Siemens 2006 Annual Report Download - page 50

Business Areas
Automation and Control
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Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S)
By 2030, more than five billion people
around the world will be living in cities.
As urbanization increases, so will the
need for mobility. In China, for example,
more than 100 million people already
commute to work every day. To help keep
people and goods moving, we supply
integrated traffic guidance, signaling and
planning systems that enhance road safe-
ty and reduce environmental burdens.
In the airport solutions sector, our offer-
ings – which include airfield lighting, and
baggage and cargo handling systems –
enable operators to manage ever-greater
volumes of passengers and freight safely
and efficiently. We’re also No. 1 worldwide
in automated letter and parcel sorting
systems.
Our water and wastewater processing
solutions are helping safeguard the future
of communities and production facilities
around the world. Today, 1.2 billion peo-
ple lack access to clean drinking water,
and 2.4 billion are without basic sanita-
tion. Our solutions are enabling munici-
palities and industrial customers to make
better use of water resources and provide
affordable water supplies. We’re the
world’s largest supplier of water treat-
ment products and systems. The solutions
in our portfolio – backed by more than
1,100 patents – are meeting the strictest
legal and industrial requirements at more
than 200,000 locations.
With the acquisition of Voest-Alpine
Industrieanlagenbau (VAI), we can now
offer end-to-end solutions for every seg-
ment of the iron and steel industry – from
the mining of metal ore to the manufac-
turing of finished iron, steel and alu-
minum products. Our process expertise
and product and systems portfolio are
helping customers boost their productivi-
ty in sectors like oil and gas, marine engi-
neering, and pulp and paper. With a wide
array of services – including design,
development, modernization and mainte-
nance – we also operate and support
customer plants and facilities throughout
their entire lifecycles.
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I&S increases the competi-
tiveness of customers in
over 70 countries by combin-
ing Siemens products and
process technologies to
offer comprehensive solu-
tions and services for indus-
trial plants and infrastruc-
ture systems.
Highlights in fiscal 2006
• For the 2008 Beijing Olympics, we’re build-
ing the world’s most advanced water proc-
essing plant equipped with innovative mem-
brane bioreactor technology.
• Our Ruhrpilot traffic management system
is helping prevent traffic congestion and
improving road safety in the German state
of North-Rhine Westphalia by supplying
traffic updates both online and via mobile
phones.
• Our Metal Technologies Division is supplying
a sinter plant, blast furnace and slab caster
for a new iron and steel manufacturing facil-
ity in Taiwan.
“During the Soccer World Cup 2006,
parallel to handling the traffic bound
for the Olympic Stadium, Berlin’s
public transport planners faced the
challenge of managing more than
500,000 visitors headed for events
in the city center. The city’s traffic
management center modified the
switching of traffic lights to ease the
downtown traffic burden. The data
gathered in the process will help
improve Berlin’s traffic management
during large-scale events in the
future.”
Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, Senator for
Urban Development, Berlin