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EV charging in London's "Electric Avenue"

London’s “Electric Avenue”: From light to movement

In a conservation area in Maida Vale, lampposts are doubling up as EV charging points.

How UK manufacturers can switch to face mask production

Siemens and one of its customers have provided a home-grown solution to meet the huge demand for face masks, ensuring factories across the country can open their doors and diversify to meet the demand. 

How Technology is Transforming the Food and Beverage Industry

It’s 5 am at a bakery in Wales. The smell of freshly baked bread hangs heavy in the air as fluffy loaves race along congested conveyor belts. Shiny metallic arms slice and wrap bread, while a machine datestamps each loaf, before carefully dropping them into a delivery container. For the unsuspecting, everything seems to be running smoothly.

TrakRap: Wrapping its way to Industry 4.0

A small company with a big vision is behind a revolutionary packaging system that is reducing the consumption of energy and material by food producers in the UK. With its cold wrapping technology, TrakRap has not only taken heat and waste out of the packaging line; it is working with Siemens to provide its customers with all the benefits of manufacturing digitalisation. 
Painting new possibilities in project management

Painting new possibilities in project management

Close collaboration and coordination deliver a chemicals industry first

Tackling a major fire detection problem

75% of UK automatic fire alarms are false. Multi-sensor devices are helping the fire services keep people and buildings safer.

Driving a digital future

Severn Power is one of two locations in the world that Siemens has chosen to showcase digitalisation products that can enhance the performance and profitability of power plants.
Anglian water engineer's van

Pump blockages a 'Thing of the past'

See how Anglian Water is preventing unwanted spills and freeing up engineers' using Simocode to detect and clear pump blockages

Stories from around the world

Energy management: Energy-efficient chocolate production

Ritter Sport is the first major manufacturer of chocolate bars to grow its cocoa sustainably. Now its production practices will also be safer for the environment. By using a new energy management system, the company intends to cut its energy consumption by an additional 1.5 percent each year.

Evolution of power on the Galapagos

Using renewable energy to create clean power for UNESCO world heritage site.

Cooling in the desert heat

With strong competition from the UAE’s numerous free zones, Dubai Airport Freezone sets itself apart with state-of-the-art building management systems that ensure operational and environmental efficiency as well as delivery of best-in-class infrastructure and services to its clients.

MindSphere: The turf whisperer

Every professional soccer stadium has an experienced greenkeeper who cares for the sacred turf. And now, for the first time, the greenkeeper at the Allianz Arena – home of FC Bayern – will be assisted by an application. It’s being made possible by MindSphere, the open IoT operating system, and software developers at evosoft.

Lake water for luxury hotel

A world-class luxury hotel recently opened on top of Mount Bürgenberg in Switzerland: the new Bürgenstock Resort. Switzerland’s largest hotel facility is heated and cooled with energy from Lake Lucerne, with approximately 300 m3 of water per hour pumped up the mountain.

Digital twin: When the smart factory is close at hand

Here’s something new: A manufacturer of clamping technology and gripping systems is using digital twins to help plant manufacturers and users to increase their competitiveness. Digital twins enable the virtual simulation and testing of all process steps, from engineering and plant commissioning to performance.

Lithium-ion battery modules: The electrification of the seas

The latest chapter in the Siemens electromobility story: The company’s BlueVault lithium-ion battery modules are now being assembled in a new plant in Norway. The batteries are used to power the country’s ferries as well as store energy on offshore rigs. That puts Norway ahead of the game.

Just make cheese

The new cheese factory in Altendorf is the first facility in Switzerland to be completely configured with the TIA Portal engineering framework from Siemens, including the drive technology. Every year, up to 8 million liters of milk can be converted into Swiss cheese, which finds enthusiastic buyers not only in Switzerland but also internationally.

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