ATLANTA, June 18, 2007 – Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. last week recognized five U.S. companies for outstanding technological leadership during the 2007 Siemens Automation Summit held at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla.Raj Batra, vice president of Automation and Motion Division, Siemens Energy & Automation, presented Customer Excellence awards to the City of Orlando’s Wastewater Administration, Electronic Power Design, Inc.
(EPD), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America, Shambaugh & Son L.P. and Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy.The Siemens Customer Excellence Award, presented annually, honors Solution Partners, OEMs and end users that have used Siemens leading-edge technology to implement solutions that meet their customers’ needs for improved production capabilities, increased floor space, real-time information and reduced energy consumption, as well as enabling their customers to save time and money. “The recipients of the Siemens Customer Excellence Award have achieved great success in deploying Siemens innovative technologies and products,” Batra said.
“Through their commitment to customer satisfaction, these winners have enabled end users to reach their operational and business goals.”Nominations for the Customer Excellence Award were open to Siemens’ Solution Partners, and end-user and OEM manufacturing companies that currently use Siemens technology. A panel of Siemens senior and product management representatives selected the recipients of the awards.
About the winners:
- Over the past 25 years, the City of Orlando, Florida, has been a model for the rest of the world when it comes to introducing advanced levels of wastewater treatment.
- Electronic Power Design, Houston, Texas, is a Siemens Solutions Partner that manufactures integrated electrical solutions for the chemicals, converting, extrusion, marine, oil & gas, and plastics industries.
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, New York, is one of the world's leading heavy machinery manufacturers.
- Shambaugh & Son L.P., Fort Wayne, Ind., is a Siemens Solutions Partner and provides turn-key design build services for the food and beverage industry.
- The Sid Richardson Energy & Oil Co., Ft.
Worth, Texas, is a leader in carbon black manufacturing and marketing as well as natural gas gathering, processing, and marketing.
About Siemens:
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. is one of Siemens' operating companies in the U.S.
Headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga., Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. manufactures and markets one of the world's broadest ranges of electrical and electronic products, systems and services to industrial and construction market customers.
Its technologies range from circuit protection and energy management systems to process control, industrial software and totally integrated automation solutions.
The company also has expertise in systems integration, technical services and turnkey industrial systems.
Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $107.4 billion in fiscal 2006.
Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances.
With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $21.4 billion and employs approximately 67,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States.
With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 475,000 people in 190 countries.