Werner Von Siemens past away but the company kept growing and by the 1920’s Siemens was one of the leading electronic manufacturing companies in the world.
When the Nazi Party took control of the government of Germany, Siemens was forced in the war economy which meant increase in demands from the military and that led to an increase in the work force up to 1944. After the war, Siemens rebuilt in Germany but was forced to move into different countries in 1950 and returned to its position it held in the 1920’s as one of leading electronic manufacturing companies in 1960. In 1966, Siemens & Halske merged with two other companies: Siemens Schuckertwerke AG and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG to form Siemens AG.
From this date Siemens went from strength to strength developing almost anything from telephone exchanges to computers. Siemens emergence to the cellular world was quite slow.
In 1991, the GSM mobile network was released aimed at linking up the whole of Europe in a wireless network. Siemens waited until 1997 before releasing their own mobile handset, the S 10.
German electrical equipment manufacturer formed on Oct. 1, 1966, in the merger of Siemens & Halske AG (founded 1847), Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG (founded 1903), and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG (founded 1932). Operating manufacturing outlets in some 35 countries and sales organisations in more than 125 countries, it engages in a wide range of manufacturing and services, with groups for electrical components, computer data systems, power engineering, microwave devices, telegraph and signalling systems, electrical installations, medical engineering, and telecommunications. Headquarters are in Munich.
The first Siemens company, Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt Von Siemens & Halske ("Telegraph Construction Firm of Siemens & Halske"), was founded in Berlin on Oct. 1, 1847, by Werner Siemens (1816-92), his cousin Johann Georg Siemens (1805-79), and Johann Georg Halske (1814-90); its purpose was to build telegraph installations and other electrical equipment. It soon began spreading telegraph lines across Germany, establishing in 1855 a branch in St. Petersburg for Russian lines and in 1858 a branch in London for English lines, the latter headed by Werner's brother William (1823-83). As the firm grew and introduced mass production, Halske, who was less inclined toward expansion, withdrew (1867), leaving control of the company to the four Siemens brothers and their descendants.
Meanwhile, the company's activities were enlarging to include dynamos, cables, telephones, electrical power, electric lighting, and other advances of the later Industrial Revolution. In 1890 it became a limited partnership, the senior partners being Carl Siemens (Werner's brother) and Arnold and Wilhelm Siemens (Werner's sons); in 1897 it became a limited-liability company, Siemens & Halske AG.
In 1903 Siemens & Halske transferred its power-engineering activities to a new company, Siemens-Schuckertwerke GmbH (having absorbed a Nürnberg firm, Schuckert & Co.); from 1919 on, the two companies were usually chaired by the same officer, always a member of the Siemens family. In 1932, after seven years of collaboration, an Erlander firm, Reiniger Gebbert & Schall, merged with the Siemens interests to form Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG, engaged in producing medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, especially X-ray machines and electron microscopes.
The House of Siemens, as the companies were collectively called, expanded greatly during the Third Reich (1933-45), all plants running to full capacity during the war and dispersing throughout the country to avoid air strikes in 1943-44. At war's end, Hermann Von Siemens (1885-1986), the head of the group, was briefly interned (1946-48), and Siemens officials were charged with recruiting and employing slave labour from captive nations and associating in the construction and operation of the death camp at Auschwitz and the concentration camp at Buchenwald. As much as 90 percent of the companies' plants and equipment in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany was expropriated. The Western powers also removed and destroyed some facilities until the Cold War sparked Western interest in West Germany's economic reconstruction and co-operation. During the 1950s, from its base in West Germany, the House of Siemens gradually expanded its share of the electrical market in Europe and overseas so that by the 1960s it was again one of the world's largest electrical companies. In 1966 all constituent companies were merged into the newly created Siemens AG.
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 (Since 2005)
Key business areas and subsidiary companies of Siemens AG
Siemens AG's six key business areas are:
Communication and Information (Siemens COM and SIS)
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, Sylvania)
The company is also active in:
Financing (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(domestic robotics!?) company from the previous Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Division. Based in Munich.
Competition
Main competitors of Siemens are:
Philips
General Electric
Samsung
Bombardier
Alstom
Alcatel-Lucent
Cisco Systems
Nortel
Ericsson
Products
TSP [ Telecommunication Service Platform - TSP 7000]
Combino, ULF, and Avanto trams
Siemens-Duwag U2 LRV
ER20 locomotive - MTR
Duewag/AEG/Siemens NGT-6-C Low Flr
LHB/Siemens M1/M2/M3 Metro Mar. Pair
Siemens-Adtranz LRV
Duewag/Siemens 1435mm Combino Low Flr LRV
Metro car
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
Symbia TruePoint SPECT-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, 1.3MW, 2.3MW, 3.6MW
Sinorix(TM)
Sistore(TM)
Clients
KCR
Edmonton Transit System
Calgary Transit
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]])
Some of Siemens' recently acquired companies
Atecs Mannesmann AG (2001) including Mannesmann Dematic, Mannemann Sachs, Mannesmann VDO Automotive, Mannesmann Demag Krauss-Maffei
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)
AN Windenergie GmbH (2005) — now Siemens Wind Power GmbH
Bayer AG -Diagnostic branch (2006)
Diagnostic Products Corp. (2006) — now Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics
Bewator AB (Sweden - 2005) Security
Vai Ingdesi Automation (Argentine - 2007) Industrial Automation
Management
CEO: Klaus Kleinfeld, 1957
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.
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