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….Looking back with pride

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Our founding father

• Werner von Siemens was born on December 13, 1816

• Born as the fourth of 14 children to a tenant farmer in Lenthe near Hanover

• With tight financial situation, Werner von Siemens could not take his final exams, and instead joined the Prussian army to gain access to engineering training

• This created a solid base for his future work in electrical field

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A visionary par excellence

• Werner von Siemens once said, “I have a dream of founding a worldwide business, with power and reputation, …..”

• Few entrepreneurs of that period had the determination of Siemens, who sought international success with inventions

• Besides being a businessman, he was also a great scientist

• Amongst his many inventions, the most important discovery was the dynamo-electric principle

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An innovation marked the beginning of Siemens

• In 1847, Werner von Siemens constructed

the pointer telegraph

• This innovation laid the foundation of our

Company, Siemens & Halske Telegraph

Construction Company, Berlin

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Innovations continued to drive us

Some early inventions:

1866: Discovery of dynamo-electric principle

1879: First electric Railway

1899: Three-phase express Railcar

1930: Construction of Multi purpose electric locomotive

1939: Production version of Electron microscope

1958: World’s first implantation of Cardiac pacemaker

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First steps in India...

• In 1867, Siemens started construction of the Indo-European telegraph from London to Calcutta

• This was to facilitate the Queen’s request to communicate from London to her people in colonial India

• Our founder personally supervised laying of this line

• The line ran from London to Berlin, Warsaw, Teheran and Calcutta

• It covered a distance of 12,000 Kms and transmitted a message in just 28 minutes

London

Calcutta

Indo-European Telegraph line

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• In 1922, Siemens opened its first branch in Calcutta and subsequently set up offices in Bombay and Rangoon

• During World War II, the company’s assets and properties were confiscated, forcing the company to abandon operations

• Even so, Siemens never gave up and re-entered after the war

• Ernst von Siemens had then recognised the potential of India, when he said, “How can we ignore a Country of 380 million people?”

First own branch in India...

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• Around 1954, a team from Siemens came to India and started operating as a department under the umbrella of Protos Engineering Company Pvt. Ltd.

• In 1956, a small workshop was set up under the Mahalaxmi bridge, Bombay, with handful of people

• Here, operations began with repairs and assembly of Switchboards

Re-entry in India

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• On March 2, 1957, Siemens was incorporated under the name - Siemens Engineering & Manufacturing Co. of India Private Ltd.

• The company was registered under the Indian Companies Act

• In 1961, Siemens became a Public Limited company with restricted external shareholding

• In 1971, Siemens was listed on the stock exchange

Birth of our Company in India

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1957: Manufacturing of Switchboard at Worli works, Bombay

1959: Manufacturing of Medical equipment at Worli Works, Bombay

1960: Manufacturing of Switchgears

1966: Production of Motors at Kalwa

1981: Manufacturing of Switchboards at Nashik

The journey continued...

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1991: Low Voltage Switchgear factory at Aurangabad

1993: Manufacturing of Digital Switching system at Salt Lake Works –SPCNL was set up

1995: Manufacturing of Medical equipment at Goa

1995: Osram India Ltd. set up with a factory at Sonepat

....and gathered pace through the years

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1998: Formation of Siemens Hearing Instruments Pvt. Ltd.

2001: Setting up of Technical Skills Development Center in Kalwa

2004: Corporate Technology center setup in Bangalore

2006: Acquired Isolator business of Elpro and a stake in Flender Ltd.

2006: 50 years of manufacturing presence

2007: Setting up Transformer factory, Kalwaand Turbines factory, Vadodara

2009: Setting up of Bogie factory, Aurangabad

2010: Expansion Of Steam Turbine & Compressor factory, Vadodara

....and maintained the momentum

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• A Rs 12,000 crore company in India

• With 21 manufacturing facilities in the country with over 60 offices

• A company with an excellent image and reputation; also recipient of numerous awards and accolades, the latest one being the Most Respected Company in India in the engineering Sector from Business World

Today, we are....

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Over the last 50 years,

we have been empowered to dream. Empowered to perform.

Empowered to achieve.

Empowered to excel.

And turn ‘the impossible’ into ‘possible’

as our founder did

The vision continues...