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Siemens earns Frost & Sullivan award for consistent delivery of value to customers in the food and beverage market

  • June 06, 2006
  • Siemens
  • SIEMENS
  • News

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Palo Alto, Calif. — June 6, 2006 — Frost & Sullivan, in a recent analysis of Automation and Software Solutions in the Food and Beverage Market, selected Siemens as the recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership for its excellence in product quality, global customer service and the delivery of unprecedented value to the food and beverage industry.“Siemens' superior domain expertise and application knowledge helps it to solve real-world problems and deliver innovative solutions to customers in the food and beverage industry,” says Frost & Sullivan industry manager Sath Rao. “Siemens offers a broad range of products under its 'Totally Integrated Automation’ solution that can be applied to several different applications.”The food and beverage industry can be considered hybrid because it utilizes discrete manufacturing components as well as extensive process engineering. The ‘Totally Integrated Automation’ architecture addresses the needs of a hybrid industry and ensures seamless integration and exacting control.“It is an honor to accept this award from Frost & Sullivan for our automation solutions in the food and beverages market,” said Siegfried Oblasser, Vice President, Food and Beverage Center of Competence, Siemens Energy & Automation. “This award is a testament to our employees across the globe who are committed to delivering the latest in technology and innovation to our customers.”Low profit margins, globalization and the need to optimize a global supply-chain are critical challenges facing the food and beverage industry. These challenges are compounded by regulations of 21 CFR part 11 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Bioterrorism Act, and the EU's 178/2002 EC legislation, which requires food manufacturers to ensure greater production transparency through audit trail and access control functions. This implies that manufacturers need to be able to provide tracking and tracing information about each product.Siemens' portfolio contains the SIMATIC IT product - it can help customers in the food and beverage sector to meet these industry challenges. The high degree of integration across Siemens' product range ensures that product installation is both quicker and more cost effective.“The ‘Totally Integrated Automation’ concept places substantial emphasis on open platform control standards and also guarantees compatibility across different generations of Siemens' and third party products,” notes Rao. “This helps customers to leverage existing investments in their plant automation systems and meet regulatory requirements. Moreover, it ensures that existing users are able to upgrade systems and integrate different automation products.”Siemens' Totally Integrated Automation solution also offers an integrated approach with single point responsibility. The company's ability to pool solutions from its broad product portfolio including products such as programmable logic controllers, distributed control systems, human machine interface and manufacturing execution systems encourages customers in the food and beverage sector to repose their confidence in Siemens’ solutions.Additionally, its global service and support guarantees customers total satisfaction in terms of maintenance needs and services such as software update services, training, or ordering on the Internet. As a result, Siemens has maintained its position as the leader in automation and software solutions in the world food and beverage market.In recognition of its consistent focus on delivering value to its customers, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present Siemens with the 2005 Market Leadership Award.Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to a company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of market strategy. The recipient has displayed excellence in all areas of the market including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics. Furthermore, the award recipient has continually demonstrated solutions for monitoring market changes and for implementing superior market strategies. By implementing these strategies for success, the company has established itself as the market share leader in its respective industry.About SiemensSiemens Energy & Automation, Inc. is one of Siemens’ operating companies in the U.S. Headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga., Siemens Energy & Automation 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 $96 billion in fiscal 2005. 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 $18.8 billion and employs 70,000 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 460,000 people in 190 countries.About Frost & SullivanFrost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. Learn More

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