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Our first report takes us to Bangalore, India, where explosive growth is pushing the local infrastruc ture
to its limits. In planning a new airport for the booming South Asian metropolis and its surrounding
region, the operators selected Siemens to supply a complete tailor-made solution and provide long-
term technical support. This close partnership is a sign of enormous trust, since it entails tremendous
responsibility: the reliable operation of such vital infrastructure facilities is indispensible for the
Bangalore region’s further economic development.
From India, we move on to the town of Beuren in southern Germany, where our technology has helped
give a young cancer patient new hope. In a long-term partnership, our engineers cooperated with
doctors at Tübingen University Hospital to develop the Biograph mMR scanner, which enables physi-
cians to monitor the impact of cancer therapies while minimizing radiation exposure. To the relief
of
15-year-old Christian and his family, the Biograph mMR showed that his treatment had been suc
cess-
ful. And we’re very pleased to report that – after a year of uncertainty – the young man is back in school
and again leading a normal life.
A third report provides impressive evidence of how our IT-based services are uniting people all around
the world. Johannes Zuckschwerdt is responsible for developing new services for a manufacturer
of highly specialized machine tools in southwestern Germany. His customer, Ton de Bruine, heads a
company that produces metal components in the Netherlands. Thanks to our ePS Network Services,
Zuckschwerdt can monitor the operation of de Bruine’s machines remotely, via an encrypted online
server. By notifying his customer when machine parts need to be replaced and indicating how work-
flows
can be improved and production increased, Zuckschwerdt saves de Bruine time and money
while
helping him meet tight deadlines and enhance the efficiency of his production processes.
In a fourth report, you’ll meet Jens Hald Jensen, head of the project team that’s assembling and testing
six-megawatt wind turbines in the Danish town of Østerild. These powerful turbines are just one of
the innovative products and solutions we’re creating to help shape the future of energy and tap the
opportunities that Germany ’s transition to a new energy system will provide in many other countries
worldwide. We want to pass on to our children a world that’s as healthy, bountiful and beautiful as
the one we’ve inherited. And we’re convinced that we’ll reach this goal if business leaders and govern-
ment policymakers work together to tackle the challenges ahead, taking a balanced, targeted approach
to achieving a reliable, clean and affordable energy supply.
I urge you to take a look at all five special reports. They ’ll provide you with an inside look at our day-to-
day operations and at the ways we’re leveraging our strengths as an integrated technology company,
increasing our customers’ competitiveness, reinforcing our own business success and improving the
lives of people worldwide through our investments in research and development – investments that
totaled €4.2 billion in fiscal 2012.