Siemens
Dagmar Mundani to head Mergers & Acquisitions at Siemens AG
27 Mar 2025
“With Dagmar Mundani, we’re gaining an experienced and highly qualified expert with excellent leadership qualities for our Mergers & Acquisitions f ...
Siemens supplies DB Energie with software to modernize their transmission grid operations
27 Mar 2025
Siemens Smart Infrastructure will supply DB Energie with software for modernizing network operations. DB Energie, responsible for supplying energy to t ...
Siemens and Audi are taking the shop floor to the next level with AI and IT-empowered automation at scale
27 Mar 2025
Siemens and Audi are revolutionizing manufacturing processes with software-defined automation and artificial intelligence (AI). The long-standing partn ...
Siemens acquires Altair to create most complete AI-powered portfolio of industrial software
26 Mar 2025
Siemens announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation a ...
Siemens partners with CPFL Energia to digitalize Brazil’s electricity sector
25 Mar 2025
Siemens Smart Infrastructure and CPFL Energia, one of the largest energy distributors in Brazil, have joined forces to transform the Brazilian electric ...
Siemens is European patent champion
25 Mar 2025
With 1,830 patent applications in 2024 at the European Patent Office (EPO), Siemens ranks first among EU-based companies. The ranking is led by Samsung ...
Reactive Technologies improves grid stability monitoring precision with Siemens software
20 Mar 2025
Siemens Smart Infrastructure will partner with Reactive Technologies, a leading Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETS) company, to accelerate the energy tr ...
Siemens Xcelerator: Siemens accelerates IT and OT integration with Microsoft for Edge, Cloud, AI and Simulation
20 Mar 2025
Siemens announces an extended collaboration with Microsoft in the context of Siemens Xcelerator, Siemens’ open digital business platform, to simplify ...
Siemens to strengthen competitiveness in automation business and in electric vehicle charging business
18 Mar 2025
Siemens has presented plans to further increase its global competitiveness to employee representatives. The plans affect units in the automation busine ...
Siemens boosting U.S. investments by more than $10 billion for American manufacturing jobs, software and AI infrastructure
06 Mar 2025
Siemens is ramping up investments in the U.S. to support and benefit from America’s industrial tech growth. “The industrial tech sector is the basi ...
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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.

How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.

Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.