Siemens Automation and Drives Group offers a comprehensive range of high quality solutions, tailored to suit the various demands of all its customers.

Siemens A&D delivers a wide range of services for the industrial and infrastructure community. The company successfully combines automation and drives experience along with switchgear and installation technology, using Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) and Totally Integrated Power (TIP) systems. Siemens is uniquely able to offer customers a platform for automation and power that the business can fully service.

A&D Egypt provides the right technology to control electrical equipment and to optimize power consumption in buildings. The group locally offers complete or partial solutions and systems for the different industries. A&D partners Egypt in developing a strong local industrial sector as well as a vibrant export industry. It supplies a range of innovative solutions that optimize business and production processes, helping local companies achieve greater efficiency and profitability.

As a long-term partner of Egyptian industry, Siemens offers companies the support needed to enhance their technology investment by providing extensive on-site and tele-service customer support programs. In Egypt, Siemens has also established one of three certified training centers in Africa to serve countries throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Through a know-how transfer agreement, A&D supplied the Sugar Integrated Industries Company (SIIC) with state-of-the-art technology to build over 150 centrifugal drives, representing nearly 20% of the 850 Siemens supplied worldwide. Siemens A&D backed SIIC to meet its regional expansion plans, offering worldwide Siemens support for the export of five sugar plants to Iran. The company aims to participte in a string of future regional projects.

Siemens signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Modernization Center (IMC) to develop local Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

GRG is an excellent example of developing local original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). A&D supplied the required consulting, engineering, training, appropriate electrical products to optimize and modernize a textile spinning machine that Shouman produced.

By the supplying and operating of the Beni Suef cement plant owned by the internationally renowned cement company Titan-Lafarge, A&D will empower the company with all the necessary equipment (including transformers) and commissioning to begin operations at a capacity of 12000 KW.

Siemens is annually hosting over 100 trainees in a certified training center. The company’s commitment to equipment support extends beyond maintenance and troubleshooting to know-how transfer. The training center located in Cairo provides courses for a wide range of automation and drives systems. The center covers Egypt and some neighboring countries in Africa as far as Kenya and West as Nigeria.

As part of efforts to fight counterfeit products entering its market, Egypt has recently established a Brand Protection Group working in co-ordination with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Industry. The move follows the approval of a draft consumer protection law in April 2006. The Brand Protection Group is focusing most of its attention on the domestic market. The body’s immediate concern is to raise awareness about fake products and the measures that are being put in place to punish producers or distributors of counterfeit goods. While significant energies will be invested in educating customs workers and officials, particular attention will be focused on Egyptian consumers.

The success of Automation and Drives in Egypt is evident in the division’s strong local know-how, its solid record of successful cooperation with the different Egyptian industries, and its powerful network of reliable sales channels. These include system integrators, panel builders, and distributors to ensure that Siemens products and services are available on the local market.

For more information, please visit the Siemens global Automation and Drives website http://www.automation.siemens.com/_en/portal/index.htm