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Siemens expands global electronics intelligence reach and Supplyframe portfolio with Wevolver acquisition
30 Apr 2025
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today its intention to acquire Wevolver, expanding its audience reach, enhancing the Supplyframe product ...
Siemens Mobility builds emission-free hydrogen-powered trains for Südostbayernbahn
28 Apr 2025
Siemens Mobility has started production of the hydrogen-powered trains that will begin operating on the Südostbayernbahn network in late 2026. The ord ...
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25 Apr 2025
Koenig & Bauer speeds up digital transformation in the printing press industry with Siemens Xcelerator
23 Apr 2025
Together with Koenig & Bauer, a global printing press manufacturer, technology company Siemens will accelerate development and commissioning processes ...
Bombardier to digitally transform the aircraft engineering process from concept through to production with Siemens Xcelerator
17 Apr 2025
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that Bombardier, a global leader in aviation, focused on designing, manufacturing and servicing bus ...
New Accenture Siemens Business Group to reinvent engineering and manufacturing for clients
14 Apr 2025
Siemens and Accenture are significantly advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and transform engineering and manuf ...
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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.
