Siemens Building Technologies
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Siemens Building Technologies
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| legal form | Part of Siemens Schweiz AG |
| founding | October 1, 1998 |
| Seat |
Zug , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 28,069 |
| sales | 6,523 million euros |
| Branch | building technology |
| Website | http://www.siemens.ch/buildingtechnologies |
Siemens Building Technologies is a service provider , system integrator and product manufacturer in the fields of automation , energy services , fire protection and security .
definition
Siemens Building Technologies is part of the Siemens - group and deals with building technology . The competence of Siemens Building Technologies lies in the business areas:
- Building automation
- Fire protection and extinguishing
- Building security
- Operation over the life cycle
of buildings.
history
Siemens Building Technologies has been part of Siemens since October 1, 1998. In 1998, Siemens AG took over the Industry division of Elektrowatt , which in turn was already a merger of Landis & Staefa and Cerberus .
After the merger has been completed, it will form the following new corporate division with the divisions :
- Siemens ANL VN
- Landis & Staefa Division
- Cerberus Division
- Facility management division; ( Property management )
- Project Business Division ( building technology )
This new business area is called “Siemens Building Technologies”.
After various restructuring and the sale of the property management company, Siemens Building Technologies has been managed by Matthias Rebellius since January 1, 2015. Axel Meier is the CFO (as of November 2017).
Siemens Building Technologies employs around 28,000 people worldwide (as of November 2017). The headquarters of the Building Technologies Division is located in Zug, Switzerland.
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| 1853 | Installation of the world's first fire alarm system by Siemens, Berlin |
| 1896 | Founding of the Electronic Institute Theiler & Cie, Zug |
| 1905 | Change of name to Landis & Gyr (L&G) |
| 1940 | Founding of Cerberus AG and the heat engineering department of L&G |
| 1948 | Cooperation between Siemens and Cerberus in the field of automatic smoke detectors |
| 1962 | Elektrowatt takes over Cerberus |
| 1974 | Elektrowatt takes over Staefa Control System |
| 1996 | Elektrowatt takes over Landis & Gyr and merges L&G Building Control with Staefa Control System to form Landis & Staefa |
| 1998 | Siemens AG takes over Elektrowatt's industrial division with Landis & Staefa and Cerberus and forms the new Siemens Building Technologies division |
| 2004 | Siemens Building Technologies is taken over by Siemens Schweiz AG. |
| 2015 | Siemens AG sells the Security Products division to Vanderbilt |
Business areas
Since January 2013, the former three business units Control Products & Systems, Building Automation & Control and Fire Safety & Security have been divided into two different areas, which make up the operational business of Siemens Building Technologies.
Control Products & Systems
Providing products and systems in the field
- Heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC)
- Fire protection
- Building security
Solution & Service Portfolio
Provision of specific solutions for certain fields of application such as data centers or airports.
Former Low-Voltage Distribution business unit (own division since 2011)
The Low-Voltage Distribution business unit is a former business area and has been run as a separate division since 2011. The focus of this business area is the energy consumption and consumption of public and commercial buildings. The division sells products in the area of low-voltage protection sound technology , the associated software, toggle switches , connection sockets and sockets.
Negative headlines
Scandal over merger with Landis + Gyr
In 2002, the Siemens group sold seven companies to the US financial investor KKR . Zug-based Siemens Metering was particularly affected, where 160 out of a total of 360 jobs were lost. Siemens Metering emerged in 1998 from the merger of Siemens and Landis & Gyr. The 2005 documentary “Lost World - From the Inner Life of the former Landis & Gyr Group” by Claudia Schmid and Michael van Orsouw took up the scandal.
Pension fund scandal
In 2006, in response to the financial infidelity scandal and suspected bribery, Siemens tightened the rules of conduct for its employees. The focus of the investigation was OZ banker Peter Rüegg and Siemens manager Roland Rümmeli. Rümmeli was accused of having diverted kickbacks to private accounts. The dismissed Siemens portfolio manager repaid the illegally withdrawn funds (CHF 400,000).
literature
- Johannes Müller (Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Group): Refences @ SBT - Global knowledge exchange through 'Social Networking' at Siemens Building Technologies (PDF; 399 kB) , published in the proceedings of KnowTech 2007 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 2007) , Pages 349-357, ISBN 3-88260-077-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Building Technologies Division Presentation 2017/18 [1] , accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ Building Technologies Division Presentation 2017/18 at www.siemens.com, accessed on November 20, 2017
- ↑ Information page The history of Siemens Building Technologies on the Siemes Building Technologies website, accessed on September 13, 2011
- ^ Entry of "Siemens Schweiz AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ (PDF; 3.9 MB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Presentation on Siemens Building Technologies January 2013
- ↑ Downsizing at Siemens Zug ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Broadcast on Swiss television on July 26, 2002
- ↑ Lost World - From the inner workings of the former Landis & Gyr concern, Swissfilms database
- ↑ Corruption, Siemens tightened the rules of conduct Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 14, 2006
- ↑ Swissfirst scandal: portfolio manager of the Siemens pension fund arrested ( memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on Stocknews of September 8, 2006
- ↑ Rümmeli pays Siemens back 400,000 francs Article in the daily newspaper of November 11, 2006
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