Siemens Productivity Tour

Siemens will be holding a tour of half-day seminars around Australia and New Zealand from 24 March 2009 to 17 February 2010, to discuss how organisations can achieve maximum productivity while also reducing costs.

Commencing at Siemens' head office in Bayswater, Melbourne, the Siemens Productivity Tour seminars cover the company's latest innovations in workflow efficiencies, cost reduction and flexible processes to help streamline business operations.

It will travel throughout Victoria from Melbourne to Geelong, Mildura, Bendigo, Albury and Sale; to Tasmania where it will be based in Launceston; in New South Wales to Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle; throughout Queensland and the Northern Territory to Gladstone, Mackay, Townsville and Mt Isa; in Western Australia to Perth, Kalgoorlie and Karatha; in South Australia to Adelaide and Wyalla; before heading to New Zealand in February 2010 to both Auckland and Christchurch.

Tailored to the specific needs of the Australian and New Zealand business communities, the half-day format commences with a 1½ hour overview session for managers, consultants and engineers to introduce the challenges and the solutions Siemens has for plant productivity and cost control through automation.

The day continues with more detailed sessions focused on the areas of energy reduction, achieving maximum efficiencies in installation and operational costs, and improving plant utilisation without compromising people and process safety.

Each session includes live demonstrations of automation and process instrumentation solutions for these business requirements.

Bernhard Kienlein, Vice-President of Siemens Industry Solutions, Industry Automation and Drive Technologies, said the Productivity Tour is intended to provide insight into ways of increasing productivity and controlling costs, which is particularly important in the current global economic climate.

“Companies are faced with pressure in competition, costs and innovation. Siemens is providing solutions to cope with this pressure through standardised and flexible workflows and processes, and we want to showcase these for the benefit of our customers throughout Australia and New Zealand,” said Kienlein.

Dates and venues for the Productivity Tour in each location will be confirmed shortly. For more information, visit www.siemens.com.au/productivitytour.