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Electricity Instead of Diesel: New Battery Trains for Low-Emission Regional Mobility
17 Jul 2025
Low-emission rail transport between Remscheid and the regional capital Düsseldorf Environmentall ...
Digital transformation of the metal industry: Indofen leverages Siemens Xcelerator to drive efficiency, sustainability, and scalability
17 Jul 2025
With Performance Insight, an Industrial Edge based solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, Indian furnace manufacturer Indofen accelerates the ...
Siemens opens one of Europe’s most modern train factories and service centers in Munich
07 Jul 2025
Siemens today celebrated the opening of its expanded train factory in Munich-Allach, one of the most modern train production facilities in Europe and a ...
Siemens enters collaboration with Microsoft to enhance IoT interoperability for buildings
07 Jul 2025
Today, Siemens Smart Infrastructure announced a collaboration agreement with Microsoft to transform access to Internet of Things (IoT) data for buildin ...
ICE Test Train Reaches 405.0 km/h and Gathers Key Insights for High-Speed Rail
03 Jul 2025
DB and Siemens Mobility set new speed record for the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle line during test runs ...
Siemens completed the acquisition of ebm-papst’s industrial drive technology business
03 Jul 2025
Siemens closed its acquisition of ebm-papst's Industrial Drive Technology (IDT) division. IDT has about 650 employees in Germany (St. Georgen and Lauf ...
Siemens completes acquisition of Dotmatics
03 Jul 2025
Siemens AG announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Dotmatics, a leading provider of Life Sciences R&D software headquartered in Boston ...
Siemens completed the acquisition of ebm-papst’s industrial drive technology business
03 Jul 2025
Siemens AG closed its acquisition of ebm-papst's industrial drive technology business. In the future, it will be marketed using the name "Mechatronic S ...
AI leader Vasi Philomin joins Siemens to scale Industrial AI innovation
30 Jun 2025
Vasi Philomin has been appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence, effective July 1, 2025. In this role, he will fur ...
Siemens Mobility to Pioneer Battery-Electric Passenger Locomotives in North America
30 Jun 2025
North America’s first battery-powered passenger locomotives Powering trains to run at speeds up ...
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
