Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Siemens shopping experience:
1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the Siemens offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of Siemens at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.
2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about
3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Siemens? Wrong! If the Siemens is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.
4. Questions - Got a question about Siemens then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....
5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling Siemens? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about Siemens and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.
6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Siemens wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
7. Feedback - happy with your Siemens then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.
8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Siemens site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Siemens, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Siemens, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
{{Infobox_Company| company_name = Siemens AG| company_logo = | company_type = Public (
Aktiengesellschaft) (, , )]| foundation =
1847 in
Berlin, Germany, [Germany,
President & CEO| num_employees = 480,000 ([2007)]| products =
Telephone and Telephone SystemsElectrical generator
Automation Lighting
Ct scan
Transport
Water purification
Building Technologies
Domestic technology| services =
IT Service ManagementFinancingConstruction 87.325 [1000000000 (number) (2006)] (, , ) is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate (company). Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich,
Germany. The company is a
list of conglomerates of six major business divisions:
Automation & Control,
Power, Transportation,
Medical, Information &
Communication, and Lighting. Worldwide, Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 480,000 people in 190 countries and reported global sales of €87.325 billion in fiscal year 2006. Siemens AG is listed on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and has been listed on the
New York Stock Exchange since March 12, 2001.
History
Siemens was founded by
Ernst Werner von Siemens on October 1,
1847, based on the
telegraph he had invented that used a Measuring instrument to point to the sequence of
letters, instead of using
Morse code. The company – then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske – opened its first workshop on October 12.
In
1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in
Europe; 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. In 1850 the founder's younger brother, Sir William Siemens (born Carl Wilhelm Siemens), started to represent the company in London. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In
1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in
St Petersburg. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European (Calcutta to London) telegraph line .
In 1881, a Siemens Alternating current Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming,
United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In
1890, the founder retired and left the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm. Siemens & Halske (S&H) was incorporated in
1897.
In 1919, S&H and two other companies jointly formed the Osram
lightbulb company. A Japanese subsidiary was established in
1923.
During the 1920s and 1930s, S&H started to manufacture radios, television sets, and electron microscopes.
World War II Era
Before World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, like most big companies in Germany at the time, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around famous extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used
slave labor from
concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the extermination camp, supplying the electricity to the camp. The crematorium ovens at Buchenwald bear the Siemens label.
Post-war
In the 1950s and from their new base in
Bavaria, S&H started to manufacture computers,
semiconductor devices, laundry machines, and
cardiac pacemakers. Siemens AG was incorporated in 1966. The company's first digital telephone exchange was produced in 1980. In 1988 Siemens and GEC acquired the UK defense and technology company Plessey. Plessey's holdings were split, and Siemens took over the avionics,
radar and traffic control businesses — as
Siemens Plessey.
In 1991, Siemens acquired Nixdorf Computer AG and renamed it
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG. In 1997 Siemens introduced the first
GSM cellular phone with colour display. Also in 1997 Siemens agreed to sell the defence arm of Siemens Plessey to
British Aerospace (BAe) and a UK government agency, the Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA). BAe and DASA acquired the British and German divisions of the operation respectively.
In
1999, Siemens' semiconductor operations were spun off into a new company known as Infineon Technologies. Also, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG formed part of
Fujitsu Siemens Computers AG in that year. The retail banking technology group became
Wincor Nixdorf.
In February
2003, Siemens reopened its office in
Kabul.
In 2004, Siemens took over the mantle of official Formula One timekeeper, replacing
TAG Heuer.
In November, 2005, Siemens signed a 12 year agreement with the
Walt Disney Company to sponsor attractions in its
Florida and California parks.
In 2006, Siemens announced the purchase of Bayer Diagnostics, which was incorporated into the Medical Solutions Diagnostics division officially on 1 January
2007.
In March
2007 a Siemens board member was temporarily arrested and accused of illegally financing a business-friendly labour association which competes against the union
IG Metall. He has been released on bail. Offices of the labour union and of Siemens have been searched. Siemens denies any wrongdoing.
In April 2007, the Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Carrier Services divisions of Siemens merged with
Nokia’s Network Business Group in a 50/50 joint venture, creating a fixed and mobile network company called Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia delayed the mergerAssociated Press quoted by Forbes:
Nokia-Siemens Venture to Start in April,
March 152007 due to bribery investigations
International Herald Tribune:
Bribery trial deepens Siemens woes,
March 132007 against Siemens.
Through an American sub-organisation known as the
Siemens Foundation, Siemens also devotes funds to rewarding students and
Advanced Placement teachers. One of its main programs is the
Siemens Westinghouse Competition in
mathematics, science, and technology, which annually grants scholarships up to US$100,000 to both individual and team entrants. According to the foundation website, Siemens awards a total of nearly US$2 million in scholarship money every year.
Chief Executives
- Ernst Werner von Siemens (1847-1890)
- Wilhelm von Siemens (1890-1919)
- Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1919-1941)
- Hermann von Siemens (1941-1956)
- Ernst von Siemens (1956-1968)
- Gerd Tacke (1968-1971)
- Bernhard Plettner (1971-1981)
- Karlheinz Kaske (1981-1992)
- Heinrich von Pierer (1992-2005)
- Klaus Kleinfeld (2005-2007)
- Peter Löscher (2007)
Corporate affairs
Management
Peter Löscher (formerly of Merck) is the current president and the CEO as of
July 1,
2007.http://www.cnbc.com/id/19498968. He succeeded Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld after the scandal charges of bribery against Siemens.Gerhard Cromme is the current chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG. He succeeded Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer on 4/26/2007.
Key business areas and subsidiary companies
Siemens' six operational business areas are Automation & Control ( Automation & Drives, Industrial Solutions & Services, Siemens Building Technologies), Power ( Power Generation, Power Transmission), Transportation ( Transportation Systems, Siemens VDO), Medical (Siemens Medical Solutions), Information & Communication (Siemens COM,
Siemens IT Solutions and Services), and Lighting (Osram,
Osram Sylvania).
The company is also active in Financing (
Siemens Financial Services), Real Estate (Siemens Real Estate), Home Appliances (BSH), Water Technologies (SWT), Computers (Fujitsu Siemens Computers), and Business Services.
Some of Siemens' recently acquired companies
Major clients
Products
- Industrial Instrumentation (Sensors and Controls)
- Telecommunication Service Platform, the TSP 7000
- Combino, Ultra low floor, and Avanto (tram) trams
- Siemens-Duwag U2 LRV
- ER20 locomotive - MTR
- LHB/Siemens M1/M2/M3 Metro Mar. Pair
- Siemens-Adtranz LRV
- Duewag/Siemens 1435 mm Combino Low Flr LRV
- MX3000 Metro car for Oslo (SGP Wien works)
- S4000 metro
- Schindler/Siemens ABB Be 4/8 Low Floor LRV
- Metro 5001
- SWBSiemensr NGT 6D LRV
- Eurosprinter locomotive
- Desiro, InterCityExpress, and Transrapid trains
- Gigaset, Home entertainment products, including Gigaset M740 AV, a set-top box to receive TDT and integrate it in a domestic network (using WLAN or cable), i.e. for home streaming media.
- Hicom Trading E
- Hicom 300
- HiPath
- HiQ 8000 Softswitch
- HiE 9200 Softswitch
- MSR32R
- EWSD telephone exchanges
- SPX 2000 small digital telephone exchange (rural)
- Siemens Gigaset cordless telephones
- Siemens cellular telephones - divested to BenQ in 2005
- Siemens SPPA-T2000 Control System (formerly Teleperm XP)
- Siemens SPPA-T3000 Control System (For Electrical Power Generation Control)
- SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Automation System for Process and Hybrid industries
- Radio and core products for 2G and 3G Mobile Networks (GSM, UMTS, ...)
- Gas & Steam Turbines
- Industrial programmable controls (including Simatic PLC, and Logo! microcontrollers)
- The Siemens Servo life support ventilator line
- MAGNETOM(TM) Espree
- SOMATOM(R) Definition CT
- SOMATOM(R) Sensation CT
- SOMATOM(R) Emotion CT
- AXIOM Artis
- AXIOM Sensis
- E.Cam Signature Series Gamma Camera
- Symbia TruePoint SPECT-CT
- Biograph TruePoint PET.CT
- Magnetom C!, a low field open MRI
- Magnetom Avanto, a Tim system MRI
- Magnetom Espree, a Tim system, open bore MRI
- Magnetom Trio, A Tim System, ultra high field MRI
- Windturbines, 1.3 MW, 2.3 MW, 3.6 MW
- Sinorix(TM)
- Sistore(TM)
- @ctiveFRIEND
- The Siemens MOMO Siemens (train)
- Siemens Soarian(TM) HIS
Competition
Main competitors of Siemens are:
See also
- List of assets owned by Siemens
- Siemens Limited
- Simatic S5 PLC
- Siemens mobile
References
- Greider, William (1997). One World, Ready or Not. Penguin Press. ISBN 0-7139-9211-5.
Footnotes
Further reading
- Weiher, Siegfried von /Herbert Goetzeler (1984). The Siemens Company, Its Historical Role in the Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, 2nd ed. Berlin and Munich.
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried (2000). Siemens, From Workshop to Global Player, Munich.
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried / Eberhard Posner (2005): The Siemens Entrepreneurs, Continuity and Change, 1847-2005, Ten Portraits, Munich.
External links
- Official website
- Siemens Official History Web Site
- Siemens USA official website
- Siemens Foundation
- Official Osram (USA) Site
- Official USFilter Site
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA
- Siemens Intelligent Transportation Systems (USA)
- Yahoo! - Siemens AG Company Profile
- Siemens Process Safety
- Siemens SEO
- Siemens VDO Automotive
- Siemens Company Profile and News Archive
{{Infobox_Company| company_name = Siemens AG| company_logo = | company_type = Public (
Aktiengesellschaft) (, , )]| foundation =
1847 in
Berlin, Germany, [Germany,
President & CEO| num_employees = 480,000 ([2007)]| products = Telephone and Telephone Systems
Electrical generator
Automation Lighting
Ct scan
Transport
Water purificationBuilding TechnologiesDomestic technology| services = IT Service Management
Financing
Construction 87.325 [1000000000 (number) (
2006)] (, , ) is Europe's largest engineering
Conglomerate (company). Siemens' international headquarters are located in
Berlin and Munich, Germany. The company is a
list of conglomerates of six major business divisions: Automation & Control, Power, Transportation, Medical, Information &
Communication, and
Lighting. Worldwide, Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 480,000 people in 190 countries and reported global sales of €87.325 billion in fiscal year 2006. Siemens AG is listed on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since March 12,
2001.
History
Siemens was founded by
Ernst Werner von Siemens on October 1,
1847, based on the
telegraph he had invented that used a Measuring instrument to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. The company – then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske – opened its first workshop on
October 12.
In
1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in
Europe; 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. In 1850 the founder's younger brother, Sir William Siemens (born
Carl Wilhelm Siemens), started to represent the company in London. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in
Russia. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother,
Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in
St Petersburg. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European (Calcutta to London) telegraph line .
In 1881, a Siemens Alternating current Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In
1890, the founder retired and left the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm. Siemens & Halske (S&H) was incorporated in 1897.
In 1919, S&H and two other companies jointly formed the Osram lightbulb company. A Japanese subsidiary was established in
1923.
During the 1920s and 1930s, S&H started to manufacture radios, television sets, and electron microscopes.
World War II Era
Before World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, like most big companies in Germany at the time, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around famous extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used
slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the extermination camp, supplying the electricity to the camp. The crematorium ovens at Buchenwald bear the Siemens label.
Post-war
In the 1950s and from their new base in
Bavaria, S&H started to manufacture
computers, semiconductor devices, laundry machines, and cardiac pacemakers. Siemens AG was incorporated in 1966. The company's first digital telephone exchange was produced in 1980. In 1988 Siemens and GEC acquired the UK defense and technology company Plessey. Plessey's holdings were split, and Siemens took over the avionics,
radar and traffic control businesses — as Siemens Plessey.
In
1991, Siemens acquired
Nixdorf Computer AG and renamed it
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG. In 1997 Siemens introduced the first
GSM cellular phone with colour display. Also in 1997 Siemens agreed to sell the defence arm of Siemens Plessey to
British Aerospace (BAe) and a UK government agency, the Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA). BAe and DASA acquired the British and German divisions of the operation respectively.
In 1999, Siemens' semiconductor operations were spun off into a new company known as Infineon Technologies. Also, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG formed part of
Fujitsu Siemens Computers AG in that year. The retail banking technology group became Wincor Nixdorf.
In
February 2003, Siemens reopened its office in
Kabul.
In 2004, Siemens took over the mantle of official Formula One timekeeper, replacing TAG Heuer.
In November, 2005, Siemens signed a 12 year agreement with the
Walt Disney Company to sponsor attractions in its
Florida and California parks.
In 2006, Siemens announced the purchase of Bayer Diagnostics, which was incorporated into the Medical Solutions Diagnostics division officially on 1 January
2007.
In March 2007 a Siemens board member was temporarily arrested and accused of illegally financing a business-friendly labour association which competes against the union IG Metall. He has been released on bail. Offices of the labour union and of Siemens have been searched. Siemens denies any wrongdoing.
In April 2007, the Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Carrier Services divisions of Siemens merged with
Nokia’s Network Business Group in a 50/50 joint venture, creating a fixed and mobile network company called Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia delayed the mergerAssociated Press quoted by Forbes:
Nokia-Siemens Venture to Start in April,
March 152007 due to bribery investigationsInternational Herald Tribune:
Bribery trial deepens Siemens woes, March 132007 against Siemens.
Through an American sub-organisation known as the
Siemens Foundation, Siemens also devotes funds to rewarding students and
Advanced Placement teachers. One of its main programs is the
Siemens Westinghouse Competition in
mathematics, science, and technology, which annually grants scholarships up to US$100,000 to both individual and team entrants. According to the foundation website, Siemens awards a total of nearly US$2 million in scholarship money every year.
Chief Executives
Corporate affairs
Management
Peter Löscher (formerly of Merck) is the current president and the CEO as of July 1, 2007.http://www.cnbc.com/id/19498968. He succeeded Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld after the scandal charges of bribery against Siemens.Gerhard Cromme is the current chairman of the supervisory board of
Siemens AG. He succeeded Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer on 4/26/2007.
Key business areas and subsidiary companies
Siemens' six operational business areas are Automation & Control ( Automation & Drives, Industrial Solutions & Services, Siemens Building Technologies), Power ( Power Generation, Power Transmission), Transportation ( Transportation Systems, Siemens VDO), Medical (
Siemens Medical Solutions), Information & Communication (
Siemens COM, Siemens IT Solutions and Services), and Lighting (
Osram,
Osram Sylvania).
The company is also active in Financing (Siemens Financial Services), Real Estate (Siemens Real Estate), Home Appliances (BSH), Water Technologies (SWT), Computers (
Fujitsu Siemens Computers), and Business Services.
Some of Siemens' recently acquired companies
Major clients
Products
- Industrial Instrumentation (Sensors and Controls)
- Telecommunication Service Platform, the TSP 7000
- Combino, Ultra low floor, and Avanto (tram) trams
- Siemens-Duwag U2 LRV
- ER20 locomotive - MTR
- LHB/Siemens M1/M2/M3 Metro Mar. Pair
- Siemens-Adtranz LRV
- Duewag/Siemens 1435 mm Combino Low Flr LRV
- MX3000 Metro car for Oslo (SGP Wien works)
- S4000 metro
- Schindler/Siemens ABB Be 4/8 Low Floor LRV
- Metro 5001
- SWBSiemensr NGT 6D LRV
- Eurosprinter locomotive
- Desiro, InterCityExpress, and Transrapid trains
- Gigaset, Home entertainment products, including Gigaset M740 AV, a set-top box to receive TDT and integrate it in a domestic network (using WLAN or cable), i.e. for home streaming media.
- Hicom Trading E
- Hicom 300
- HiPath
- HiQ 8000 Softswitch
- HiE 9200 Softswitch
- MSR32R
- EWSD telephone exchanges
- SPX 2000 small digital telephone exchange (rural)
- Siemens Gigaset cordless telephones
- Siemens cellular telephones - divested to BenQ in 2005
- Siemens SPPA-T2000 Control System (formerly Teleperm XP)
- Siemens SPPA-T3000 Control System (For Electrical Power Generation Control)
- SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Automation System for Process and Hybrid industries
- Radio and core products for 2G and 3G Mobile Networks (GSM, UMTS, ...)
- Gas & Steam Turbines
- Industrial programmable controls (including Simatic PLC, and Logo! microcontrollers)
- The Siemens Servo life support ventilator line
- MAGNETOM(TM) Espree
- SOMATOM(R) Definition CT
- SOMATOM(R) Sensation CT
- SOMATOM(R) Emotion CT
- AXIOM Artis
- AXIOM Sensis
- E.Cam Signature Series Gamma Camera
- Symbia TruePoint SPECT-CT
- Biograph TruePoint PET.CT
- Magnetom C!, a low field open MRI
- Magnetom Avanto, a Tim system MRI
- Magnetom Espree, a Tim system, open bore MRI
- Magnetom Trio, A Tim System, ultra high field MRI
- Windturbines, 1.3 MW, 2.3 MW, 3.6 MW
- Sinorix(TM)
- Sistore(TM)
- @ctiveFRIEND
- The Siemens MOMO Siemens (train)
- Siemens Soarian(TM) HIS
Competition
Main competitors of Siemens are:
See also
References
- Greider, William (1997). One World, Ready or Not. Penguin Press. ISBN 0-7139-9211-5.
Footnotes
Further reading
- Weiher, Siegfried von /Herbert Goetzeler (1984). The Siemens Company, Its Historical Role in the Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, 2nd ed. Berlin and Munich.
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried (2000). Siemens, From Workshop to Global Player, Munich.
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried / Eberhard Posner (2005): The Siemens Entrepreneurs, Continuity and Change, 1847-2005, Ten Portraits, Munich.
External links
- Official website
- Siemens Official History Web Site
- Siemens USA official website
- Siemens Foundation
- Official Osram (USA) Site
- Official USFilter Site
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA
- Siemens Intelligent Transportation Systems (USA)
- Yahoo! - Siemens AG Company Profile
- Siemens Process Safety
- Siemens SEO
- Siemens VDO Automotive
- Siemens Company Profile and News Archive
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