Charlotte

Nearly 1,700 employees work in the Charlotte region, including approximately 60 U.S. military veterans, with more than 1,200 supporting the energy business. Charlotte is home to the Siemens worldwide energy hub that manufactures and services generators, gas and steam turbines for the power generation market. Over the past 10 years, Siemens has also partnered with Charlotte to help craft and implement its vision of a smart, sustainable city.
Powering Up Charlotte

Manufacturing Advanced Energy Technologies

Siemens Charlotte Energy Hub is the world’s most efficient and flexible power generation equipment facility.

Siemens Charlotte Energy facility is the company’s worldwide hub for manufacturing and servicing 60Hz fossil power generation equipment, with additional capabilities for the 50Hz market. Opened in 1969, the facility has manufactured and serviced the power generation market for decades.

Winning the Digital Race

Faster Cars with Siemens Software

One of NASCAR’s most successful teams, Hendrick Motorsports, has partnered with Siemens PLM Software since 1997 across its racing operations.

Because the team has to reinvent itself each time it gets on the track, Hendrick Motorsports uses Siemens’ digital twin software to ensure designs meet requirements, provide personnel with real-time data, and optimize performance for individual parts to benefit the entire car.

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Siemens in Charlotte

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Siemens-Built Rail Vehicles

Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS)

 

CATS recently extended its 9.3-mile light rail line to 11 stations running from city center through the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus. The extension is designed to be operated by three-car Siemens S70 light rail vehicles (LRVs) and will transport more than 25,000 passengers per day. In addition, Siemens built six S70 streetcars for CATS, adding to the 42 LRVs in operation across the city.

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A Vision for a Smart, Sustainable City

City Performance Tool (CyPT) 

 

As part of its City Performance Tool program, Siemens worked with Charlotte’s Sustainability Office to review potential impacts of investing in technologies that could contribute to the city’s smart, sustainable future. The resulting report found that by implementing 16 ‘smart’ building and transportation technologies, the city could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent and create nearly 100,000 jobs by 2050.

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Supporting the Future of Work

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC)

 

Siemens partners with CPCC on its apprenticeship program for graduating high school students to help create a pipeline of workers for the future. Students attend classes on advanced mechatronics at CPCC and get hands-on, on-the-job training at the Siemens Charlotte Energy Hub. If they pass their courses, students will be offered a job in the Siemens Charlotte Energy Hub when they graduate.

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