Power of ideas

Siemens has powered industrial innovation since 1847. It built the world’s first electrified railway line in 1881 and its technologies have transformed the ways in which we communicate. Today, the technology company is using digital means to drive sustainable business and transform the sectors that form the backbone of our economy, such as industry, infrastructure and transportation, which account for roughly three quarters of the world’s CO2 emissions. Siemens aims to help reduce those emissions.

There is a place that perfectly reflects Siemens’ new drive to digitise the backbone of the economy. The Electronics Works Amberg (pictured) was founded in 1989 and recently included in the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network list of factories. It is a blueprint for what technology can do today to drive sustainability. This is where the latest technologies are being used to spearhead the digital transformation of industry. The production of electronics at Amberg is automated by intelligent machines, with 75 per cent of its value chain handled independently. The result? It has achieved a 140 per cent factory output at double product complexity – all without an increase electricity or resource consumption.