Client Profile: Buckeye Partners, USA owns and operates one of the largest petroleum products terminal and pipeline networks providing refiners, wholesalers, marketers, airlines, railroads and other commercial end users with transportation and storage of refined petroleum products. Besides pipeline transportation services, Buckeye provides terminalling, storage and refined product distribution services.
Client: AKE Robotics is a subsidiary of the German enterprise AKE-Systemtechnik GmbH. The parent company designs and builds everything from transport systems to robotic manufacturing cells. AKE Robotics, located in Poland, configures and programs all types of industrial robots for applications in manufacturing, assembly and logistics. By incorporating the most up-to-date technology in the field of industrial robotics, AKE Robotics meets the demands of exacting customers, such as Volkswagen, Volvo Gent, Mercedes, Audi and Seat.
Siemens Ltd. has received a crucial order worth approximately $32.5 million for Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) project from Siemens AG, Germany to supply 400kV/230 kV switch yard equipment, reactors, power transformers, fire-fighting systems, air-conditioning systems, auxiliary power system, building management systems, illumination systems, AC control and protections, and engineering for civil and plant for 500 MW High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) station.
Siemens Ltd. will supply Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) solutions worth about $84.7 million to Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL). The scope of the order includes design, engineering, supply, civil, installation, testing and commissioning of STATCOMs at four substation locations of PGCIL: Ranchi, Rourkela, Kishenganj, and Jeypore across the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha. This is expected to be one of the world's largest STATCOM projects at 400 kV level with a dynamic swing range of 2000MVAr and 1250MVAr mechanically switched components.
Siemens Ltd. has bagged an order worth approximately $12.3 million from Indian Railways' Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi. The company will design, supply and install 40 Alternating Current (AC) Traction Systems for dual-cab high horsepower diesel engine locomotives. The AC Traction Systems will be produced at Siemens' Nashik Factory. The systems have been developed based on the state-of-the-art Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) technology.
Siemens Ltd. announced that together with Siemens Bangladesh Ltd., it has won an order worth approximately $17 million from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) to design, procure, supply, install, test and commission 230/132kV Gas Insulated Switchgear Substation along with 225/300 MVA, 132/33 KV and 50/75 MVA transformers at Keraniganj within Dhaka. With this GIS solution PGCB will be able to ensure transmission grid stability and provide better service to consumers across Bangladesh.
The Internet of Things (IoT) often goes beyond higher efficiency and can transform business with improved workflow and throughput. This has definitely made most companies (big and small) notice how the transformations brought by IoT has helped in enhancing the business, streamlining the processes, analyzing the flaws, and also managing products efficiently. These benefits have further nudged businesses to take the first big step and start transforming. One of the companies leading this trend is Infosys.
Siemens Ltd. saw a flurry of new orders and activities in the last two months:
Siemens signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) and Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Company Limited (GIFTCL) to develop smart mobility solutions for Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT). GIFT, a globally benchmarked smart city on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad is one of the most ambitious projects undertaken in the Indian infrastructure space and is being designed as a hub for the global finance services industry.
Siemens is modernizing the power distribution grids of the cities of Amritsar, Jallandhar, Ludhiana, Dehradun, and Faridabad in northern India. The objective of these projects is to improve the quality and availability of the power supply to residents as well as to reduce the downtimes in the event of blackouts in the entire grid.