X-Nico

45 unusual facts about Siemens


Adlershof

A second competition in May and June led to the acceptance of several of the main contest entries, the Pfalz D.XII, Fokker E.V, Junkers D.I and Siemens-Schuckert D.IV, the later of which is considered by many to be Germany's best design of the war.

Alex Munter

He said he planned to improve public transit in the city of Ottawa, to review the O-Train project and to fix possible irregularities regarding the contract with Siemens.

Alexander Marten

But even before starting to work while still in university and during his internships at the UN, Siemens and other organizations he became interested in corporate law and especially in international mergers & acquisitions.

Amadora

Siemens and Roche are examples of international companies based in Amadora.

Bangladesh Green Building Council

National and international energy companies like Energpac and Siemens attended the event to assess the roles of the corporate stakeholders while United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fellows commented on the global imperative of such an initiative.

Béla Karlovitz

In the mid-1930s, while in his native Hungary, Béla Karlovitz approached Siemens in Germany with a request to develop an MHD generator using combustion gases.

BenQ-Siemens

Representatives of the labour union IG Metall bid farewell to the last 165 workers with flowers.

BFW M.21

The M.21 was powered by an uncowled radial engine, either the 96 hp (72 kW) Siemens Sh 11 (M.21a) or the 125 hp (93 kW) Sh 12 (M.21b) driving a two-bladed propeller.

Canyon Crest Academy

Teacher-run science programs at the school include a SMART (structural biology and modeling) Team, which regularly participates in research and other activities at the local Scripps Research Institute, and a Science Fair Team, which has included several ISEF, Siemens, and California State Science Fair winners.

Cornelius Adebayo

In 2007, a Munich Court found Siemens AG guilty of misconduct and unethical contract dealings by allegedly offering bribes to Cornelius Adebayo and others to secure contracts for telecommunications equipment.

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) invited Adebayo for questioning related to involvement in the Siemens bribe scandal during his spell as communication minister.

Data Matrix

Data Matrix was invented by International Data Matrix, Inc. (ID Matrix) which was merged into RVSI/Acuity CiMatrix, who were acquired by Siemens AG in October, 2005 and Microscan Systems in September 2008.

Emgrand EC7

Geely engaged a range of mainly global suppliers, including: Siemens for electronic control system; Lear Corporation for seats; Saint-Gobain for all glass.

Focke-Wulf A 38

All four A 38s were originally fitted with Siemens- or Gnome et Rhône-built Bristol Jupiter engines (although the BMW VI had been offered as an option), but in April 1933, all aircraft were refitted with Siemens Sh 20 powerplants.

GeoPort

To promote the system, in late 1994 Apple organized the Versit alliance along with AT&T, IBM and Siemens to attempt to standardize the commands that the PBX systems responded to.

Großenseebach

Today most inhabitants work for the big companies in Erlangen, such as Siemens.

Haliru Mohammed Bello

In 2007 a German court allegedly named several prominent Nigerians, including Bello, in a bribery scandal involving communications firm Siemens AG.

Halol

(MI-Division), Integra Hindustan Control Ltd, SETCO Automotive, CEAT Tyres, Raychem RPG, GUNNEBO, Panchmahal Steel,Ambe International,EBENEZER CAST, Grandtech Engineering works, Yadav Engineering works,Gamesa Wind Turbines Pvt Ltd, Windar Renewable Energy, Siemens,Spire Industries Pvt.

Hermann Aron

Anti-semitism continued to grow in Germany, and in 1935 the family sold the business to Siemens-Schuckert and fled to the USA.

Hirtshalsbanen

In 2005 the current Siemens Desiro trains, which have a maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph), were introduced.

Hollinwood, Greater Manchester

The meter factory was sold to Siemens in the 1980s and became known as FML; Siemens later closed the FML factory.

Jay Salkini

Following his graduation from FAU with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he took a position at Siemens working on software development for telecommunications switching systems.

John Allen Clark

In 1988 GEC announced a new partnership with the German electronics group Siemens to once again bid for Plessey.

Juan Oliver Chirivella

Married with one son, Oliver qualified as a technical engineer and worked for the company Siemens reaching a high position in the local branch of the company.

Kasba, Kolkata

Ruby Hospital, the office of Siemens and a host of government-sponsored housing complexes came up in the area.

Khadija Ismayilova

It also claimed that the mobile operator had been falsely naming Siemens as its legal owner in order to be able to participate in state tenders to evade the Azerbaijani law not allowing newly registered companies to do so.

Kurd Kisshauer

Around 1930 Kisshauer moved to Berlin where he worked for Siemens.

Lyttelton Timeball Station

The astronomical clock originated from Britain and the time ball was supplied by Siemens Brothers of Germany.

Manuel de Abreu

Abreu's ideas for a new mass screening radiography apparatus was made true by the construction of a first device by the Lohner House, a representative of Siemens in Rio de Janeiro.

Mario Barth

After finishing an apprenticeship as telecommunication electrician at Siemens in Berlin he started an education as actor, which he also finished successfully.

Mellon Financial

Alcoa, Gulf Oil (now Chevron-Texaco), Westinghouse (now CBS Corporation and Siemens) and Rockwell, all were directly founded and managed by the bank.

Namma Veedu Vasanta Bhavan

Namma Veedu Vasanta Bhavan is also currently operating as the official caterers at companies such as Mahindra Satyam, Sutherland Global Services Limited, FL Smidth, Siemens Shared Services and the HCL Technologies.

Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon

Nicholas James Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon (born 6 May 1955) is the son of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon and Baroness Anne Louise de Graevenitz (an inheritor through her paternal grandmother to the von Siemens fortune).

Olivetti Elea

It was announced only a few months after the release of Siemens 2002 (transistorized, but not entirely transistorized) and several months before the first IBM transistorized computer.

Operations and Infrastructure of Kuala Lumpur International Airport

The BHS was built by Toyo Kanetsu and in 2006 a contract to extend the system from the satellite building to the ERL (Express Rail Link) platform in the Main Terminal Building was awarded to Siemens.

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software provides technology to a number of companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more.

Püssi

In December 2010, Siemens announced that Püssi had been selected as the location of one of two converter stations for their "EstLink 2" high voltage power line between Estonia and Finland.

Pyapon

It serves as a center for collecting rice from the surrounding agricultural areas, and is home to a diesel-run power plant, using equipment by the German firm Siemens.

Rawmarsh

This complex of two large blast furnaces and Siemens open hearth furnaces and ancillaries was closed in the late 1970s the land remaining derelict until it was redeveloped as several large retail complexes from the late 1980s.

Schöneweide–Spindlersfeld branch line

Parallel with the trials on the Spindlersfeld line, tests were carried out by AEG and Siemens & Halske, under a joint venture called Studiengesellschaft für Elektrische Schnellbahnen, with AC on the Royal Prussian Military Railway (Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn) between Marienfelde and Zossen.

Siemens-Schuckert

Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.

Siemens-Schuckert designed a number of heavy bombers early in WWI, building a run of seven R-series bombers.

Stade Malien

Stade Malien the logo of sponsors Siemens during the 2007-2008 seasons, with football kits manufactured by Adidas.

Synchronica

In 2004, Synchronica became the first company to deploy a live installation of a SyncML device management (now OMA DM) server in a carrier-grade environment, with Siemens Mobile AG.

Turkmenbashi Airport

In addition, put into operation a new control tower height of 61 m, equipped with special equipment from Siemens and Thales, as well as housing for receiving VIP-persons, meetings, meetings, and conferences.


Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Bach Air Yacht

Different models were powered by varying combinations of Wright, Ryan-Siemens, Kinner, Comet, and Pratt & Whitney engines, a large engine in the nose of the aircraft and two smaller "helpers" under the wings in nacelles supported by struts.

Carl Heinrich von Siemens

Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (March 3, 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg - March 21, 1906 in Menton, France) was a German entrepreneur, a child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer.

CoreConnect

As such it is licensed by over 1500 electronics companies such as Cadence, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Siemens and Synopsys.

Digifold

A system using Siemens S7-200 PLC and Siemens Servo controllers was developed throughout the late 1990s, into the year 2000.

Eldon Group

Some of the company’s major customers worldwide are Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Olivetti, Honeywell, ABB, GE, SHELL, ESSO, Carrier, OTIS, Volvo and Ford.

European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research

The Industry Panel, consisting of supporting companies, includes Bayer Health Care/Bayer Schering Pharma, Bracco, GE Healthcare, Philips and Siemens.

Feld Entertainment

In January 2012, the company purchased Palmetto Corporate Center, a former Siemens Corp. complex in Ellenton, Florida, and plans to move most of its various operations and its world headquarters there over a five year period starting with its worldwide production center.

Film capacitor

German manufacturers such as WIMA, Roederstein, Siemens and Philips were trendsetters and leaders in a world market driven by the consumer electronics.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

George Siemens

In 2008, Siemens and Stephen Downes designed and taught a MOOC which was reported as a "landmark in the small but growing push toward 'open teaching,'" and has since offered various additional MOOCs which have gained popular worldwide attention.

Hot blast

Ultimately this principle was applied even more efficiently in Regenerative heat exchanger, such as the Cowper stove (which preheats the blast in blast furnaces to this day), and in the Open hearth furnace (for making steel) by the Siemens-Martin process.

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

IIIT-B is in Electronics City, Bangalore, which is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks and which houses major electronics and IT corporations that include Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Flextronics, amongst others.

Korail Class 8000

The locomotive was designed by the 50 C/S group, which consisted of European manufacturers Alsthom, Siemens, GEC, MTE, Brown-Boveri, ACEC, and AEG, and was led by Alsthom.

Metro Transit rolling stock

The Blue Line's original first-generation fleet of 27 Flexity Swift LRVs was built by Bombardier; the Siemens "type II" LRVs are mechanically, but not electronically, compatible with the current fleet of 27 "type I" vehicles, so while the two generations will be able to run on the tracks at the same time and either type would be able to push a malfunctioning unit of the other type, multiple-unit consists may only be assembled of one type.

The vehicles are being built at Siemens’ facility in Florin, California, near Sacramento.

Nixdorf

Wincor Nixdorf, a German corporation, which is a successor of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme, that provides retail and retail banking hardware, software and services

Optima Bus Corporation

It utilizes ISE-Siemens ThunderVolt hybrid technology built around Siemens ELFA motors, generators and inverters.

Palais Ludwig Ferdinand

The Palais Ludwig Ferdinand (also called the Alfons Palais and the Siemens Palais) is an early 19th-century palace in Munich, Germany, designed by Leo von Klenze.

Rainer Hertrich

He was born December 6, 1949 and studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Nuremberg after an apprenticeship at Siemens.

Roambi

The app has eight of the top 10 largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the world as clients; as well as Siemens, the Dallas Cowboys, ABB, Telstra, Henkel, the Sydney Airport, and DBRS.

Rye House power station

Rye House has three single-shaft Siemens V94.2 gas turbines (generating 150MW each) rotating at 3000rpm and three Babcock Energy steam generators (receiving exhaust gas at 540C) connected to one 250MW steam turbine.

Sapsan

Development and construction was carried out by Siemens at Erlangen and Krefeld in Germany.

Siemens PLM Software

In October 2008, to expand its portfolio, Siemens acquired Schwelm based 'Innotec GmbH' - an international vendor of digital engineering software and services for the process industry, and known for its COMOS platform .

Sopormetal

Sopormetal globalization strategy begins with the acquisition of a Spanish company, resulting in the establishment of Sopormetal España in Madrid, now considered a significant “player” of the industrial sector in Spanish market, covering it as a whole and supplying large companies such as Airbus, Basque Mondragon Corporation and Siemens.

Steven Kropper

Investing in firms like Siemens or GE which offer a diversified portfolio of fossil generation technology, energy efficiency and wind power implies a hedge strategy that mostly goes 'short on the Earth', but has some long position in renewables and conservation.

THSR 700T

THSRC's bid was based on the high-speed technology platform of Eurotrain, a joint venture of GEC-Alsthom, the main maker of the French TGV, and Siemens, the main maker of the German ICE.

Turkmentelecom

Turkmentelecom cooperates and collaborates with more than 40 operators in foreign countries, as well as with other communications companies, such as Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Netash, Italtel TCI, and Schlumberger.

Vehicular communication systems

Car manufacturers and communication corporations are also investing in vehicular communications; among them are Kapsch, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Mark IV.